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Can you name the Counties of Texas? Enter a county in the box below Correctly named counties will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order You have 20 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today The Impossible Quiz 16359 States by Capital 12886 Top Food Chains (US) 12061 Best Actress Nominations (90s) 8635 1-100 4787 NFL Rushing TDs (2000s) 4630 And more...
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	cjc:	Apr 17th, 2009 at 23:43 GMT	2 points
	0 out of 254

	R:	Apr 17th, 2009 at 23:44 GMT	10 points
	Seriously, respect for the one who gets them all.

	smacaskill:	Apr 17th, 2009 at 23:49 GMT	1 point
	I just named cities in Texas and hoped they match the county name. Got 4 right.

	TheQuiz:	Apr 17th, 2009 at 23:50 GMT	3 points
	14, just by guessing last names and Texas cities.

	schoopdawoop:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 00:08 GMT	12 points
	not even a texan can do this

	Mike T.:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 00:08 GMT	0 points
	Getting over 100 would be pretty incredible. I lived in Texas for 18 years and got 61, mostly by remembering famous Texans and high schools we played football and basketball against.

	theGrit:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 00:25 GMT	0 points
	38 . . . shocked by it myself. Had I thought of more counties in my own state, I would've gotten a lot more. Damn it.

	yankeessuck8991:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 00:55 GMT	2 points
	same thing for CA please!

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	tobinw:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 01:12 GMT	3 points
	40 for me. As someone who has lived in Oklahoma and Arkansas, I'm not sure whether I should be proud or embarrassed.

	Arthur:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 01:19 GMT	3 points
	Hopefully they make this type of quiz for all the states.

	davidr:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 01:53 GMT	8 points
	Can't we start with something easier? You know, Delaware or something. 0/3 feels much better than twenty-something/254.

	tannem:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 01:54 GMT	4 points
	I had to memorize all 29 counties of Utah (and their county seats!) in one of my junior high classes. I'm guessing they don't subject their kids to that kind of treatment in Texas.

	Siobhan:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 02:44 GMT	2 points
	Wo0t I got 57, never having been to Texas, or the US even. I just guessed presidents, most common county names and common last names.

	maniacalclown:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 02:51 GMT	2 points
	Got to 40 and decided that was far enough!

	TIMTEBOW15:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 02:53 GMT	5 points
	entire US would b beast

	richmeister1066:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 03:00 GMT	12 points
	what's funny is that people guessed Austin County and Houston County, but the cities are Austin and Houston are in Travis and Harris counties

	Dunk:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 03:18 GMT	1 point
	Counties of Alaska next? Hmmm? :)

	Iridium:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 03:33 GMT	-3 points
	Goodness, do we really have that many counties? I've lived here all my life and only got 6- sirraH, nitsuA, yremogtnoM, ekoC, notsevlaG and adrogataM. I didn't even know we had a notsuoH county!

	ChipTaco:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 03:36 GMT	1 point
	I taught myself this a while back mainly to see if I could. I included the county seats as well when I learned them. I've lived/traveled/worked in a lot of different parts of Texas so I had a pretty good basis for starting out. I got them all with about a minute to spare including a phone call in the middle of the quiz slowing me down. I have a buddy that claims to know every high school's mascot in the state. I've never seen him be wrong.

	JohnJF:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 05:18 GMT	0 points
	I can pretty much guarantee you that if you got George W. Bush and Rick Perry to work together on this quiz, they wouldn't get all of them (though I guess that doesn't say all that much).

	radiosilence:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 05:41 GMT	1 point
	I entered the next-to-last one as a joke and I was correct. 61/254 is not bad for someone who has never lived in Texas.

	NoVan:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 05:45 GMT	1 point
	I admit to cheating and looking at a map while doing this. I was ashamed to do so, so I'll pay you all back with a tip: almost every river in Texas has a county named for it. Also try dead white guys, either US presidents or Confederate generals. I got 48 counties, all tainted with shame.

	Scott:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 08:24 GMT	1 point
	ha - Houston County and Austin County being 2 and 3. I know another poster mentioned it already, but Houston is in Harris County; Austin is in Travis County.

	GRAVEY:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 09:42 GMT	3 points
	73 and fairly proud of that... not too shabby for a non-Texan. I work with county maps way too often. Great quiz if you must learn these- which I guess would be a form of hazing.

	mds321:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 12:17 GMT	2 points
	62 on the first try...and that's a native Texan. I had to think back to watching weather warning crawls on TV here in DFW for a lot of them. Driving back and forth to Lubbock helped to learn some obscure ones, and you never forget getting a speeding ticket in Taylor County.

	carolina:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 13:33 GMT	2 points
	@mds321 - I did the same, I used weather crawls from Houston to get a lot, and traveled back in time to seventh grade Texas History for others

	tcalleen:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 17:47 GMT	2 points
	I laughed hysterically to see that Austin County was the third most guessed. I lived in Austin County for 8 years. When I lived there, there were really only three towns of any size (over 1,000 people) - none of which was over 4,000 in population (I think the largest town has gotten up to about 6,000 now).

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	Annie:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 23:01 GMT	1 point
	CRAZY HARD!!!!!!!!!

	Art Vandaley:	Apr 19th, 2009 at 00:52 GMT	0 points
	I struggled to 50, and I am from Texas, although I did go about 20 for 20 on counties from Corpus Christi over to Laredo and South (where I am from obviously).

	newenglander:	Apr 20th, 2009 at 00:31 GMT	-1 points
	i got six-im from connecticut, probably the state most unlike texas

	Tim99:	Apr 20th, 2009 at 21:39 GMT	0 points
	67/254. Yes, I'm a Texas native who has spent way too much time driving across the state. And I'll never forget the name of a certain county after getting into an argument with the crooked sheriff that pulled me over.

	WadeGarrett:	Apr 20th, 2009 at 23:14 GMT	2 points
	Native Texan here, got 157 out of 254 and missed about 10-20 more than I should have. I spent waaaay too many hours driving across sparsely-populated West Texas, where oftentimes the only road sign for miles is the "county line" sign.

	subway24:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 00:50 GMT	0 points
	I only got 11/254. I love county quizzes! Are there going to be more?

	TheArbiter:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 16:09 GMT	0 points
	1!!! Austin! Score. :)

	The:	Apr 23rd, 2009 at 21:09 GMT	1 point
	Loving County! Smallest in the nation

	michael0421:	Apr 24th, 2009 at 20:34 GMT	1 point
	43. Just incredibly hard.

	Kitnaz:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 23:00 GMT	1 point
	I got 2. Kent and Washington. Surprising for an Englishman :L

	meltingbridge:	May 2nd, 2009 at 06:14 GMT	2 points
	I did the dead white guy strategy with the big cities and random names...got to 27