Has anyone answered these yet   Robin R Inge "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away"     ________________________________ From: Elaine <McStumped@suddenlink.net> To: txgen <txgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 1:22:30 AM Subject: [TXGEN] Texas Trivia Quiz Texas has a lot of really big stuff to brag about. Do you know where they are?  See how much of a Texan you are.  Don't cheat.....read & answer all 20 of the questions before you check out the answers at the bottom of the email.   1. What is the tallest statue in the state of Texas?   2. Who wears the largest jeans in the world? What size are they?   3. What is being described here: "A train pulled into Marfa, Texas       carrying a three-sided paper-maché-and-wood mansion and needing six       railroad cars to haul it. By the time the "mirage house" had finished its       job, a Texas myth would be reworked, a drought stricken town would be saved       from disaster, and several legends would be born."    4. Where is the home of the world's most complete collection of working       World War II aircraft?    5. What Texas location has more historical buildings than Colonial       Williamsburg?   6. What Texas port handles more foreign cargo than any other port in the       United States?    7. Where can you get a 4½ pound steak for free, if you can eat it in an hour?   8. Where is the world's largest spring fed swimming pool?   9. Where was the first domed-roof arena built in the United States?    10. Where is the largest collection of endangered animals in the United States?    11. What is the longest river located wholly within the border of Texas?   12. What is the nation's longest highway in any one state?   13. What is the world's tallest masonry structure?   14. Where is the summer home for the largest urban colony of bats in North       America?   15. Where is the site of the world's largest known mammal colony?   16. Where is the largest urban wildlife preserve in America?   17. Where were the largest flying dinosaur bones on earth found?   18. Where is the largest urban park in the nation?   19. Where would you find the world's largest fire hydrant?  (Wonder         if this comes with the worlds largest dog also?)   20. What is the longest undeveloped barrier island in the U.S.? Answers: 1. The giraffe with the extended tongue standing at the entrance to the       Dallas Zoo. After being tallest for some years, the giraffe slipped       into second with the completion of the taller Sam Houston statue in       Huntsville. Citizens of Dallas regained the top slot by adding the       very long upward stretching tongue to the giraffe. 2. Big Tex at the Texas State Fair. They are Lee Jeans, size 276 with a 23-foot waist.       (His boots are size 70.) 3. The filming of Giant 4. Commemorative Air Force with its home in Midland 5, Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio 6. Port of Houston 7. The Big Texan Steak Ranch Restaurant in Amarillo (You have to eat it and       all of the trimmings as well.) 8. Balmorhea State Park with a 62,000 square-foot surface (that's almost 1.5 acres), the       pool is one of the largest man-made pools in the U.S. 9. Fort Worth (the Will Rogers Coliseum built in 1936) 10.  Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville 11. Brazos (the Rio Grande is not within the border but on the border, and it       begins in Colorado, and flows through New Mexico before it reaches Texas.) 12. U.S. 83 (903 miles from Brownsville to the Panhandle; IH-10 is only 878.7 miles long from       Louisiana just east of Orange to El Paso.) 13. San Jacinto Battlefield       Monument (and it's taller than either the Washington Monument or the       Statue of Liberty) 14. Austin - under the Congress Avenue Bridge 15. The colony of 20 million or more Mexican freetail bats in Bracken Bat Cave (actually       as system of caves), located in Comal County. 16. Armand Bayou, located in Harris County 17. Fossilized wing bones of Quetzalcoatlus northropii, a flying dinosaur from the       Chihuahuan Desert in the Big Bend Area, have a wing-spread of 38 to 40 feet 18. Franklin Mountains State Park, in El Paso County, has more than 24,049 acres, covering some 37       square miles, all within the city limits of El Paso. 19. Fire Museum of  Texas in Beaumont 20. Padre Island -- Whenever I feel that the world is moving too fast, I go to the Post Office. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message