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170 Colorado Trivia Questions, Answers, and Fun Facts

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1 There are several mountains over 14,000 feet in height in Colorado; which is the tallest?
Answer: Mt. Elbert

There are 52 mountain peaks above 14,000 ft (4,268 m) in Colorado ("fourteeners" as mountain climbers call them) and Mt. Elbert is the highest at 14,433 ft (4,400 m). It is also the highest point of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. Seventy-five percent of the land in the United States above 10,000 ft (3,048 m) is in Colorado.
    Your options: [ Mt. Elbert ] [ Mt. Evans ] [ Pikes Peak ] [ Longs Peak ]
  From Quiz: Exploring Colorado
2 The name of Mesa County is from the Spanish word "mesa", which means:
Answer: table

The county is named for the several plateau- or table-top (mesa: table (Old Spanish; from Latin "mensa")) mountains in the area. The world's largest table-top mountain, The Grand Mesa, lies along the eastern border of Mesa County. It dominates the eastern horizon in The Grand Valley.
    Your options: [ table ] [ dry ] [ messy ] [ mountainous ]
  From Quiz: Mesa County, Colorado
3 One of the features which adds to Boulder's dramatic setting at the base of the Rocky Foothills are a series of steep-sided peaks which rise above the town. What are these peaks called?
Answer: The Flatirons

There are officially five "Flatirons" numbered one to five. The name was given by a pioneer who noted they looked like five irons (used for ironing cloths) standing upright. They are a popular venue for hikers and climbers. Some of the climbs are ranked as "World Class".
    Your options: [ The Ironsides ] [ The Flatirons ] [ The Boulder Peaks ] [ The Flagstaffs ]
  From Quiz: Sojourn in Boulder, Colorado
4 Where can you ski powder in China Bowl, hit bumps on Prima or Highline, then head to The Club or The Tap Room for a few pints? You'll have to dodge posers in fur coats and designer one-pieces as you make your way through the village.
Answer: Vail

Vail is a great ski resort...if you can stomach the ridiculous prices, the blackout dates and the snobby posers who are more concerned with their fur coats than skiing.
  From Quiz: Colorado Ski Resorts
5 What Western Colorado town is famous for its peaches?
Answer: Palisade

Palisade has the best peaches in the state and area.
  From Quiz: Western Colorado
6 What park is in between the Colorado state capital building and the city and county building of Denver?
Answer: Civic Center Park
  From Quiz: City of Denver
7 Colorado boasts the world's highest _________.
Answer: Suspension bridge

The Royal Gorge bridge rises 1,053 feet above the Arkansas River.
    Your options: [ Petting Zoo ] [ Man-made lake ] [ Natural bridge ] [ Suspension bridge ]
  From Quiz: Colorado Fun Facts
8 In what year did Colorado become a state?
Answer: 1876

Colorado is known as the Centenial state because it was admitted to the union 100 years after the Declaration of Independence.
  From Quiz: Colorado Facts
9 Eighty percent of Colorado's water comes from what source?
Answer: snow

That's why people should xeriscape more often in my home state.
  From Quiz: The Centennial State
10 What river runs through the town known as 'The Choice City' ?
Answer: Cache La Poudre

Cache La Poudre means stash the powder in French. French fur trappers stashed their gun powder along this river that runs through Fort Collins, Colorado.
  From Quiz: Colorado
11 A national park in Colorado contains cliff dwellings, some of which are over 1,500 years old. What is the name of the area?
Answer: Mesa Verde

The Ancestral Puebloans lived in Mesa Verde, starting around 600 A.D. Originally building adobe huts, around 1190 they started building the famous cliff dwellings. They carved out 600 of them before they left the area before the 15th century. The national park, in southwestern Colorado near the spot where four states meet, was authorized by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.
    Your options: [ Mesa Verde ] [ Shiprock ] [ Four Corners ] [ Puye ]
  From Quiz: Exploring Colorado
12 As you descend into South Park, you gaze upon the valley and are surprised by what you see. The South Park basin primarily contains what type of terrain?
Answer: Grassland

The largest industry in South Park is agriculture. South Park has in the past been home to several gold, silver, and coal mines.
  From Quiz: South Park
13 What are the names of the two largest rivers in Mesa County? (Just type the rivers' names.)
Answer: colorado gunnison

The Colorado River enters the county from the north, goes through The Grand Valley, and exits to the west into Utah.

