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Originally Posted by Puritanhead  --- |
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1. Name the street that has different speed limits. One speed limit if you are going north and another speed limit if you are going south.
State Line Ave.
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2. True or False: There is no provision in Arkansas state statutes that give Texas-side officers any authority to make arrests. Arkansas-side officers do have some limited Texas authority to make arrests.
False
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3. Liquor stores are on one side of the state line and not the other. Guess which side.
Arkansas side
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4. Lottery outlets are lined up on one side of State Line Avenue. Which side?
Texas side
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5. True or false: Each side of the city has the same sales tax rate.
False - Arkansas is higher
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6. Unlike most all other high school athletic departments, the two major high schools go by the state rather than the city name. Name them.
Arkansas Senior High School and Texas High School
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7. How many buildings are bisected by the state line? Extra credit: Name them.
Two. The Texarkana Federal Building and the Bi-State Justice Building
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8. On which side of the state line can you legally smoke in public?
Arkansas side
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9. True or false: Texas does not have state income tax.
True
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10. True or false: Residents of Texarkana, Arkansas are exempt from paying state income taxes.
True - special exemption legislation for the whole county
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11. True or false: There are two library systems and two separate police and fire departments.
Beats the heck out of me... I guess they're separate
Incorrect (only one public library system)
12. True or false: One mayor and city council serve both cities.
False. Of course not. It's two separate states.
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13. What building is the second most photographed federal court house in the United States?
Who knows?
Incorrect (The Texarkana Post Office/Federal Court House)
14. True or false: Texarkana was one of the stops in the Burt Reynolds and Sallie Fields movie “Smoky and the Bandit”. Extra Credit: Where did the race end?
Who knows? In the south somewhere.
Incorrect (True and Atlanta)
79%
I will be generous, since you do not even live there, and give you a 'B'.