Question
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Answer
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What is the state capital of Texas?
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Austin
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What river is located at the Mexican border?
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Rio Grande
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What is the state nickname of Texas?
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Lone Star State
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What city was Texas's most important port until it was destroyed by a hurricane in 1900?
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Galveston
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What Texan city is located adjacent to Mexico's Ciudad Juárez?
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El Paso
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What river makes the border with Oklahoma?
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Red River
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What type of weather event strikes Texas an average of 139 each year, more than any?
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Tornadoes
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In what city did the Battle of Alamo take place?
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San Antonio
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Like Florida and Idaho, what geographical feature does Texas have?
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Texas Panhandle
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On what river, with namesake of a state, is the capital of Texas located?
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Colorado River
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What are the only two national parks that are located in Texas? (name either)
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Big Bend / Guadalupe
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Houston has one of these that is over 500 feet wide - the widest in the world by some standards. What is it?
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a Freeway
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What desert in western Texas, has the namesake of a popular dog breed?
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Chihuahuan Desert
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What does Texas have 254 of, nation's highest number? (Harris is an example)
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Counties
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What is the southernmost city in Texas?
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Brownsville
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What region in Central Texas is considered be to the border between the American Southwest and Southeast?
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Hill Country
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What is the world's largest barrier island?
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Padre Island
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What city is appropriately located on the Texas-Arkansas border?
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Texarkana
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What is the airport code of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport?
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DFW
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What oil field's gusher blew for 9 days in 1901 at a rate of 100,000 barrels of oil per day?
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Spindletop
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There are two Colorado Rivers. The one in Texas is not the namesake of the state, that would be the larger one originating in Colorado.
Possibly accept interstate for question #12?
Accept Chihuahua without the 'n' for question #13.
This was fun, thanks :)