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1. What is the highest mountain in Colorado?
Answer- Mt. Elbert
2. The name of Mesa County is from the Spanish word “mesa”, which means:
Answer- Table
3. What Western Colorado town is famous for its peaches?
Answer- Palisade
4. What park is in between the Colorado state capital building and the city and county building of Denver?
Answer- Civic Center Park
5. Colorado boasts the world’s highest _________.
Answer- suspension bridge
6. In what year did Colorado become a state?
Answer- 1876
7. Eighty percent of Colorado’s water comes from what source?
Answer- snow
8. What river runs through the town known as ‘The Choice City’?
Answer- Cache La Poudre
9. What are the names of the two largest rivers in Mesa County?
Answer- colorado and Gunnison
10. What is the state animal?
Answer- Bighorn Sheep
11. What is the name of Colorado State University’s mascot?
Answer- Cam
12. What city is home to the United States Air Force Academy?
Answer- Colorado Springs
13. What annual sporting event takes place in Grand Junction?
Answer- Junior College World Series
14. Which of the following is not a suburb of Denver?
Answer- Delta
15. From what language did Colorado get its name?
Answer- Spanish
16. What is the tallest building in Denver?
Answer- Republic Plaza
17. While in town, you discover that the headwaters of one of Colorado’s major rivers are found in South Park. What river is this?
Answer- South Platte River
18. How many US states are smaller than Mesa County?
Answer- 2
19. What is the state insect?
Answer- Colorado hairstreak butterfly
20. In the construction of what sporting venue in 1995 did the lower part of downtown Denver experience a resurgence in development and economic boom?
Answer- Coors Field
21. Alongside US 115 south of Colorado Springs, you can see the world’s largest ________.
Answer- Hercules Beetle
22. What is the state bird?
Answer- Lark Bunting
23. What is Colorado’s state nickname?
Answer- Centennial State
24. What famous hill in Denver was a central meeting place for the KKK?
Answer- Ruby Hill
25. What is the state fish?
Answer- Greenback Cutthroat Trout
26. The highest point in the American Interstate Highway System happens to be in Colorado. Where is it?
Answer- Eisenhower Tunnel
27. Which famous beverage is manufactured in a factory in Boulder’s northeastern suburbs?
Answer- Celestial Seasonings Tea
28. What Colorado city was known as ‘the richest square mile on Earth?
Answer- Central City
29. What Colorado city is the highest in the United States?
Answer- Leadville
30. Name the state that borders Colorado on its northern border.
Answer- Wyoming
31. What is the state gemstone?
Answer- Aquamarine
32. What famous peak can be seen to the south of Denver on a clear day?
Answers- Pike’s peak
33. When did gambling become legal in certain areas of Colorado?
Answer- 1991
34. Where can you find The Garden of the Gods?
Answer- Colorado Springs
35. What famous canyon is located near Montrose Colorado?
Answer- Black Canyon
36. Pikes Peak is named after Zebulon Pike. Who was Zebulon Pike?
Answer- U.S General
37. Where is Buffalo Bill’s grave?
Answer- Lookout Mountain
38. The four corner states include New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and _________
Answer- Colorado
39. What type of candy originated in Golden, Colorado?
Answer- Jolly Ranchers
40. What would you call a person from Colorado?
Answer- Coloradan
41. Which famous Colorado people lived in the Manitou Cliff Dwellings?
Answer- Anasazi
42. Which state borders Colorado on the south?
Answer- New Mexico
43. What order is Colorado in state size (starting with the largest)?
Answer- 8
44. What is the closest state capital to the Colorado border?
Answer- Cheyenne
45. What state borders Colorado on the west?
Answer- Utah
46. Who is known for singing the song “Rocky Mountain High”?
Answer- John Denver
47. What is the name of the NFL team of Colorado?
Answer- Denver Broncos
48. What book written by James A. Michener takes place in Colorado?
Answer- Centennial
49. At what time of year is Loveland’s post office especially busy?
Answer- Valentine’s Day
50. Where can you find Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument?
Answer- Florissant
51. What is the name of the Colorado flag?
Answer- Colorado’s flag
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