Q 01/05

Which major freeway begins in Laredo and runs north all the way to Duluth, Minnesota?

A) Interstate 10

B) Interstate 35

C) Interstate 45

D) Interstate 37

Answer · why

B) Interstate 35

Interstate 35 starts near the Mexican border and passes San Antonio, Austin and Dallas, which is why so much cross-border freight funnels through Lare...

Q 02/05

Laredo's biggest festival, a month-long party each February, celebrates the birthday of which US president?

A) Abraham Lincoln

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) George Washington

D) William Henry Harrison

Answer · why

C) George Washington

George Washington is honored with parades, a carnival, an air show and a colonial ball, and the party draws about 400,000 people a year.

Q 03/05

The Laredo Bucks won two league championships in the 2000s as a professional team in which sport?

A) Ice hockey

B) Baseball

C) Arena football

D) Basketball

Answer · why

A) Ice hockey

Ice hockey thrived on the border for a decade: the Bucks won the Central Hockey League title in 2004 and 2006 before moving to Missouri in 2012.

Q 04/05

Which famous classical musician brought a Bach tour to a Laredo international bridge in April 2019?

A) Yo-Yo Ma

B) Itzhak Perlman

C) Joshua Bell

D) Lang Lang

Answer · why

A) Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma brought his Bach Project to the Juárez–Lincoln International Bridge, one of four road bridges linking Laredo with Mexico.

Q 05/05

Laredo recorded rare measurable snow in 2004 on the eve of which holiday?

A) Thanksgiving

B) New Year's Day

C) Christmas

D) Valentine's Day

Answer · why

C) Christmas

Christmas Eve 2004 brought about an inch of snow to Laredo, in the same storm that gave Brownsville its first measurable snowfall in more than a centu...