A Lone Star pop quiz

[brokeplex]

Welcome to Texas, friends! Care to sit for a spell and try your hand at some of the trivia connected to my home state? I'll post the correct answers a week from today. All set? Here ya go...

1. The capital of Texas is...
a) Austin -
b) Corpus Christi
c) Dallas
d) Houston
e) San Antonio

2. The Texas Declaration of Independence was formalized and signed in which of these towns?
a) Austin
b) Houston
c) Velasco
d) Washington-on-the-Brazos -
e) West Columbia

3. Which of these is the oldest city/town in Texas?
a) Bastrop
b) El Paso -
c) Nacogdoches
d) San Antonio
e) San Felipe

4. How many counties does the State of Texas have?
a) 33
b) 58
c) 75
d) 77
e) 254 -

5. What is the largest county in Texas (by area)?
a) Brewster -
b) Culberson
c) Hudspeth
d) Pecos
e) Presidio

6. What is the smallest Texas county (by area)?
a) Delta
b) Ellis
c) Morris
d) Orange
e) Rockwall -

7. Which of these Native American tribes did not live in the area of present-day Texas?
a) Caddo
b) Comanche
c) Mandan -
d) Tonkawa
e) Wichita

8. 'Texas' is derived from a Native American word meaning...
a) fertility
b) friend -
c) nobility
d) righteousness
e) unity

9. Texas was first admitted to the Union in...
a) 1821
b) 1836
c) 1845 -
d) 1861
e) 1870

10. Which of these famous women is not a native Texan?
a) Carol Burnett
b) Sandy Duncan
c) Carolyn Jones
d) Jennifer Jones -
e) Mary Martin

11. Which of these fictional characters was created by a Texas writer?
a) Natty Bumppo
b) Conan the Barbarian -
c) Dorothy Gale
d) Anne Shirley
e) Tarzan of the Apes

12. Texas was once a constituent part of which of these Mexican states?
a) Chihuahua
b) Coahuila -
c) Nuevo León
d) San Luis Potosí
e) Tamaulipas

13. Which of these nations did not extend diplomatic recognition to the Republic of Texas?
a) France
b) The Netherlands
c) Russia -
d) United Kingdom
e) United States of America

14. The Texas state flower is...
a) apple blossom
b) bluebonnet -
c) magnolia
d) mistletoe
e) yucca

15. The Texas state tree is...
a) cypress
b) pecan -
c) pine
d) piñon
e) redbud

16. The Texas state bird is...
a) bluebird
b) Eastern brown pelican
c) mockingbird -
d) roadrunner
e) scissor-tailed flycatcher

17. The oldest university in Texas is...
a) Southwestern University
b) Texas A&M University -
c) Texas State University
d) Texas Tech University
e) The University of Texas at Austin

18. Texas is ranked by which number in terms of its statehood?
a) 18th
b) 25th -
c) 28th
d) 46th
e) 47th

19. Which of these men was the last President of the Republic of Texas?
a) David G. Burnet
b) Anson Jones -
c) Sam Houston
d) Mirabeau B. Lamar

20. Which of these Texas counties was the site of the first professional U.S. rodeo?
a) Childress
b) Hemphill -
c) Potter
d) Randall
e) Wheeler

[Kerry]

I'm late coming to the Lone Star Pop Quiz and haven't done any research. Nor have I looked ahead at other responses. I hope I don't do too badly, but I fear that may be the case. Wish me luck! 

1. The capital of Texas is...
a) Austin
b) Corpus Christi
c) Dallas
d) Houston
e) San Antonio

2. The Texas Declaration of Independence was formalized and signed in which of these towns?
a) Austin
b) Houston
c) Velasco
d) Washington-on-the-Brazos
e) West Columbia

3. Which of these is the oldest city/town in Texas?
a) Bastrop
b) El Paso
c) Nacogdoches
d) San Antonio
e) San Felipe

4. How many counties does the State of Texas have?
a) 33
b) 58
c) 75
d) 77
e) 254

5. What is the largest county in Texas (by area)?
a) Brewster
b) Culberson
c) Hudspeth
d) Pecos
e) Presidio

6. What is the smallest Texas county (by area)?
a) Delta
b) Ellis
c) Morris
d) Orange
e) Rockwall

7. Which of these Native American tribes did not live in the area of present-day Texas?
a) Caddo
b) Comanche
c) Mandan
d) Tonkawa
e) Wichita

8. 'Texas' is derived from a Native American word meaning...
a) fertility
b) friend
c) nobility
d) righteousness
e) unity

9. Texas was first admitted to the Union in...
a) 1821
b) 1836
c) 1845
d) 1861
e) 1870

10. Which of these famous women is not a native Texan?
a) Carol Burnett
b) Sandy Duncan
c) Carolyn Jones
d) Jennifer Jones
e) Mary Martin

11. Which of these fictional characters was created by a Texas writer?
a) Natty Bumppo
b) Conan the Barbarian
c) Dorothy Gale
d) Anne Shirley
e) Tarzan of the Apes

12. Texas was once a constituent part of which of these Mexican states?
a) Chihuahua
b) Coahuila
c) Nuevo León
d) San Luis Potosí
e) Tamaulipas

13. Which of these nations did not extend diplomatic recognition to the Republic of Texas?
a) France
b) The Netherlands
c) Russia
d) United Kingdom
e) United States of America

14. The Texas state flower is...
a) apple blossom
b) bluebonnet
c) magnolia
d) mistletoe
e) yucca

15. The Texas state tree is...
a) cypress
b) pecan
c) pine
d) piñon
e) redbud

16. The Texas state bird is...
a) bluebird
b) Eastern brown pelican
c) mockingbird
d) roadrunner
e) scissor-tailed flycatcher

17. The oldest university in Texas is...
a) Southwestern University
b) Texas A&M University
c) Texas State University
d) Texas Tech University
e) The University of Texas at Austin

18. Texas is ranked by which number in terms of its statehood? 
a) 18th
b) 25th
c) 28th
d) 46th
e) 47th

19. Which of these men was the last President of the Republic of Texas?
a) David G. Burnet
b) Anson Jones
c) Sam Houston
d) Mirabeau B. Lamar

20. Which of these Texas counties was the site of the first professional U.S. rodeo?
a) Childress
b) Hemphill
c) Potter
d) Randall
e) Wheeler


I'm not proud to confess that I guessed absolutely every one of those answers!