daily telegraph competition

[comerton45]

US state better known for shuttle launches and Stetson wearing oil barons. Name the state.

Is the answer not Florida

[boxtops]

http://www.theanswerb...y/Question906768.html

You seem to have posted this several times - each time the answer is TEXAS

[comerton45]

since when did space shuttles leave texas

[dr b]

since when is there oil in Florida? But, the space shuttle does launch from there. Seems like a poor question.

[boxtops]

They don't, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas - that is unfortunately why Texas is connected with the shuttle.

[wolf63]

"Houston (Texas), we have a problem!"

[boxtops]

meant to add this

http://en.wikipedia.o...tle_Columbia_disaster

[DrFilth]

http://www.google.co....=&fp=bafddf1410a9ef78

[dr b]

The Johnson Space Center (mission control) is in Houston. Launches are from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida (Cape Canaveral).

[factor-fiction]

Third time I've said it- it's still TEXAS.
http://www.nasa.gov/c...hnson/home/index.html

[Gromit]

The Space Shuttle launches from Florida.

There is an Oil Boom in the Gulf of Mexico and as a result, all the Texas oil Barons have all decamped to Florida.

[ABerrant]

Errrrm... Texas is also on the Gulf of Mexico!!!

The pictured "jumbo" shrimp can be found at Casey's Seafood Cafe, Galveston, Tx.

http://www.telegraph....ere-in-the-world.html

[Backdrifter]

How is this question "Arts & Literature" by the way?!

[ABerrant]

The first of these questions did appear in Q&P but 3 months later they re-emerged within History for a 6 month stint before finally settling within A&L.

Mention of this incorrect placement has consistently failed to return them to an appropriate topic section.