Q 01/05
A) Shoal Creek
B) Lamarville
C) Colorado City
D) Waterloo
Answer · why
President Mirabeau B. Lamar picked the site where the roads to San Antonio and Santa Fe crossed, over the objections of Sam Houston.
Q 02/05
A) The Lone Star General
B) The Father of Texas
C) The First Texan
D) The Founder of the Alamo
Answer · why
He brought the Old Three Hundred families to Texas in the 1820s and died in 1836, before the city existed; he never visited the site.
Q 03/05
A) Silicon Hills of Texas
B) Keep Austin Weird, Y'all
C) The Live Music Capital of the World
D) The City of the Violet Crown
Answer · why
Keep Austin Weird is the unofficial one, coined by librarian Red Wassenich in 2000 and later copied by Portland and Louisville.
Q 04/05
A) Red Wassenich
B) Richard Linklater
C) John Mackey
D) Willie Nelson
Answer · why
The Austin Independent Business Alliance adopted it to promote local shops; Portland borrowed it in 2003.
Q 05/05
A) 711,855
B) 861,855
C) 611,855
D) 961,855
Answer · why
That made it the 12th-most populous US city and one of the fastest-growing large cities since 2010.
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