Clues Across Texas (Each clue will be delivered by a personality from one of our affiliated stations in the great state of Texas)
(Hi, I'm Deborah Knapp for KENS 5.) The Witte Museum's collection includes a fiddle filled with rattlesnake rattles that belonged to this frontiersman & onetime Congressman who met his end at the Alamo
Davy Crockett
James
In an oxymoronic phrase, it precedes "on purpose"
accidentally
James
This Dr. is in:
"Got a palace in the hills overlookin' the sea, it's worth 8 but I only paid 5.3"
DR. DRE
James
He uses his left hand to write checks to the charitable foundation named for him & wife Melinda
Bill Gates
Sam
The distance a photon travels in a vacuum in 365 days, this unit is often hyphenated
a light year
James
(I'm Anne Elise Parks with TXA 21.) The George W. Bush Presidential Library is in this city where the president moved back to after the White House
Dallas
James
Merriam-Webster points out that writers like Thackeray have used it to mean its opposite, "figuratively"
literally
James
Just 10 days after its release, "This Is America" by this rapper had over 100 million views on YouTube
Childish Gambino
Sam
He played the classic bass lines for "Michelle" & "Paperback Writer" as a lefty
Paul McCartney
James
This unit of explosive power is equivalent to detonating 2 billion pounds of TNT
Daily Double
a mega ton
Susan
(I'm Pooja Lodhia with ABC 13.) Opened in 1961, KTRK was the first large domed structure in Houston; a few years later its architect, Hermon Lloyd, designed this bigger one
the Astrodome'
James
Without exception; it precedes "Fabulous" in a TV title
absolutely
James
Lil Duval provided a "Smile (Living My Best Life)" with help from this "canine" superstar & Ball Greezy
Snoop Dogg
James
Steve Young used his left hand to toss 6 TD passes in this team's 1995 Super Bowl rout of the Chargers
the 49ers
James
In terms of radiation intensity, one crab equals the output of the Crab one of these celestial masses
a nebula
Sam
(I'm Robert Hadlock from KXAN.) You may think the yellow rose is the Texas state flower, but it's actually this one named for its color
the bluebonnet
James
Motherly synonym
maternally
Triple Stump
It's the "Mode" Travis Scott was in to go to No. 1 on the pop charts in 2018
Sicko Mode
James
She used her left hand to point while saying, "You get a car! You get a car!"
Oprah Winfrey
Sam
This number is 10 to the power of a googol
a googolplex
James
(Hi, I'm Kris Radcliffe from KCEN 6.) The "Branding the Brazos" sculptures depict a cattle drive across Waco's suspension bridge, opened in 1870 as part of this trail; there was a nickel toll for each head of cattle crossing
the Chrisolm trail
James
We're heading this way, a non-ly adverb meaning toward the mouth of a river
downstream
James
Following "Licensed to Ill", this second "Ill" album by the Beastie Boys featured "Sabotage"
III Communication
James
This artist famed for his "impossible constructions" like "Ascending and Descending" constructed them as a lefty
M.C. Escher
James
In geologic time it's smaller than an eon or era, but the Eocene one still lasted about 20 million years
an epoch
James