Dates
Which symbol shows the date that Colorado became a state?
What is the seal?
The Colorado State flag has these four colors on it.
What are red, white, blue, and yellow?
This word, applied to our state grass, means that it comes back every year.
What is a perennial?
This is one symbol that every state has.
What is the state seal?
In 1939, the legislature adopted this as our state tree.
What is the Colorado Blue Spruce?
These two symbols' colors have the same meaning for Colorado.
What are the state flag and the state flower (the Columbine)?
This living symbol ranges in color from a dull blue-green to silver.
The Colorado Blue Spruce
What does the state motto "Nil Sine Numine" mean in English?
What is "Nothing Without Providence?"
Andrew Carlisle Johnson designed our state flag in this year.
What is 1911?
This gem, our state stone, is usually blue, green, or blue-green.
What is the aquamarine?
This bird, which was NOT adopted as the state bird, was originally chosen as the most popular in Colorado.
What is the meadowlark?
These colors represent Colorado's skies, snow, soil, and gold respectively.
What are blue, white, red, and gold?
On April 29, 1931, the legislature adopted this state symbol after the Colorado Audubon Society told them that another state already had the meadowlark as one of these.
What is the lark bunting?
The male of this species is black with white patches, but in the winter, he changes to almost the same color as the female of this species.
What is the Lark Bunting?
The big horn sheep's can grow up to this long.
What is about 50 inches long?
SCIENCE: We can hypothesize that this animal probably ate only vegetation and not meat by looking at what fossil?
The stegosaurus's teeth.
In 1982, Governor Richard D. Lamm adopted this symbol after a group of students from McElwain Elementary School in Thornton suggested it.
What is the Stegosaurus?
This grass, with a color in its name, is native to Colorado.
What is the Blue Grama Grass?
This is the only native trout in our state.
What is the greenback cutthroat trout?
These are two of the best places for finding the aquamarine.
What are Mount Antero and White Mountain?