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Rocky Mountains
Colorado Wildlife
Colorado in Media
100
Someone must have mixed their alphabet soup when creating the acronym for SQR, which actually stands for this
Solution Request
100
This natural amphitheatre formed 300 million years ago under a shallow inland sea and was uplifted with the formation of the modern Rocky Mountains
Red Rocks
100
Due to scarce food sources, there may be as few as 20 of these animals inside the 415 square miles of Rocky Mountain National Park.
Black Bear
100
This long running cartoon takes place in the Colorado Rockies, focusing on a core group of four elementary school boys (Stan, Eric, Kenny, and Kyle)
South Park
200
This is the only production support environment that isn't a homonymic acronym (spells out a real word)
COS
200
The Rocky Mountains of Colorado are primarily composed of this type of igneous stone, characterized by its medium sized crystals with quartz intrusions.
Granite
200
This bird -- often called the fastest animal on earth -- can be seen nesting on Colorado Mountain cliffs and downtown skyscrapers alike.
Peregrine Falcon
200
This 1980 horror film is set in the fictional Overlook Hotel, inspired by the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park
The Shining
300
Gentax is an example of this type of software; one that runs on a browser but behaves like a traditional desktop program
Web Application
300
The road to this Colorado summit is the home to the highest elevation motor race in the world, set to host it's 106th running this year.
Pikes Peak
300
Once trapped out of Colorado for their valuable pelts in the early 1900s, this playful mammal was reintroduced to the state and is now a symbol of river-restoration success
River Otter
300
The movie quote "So you're telling me there's a chance" comes from this 1994 comedy featuring a duo's trip to Aspen to return a briefcase full of ransom money.
Dumb and Dumber
400
Certainly not a sequel to anything, the database-interaction language SQL actually stands for this
Structured Query Language
400
The first syllable of this alpine snow feature is found growing abundantly on the eastern plains of the state. The second, well, explains itself:
Cornice
400
Warmer winters have allowed this rice-grain sized insect to survive and spread, turning vast areas of Colorado's forests from green to grey.
Pine Beetle
400
Though set in post–Civil War Wyoming, much of this 2015 Quentin Tarantino western was filmed in Colorado’s San Juan mountains
The Hateful Eight
500
Set up to run automatically, CRCs evaluate differences in components and table structures between environments. What does CRC stand for?
Cyclic Redundancy Check
500
Nestled between Boulder and Golden, this state park shares a name with the mythical Amazonian "City of Gold" sought after by early European settlers
Eldorado Canyon
500
This "ruthless" species of fish is Colorado's state fish, native to every major river basin in the state.
Cutthroat Trout
500
Set in a fictional Colorado town, this 1984 Cold War film features Patrick Swayzee leading a group of high schoolers in a guerilla fight against a Soviet invasion.
Red Dawn