US Route 66 - Texas
What do you know about US Route
66? Take this U.S. Highways History Made Easy Trivia quiz. You'll find answers at the
bottom of the page.
 1)
After crossing into Texas across the Oklahoma border, what is the first
town you come to?
- Benonine
- Bennyhonna
- Bennysboots
2) Down the road on Route 66 is Shamrock, TX. What was the name of
the business that boasted the distinctive Art Deco tower?
- U-Drop Inn
- Stop Here 2 Night
- Shamrock Inn
3) The next stop in McLean, TX. It began around 1900 when a loading
switch was laid and cattle chutes were built near he railroad tracks.
The areas leading cattleman was Alfred Rowe, who donated the land for
the town and named it after Railroad Commissioner, W.P. McLean. In 1912,
Rowe when back to his native Enland and booked a maiden voyage on the
Titanic back to America.
4) You come to another small town about 12 miles west of McLean. It
went by the names Spring Tank, Springtown, Prairie Dog. What is the
town?
5) By the late 1920s, when Route 66 was on its way to becoming one of
the most notorious towns in the Southwest. It did not fain that
reputation from a red light district or six-shooter gun battles. What
made it notorious?
- Jericho Gap
- Mother's Town
- Gumbo Soil
6) You come o Amarillo, in its early days of settlement of huts built
from stretched buffalo hides. The city was laid out in 1887. What was
their first name?
7) Just outside of Amarillo, you come to a Pop Art monument to Route
66. It is in a wheat field near where old Route 66 once crossed and
easily seen from I-40 are ten Cadillacs, nose down in the turf and their
tail fins rising into the sun. What is the exhibit known as?
- Tails In the Air
- Cadillac Ranch
- Brownie's Farm
8) Thirty-five miles west of Amarillo is the little prairie town of
Vega. Twenty-two miles north of Vega lies "the queen of Texas ghost
towns." What is the town's name.
- Manington
- Fort Watch
- Tascosa
9) Along Route 66 is the small town of Adrian. There you see grain
elevators, stock pens, and corrals, and not much more, but through the
tiny town the road is still called Highway 66.
10) For some, this town is the last one in Texas, for others the
first stop in New Mexico. What is the town?
- Glenrio
- Alanrio
- Longhornrio
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