Statistics for Texas - State Trivia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Second largest metro area	Houston	100%
State capital	Austin	98%
Largest metro area, known as the Metroplex	Dallas	98%
City home to the historic Alamo fortress	San Antonio	93%
River shared with Mexico	Rio Grande	91%
Westernmost city, adjacent to the Mexican city Juárez	El Paso	89%
Dark resource Texas is the largest US producer of	Oil	87%
State nickname	Lone {Star} State	85%
US president who co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team	George W. Bush	82%
Island city that had the deadliest hurricane in US history in 1900	Galveston	75%
Tour de France cyclist who was exposed as hormone user	Lance Armstrong	73%
Cattle breed that is the large state mammal	{Long}horn	69%
Southernmost city, where stationed black soldiers were falsely framed for murder and discharged by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906	Brownsville	65%
Largest city in the Texas Panhandle	Amarillo	64%
Amusement park named for the countries that controlled Texas	Six Flags	62%
Actor who says "Alright, alright, alright"	Matthew McConaughey	53%
National park on that river	Big {Bend}	49%
Chain convenience store that started as an icehouse in the Metroplex	7-Eleven	47%
City named for US president who wanted to annex Texas	Tyler	47%
Long barrier island south of Corpus Christi	{Padre} Island	45%
NASA space center	Johnson	36%
Desert in western TX	Chihuahuan	35%
Highest mountain, located in range of the same name	{Guadalupe} Peak	29%
State motto	Friendship	22%
Forested ecoregion of eastern Texas	{Piney}woods	15%

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