Texas, Hold'em
Classical Literature
Why does that sound familiar?
4-Letter Opposites
& The Category of Geography
100

His romance with Bonnie Parker was put on hold when he was jailed in Waco for burglary

(Clyde) Barrow

100

This poetic work by Homer ends, "Such was the burial of Hector, breaker of horses"

the Illiad
100

It's the website where Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin announced their separation

100

Bellicose:
you've ominously heard of this "before the storm"

calm

100

Budapest & Belgrade are ports on this nearly 1,800-mile river of "blue"

the Danube

200

Yolanda Saldivar, who murdered this singer in 1995, is doing life at Mountain View in Gatesville

Selena

200

Aristophanes' "The Clouds" satirizes this philosopher as the representative of Atheism

Socrates

200

Michael Peña played this Mexican-American labor leader in a 2014 film

(Cesar) Chavez

200

Copious:
a way to serve meat

rare

200

Double Jeopardy








The greatest north-south distance of this South American country is 2,731 miles; east-west, 2,684

Brazil

300

The prison at this Texas "ville", named for the Alabama one, housed outlaw John Wesley Hardin

Huntsville

300

Book 1 of this epic narrative by Ovid begins with a story of the creation of the world

Metamorphoses

300

Abdul Haq Wasiq & 4 colleagues were heading home in 2014 in exchange for this American

Bowe Bergdahl

300

Adulterated:
some animals are this-bred

pure

300

In January 1855, 15 years after the founding of what's now this New Zealand capital, it suffered an 8.2 earthquake

Wellington

400

Double Jeopardy








In 1966 an appeals court reversed the murder conviction of this Dallas inmate, but he died in January 1967

Jack Ruby

400

This Roman satirist whose name sounds like a word meaning "childish" asked, "But who is to guard the guards?"

Juvenal

400

In 2014 the Supreme Court said that this chain of stores could refuse to pay for employees' birth control

Hobby Lobby

400

Flee:
part of the head

face

400

Over 9,400 feet, Maromokotro is the highest point on this island 250 miles east of Africa's mainland

Madagascar

500

Onetime Harris County Jail inmate Charles Harrelson committed one of the few murders of a federal one of these

a judge

500

When war broke out between Athens & Sparta in 431 B.C., he began writing an 8-book history of the war

Thucydides

500

Anne Hidalgo will keep the lights on as this European city's first female mayor

Paris

500

Unfair:
when found before "deserts", likely unappetizing

just

500

This Alaskan peninsula's name is a homophone for what you may need to spot it on a map

Kenai

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