Colorado History
Colorado's nickname is the ___ state.
What is The Centennial State?
Colorado's state flower.
What is the white and lavender columbine?
Mycologists flock to Telluride every year in August for a festival celebrating this food.
Mushrooms!
The name of the tallest mountain in Co.
What is Mt. Elbert?
The native tribe who originally lived in the Denver area.
What is the Arapaho tribe?
Bison.
This Colorado staple vegetable turns red when it ripens.
Green Chile.
Number of 14'ers in Colorado.
what is 58?
The meaning of the word "Colorado."
what is "colored red?"
Colorado's state bird.
What is lark bunting?
This is the oldest bar is Denver, continuously serving food and drink since 1873.
My Brother's Bar.
The name of the world's largest flat top mountain.
Grand Mesa.
The year (or century) conquistadors arrived in CO.
What is 1593.
Aspens.
The first Palisade Peach Festival took place in this year.
1909.
Name of North America's deepest and widest gorge.
Black Canyon.
These people built the homes in Mesa Verde National Park in the 1200's.
The Ancestral Pueblo People.
The number of animal species in Colorado.
739. 473 birds, 130 mammals, 49 reptiles, 69 fish, and 18 amphibians.
These are the three staple ingredients of Southwestern Cuisine.
Corn, beans, and squash.
The lowest elevation point in Colorado.
The Arikee River, 3315 feet.