The Texas Quiz

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1. What is our capital?

2. Who is our governor, and what phrase is he known for?

3. Name one professional sports franchise in Texas from each professional sport.

4. Which Interstate highway in Texas splits into two segments (hint: the same freeway does this again in Minnesota)?

5. The "Red River Classic" pits UT Austin's football team against which college?

6. What does our constitution allow us to do, that no other state can?

7. Which major city can you find the neigborhoods of Montrose, River Oaks, and Clear Lake City?

8. What was the town of La Grange known for from 1905 to 1973?

9. At the Big Texan steak house in Amarillo, if you get the 72-oz. steak and eat it, and all the side orders that come with it--in one hour--it's free. If you fail, how much is it?

10. What is the name of the ice cream company headquartered in Brenham, about 80 miles northwest of Houston?

Wow, that's tough.

Sorry, I've been gone for 20 years and don't know who the current governor is. I've eaten at the Big Texan, and that's a hell of a steak, especially when you eat the salad, baked potato, and bread with it. Had a cousin do it. Their BBQ is absolutely awful, though. Yankee style.

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I've lived here for 25 years and I still don't know much of this. Some of us just don't collect facts.

Austin

Currently, I'm really not sure, but it used to be Goerge Bush. And a phrase? Kill Sadam?

Dallas Cowboys, Houston Astros, San Antonio Spurs, Beaumont (Southeast Texas?) Wildcatters..... are there any more professional sports?

One going north, and therefore odd numbered? I don't know.

I don't pay attention to college football. And barely to professional football.

Be our own country again.

Clear Lake is near Houston, not familiar with the others.

Not a clue.

I've heard but don't remember. A lot. Something like $40-$50.

Blue Bell?

Capitol - Austin

Governor - lost interest after Ann Richards...

Football - Cowboys
Baseball - Rangers

Highways - Hard to say. All I've ever used is 10, 30, and 40... Now there's a triple overpass in Dallas that will confuse the @#$ out of ya..

Constitution - it's either split up the state, or secede. I think the Union took care of the 2nd..

La Grange - the Chicken Ranch (brothel), and some obscure song by ZZ Top... Also a bad musical with Dolly Parton...

Never been to Amarillo that I know of...probably a bill...

Never been to the ice cream place. There's a cool pool with hanging rings in Midland, though...

Pakled is a 5th generation Texan, and his ancestor Neil McLennan helped found Waco...

Ok this is a quiz so no cheating...

1. What is our capital?
Austin
2. Who is our governor, and what phrase is he known for?
Rick Perry... "tough on crime".
3. Name one professional sports franchise in Texas from each professional sport.
Rangers, Mavericks, Cowboys, Stars
4. Which Interstate highway in Texas splits into two segments (hint: the same freeway does this again in Minnesota)?
I-35
5. The "Red River Classic" pits UT Austin's football team against which college?
OU
6. What does our constitution allow us to do, that no other state can?
Secede from the union.
7. Which major city can you find the neigborhoods of Montrose, River Oaks, and Clear Lake City?
Houston
8. What was the town of La Grange known for from 1905 to 1973?
Prostitution
9. At the Big Texan steak house in Amarillo, if you get the 72-oz. steak and eat it, and all the side orders that come with it--in one hour--it's free. If you fail, how much is it?
Don't know
10. What is the name of the ice cream company headquartered in Brenham, about 80 miles northwest of Houston?
Blue Bell (the best ice cream in the country yodel...a...hee)


EDIT: a quick google turned up this...

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Here are the answers:

1. Capital: Austin

2. Governor: Rick Perry, and his phrase was "Adios, Mofo".

3. Teams:

Baseball: Houston Astros, Texas Rangers

Football: Houston Texans, Dallas Cowboys

Basketball: Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Mavericks

Hockey: Dallas Stars

4. Freeway that splits: Interstate 35, going through the Metroplex. 35W goes through Ft. Worth, and 35E goes through Dallas.

5. Red River Classic: UT vs. the University of Oklahoma.

6. Constitutional right: Split into as many as five states (which so far has never been done)

7. Neighborhoods: They are all neighborhoods in Houston.

8. La Grange known for...: the Chicken Ranch, which was the brothel featured in the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

9. 72 oz. steak costs: $72, unless you finish the whole meal in an hour.

10. Brenham based ice-cream: Blue Bell.

Last edited by Tim_Tex on 10 Mar 2008, 10:14 am, edited 1 time in total.

Since when did the Cowboys become a basketball team?

Changed it.

They sort of lasso the basketball just before it goes in for the other team.



Seriously though, I liked reading this quiz and its answers. I had forgotten about Rick Perry, but I drove I-35 just yesterday, and had to keep my eyes peeled for the famous split. Ended up in Ft. Worth by mistake about a month ago.
So I knew that answer.
Also, Blue Bell is damn fine stuff! It's half the price and half the fat of Häagen Dazs, yet twice as tasty. Of course, someone probably bribes someone to list the fat as lower than it is, because it's simply not possible for ice cream that low fat to taste that good.

[quote="Tim_Tex"]1. What is our capital?
Austin, but I used to think it was Dallas for the longest time.
2. Who is our governor, and what phrase is he known for?
No idea.

