Geography
Indigenous
Explorers
CO Misc
100
Colorado has _____ main regions.
Four
100
Longest inhabiting people in Colorado
Utes
100
1803 land purchase that bought eastern Colorado
Louisiana Purchase
100
The current and former name of the most prominent 14er above Denver
Mount Evans and Mount Blue Sky
200
Settlers coming from the Midwest and East Coast would arrive in this region first.
Eastern Plains
200
What region where the Cheyenne and Arapaho originally from?
Great Lakes/Midwest
200
Name the two prominent Front Range Peaks named after Colorado Explorers
Longs Peak and Pikes Peak
200
The number of National Parks within the state
4 - Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Rocky Mountain, Mesa Verde and Great Sand Dunes
300
The Sangre de Cristo's and Sawatch are both examples of
Mountain Ranges
300
Another word for a group of Cheyenne Warrirors
Dog Soldiers
300
John Fremont is most famous in this state where he eventually became Governor
California
300
This is the oldest major sports team in Denver
400
This specific type of fruit was made famous for being grown on the Western Slope
Palisade Peaches
400
Name of the primary leader of the Sand Creek Camp (peace chief)
Black Kettle
400
This was the first European power to explore present day Colorado
Spain
400
Name of this mascot
Dinger
500
Name the seven states which border Colorado
Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah
500
Name of the solider who held Calvary out of the Sand Creek Massacre and later wrote about it
Silas Soule
500
Spain wanted these two things in the 'new world'
Gold and souls (religious converts)
500
Name the year Colorado became a territory and a state (two different years)
1861 and 1876