Opening Questions

On every episode of Come and Take It, we start by sharing a bit of Texana that may or may not relate to the topic of that show. We try not to repeat ourselves, and the intention is to celebrate the little things that make Texas Texas. Below is a list of every opening question so far. If you’d like to hear how we’d answer a different question, or have a response to one that we’ve already covered, let us know!

• 2. Who’s your favorite Texas wrestler?
• 3. What’s your favorite ZZ Top album?
• 4. What’s your favorite Chuck Norris movie?
• 5. What’s your favorite street in Houston?
• 6. What’s your favorite Six Flags ride?
• 7. What’s your favorite Texas horror movie?
• 8. What’s your favorite Randy Quaid movie that isn’t Dead Solid Perfect?
• 9. What’s your favorite South Texas coastal spot (featured in a movie)?
• 10. What’s your favorite music venue in Dallas?
• 11. What’s your favorite Texas town name?
• 12. What’s our favorite movie filmed in Texas but not actually set in Texas?
• 13. What’s your favorite Tex-mex menu item?
• 14. What’s your favorite film by Stephen Tobolowsky?
• 15. Who’s your favorite Texan Astronaut?
• 16. Who’s a fascinating Texas politician?
• 17. What’s your favorite Texas beer?
• 18. Who’s your favorite defunct Texas sports team?
• 19. What’s your favorite museum in Texas?
• 20. What’s your favorite indigenous Texas reptile?
• 21. What’s your favorite Dallas street?
• 22. What’s your favorite Texas university animal mascot?
• 23. What’s your favorite Deep Ellum night spot?
• 24. Who’s your favorite Oscar nominee from Texas?
• 25. What is the most memorable historical disaster in Texas?
• 26. Who’s your favorite Texas blues guitarist?
• 27. What’s your favorite Texas cop show that isn’t Walker: Texas Ranger?
• 28. Who’s your favorite non-TV reporter TV personality?
• 29. What’s your favorite cheesy Texas souvenir?
• 30. What’s your favorite Texas Air Force base, living or dead?
• 31. What’s your favorite Texas town that you’ve only visited once?
• 32. What’s your favorite tall Texas monument?
• 33. Who’s your favorite Texas aviator?
• 34. What’s your favorite Texas swimmin’ hole?
• 35. What’s your favorite festival in Texas?
• 36. What’s your favorite exhibit at the Texas State Fair?
• 37. What’s a great song about Texas?
• 38. What’s your favorite Texas dance hall?
• 39. What’s your favorite Texas-shaped novelty item?
• 40. What’s your favorite movie theater in Texas?
• 41. What’s your favorite roadside stop in Texas?
• 42. What’s your favorite Texas based game company?
• 43. What’s your favorite pecan-based delicacy?
• 44. What’s your favorite Texas river?
• 45. What’s your favorite Texas flag?
• 46. Who would win in a fight? An armadillo, a horny toad, or a mosquito from the Texas Gulf Coast?
• 47. Who is your favorite Texas military leader?
• 48. Who’s your favorite Texas celebrity family?
• 49. What’s your favorite Texan fried food?
• 50. What’s your favorite stretch of country road in Texas?
• 51. Who’s your favorite Texas sportscaster?
• 52. What’s your favorite Galveston landmark?
• 53. What’s your favorite Come and Take It question, so far?
• 54. What’s your favorite State that borders Texas?
• 55. What’s your favorite country that’s smaller than the state of Texas?
• 56. What’s your favorite local Texas radio or TV jingle?
• 57. What’s your favorite thing that is no longer in Texas, but should be in Texas?
• 58. What’s your favorite Tex-Mex menu item?
• 59. What’s your favorite Texas ghost story?
• 60. Where’s your favorite place to drink in Texas?
• 61. What’s your favorite product endorsed by Chuck Norris?
• 62. What’s your favorite Texas holiday song?
• 63. Who’s your favorite Davy Crockett?
• 64. What dangerous thing would you least like to encounter on the Texas coast?
• 65. What’s your favorite 90’s Dallas rock band?
