Nineteen ninety-two constitutional amendment that limits the rise in annual local and state government expenditures to an amount determined by growth and the rate of inflation.
What is the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Amendment?
100
Twelve students and one teacher perished at a high school in Jefferson County in one of the most bloody school days in the nation’s history in April 1999.
What is the Columbine Massacre?
100
Interstate 70 engineering feat that has allowed motorists to bypass Loveland Pass since March 1973.
What is the Eisenhower Tunnel?
100
First opened at Denver’s Lowry Air Base in 1955, this military institution moved to its permanent location north of Colorado Springs in 1958.
What is the United State Air Force Academy?
100
A term for the “brown cloud” of air pollution that can dominate the Front Range from Pueblo to Fort Collins on calm days especially during the winter months.
What is "smaze?"
200
Nineteen ninety-two constitutional amendment that forbade cities and towns in Colorado from providing protected status “based on homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation.”
What is Amendment 2?
200
One of the largest of state disasters, this struck in the fall of 1918 and left nearly 8,000 Coloradans dead.
What is the Spanish Influenza?
200
Major airport development that opened on the Front Range in 1995 after significant delays related to its automated baggage handling system.
What is DIA?
200
Atomic Energy Commission’s plant between Boulder and Golden that manufactured plutonium triggers for even more powerful hydrogen bombs.
What is Rocky Flats?
200
Sculpture by Huberto Maestas installed near San Luis in Costilla County to affirm the piety of the faithful.
What is the "Stations of the Cross?"
300
Nineteen Seventy-four constitutional amendment that made it extremely difficult for Denver to add territory to its jurisdiction.
What is the Poundstone Amendment?
300
Massive flood of the canyon between Estes Park and Loveland on July 31, 1976 that killed at least 145 people.
What is the Big Thompson River flood?
300
This railroad route under James Peak built at public expense significantly improved the connections between Denver and Salt Lake City in the late 1920s.
What is the Moffat Tunnel?
300
High technology firm based in Littleton that builds rocket systems such as the Atlas rocket and the Mars landing craft.
What is Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company?
300
A Japanese America relocation center near Granada, Colorado that housed more than 7,300 inhabitants in the fall of 1942.
What is Amache?
400
Constitutional amendment passed in 2000 that mandates background checks on all individuals purchasing firearms in Colorado including those at gun shows.
What is Amendment 22?
400
Snow and ice played a significant role in the takeoff crash of this flight out of Denver’s Stapleton Airport on November 15, 1987 that killed 28 passengers.
What is Continental Flight 1713?
400
This CCC and WPA construction project in Jefferson County left a world-famous concert venue as its legacy.
What is the Red Rocks Amphitheater?
400
James Dobson’s national evangelical ministry headquartered in Colorado Springs since 1991.
What is Focus on the Family?
400
This derogatory term referred to those who claimed conscientious objection to military service in World War II.
What are "conchies?"
500
Passed in 1943 in response to successful construction worker strikes in the late 1930s this legislation significantly limited union activities in Colorado.
What is the Labor Peace Act?
500
This early June 1921 disaster caused $30 million in property damage and left at least 100 people dead in the Pueblo vicinity.
What is the Arkansas River flood?
500
Water diverted from the Dillon Reservoir has flowed through this waterway into the South Platte River in order to slack the thirst of Denver area residents since the mid-1960s.
What is the Harold Roberts Tunnel?
500
The federal government agency that studies the earth’s atmosphere and has been located just under the Flatirons in Boulder since 1967.
What is the National Center for Atmospheric Research?
500
He murdered his mother and 43 others when he planted a bomb in her luggage on a United Airlines flight out of Denver’s Stapleton Airport on November 1, 1955.