Lord, I was Born a Gamblin' Man
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Chess
YEET!
Gang-Gang
200

Follow the Queen & Chicago are variants of this game.

Poker

200

In 2019 Volkswagen ended production of this iconic model, at least for now.

The Beetle

200

Beginning with the name of a chess piece, it's a place where birds like herons & egrets breed & nest.

Rookery

200

Genesis:
"Therefore the Lord God sent" him "forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground"

Adam

200
This simple electrical circuit component gives a certain cat more control of a PC than her owner.

Lightswitch

400

(DAILY DOUBLE FOR 800) One step beyond an exacta is this type of wager in which you have to pick the top 3 horses in the exact order they finish.

A trifecta

400

In other words, your collarbone.

Clavicle

400

The "Sicilian" one starts with a move by black on the queen's half of the board.

Defense
400

In 2003 the board of directors decided to jettison these 3 letters that preceded Time Warner.

AOL

400

Hold up a second! This Quandt-ism means you'll be waiting 5 minutes.

"Imma go smoke."

600

These 2 green numbers in roulette give the house an edge.

0 and 00

600

In physics, it's a hypothetical tunnel that could connect different parts of the universe

A wormhole.
600

In 2016 Timur Gareyev played a record 48 simultaneous games wearing one of these; he won 35, lost 6 & drew 7.

A blindfold

600

In "2001" this computer yeets Frank Poole off into space but still has Dave to contend with.

HAL 9000

600

Mowrey, Bridges or Qum Dog, more members of Qum Gang share this name than any other.

Joey

800

This "royal" gaming company began in 2012 when 3 co-workers thought, why can't fantasy sports have daily payouts?

Draftkings

800

Texas' state shrub is the crepe this.

The Crepe Myrtle

800

Bring your queen out fast against an inexperienced player & you can have this victory after just 2 moves

A fool's mate

800

Truman: "I didn't fire" him "because he was a dumb son of a (bleep), although he was, but that's not against the law for generals".

Macarthur

800

This is the inevitable outcome when Taylor makes every correct choice.

Punished

1000

Multiple bets are tied together in this sports bet whose name sounds like a discussion about battlefield surrender terms.

A parlay

1000

Meaning honorable & worthy of respect or of being revered, it was an epithet applied to Saint Bede, as well as archdeacons of the Anglican Church.

Venerable

1000

In 1997 the chess world was shocked when world champ Garry Kasparov lost a match to this IBM computer program.

Deep Blue

1000

In Greek myth, after he was born lame, his mom yeeted him out of heaven, but he returned & made Hermes' winged helmet.

Hephaestus

1000

This helpful (though now broken) bot was known as 40-Year-Old Groomer instead of its real title.

Fredboat