Equestrian
Raiders and Mustangs
Colorado
"Pom"eranian
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

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

What are pommes frites?

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

What is "Pomp and Circumstance"?

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 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

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?

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

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

What is anthropomorphize/anthropomorphic?