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1. To visit the first rodeo,
when and where would you have had to visit Texas? (Two points each) 1883 in Pecos,
TX
2. What Texas zoo was the first in the nation
to create a replica of a rain forest? Fort Worth
3. Texas' oldest mission was not
built in Texas. In what country WAS it built? Mexico (the Rio Grande changed its course and the mission is
now in Texas)
4. Where did the world's first mass
parachute drop take place? San Antonio (April 28, 1929 at
Brooks Field)
5. Newspaper accounts say the first powered airplane was flown in Texas
nearly forty years before the Wright Brothers version in 1903. Who was the inventor-pilot? Jacob Brodbeck (Powered by coil
springs, the airplane reportedly reached treetop heights before crashing into a henhouse killing several chickens and scaring
many children -- 1865.
6. The first movie to win an Academy Award for Best Film was shot in and around San Antonio. Name it. Wings
7. To see the
first sauropod tracks discovered in the world, where would you have to visit? Dinosaur
Valley State Park near Glen Rose
8. To join in a commemoration of the first Christmas in Texas, where would you go? Nacogdoches
(French explorer
LaSalle celebrated Christmas Mass among the Tejas Indians in Nacogdoches
in 1686 – now colorfully celebrated annually)
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