Summer in Texas
This Corpus Christi-born burger chain is a Texas road-trip staple, especially when you need a late-night summer meal.
What is Whataburger?
This blue wildflower became Texas’ official state flower and is one of the most recognizable signs of spring in the state.
What is the bluebonnet?
This UT Southwestern facility is described as a 49,000-square-foot center that replicates real-life clinical environments for health care learners.
What is the Simulation Center?
Opened in 1888, this Dallas attraction is described as the oldest in Texas.
What is the Dallas Zoo?
This Pixar robot film won Best Animated Feature for 2008.
What is WALL-E?
This bright red soda began in Waco and is a classic Texas pairing with BBQ or summer cookouts.
What is Big Red?
This bird is famous for mimicking other birds’ songs and is the official state bird of Texas.
What is the mockingbird?
A nearly 50-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture by Roxy Paine added to the UTSW South Campus Sculpture Garden represents this part of the human body.
What is a neuron.
Developed in 1931, this shopping center is described by Visit Dallas as America’s first planned shopping center.
What is Highland Park Village?
This DreamWorks martial arts comedy was nominated for Best Animated Feature in 2008, the year WALL-E won.
What is Kung Fu Panda?
In the summer of 1924, an Oak Cliff ice-dock operator’s idea to sell ice-cold watermelon helped foreshadow the convenience-store model that became this Dallas-born chain.
What is 7-Eleven?
This orange-and-black butterfly is the official state insect of Texas.
What is the monarch butterfly?
Bruce Beutler, M.D. shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for discovering how this body defense system is activated.
What is the immune system?
This frozen drink became a Dallas claim to fame after Mariano Martinez adapted a soft-serve machine to create a more consistent version for his restaurant.
What is the frozen margarita?
This 2009 science-fiction epic used groundbreaking 3D spectacle to take audiences to Pandora and became the highest-grossing film worldwide.
What is Avatar? [boxofficemojo.com]
This Austin swimming spot is a spring-fed pool and one of the city’s most famous places to cool off in the summer.
What is Barton Springs?
This nut-producing tree is the official state tree of Texas.
What is the pecan tree?
Roughly 1 in 30 Texans are born at this Texas hospital each year.
What is Parkland Hospital.
This 1987 sci-fi film was set in Detroit but used Dallas locations, including Dallas City Hall, as part of its futuristic look.
What is RoboCop?
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, this character destroys Nagini, the last Horcrux, with the Sword of Gryffindor.
Who is Neville Longbottom?
On August 19, 1965, this Texas shopping center opened as the largest climate-controlled retail center in the world at the time.
What is NorthPark Center?
This one-word Texas state motto comes from the meaning of “Tejas."
What is Friendship?
UTSW's Drs. Brown and Goldstein’s Nobel-winning work helped explain the action of this widely prescribed class of cholesterol-lowering drugs.
What are statins?
This Dallas-born singer is known as the “Queen of Neo-Soul” and released the breakout album Baduizm.
Who is Erykah Badu?
This actor won Best Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby after earlier Best Actor nominations for Driving Miss Daisy and The Shawshank Redemption.
Who is Morgan Freeman?