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100

This profession specializes in equine hoof care.

What is a farrier?

100

It's the alma mater of Kathy Bates, Erik Dickerson, Laura Bush, and Page McConnell.

What is SMU?

100

It's the state capital as well as the most populous city in Colorado.

What is Denver?

100

This chemical is known as one of the best treatments for acne.

What is salicylic acid?

100

It's how you'd say French fries... in French!

What are pommes frites?

200

Having won the Triple Crown with the best single times in each race, he's widely considered to be the best racehorse of all time.

Who is Secretariat?

200

TTU is the only university in Texas that has both of these post-graduate schools on the same campus.

What are medical school and law school?

200

Can't tell a pinot noir from a petit syrah? You might want to engage the services of this kind of professional, of which there are more per capita in Boulder than any U.S. city.

What is Boulder?

200

This hairstyling technique uses heat or chemicals to create curls in the hair; it was the smoking gun in Elle Woods's first trial.

What is a perm?

200

This orchestral piece by Edward Elgar is most commonly played at graduation ceremonies.

What is "Pomp and Circumstance"?

300

This type of deer (that Santa is quite fond of) are the only species where the females also grow antlers.

What are reindeer?

300

It's the nombre of the large mesa that Lubbock sits atop; Palo Duro and Caprock Canyons are evidence of its uplift.

What is the Llano Estacado?

300

This 14,438' mountaintop is the highest point in the state.

What is Mount Elbert?

300

This Japanese company is one of the oldest cosmetics companies in the world. Some of its subsidiaries include BAUM, Gallinee, and Drunk Elephant.

What is Shiseido? 

300

This high hairstyle, popularized by Kramer in Seinfeld, is formed by sweeping the hair straight up from the forehead into a high, turned-back roll.

What is a pompadour?

400

She's the last philly to have won the Kentucky Derby, in the year 1988.

Who is Winning Colors?

400

This was the nickname of the dominant SMU Mustangs football team in the 1980s (not a wild west mail service on horseback).

What is the Pony Express?

400

This singer-songwriter (who went to high school in Fort Worth and attended TTU [where he changed his birth name to his stage name]) lived in Aspen for most of his life, until his untimely death in a plane crash.

Who is John Denver?

400

One of the oldest forms of makeup, "kohl", was used by Egyptian queens around this body part as early as the Bronze Age.

What are the eyes?

400

Bella Bug French, of Nacogdoches, TX, is known as one of the premier examples of this breed of dog.

What's a dang Pomeranian?

500

This Spanish conquistador is believed to have been the one to originally bring horses across the Atlantic to the New World in 1519.

Who is Hernán Cortés?

500

He was TTU's very first Masked Rider; a statue on campus was wrapped in black Crêpe paper to mourn his death in 2013.

Who is Joe Kirk Fulton?

500
This Democrat-turned-Republican of the Northern Cheyenne tribe was the last Native American to serve as a US Senator.

Who is Ben Nighthorse Campbell?

500

This actress helped Vietnamese refugees in the 70s learn the trade of manicuring; she's the reason why almost all nail salons in the US are run by Vietnamese women

Who is Tippi Hedren?

500

It's a term meaning to give human-like qualities to an inanimate object.

What is anthropomorphize/anthropomorphic?

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