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1. Where is the World's Largest
Parking Lot?
DFW Airport
2. Who wears the largest
jeans in the world? What size are they?
Big Tex at the Texas State Fair.They are Lee Jeans, size 276 with a 23-foot waist.
(His boots are size 70.)
3. Where is the largest airport in the nation? Grapevine (DFW International)
4. Where
is the home of the world's most complete collection of working World War II aircraft? Confederate Air Force with its home in Midland
5. What Texas location has more historical buildings than Colonial Williamsburg? Fort Sam Houston
6.
What was the largest building ever moved? Fairmount Hotel in San Antonio
7.
Where can you get a 4½ pound steak for free, if you can eat it in an hour? The Big Texan Steak Ranch Restaurant in Amarillo
8. Where is the world's largest spring fed swimming pool?
Balmorhea State Park
9.
Where was the first domed-roof arena built in the United States?
Fort Worth (the Will Rogers Coliseum built in 1936)
10. Where
is the largest collection of endangered animals in the United States?
Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville
11. What is the longest
river locate wholly within the border of Texas?
Brazos
(the Rio Grande is not within the border but on the border, and it begins in New
Mexico, or maybe Colorado)
12. What is
the nation's longest highway in any one state?
U.S. 83 (903 miles from
Brownsville to the Panhandle; IH-10 is only 878.7 miles long from Louisiana
just east of Orange to El Paso.)
13.
What is the world's tallest masonry structure?
San Jacinto Battlefield
Monument (and it's taller than either the Washington
Monument or the Statue of Liberty)
14. Where is the summer home
for the largest urban colony of bats in North America? Austin
under the Congress Avenue
Bridge
15. Where is the site of the world's largest known bat
colony?
Bracken Cave (actually a system
of caves near San Antonio
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