Texas Trivia Quiz Questions And Answers
Where does Texas rank population wise among the other
states?
A: It is the second most populous.
What is the Texas state plant?
A: Prickly pear cactus.
Texas is the second-largest of the 50 U.S. states with only
what state being larger?
A: Alaska.
Texas shares an international border with which four
Mexican states?
A: Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas.
What is the Texas state molecule?
A: Buckyball.
What US State borders Texas to the west?
A: New Mexico.
How many barrels of oil can the Texas refineries process
per day?
A: 4.6 million barrels.
Which state borders Texas to the north?
A: Oklahoma.
What is the Texas state insect?
A: Monarch butterfly.
The state of Texas is known for its harsh criminal
punishment and is one of 32 states that use what?
A: Capital punishment.
What is the Texas state gem?
A: Texas blue topaz.
What state shares a border with Texas to the east?
A: Louisiana.
What is the Texas state fruit?
A: Texas red grapefruit.
How big is Texas in square miles?
A: 268,820.
What size in barrels are the known oil deposits in Texas?
A: about 5 billion barrels.
What is the Texas state fish?
A: Guadalupe bass.
What is the biggest city in the state of Texas?
A: Houston.
Which Texas city is the fourth-largest city in the United
States?
A: Houston.
What city is the second largest in the state?
A: San Antonio.
The state of Texas is one of only seven US states that do
not have a what?
A: State income tax.
What city is the capital of Texas?
A: Austin.
What is the nickname for the state of Texas?
A: The Lone Star State.
What is the Texas state folk
dance?
A: Square dance.
How much of the Texas land area is desert?
A: Less than 10 percent.
What country was the first European country to claim the
area that is now Texas?
A: Spain.
What is the Texas state dish?
A: chili con carne.
In 1836 when Texas won its independence from Mexico, it
became a what?
A: Independent Republic.
Texas joined the Union as the 28th state on what date?
A: In 1845.
Texas is 10% larger than what European country?
A: France.
What three rivers are also borders of Texas?
A: The Rio Grande, the Red River, and the Sabine River.
What is the Texas state dog?
A: Blue Lacy.
The state of Texas has 3,700 named streams and how many
major rivers?
A: 15.
Which refinery located in the Houston area is the biggest
in the entire country?
A: The Baytown Refinery.
Which river in Texas is the largest?
A: The Rio Grande.
Texas does not have many natural lakes, but it has over 100
artificial what?
A: Reservoirs.
How old are the oldest rocks to be found in Texas?
A: About 1,600 million years old.
Texas is home to how many species of mammals?
A: 65.
Texas has the greatest diversity of what type of
animal in
the United States with 590 native species in all?
A: Birds.
Lady Bird Johnson, worked to draw attention to Texas what?
A: Wildflowers.
In 2010, how many millionaires lived in Texas?
A: 346,000.
Texas suffers from the most tornadoes in the United States,
with an average of how many tornadoes per year?
A: 139.
What is the Texas state bird?
A: Northern Mockingbird.
In what three months are Tornadoes in Texas most likely to
occur?
A: April, May, and June.
The Galveston hurricane of 1900 was the deadliest natural
disaster in U.S. history and killed approximately how many people?
A: 8,000.
What is the Texas state tree?
A: Pecan.
Texas emits the most of what type of gases in the U.S. into
the earth's atmosphere?
A: greenhouse gases.
What was the first historical document related to Texas
that was created in 1519 by Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda?
A: was a map of the Gulf Coast.
On January 10, 1901, What was the name of the first major
oil well in Texas?
A: Spindletop.
At the peak of the Texas oil boom, how many barrels of oil
per day was Texas producing?
A: Three million.
In 1901, when the state legislature passed a bill
requiring a poll tax for voting, which groups of people were disfranchised?
A: Most blacks, many poor whites and Latinos.
On November 22, 1963, what U.S. President was shot and
killed in Dallas in his motorcade by an assassin?
A: John F. Kennedy.
What is the Texas state motto?
A: Friendship.
In what year was the current Texas State Constitution was
adopted?
A: In 1876.
Lyndon B. Johnson was a Texan and he was the 36th what?
A: President of the United States
How many counties does the state of Texas have, the most in
the country?
A: 254.
According to the Energy Information Administration, the
citizens of Texans consume more "what" per capita and more energy in total than
any other state in the Union?
A: energy.
What kind of power does is Texas the biggest producer of?
A: Wind power.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is located in what Texas
city?
A: Southeast Houston.
Texas has three cities that have over a million residents
each, what are their names?
A: Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas.
What Texas church located in the city of Houston is the
largest church in the United States?
A: The Lakewood Church.
What are the names of the two most widely-recognized
flagship universities in Texas?
A: The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University.
Where are more hearts transplanted than anywhere else in
the world?
A: Texas Medical Center.
What was the name of the first Texas freeway which was
opened in 1948 in Houston?
A: the Gulf Freeway.
In Texas, on a section of the State Highway 130 toll road,
the speed limit is the highest in the country. What is the speed limit?
A: 85 miles per hour.
How many airports does Texas have?
A: 730.
What was the first railroad to operate in Texas?
A: Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, opening in August 1853.
What are the two NFL teams from Texas?
A: The Dallas Cowboys and the Houston Texans.
What are the two Major League Baseball teams in Texas?
A: The Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros.
Texas has three NBA teams. What are their names?
A: The Houston Rockets, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Dallas Mavericks.
Where was the world's first rodeo was held?
A: In Pecos, Texas.
What rodeo, held in Texas, is the largest rodeo in the
world?
A: The annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo .
What is the Texas state flower?
A: Bluebonnet.