3. Name one professional sports franchise in Texas from each professional sport.
Houston Texans, AFL, formerly the Tennessee Oilers; Dallas Cowboys, NFC; Houston Astros (Bseball, Natl League, I think), and there's an American League b-ball team I can't remember at the moment; Houston Rockets, Basketball (don't know which league) Dallas Mavericks, Baskeball, San Antonio Spurs, Basketball...does Texas have hockey???

4. Which Interstate highway in Texas splits into two segments (hint: the same freeway does this again in Minnesota)?
No Idea. The I-10, I-20 and I-40 both go through Texas horizontally, splitting the state width-wise (I've driven all three of them), but can't think of the highways that go north and south. I'm trying to remember the one that I took to drop down from Amarillo to Louisiana, and it goes through Wichita Falls, but I'm drawing a blank on it.

5. The "Red River Classic" pits UT Austin's football team against which college?
No Idea; unfortunately I don't follow college ballgames

6. What does our constitution allow us to do, that no other state can?
Shoot the repo man?

7. Which major city can you find the neigborhoods of Montrose, River Oaks, and Clear Lake City?

No Idea...

8. What was the town of La Grange known for from 1905 to 1973?

I actually used to know this one, but now I can't come up with it. No idea.

9. At the Big Texan steak house in Amarillo, if you get the 72-oz. steak and eat it, and all the side orders that come with it--in one hour--it's free. If you fail, how much is it?
When I last stopped there (in '92) it was around $29.99. Probably close to $50.00 or more now.

10. What is the name of the ice cream company headquartered in Brenham, about 80 miles northwest of Houston?

No idea, but I'll take a guess: 'Blue Bell' (has a cow logo on it)

1. you got it correct

2. Rick Perry, and his phrase was "Adios, Mofo". He was talking to a cameraman after some sort of press conference. Gov. Perry is widely know for shooting his mouth off, and for the controversial HPV vaccine legislation last year.

3. The Oilers are now the Tennessee Titans, and still owned by Bud Adams, who is known for his world-famous toupee. Jeff Fisher, the coach during the last years of the Oilers, is still their coach. We have one NHL hockey team, the Dallas Stars. If you could MLS soccer, the Houston Dynamo is doing very well. As for basketball, you can count the Houston Comets of the WNBA.

4. I-35 is the one that splits. The other highway you're thinking of is U.S. 287, which goes from Port Arthur, near Louisiana, all the way up to Montana. Also, there's I-30, which goes to Little Rock.

5. UT vs. OU

6. We can split into as many as 5 states. So far, this has never been done. But shooting the repo man sounds cool, too.

7. They're all in Houston. Montrose is where the counterculture and GLBT communities are based. River Oaks is the most expensive neighborhood, and is where all the business executives live. CLC is generally an upscale neighborhood, but not nearly as expensive as River Oaks, and is where NASA is.

8. La Grange is known for the Chicken Ranch, the brothel from the play/movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Dom Deluise's character, Melvin Thorpe, is based on Marvin Zindler, a world-famous news reporter in Houston, who led the expose' on the Chicken Ranch back in 1973. He was also famous for his Friday night "rat & roach" reports, which served to inform potential diners of health violations at Houston restaurants. He was awarded a lifetime contract with the station that hired him, and continued to report until his death last year--at the age of 86.

9. It's $72 now, but could be higher, given how much food prices are rising.

10. you got it correct.

Could be higher on sugar than Häagen Das?

I didn't look at anyone else's answers first. I'm probably only going to be in TX for one more week so I need to do the quiz asap!

1. What is our capital?
Austin

2. Who is our governor, and what phrase is he known for?
Rick Perry, don't know what phrase

3. Name one professional sports franchise in Texas from each professional sport.
The Spurs
The Cowboys

4. Which Interstate highway in Texas splits into two segments (hint: the same freeway does this again in Minnesota)?
I-35

5. The "Red River Classic" pits UT Austin's football team against which college?
Uh . . . Oklahoma??

6. What does our constitution allow us to do, that no other state can?
consume alcoholic beverages in the bed of a moving pick-up truck (This strikes me as an interesting law, but I don't really know if it's unique to Texas.)

7. Which major city can you find the neigborhoods of Montrose, River Oaks, and Clear Lake City?
Dallas

8. What was the town of La Grange known for from 1905 to 1973?
a brothel called Chicken Ranch

9. At the Big Texan steak house in Amarillo, if you get the 72-oz. steak and eat it, and all the side orders that come with it--in one hour--it's free. If you fail, how much is it?
$100?

10. What is the name of the ice cream company headquartered in Brenham, about 80 miles northwest of Houston?
Brenham Ice Cream?

Oops. I really don't know much about my state.

1. Austin
2. Rick Perry, don't know the phrase
3. Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, Texas Rangers
4. I-35
5. OU
6. Not sure, but I'd bet it has to do with alcohol laws
7. Not sure, know it isn't Dallas, Houston maybe?
8. Where LBJ lived? Wild guess.
9. I've heard of that place, don't know the price, I believe it's more than $100
10. Blue Bell?

That's what it was! I'm lost without Google these days... Oh, well. 2 out of 10 ain't bad.