State Symbols
Colorado Trivia
All Around Our State
Native Tribes
Landforms
100
Colorado state animal.
What is the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep?
100
Colorado's state song.
What is "Where the Columbines Grow"?
100
The four corners.
What is where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona meet?
100
The belief that all things in nature have a spirit. Also many Native tribes in Colorado believed in this.
What is Animism?
100
The flat-topped mountains in southwestern Colorado are called this.
What are mesas?
200

What is the Colorado state bird?

Lark Bunting

200
The Colorado state grass.
What is Blue Grama Grass?
200
Branch of government that carries out the state's laws.
What is the executive branch?
200
The three types of homes that the Native Colorado Indians lived in.
What are teepees, wickiups, and hogans.
200
Pikes Peak was named for this Army officer sent to find the source of the Arkansas and Red Rivers in 1806.
Who was Zebulon Pike?
300
The Colorado state flower.
What is Rocky Mountain Columbine
300
Colorado's nick name.
What is the "Centennial State"?
300
Branch of state government that interprets the laws.
What is the judicial branch?
300
The tribe that had the most land in Colorado (in the west). They spoke Shoshone and their name meant "Land of the Sun."
What is the Ute tribe?
300
Colorado's longest river.
What is the Colorado River?
400
The Colorado state fish.
What is the Greenback Cutthroat Trout?
400

When did Colorado become a state?

August 1, 1876

400

In what deal did the US buy the territory (which included Colorado) from France in 1803 for $15 million.

What was the Louisiana Purchase

400
This Native American tribe was a nomadic tribe that lived in teepees and hunted buffalo. They wore highly decorated clothing and had a group of fearless soldiers called the Dog Soldiers.
What is the Cheyenne tribe?
400
The highest point in Colorado.
What is Mount Elbert?
500
The Colorado state folk dance.
What is the Square Dance?
500
Colorado's state motto.
What is "Nothing without Providence"?
500
The imaginary line that marks the change from rivers flowing wast into the Atlantic and rivers flowing wast to the Pacific.
What is the Continental Divide?
500
The Native American tribe that lived in desert areas in hogans, grew corn and squash and spun wool from sheep to make fabric.
What is the Navajo tribe?
500
The four regions of Colorado.
What are the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Wyoming Basin, and Colorado Plateau.
M
e
n
u