Texaminations

How well do you know Texas? Test your knowledge of Texas history and heritage in this interactive quiz.

  Results #1. For eight years this explorer traveled across what is now known as the American Southwest and northern Mexico before reconnecting with Spanish civilization. Early in his journeys, he was shipwrecked either on or near present-day Galveston. Upon his return home, the chronicles of his experiences were published in 1543. The narrative Relación,

  #1. What Houston-born aviator and “Spruce Goose” inventor set speed records as a pilot, participating in a crew that cut Charles Lindbergh’s time for crossing the Atlantic by half in 1938? enter answer here In 1938, Howard Hughes and a four-man crew landed their specially equipped Lockheed 14 in New York City, having circled the