Switzerland and Greece
Century in the Centennial State
Presidents
General Knowledge
Foods
200
This neutral European country is home to the cities of Zurich and Geneva and has four official languages.
What is Switzerland
200
This 1976 Winter Olympics host city famously declined to hold the Games after Colorado voters rejected public funding.
What is Denver
200
Martin Van Buren - 8th
200
The Largest Planet in our Solar System
What is Jupiter?
200
This Italian dish is made of layers of pasta, meat, cheese, and tomato sauce
What is Lasagna
400
This iconic mountain, often photographed near Zermatt, is one of the most recognizable peaks in the Alps.
What is Matterhorn
400
This federal facility near Denver, opened in the 1950s, was central to U.S. nuclear weapons component production during the Cold War.
What is Rocky Flats Plant
400
James Buchanan - 15th
400
This global climate agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
What is the Paris Agreement
400
A traditional dish of vinegared rice paired with raw fish or seafood
What is Sushi
500
This international organization headquartered in Geneva promotes humanitarian protection during armed conflicts.
What is the International Committee of the Red Cross?
500
This 1999 tragedy at a suburban high school profoundly impacted national conversations about school safety.
What is Columbine HIgh School
500
Theodore Roosevelt - 26th
500
The chemical element with the symbol FE
What is Iron
500
This French pastry is known for its buttery flaky layers and crescent shape
What is Croissant?
600
This Swiss city is known for its medieval Old Town and its iconic wooden Chapel Bridge
What is Lucerne?
600
This national park in southwestern Colorado preserves some of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in North America.
What is the Mesa Verde National Park
600
Herbert Hoover - 31st
600
The city that hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics
What is Beijing?
600
This Southern US dish consists of cornmeal bread typically cooked in a skillset
What is Cornbread?
800
This ancient citadel overlooking Athens contains the Parthenon.
What is the Acropolis?
800
This annual event held in Denver every January is one of the largest livestock shows in the world.
What is the National Western Stock Show
800
Harry S Truman - 33rd
800
This European country was invaded by Russia in February 2022, leading to the largest conflict in Europe since World War II.
What is Ukraine
800
A Spanish dish of rice, saffron, seafood and vegetables famously cooked in a wide shallow pan
What is Paella
1000
This Greek island is famous for whitewashed buildings with blue domes overlooking the Aegean Sea
What is Santorini?
1000
This Colorado ski resort town hosted the Winter X Games for many years beginning in 2002.
What is Aspen?
1000
John F Kennedy - 35th
1000
The term for a word that has the same meaning as another word
What is a Synonym
1000
Classic Colorado Delicacy that had to have a new name with nothing to do with the contents you'll be eating.
Rocky Mountain Oysters
1200
This war between Athens and Sparta weakened the Greek city-states in the 5th century BCE.
What is Peloponnessian War
1200
This constitutional amendment, passed in 2012, made Colorado one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana.
What is Amend 64
1200
Jimmy Carter - 39th
1200
This space telescope, launched in December 2021, provides infrared images of distant galaxies and exoplanets.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
1200
This creamy italian dessert is made from mascarpone cheese, espresso and lady fingers
What is Tiramisu
1400
This German city became infamous as the symbolic center of Nazi Party rallies in the 1930s.
What is Nuremburg?
1400
This Denver airport, opened in 1995, is known for its distinctive white peaked roof design meant to resemble snow-capped mountains.
what is Denver International Airport
1400
George H. W. Bush - 41st
1400
The Nobel Prize Winning Physiscist who developed the theory of quantum mechanics alongside Heisenberg and Schrodinger
Who is Max PLanck
1400
These deep fried dough pastries are traditionally eaten during Hanukkah in Jewish culture
What is Sufganiyot