The Gunnison enters from the southeast, after cutting through Black Canyon. It intersects the Colorado River in Grand Junction, where its waters join the Colorado.

The upper Colorado River, from its headwaters in the mountains down to the junction with the Gunnison, was once called Grand River, hence the name of the city where they join. In the early 20th Century, this portion was renamed the Colorado.
  From Quiz: Mesa County, Colorado
14 One of the first pedestrian malls in North America was established in Boulder over in an effort to revitalize the downtown core. What is the name of this mall?
Answer: Pearl Street Mall

The tree-lined brick walkway of Pearl Street Mall, running four blocks from 11th to 15th Street, is more than just a street of trendy boutiques and restaurants. The "jewel" of downtown Boulder has become an outdoor gallery, gathering place, and a busker's performance center.
  From Quiz: Sojourn in Boulder, Colorado
15 Where can you ski unrelenting top-to-bottom bumps on Grouse Mountain? Before your legs are spent, be sure to ski the Royal Elk Glades (if it's open) to hit some great pow-pow in the trees.
Answer: Beaver Creek

Another pricey resort, the Beav is just down the road from Vail, but is much less crowded. Idlewild is a defunct, abandoned ski-hill with rusty-old skeleton lifts on the east side of the town of Winter Park.
  From Quiz: Colorado Ski Resorts
16 What Western Colorado town is famous for its sweet corn?
Answer: Olathe

Olathe has a great corn festival every year in August.
  From Quiz: Western Colorado
17 Denver was founded at the confluence of what two rivers, (one is actually a creek)?
Answer: Cherry and South Platte

Cherry Creek and the Platte River join near what is now downtown Denver, there is a park there called Confluence Park, if you are visiting it is right by the REI superstore.
  From Quiz: City of Denver
18 What brewery can you tour in Golden?
Answer: Coors

The brewery, in the Denver suburbs, is the largest in the world.
  From Quiz: Colorado Fun Facts
19 What is the state animal?
Answer: Bighorn Sheep
  From Quiz: Colorado Facts
20 What is the name of Colorado State University's mascot?
Answer: Cam

  From Quiz: The Centennial State
21 What city is home to the United States Air Force Academy?
Answer: Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs is also home to Air Force Space Command.
  From Quiz: Colorado
22 It's not really in the middle of things but which Colorado city gave itself the nickname "Richest Square Mile on Earth"?
Answer: Central City

Central City (officially the City of Central) was the site of the Gregory Lode, a rich vein of gold discovered in 1859. Other nearby veins were soon found. Within a year the population of the city went from almost nothing to 10,000. After the fortunate few made their fortunes the miners drifted away; by 1920 most of the veins had been exhausted. As gold prices rose in the 1930s, mining was again tried but didn't last long.
    Your options: [ Central City ] [ Leadville ] [ Durango ] [ Blackhawk ]
  From Quiz: Exploring Colorado
23 The county seat of Mesa County is:
Answer: Grand Junction

Grand Junction ranks #15 in population for Colorado cities, and #1 for cities on the Western Slope of Colorado. The Western Slope is the portion of Colorado whose natural drainage goes towards the Pacific Ocean.
    Your options: [ Grand Junction ] [ Palisade ] [ Mesa ] [ Fruita ]
  From Quiz: Mesa County, Colorado
24 Boulder has a vast network of well-maintained trails leading into the Foothills. One of the trailheads is located at the edge of a park which is home to a famous summer music festival. What is the name of the park?
Answer: Chautauqua Park

Each year a series of musical events are held in the historic barn-like Chautauqua Auditorium. The idyllic setting provides a perfect back-drop for a special evening.
    Your options: [ Folsom Field ] [ Chautauqua Park ] [ Flagstaff Park ] [ Centennial Park ]
  From Quiz: Sojourn in Boulder, Colorado
25 What annual sporting event takes place in Grand Junction?
Answer: Junior College World Series

