1. What is your age? Under 18 Years Old 18 to 24 Years Old 25 to 30 Years Old 31 to 40 Years Old 41 to 50 Years Old 51 to 60 Years Old Over 60 Years Old 2. What is your gender? Male Female 3. Gruene Hall (pronounced green) is: A Municipal Court Biggest Library in Dallas Oldest Dance Hall in Texas Alternative School for Thug Kids in Houston German Restaurant in New Braunfels 4. Which can you fit inside Houston (8.778 sq. mi) comfortably Louisiana Japan The Netherlands (Holland) El Salvador 5. Texas is the size of Ohio, Indiana, and all the New England and Middle Atlantic states combined True False 6. The Battle of San Jacinto was fought on: September 03, 1855 April 21, 1836 August 13, 1903 May 21, 1812 7. The Austin Parks and Recreation Department oversees roughly: 11,251 acres of land containing 102 parks, 5 preserves, and 12 greenbelts 5,223 acres of land containing 97 parks, 10 preserves, and 11 greenbelts 16,682 acres of land containing 206 parks, 12 preserves, and 26 greenbelts 8. Tomatillo is a type of salsa of what color: Brownish Green Red Creamy Orange 9. George Dubya Bush is from: Houston Dallas Austin El Paso Connecticut Uvalde 10. Austin voted in the last presidential election, more democratically (as a percentage) than the entire state of california True False 11. Austin is sometimes referred to as: Performing Arts Capitol of the World The Third Coast Boston in Austin Silicon City 12. Why is Texas called "The Lone Star State" Because Lone Star Beer was being produced here before the country became part of the union The star has 5 points, each being representative of the five countries that occupied the land before it became part of the USA, hinting at unity of diverse people Texas was an independent country before becoming a state in America Represents one star out of the 50, each state does its part to make up the country as a whole 13. What is the state flower? Indian Paintbrush Bluebonnet Stargazer Lilly Sunflower 14. What is Blue Bell? Ice Cream produced in Brenham Mexican Soda produced in Seguin One of the most locally famous alt-rock groups from Austin A symbolic church bell at a catholic church in Dallas 15. The internationally-renowned Texas Medical Center, which contains the world's largest concentration of research and healthcare institutions, is located in: Austin Arlen Amarillo McAllen Corpus Christi Houston 16. Leslie Cochran, who has frequently run for Mayor in Austin and in 2000 gained about 10% of the vote, is : a 32 year old White Democrat who excelled in Telecom a Black Republican with a huge Oil & Gas history Austin's first female mayor a Liberal Democrat and ex-police chief a Vagrant Transvestite 17. The University of Texas System has roughly how many students? 50,000 25,000 100,000 180,000 18. "Don't Mess With Texas" is: The motto for the Texas Rangers Baseball team The name of a famous movie released in 1974 Anti Littering Campaign Dont Drink and Drive Campaign A message to other states proclaiming our ability to whip some ass 19. Texas has its own country music genre called Texas Country True False 20. What is a Texit? A Texas version of __________ getting out of a bad date by just getting up and walking off getting fired from your job getting off the freeway during bad traffic illegally (grass) high school exit exam where currently 775 out of 1000 last year did poorly 21. What doesn't Texas have out of the list below Plains Desert Hills Mountains Oceans/Beaches Texas has everything in the list 22. Texas, ______ Texas... Your Our God's Scenic Sweet 23. The _______ Rose of Texas Red Pink Yellow Perfect Beautiful Battleship 24. If you go well under the speed limit in houston, you might get shot True False 25. If you go under the speed limit in Austin, you fit in True False 26. The bar which was portrayed in the movie Urban Cowboy and had more visitors than the astrodome ever did, was really called: Mickey's Shelley's Cryer's Gilley's Murphy's 27. Texas is the only state to have the flags of __ different nations over it 1 2 3 4 5 6 28. The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than Rhode Island True False 29. Texas comes from the word tejas meaning friends or allies. Spanish Native American French Texan, dammit 30. The World's Longest Fishing Pier is in: Port Lavaca Galveston Bay City Boliver Corpus Christi S. Padre Island 31. Keep Austin Weird refers to pressing to keep Austin a liberal city a campaign to put Leslie Cochran in office to support local businesses to promote vegetarianism 32. Texas has a record breaking ____% of uninsured citizens (health). 2% 15% 23% 75% 77% 92% 33. Where is the riverwalk? On the colorado river in Austin In San Antonio near the Alamo In Houston on the bayou at bayou place In between the Guadalupe and Comal rivers On the border between Mexico and Texas, in Progresso, going over the rio grande 34. Houston, Dallas and San Antonio are all on the list for the top 10 most populated cities in the whole country True False 35. You've gotten drunk on 6th street True False 36. You've ridden a horse True False