• 66. What’s your favorite flavor of Bluebell ice cream?
• 67. What’s your favorite Texas donut or pastry?
• 68. What’s your favorite Texas stadium?
• 69. What’s your favorite Texas belt buckle?
• 70. What’s your favorite Texas bay?
• 71. What’s your favorite specialty menu item at Whataburger?
• 72. What’s your favorite Dr Pepper knock-off?
• 73. Who’s your favorite coach in Texas?
• 74. What’s your favorite Texas town that isn’t pronounced the way it’s spelled?
• 75. What’s your least favorite Chuck Norris film?
• 76. What’s your favorite Dennis Quaid movie?
• 77. What’s your favorite Gary Buseyism?
• 78. What’s your favorite myth about Texas?
• 79. Who is a great actress some people may not know is from Texas?
• 80. What is your favorite Toadies song?
• 81. What is your favorite weapon Chuck Norris has used in a film?
• 82. What’s your favorite pie you’ve eaten in Texas?
• 83. What’s your favorite Texas supermarket?
• 84. What’s your favorite song by Stevie Ray Vaughan?
• 85. What’s your favorite Texas based reality show?
• 86. What’s your favorite historical Texas headgear?
• 87. What is your most memorable Texas road trip story?
• 88. What’s your favorite Tommy Lee Jones movie performance?
• 89. What is the furtherest you have ever been from Texas?
• 90. What’s your favorite Bill Paxton movie quote?
• 91. What is your favorite ship in Texas that isn’t the USS Texas?
• 92. What is your favorite Texas history book?
• 93. What’s your favorite monster truck that has performed in Texas?
• 94. What’s your favorite historical inaccuracy in Texas Rising?
• 95. What is the deepest you have ever been in Texas?
• 96. What is your favorite item to purchase at Buc-ees?
• 97. What is your favorite Texan historical fort or military fortification?
• 98. Who is your favorite Texan historical or celebrity figure with an animal-based nickname?
• 99. What’s your favorite Texas summertime frozen treat?
• 100. What is your favorite animal taxidermied in Texas?
• 101. What’s your favorite way to cool off in the hot, hot, Texas summer heat?
• 102. What’s your favorite Texas radio ‘phrase that pays’?
• 103. Who’s your favorite Texas classic rock jock?
• 104. What’s your favorite obscure Texas band?
• 105. What’s your favorite flavor of kolache?
• 106. Who’s your favorite Texas lawman?
• 107. What’s your favorite fried food at the State Fair of Texas?
• 108. What’s your favorite song with Texas in the title?
• 109. What’s your favorite Matthew McConaughey performance that is NOT Dazed and Confused?
• 110. What’s your favorite San Antonio landmark that’s not the Alamo?
• 111. What’s your favorite Texas geological feature?
• 112. What’s a really great Texas historical themed Halloween costume?
• 113. What’s your favorite German restaurant in Texas?
• 114. What’s your favorite marching band song?
• 115. What’s your favorite football movie set in Texas?
• 116. What’s your favorite Texas sports team slogan?
• 117. Who is your favorite fictional Texas outlaw?
• 118. What is your favorite cut of steak?
• 119. What is your favorite hamburger not from Whataburger?
• 120. What hospital were you born at in Texas?
• 121. What’s your favorite Texas holiday tradition?
• 122. In the spirit of Bernie, what’s your favorite hymn from the movie?
• 123. What’s your favorite Texas boot manufacturer?
• 124. What’s your favorite Texas courthouse?
• 125. What’s you favorite Sci-Fi movie set or filmed in Texas?
• 126. What’s your favorite musical act you’ve seen at the Houston livestock show and rodeo?
• 127. What’s your favorite defunct Texas music venue?
• 128. What’s your favorite Texas (baseball) Ranger?
• 129. In the interest of fairness, who is your favorite Houston Astro?
• 130. What’s your favorite taco you’ve ever eaten in Texas?
• 131. In the spirit of spring, what’s your favorite memory from a Texas ballpark?
• 132. What’s your favorite small town fair or carnival in Texas?
• 133. What’s your favorite Texan fruit or vegetable?
• 134. What’s your favorite war memorial in Texas?
• 135. What’s your favorite [BLANK] Capital of the World (in Texas)?
• 136. What’s your favorite classic Texas dry good?
• 137. What’s your favorite golf course in Texas?
• 138. What’s your favorite Western Swing song?
• 139. What’s your favorite Texas sport fish?
• 140. Who is your favorite lesser-known Texas outlaw?
• 141. What’s your favorite ZZ Top car?
• 142. What’s your favorite Jim Bowie adventure?
• 143. What’s your favorite chicken-themed thing in Texas
• 144. Who’s your favorite Texas comic book creator or cartoonist?
• 145. What’s your favorite texas wine?
• 146. What’s your favorite car featured in a Texas movie?
• 147. What’s your favorite ballpark snack?
• 148. What’s your favorite Texan catch phrase or slogan?
• 149. What’s your favorite Aggie joke?
• 150. What’s your favorite song by Janis Joplin?
• 151. What’s your favorite highway overpass?
• 152. Who’s your favorite Texas golfer?
• 153. What’s your favorite Texas train?
• 154. What’s your favorite variety of Shiner beer?
• 155. What’s your favorite marginally Texas-themed ice cream flavor?
• 156. What’s your favorite Spanish place name in Texas?
• 157. Who’s your favorite G.I.Joe from Texas?
• 158. What’s your favorite Texas rodeo?
• 159. What’s your favorite Texan native Forest Whitaker movie (that isn’t Star Wars: Rogue One).
• 160. What’s your favorite joke about Texas weather?
• 161. What’s your favorite academic UIL competition event?
• 162. But first, out of all the historical Texans we’ve discussed on the show, which one do you think should have a giant statue dedicated to them, but doesn’t already have one?
• 163. Who’s your favorite Texas naval hero?
• 164. What’s your favorite Halloween costume you’ve worn in Texas?
• 165. What’s your favorite non-standard taco filling?
• 166. Who’s your favorite Yacht (or Nyacht) Rocker from Texas?
• 167. What’s your favorite place to look at dinosaur bones in Texas?
• 168. What’s your favorite method of avoiding mosquitos in Texas?
• 169. What’s your favorite building in Texas constructed before 1900?
• 170. What’s your favorite Texas Cattle Trail?
• 171. What’s your favorite indigenous Texas snake?
• 172. What’s your favorite Texas Folk Song?
• 173. What’s your favorite German dish? Was ist dein lieblings texas deutsches essen?
• 174. What’s your favorite Texas Island?
• 175. What’s your favorite place to play pool in Texas?
• 176. What’s in your wallet?
• 177. What’s one Texas roadside attraction that you have always wanted to visit?
• 178. What’s your favorite Texas-themed item that you’ve made with your own hands?
• 179. What’s your favorite place you ever drank a Texas-made soda?
• 180. What’s your favorite Gulf Coast fish?
• 181. What’s your favorite mural in Texas?
• 182. What’s your favorite Texas rodeo bull?
• 183. What’s your favorite Texas weatherman?
• 184. What’s your favorite ‘Texas Edition’ pick-up truck?
• 185. What’s your favorite you saw at a Texas drive-in?
• 186. What’s your favorite Texas historical moment from this podcast?
• 187. What’s your favorite thing to do with Big Red?
• 188. What’s your favorite place to look at wildflowers in Texas?
• 189. What’s your favorite way to cook and eat a steak?
• 190. What’s your favorite Pantera song?
• 191. What’s your favorite Chinese restaurant in Texas?
• 192. What’s your favorite Buc-ees treat?
• 193. What’s your favorite Colt?
• 194. What’s your favorite ersatz oil derrick in Texas?
• 195. Who’s your favorite Texan comedian?
• 196. What’s your favorite spy movie filmed in Texas?
• 197. What’s your favorite place to water-ski Texas?
• 198. What’s your favorite Bryan/College Station memory?
• 199. What’s your favorite place to buy a record in Texas, past or present?
