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Colorado voters chose not to host these Olympics in the year ____.
What are the 1976 Winter Olympics?
Colorado's professional basketball team changed their name from this to the Nuggets in 1974.
What are the Rockets?
This company is the largest technology company in South Korea.
What is Samsung?
These two countries are the only in the world to use the color purple in their flag.
What are Dominica and Nicaragua?
This was the first soft drink ever consumed in space.
What is Coca-Cola?
The lowest point in Colorado is _____.
What is the Arikaree River?
In 1979, this male celebrity joined the Denver Broncos cheer-leading squad on the field during a home game.
Who is Robin Williams?
This country borders 14 nations and crosses 8 time zones.
What is Russia?
The majority of polar bears in the world live in this country.
What is Canada?
This is the only edible food that never goes bad.
What is honey?
Colorado's name has its origin in the Spanish language, as the word for ______.
What is "Colored Red"?
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The Colorado Rockies team mascot, Dinger, was based off this animal.
This animal was chosen as the mascot due to this event which occurred during construction.
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What is the uncovering of dinosaur fossils, most likely a triceratops?
These two countries have not missed one of the modern-day Olympics.
What are Greece and Australia?
There are ____ languages that are written from right to left.
What are 12?
This country invented ice cream.
What is China?
This Colorado city is known as the 'sweet melon capital of the world'.
Where is Rocky Ford?
The Denver Broncos wore these colors on their hand-me-down uniforms for the first two seasons due to lack of funding.
What are yellow and brown?
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There are ___ countries that still have Shilling as currency.
The names of these countries are:
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What are Four?
What are Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Somalia?
The folds of skin on a cat's ears are called _____.
What are "Henry's Pockets" or cutaneous marginal pouches?
This natural food source can be refined to create glycerol, which can then be turned into nitroglycerine, an unstable explosive substance used in dynamite.
What are peanuts?
Colorado's state motto appears in the ribbon on the State Seal. It reads "Nil Sine Numine" in Latin which translates to ___________.
What is "Nothing without Providence or Deity"?
In 2012, the Colorado General Assembly passed a resolution for this to be identified as an official state summer sport.
What is pack burro racing?
The unique race is 29 miles in which an individual runs alongside and leads their burro, which is weighed down by a 33 lb pack.
The ancient Phoenician city of Constantine is located in this modern-day Arab country.
What is Algeria?
Benjamin Franklin wasn't only a skilled writer, politician, and scientist, he was also an athlete. Franklin shared an enthusiasm for this sport all his life, and was eventually given an honorary induction to this sports international hall of fame.
What is swimming?
The scientific term for the reaction that occurs when you toast bread is _______.
What is the "Maillard reaction"?