The JC world series are an annual event in Grand junction.
  From Quiz: Western Colorado
26 In Boulder, you can dine at a grill named for what famous cannibal?
Answer: Alferd Packer

The Alferd Packer Memorial Grill is dedicated to Colorado's most famous man-eater who, in 1883, was convicted of killing and eating five people. A model prisoner, he was parolled in 1901. Don't miss the Packer Massacre Site and Museum in Lake City and Packer's grave in Littleton. Bon appetit!
  From Quiz: Colorado Fun Facts
27 From what language did Colorado get its name?
Answer: Spanish

Colorado comes from the Spanish phrase meaning 'Colored Red.'
  From Quiz: Colorado Facts
28 What is the tallest building in Denver?
Answer: Republic Plaza

Although the distinctive cash-register shaped Wells Fargo Building appears taller than Republic Plaza, that's only because it's on a hill.
  From Quiz: The Centennial State
29 What is the highest mountain in Colorado?
Answer: Mt. Elbert

Mt Elbert is 14,433 ft high.
  From Quiz: Colorado
30 While in town, you discover that the headwaters of one of Colorado's major rivers is found in South Park. What river is this?
Answer: South Platte River

The South Platte River is formed at the confluence of the South Fork South Platte River and the Middle Fork South Platte River. Each of these forks originate in the Mosquito Range, which forms the west rim of South Park.
  From Quiz: South Park
31 How many US states are smaller than Mesa County?
Answer: 2

It is almost 3 times the area of Rhode Island, and about 38% bigger than the state of Delaware.
  From Quiz: Mesa County, Colorado
32 Located in downtown Boulder, an ornate tea house/restaurant looks very out of place in a western mountain town. Which one of Boulder's "sister cities" donated the tea house?
Answer: Dushanbe, Tajikistan

The Dushanbe Tea House was crafted by artisans in Tajikistan over a three year period. It was disassembled and shipped to Boulder in 1990. It took until 1998 before a suitable site was found and reassembly completed.
    Your options: [ Yateras, Cuba ] [ Dushanbe, Tajikistan ] [ Lhasa, China ] [ Jalapa, Nicaragua ]
  From Quiz: Sojourn in Boulder, Colorado
33 What is the state insect?
Answer: Colorado hairstreak butterfly

The Colorado hairstreak butterfly is multi-colored and lives at elevations of about 6,500 to 7,500 feet. It also lives in the unusual habitat of the scrub oak. It became the state insect on April 17, 1996.
  From Quiz: Colorado--The Centennial State
34 The largest mesa in the United States is located in Western Colorado what is the name of it?
Answer: Grand Mesa

Grand Mesa is east of Grand Junction and is magnificent.
  From Quiz: Western Colorado
35 After the construction of what sporting venue in 1995 did the lower part of downtown Denver experience a resurgance in development and economic boom?
Answer: Coors Field

Coors field was constructed for the Colorado Rockies in what used to be the slums of Denver. It brought sports bars, night clubs, and downtown lofts to the area which is now one of the hot spots in Denver.
  From Quiz: City of Denver
36 Alongside of US 115 south of Colorado Springs, you can see the world's largest ________.
Answer: Hercules Beetle

The beetle statue, brought to Colorado by bug collector John May, is 25 feet long.
    Your options: [ Grasshopper ] [ Outhouse ] [ Soup can ] [ Hercules Beetle ]
  From Quiz: Colorado Fun Facts
37 What is the state bird?
Answer: Lark Bunting
  From Quiz: Colorado Facts
38 What Western Slope town is known for its peaches?
Answer: Palisade

And boy are those peaches magnificent!
  From Quiz: The Centennial State
39 What is Colorado's state nickname?
Answer: Centennial State

Colorado became a state in 1876, 100 years after the US became a nation.
  From Quiz: Colorado
40 A variety of marble known as "Beulah Red" was quarried in Colorado. Where was it used?
Answer: the Colorado State Capitol building

The red marble (occasionally called Colorado Rose Onyx) was used as wainscoting in the state capitol building, a process that from quarrying to final installation took from 1894 to 1900. Except for a couple of fireplace facings in other buildings, the entire vein of marble was used in the capitol; it is literally irreplaceable.
  From Quiz: Exploring Colorado
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