• 200. What do you hope to enjoy when Texas celebrates its own bicentennial?
• 201. What’s your favorite airplane built in Texas?
• 202. What’s your favorite Texas movie western?
• 203. What’s your favorite video game designed in Texas?
• 204. What’s your favorite way to eat frijoles?
• 205. what’s your favorite major league ballpark giveaway swag in a Texas ballpark?
• 206. What’s your favorite thing to debate about in Texas?
• 207. What’s your favorite Texas Football team, past or present?
• 208. What’s your favorite stretch of railroad in Texas?
• 209. What’s your favorite Texas charity?
• 210. What’s your most anticipated Texas State Fair food for 2017?
• 211. What’s your favorite Texas hat?
• 212. What’s your favorite Texas non-beer adult beverage?
• 213. What’s your favorite replica weapon of the Texas revolution?
• 214. What’s your favorite Texas science museum?
• 215. What’s your favorite fishin’ hole in Texas?
• 216. What’s your favorite Texas blues song?
• 217. What’s your favorite horror movie based in Texas?
• 218. What oil industry job would you LEAST like to have?
• 219. What’s your favorite thing to do in Austin?
• 220. What’s your favorite non-traditional Thanksgiving food item?
• 221. What’s your favorite ZZ Top lyric?
• 222. What’s your favorite Texas movie quote?
• 223. Who’s your all time favorite Houston Astro?
• 224. What is your favorite Tejano song?
• 225. What’s your favorite George Strait Christmas song?
• 226. Who’s your favorite villain in a movie set in Texas?
• 227. What’s your favorite 80s teen rebel anthem?
• 228. What’s your favorite commercial unique to Texas?
• 229. What’s your favorite commercial unique to Texas?
• 230. What’s your favorite ‘European City’ in Texas?
• 231. What’s your favorite non-Whataburger place to get breakfast in Texas?
• 232. What’s your favorite second-hand item you’ve purchased in Texas?
• 233. What’s your favorite obscure animal you’ve actually seen in Texas?
• 234. What’s your favorite derelict structure you’ve visited in Texas?
• 235. What’s your favorite item endorsed by a celebrity Texan?
• 236. What’s your favorite type of Texas Tomato?
• 237. What’s your favorite Texas snow moment?
• 238. What’s your Chuck Norris fact?
• 239. What’s a great Texas ‘Dad’ joke?
• 240. What’s a place along the road in Texas that you’ve always thought looked interesting, but you never actually want to visit for fear it will spoil all mystery and just let you down in the end?
• 241. What’s your favorite song from the Dazed and Confused Soundtrack?
• 242. If you could create a Texas Transformer, what would it be?
• 243. Who’s the tallest person you’ve ever physically seen in Texas?
• 244. What’s your favorite Texas flag, excluding the current one?
• 245. What’s your favorite building on UTD’s campus?
• 246. What’s your favorite historic Texas cannon that’s NOT the Come and Take It Cannon?
• 247. Who is your favorite Houston Oiler?
• 248. What’s your favorite Texas made condiment?
• 249. What Texas food would make the best astronaut food?
• 250. What’s your favorite music venue in Dallas?
• 251. What’s the hottest you’ve ever been in Texas?
• 252. What’s your favorite indiginous Texas reptile?
• 253. What’s your favorite extinct Deep Ellum hangout?
• 254. What’s your favorite Chuck Norris movie?
• 255. What’s your favorite Texas Tornados song?
• 256. What’s your favorite Texas tornado movie?
• 257. What’s your favorite Texas based charitable organization?
• 258. How hot are you?
• 259. What’s your favorite local Texas radio or TV jingle?
• 260. What’s the saltiest thing you’ve ever had in Texas?
• 261. What’s your favorite wrestling move performed by a Texas wrestler?
• 262. What’s the most Texan thing you did this summer?
• 263. Who is your favorite actor from Texas Rising?
• 264. Who is your favorite actor from Texas Rising?
• 265. Where is your favorite ice cream cone in Texas?
• 266. What’s your favorite Texan comedy routine?
• 267. What’s the most memorable grave you’ve ever visited in Texas?
• 268. What’s your favorite Texan astronaut food?
• 269. What’s your favorite line from a Chuck Norris Movie?
• 270. Salsa…red or green?
• 271. What’s the furthest you’ve driven across Texas in a day?
• 272. What’s your favorite succulent in Texas?
• 273. What’s your favorite dramatic performance from Uvalde-born actor Matthew McConaughey?
• 274. What’s your favorite Texas roadhouse?
• 275. What do you put on the back window of your double-cab dually pickup?
• 276. What’s your favorite Mickey Gilley song?
• 277. What’s a great Texas Christmas moment?
• 278. What was your favorite Texas good news story this year?
• 279. Texas diner, meat and 3… what do you get?
• 280. What’s your favorite place for fajitas in Texas?
• 281. What’s your favorite country that can fit inside the borders of Texas?
• 282. What’s your favorite movie location in Texas?
• 283. What’s your favorite Texas university animal mascot?
• 284. What’s your favorite Texas bird (that you wouldn’t normally eat)?
• 285. What’s your favorite Texas island?
• 286. What’s your favorite Gulf Coast fish?
• 287. What’s your favorite FFA or 4H competition?
• 288. What’s your favorite defunct store you may have found in a Texas mall in the 1980s?
• 289. What’s your favorite non-Eagles Don Henley song?
• 290. Who’s your favorite podcaster who thought asking a non-sequitur question every episode was a good idea?
• 291. What’s your favorite reason Willie Nelson MIGHT still be the greatest Texan?
• 292. What’s the best thing to tell a non-Texan about Texas?
• 293. If the Greatest Texan tournament was a decathlon-style competition, what would be one of the events?
• 294. What is your favorite comic book story set in Texas?
• 295. What’s your favorite German restaurant in Texas?
• 296. Who’s your favorite Texas historical figure you’d like to have as an NPC in your adventuring party?
• 297. What’s your favorite Texas sport fish?
• 298. What’s your favorite retired branch of Texas service?
• 299. What’s your favorite Bill Paxton movie quote?
• 300. What are your best and worst concert experiences in Texas?
• 301. Do you Hold ‘em, fold ‘em, walk away, or run?
• 302. What’s your favorite racing venue in Texas?
• 303. What Looney Toons character would make the best Texas Ranger?
• 304. What’s your favorite German restaurant in Texas?
• 305. What’s your favorite commercial unique to Texas?
• 306. What’s your favorite building in Texas constructed before 1900?
• 307. What’s your favorite Texas alcohol?
• 308. Who is a great actress some people may not know is from Texas?
• 309. What’s your favorite place to get iced tea in Texas?
• 310. What’s your favorite Texas sausage?
• 311. What is your favorite Texan historical fort or military fortification?
• 312. What’s your favorite species of tree in Texas?
• 313. What’s your favorite historical marker in Texas?
• 314. What’s your favorite animal to make boots from?
• 315. What’s the best outdoor music festival you’ve been to in Texas?
• 316. What’s your favorite cut of blue jeans in Texas?
• 317. What’s your favorite place to look at dinosaur bones in Texas?
• 318. What’s your favorite Texas courthouse?
• 319. What’s the best restaurant meal you ever had in Texas?
• 320. What’s your favorite live music experience in a Texas bar?
• 321. What’s your favorite trick-or-treating experience in Texas?
• 322. What’s your favorite Willie Nelson duet, trio, etc.?
• 323. What’s your favorite Texas twist on a traditional food?
• 324. What’s your favorite non-traditional Thanksgiving food item?
• 325. Who is your favorite movie Sam Houston?
• 326. What’s your least favorite Dr Pepper Variant?
• 327. What’s your favorite Texan tall tale?
• 328. If you could have a pair of cowboy boots made from any skin or material, real or fictional, what would they be?
• 329. What’s a great Texas Christmas moment?
• 330. What’s your favorite Texas New Year’s Eve Tradition?
• 331. What’s your favorite place that you’ve ever taken a nap in Texas?