Switzerland and Greece
Century in the Centennial State
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Presidents
100
This neutral European country is home to the cities of Zurich and Geneva and has four official languages.
What is Switzerland
100
This 1976 Winter Olympics host city famously declined to hold the Games after Colorado voters rejected public funding.
What is Denver
100
The Largest Planet in our Solar System
What is Jupiter?
100
This Italian dish is made of layers of pasta, meat, cheese, and tomato sauce
What is Lasagna
100
This man resided at the Hotel Del Coronado for months at a time and wrote parts of several books here including "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz"
Frank Barum
100
Martin Van Buren - 8th
200
This international organization headquartered in Geneva promotes humanitarian protection during armed conflicts.
What is the International Committee of the Red Cross?
200
This 1999 tragedy at a suburban high school profoundly impacted national conversations about school safety.
What is Columbine HIgh School
200
The chemical element with the symbol FE
What is Iron
200
This French pastry is known for its buttery flaky layers and crescent shape
What is Croissant?
200
At the Dayton Home of Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the son of former slaves, He wrote in Black Dialect including this 2 word question used by the New Orleans Saints among others
WHO DAT
200
Theodore Roosevelt - 26th
400
This Swiss city is known for its medieval Old Town and its iconic wooden Chapel Bridge
What is Lucerne?
400
This national park in southwestern Colorado preserves some of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in North America.
What is the Mesa Verde National Park
400
The city that hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics
What is Beijing?
400
This Southern US dish consists of cornmeal bread typically cooked in a skillset
What is Cornbread?
400
In H Rider Haggards "King Solomons Mines' one of these occur at a new moon rather than a full moon
Eclipse
400
Herbert Hoover - 31st
600
This ancient citadel overlooking Athens contains the Parthenon.
What is the Acropolis?
600
This annual event held in Denver every January is one of the largest livestock shows in the world.
What is the National Western Stock Show
600
This European country was invaded by Russia in February 2022, leading to the largest conflict in Europe since World War II.
What is Ukraine
600
A Spanish dish of rice, saffron, seafood and vegetables famously cooked in a wide shallow pan
What is Paella
600
In this story of the 16th Century Lookalikes, Mark Twain had the locals watching "punch and Judy" shows that began 100 years later.
Prince and the Pauper
600
Harry S Truman - 33rd
800
This Greek island is famous for whitewashed buildings with blue domes overlooking the Aegean Sea
What is Santorini?
800
This Colorado ski resort town hosted the Winter X Games for many years beginning in 2002.
What is Aspen?
800
The term for a word that has the same meaning as another word
What is a Synonym
800
Classic Colorado Delicacy that had to have a new name with nothing to do with the contents you'll be eating.
Rocky Mountain Oysters
800
In Jurassic Park the island is attacked by this countrys military, one that was abolished in the 1940s
Costa Rica
800
John F Kennedy - 35th
1000
This German city became infamous as the symbolic center of Nazi Party rallies in the 1930s.
What is Nuremburg?
1000
This Denver airport, opened in 1995, is known for its distinctive white peaked roof design meant to resemble snow-capped mountains.
what is Denver International Airport
1000
The Nobel Prize Winning Physiscist who developed the theory of quantum mechanics alongside Heisenberg and Schrodinger
Who is Max PLanck
1000
These deep fried dough pastries are traditionally eaten during Hanukkah in Jewish culture
What is Sufganiyot
1000
In the Aeneid, This roman poet has his hero flee from Troy to Carthage, a city that had not yet been built
Virgil
1000
George H. W. Bush - 41st