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Exploring Lubbock, Texas: A Quiz on Its History and Features

This quiz offers an engaging way to test your knowledge about Lubbock, Texas, covering its classification, leadership, events, demographics, and geographical characteristics.

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1 What is Lubbock, Texas classified as?

2 Lubbock (pronounced /ˈlʌbək/) is an American city in the state of ________.

3 Who of the following is/was the leader of Lubbock, Texas?

4 What is the leader of Lubbock, Texas called?

5 What is the area of the water of Lubbock, Texas in square miles?

6 The National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration, an annual event celebrating the prototypical Old West ________, takes place in Lubbock.

7 According to the 2000 ________, the city population was 199,564, making it the 90th largest city in the United States and the 11th largest in Texas.

8 Where is Lubbock, Texas?

9 The city is set up on a simple ________.

10 Which of the following subdivisions is Lubbock, Texas in?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock, was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970.
  • Virgil Johnson, the lead singer of the doo wop group The Velvets, retired from his career as a school principal and is now a deejay in Lubbock, Texas.
  • the Pitchfork Ranch, established east of Lubbock, Texas in 1883, is one of the few modern ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding.
  • Kevin O'Brien, an Independent Baptist minister in Lubbock, Texas, was among the founders of the fundamentalist Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City.
  • J.T. Alley, police chief of Lubbock, Texas, vowed in 1970 to shoot looters taking advantage of his city's devastating tornadoes.
  • Lubbock attorney Warlick Carr filed some thirty civil suits within 24 hours against the Pecos, Texas, financier Billie Sol Estes.
  • Edwin "Big Ed" Wilkes, a Lubbock, Texas, radio talk show host, and a colleague, Bud Andrews, produced the first albums of the country comedian Jerry Clower.
  • Bidal Aguero, a civil rights activist in Lubbock, published El Editor, the oldest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas.
  • Lubbock accountant Charles Perry unseated Delwin Jones, the oldest member of the Texas House of Representatives, in the Republican runoff held on April 13, 2010.
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