Famous Coloradans
The house on Denver's Pennsylvania St. was once home to what "Unsinkable" heroine, famous for assisting other survivors during the sinking of the Titanic.
The height-based nickname used to describe Colorado's 58 tallest mountains.
What are 14ers?
Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park preserves some of the most complete cliff dwellings built by the ancestral communities of this modern-day Native American group, now found in New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley
Who are the Pueblo?
This Colorado "Mexican" theme restaurant was recently purchased and renovated for more than $40 million dollars.
What is Casa Bonita?
This Colorado fictional town is depicted in the long running animated TV show created by local heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
What is South Park?
This purple triceratops who serves as the mascot for baseball's Colorado Rockies? The dinosaur's name is a reference to the reputation of Coors Field as a stadium where, because of the high elevation, home runs are more common.
Who is Dinger?
This west of Denver tunnel with a presidential name is not only the longest mountain tunnel, but the highest point in the Interstate Highway System.
What is the Eisenhower Tunnel?
Katharine Lee Bates wrote this famous patriotic song in 1835 after climbing Pikes Peak, just west of Colorado Springs.
What is America the Beautiful?
A mile marker sign of "419.99" was put up to replace the sign that kept getting stolen by fans of this substance legalized in Colorado in 2012.
What is Marijuana?
The bozos starring in this 1994 comedy movie take their antics to a fancy Colorado mountain town, in search of love and adventure.
What is Dumb and Dumber?
Mike the chicken, from Fruita, Colorado became a national celebrity in the 1940s when he lived for eighteen months without this usually essential body part.
What is a head?
This bridge over what Arkansas River gorge near Canon City was, until 2001, the highest bridge in the world when it was surpassed by a bridge in China.
What is the Royal Gorge?
This Serbian American inventor (whose surname has increased in recognition in recent years) built a laboratory in Colorado Springs in 1899 to study the use of high-voltage, high-frequency electricity in wireless power transmission.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
Fat Tire is the flagship beer of this Colorado-based craft brewery that distributes their bottled beers nationally.
What is New Belgium?
This MVP helped Denver to its first NBA Championship when they beat the Miami Heat in the 2023 Finals.
Who is Nikola Jokic?
This nineteenth century prospector and wilderness guide became known as the "Colorado Cannibal?" He was convicted for manslaughter in the deaths of six companions whose flesh he confessed to having consumed. He claimed they died of natural causes or that he killed them in self-defense.
Who is Alfred Packer?
This romantically named Colorado town hosts a "Valentine's re-mailing" program each year for sweethearts who want their letters and cards to bear its postmark.
What is Loveland?
This President signed the act which created the territory of Colorado? The territory existed from 1861 to 1876
Who is James Buchanan?
This Denver based real estate franchise boasts the largest hot air balloon fleet in the world.
What is Remax?
The appropriately named folk singer John Denver was honored in 2007, ten years after his death, when this song about the natural beauty of the Rockies became one of Colorado's official state songs.
What is Rocky Mountain High?
This "Gonzo journalist" ran an unsuccessful campaign for the sheriff's office in Aspen, Colorado in 1970 under the "Freak Power" ticket.
Who is Hunter S. Thompson
This Colorado town's name is the second part of the compound commonly used in solar cells, abbreviated CdTe (stands for "Cadmium ----- ").
What is Telluride?
This 1848 treaty that ended the Mexican American War did Mexico cede the territory that would become the state of Colorado.
What is the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty?
Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and L3Harris Technologies are all relatively large employers in Colorado Springs that operate in this industry.
What is defense?
This 1990s TV show starred Jane Seymour as a 19th century doctor who settled in Colorado Springs, at the foot of the Rockies.
What is Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman?