Colorado is the 38th state of the U.S admitted to the Union on August 1, 1876. The state is nicknamed ‘The Centennial State’. Moreover, Denver is the capital and most populous city of the state. Did you know that the residents of the state are called ‘Coloradans’ and their official language is English? Furthermore, you will be surprised to know that Colorado is the state to turn down the Olympics due to the cost, pollution, and population expected to boom in the state. Learn more amazing facts about the state in the given 60+ Colorado trivia questions.
Colorado Trivia Questions
1. What is the nickname of the U.S state Colorado?
Answer: The Centennial State
2. What is the motto of the state?
Answer: Nothing without Providence
3. Which is the capital city of the state?
Answer: Denver
4. What do the residents of the state called?
Answer: Coloradans
5. Which state is to the north of the state?
Answer: Wyoming
6. Which is the most populous city in Colorado?
Answer: Denver
7. When the state admitted to the Union?
Answer: August 1, 1876
8. What was the rank of Colorado joining the Union?
Answer: 38th
9. What is the total area of the state?
Answer: 269,837 square kilometer
10. What percent of the area is covered with water?
Answer: 0.36 percent
11. What is the rank of the state depending on the total area?
Answer: 8th
12. What is the highest peak point in Colorado?
Answer: Mount Elbert
13. How much is the height of Mount Elbert?
Answer: 14,440 ft.
14. What is the lowest point of the state?
Answer: Arikaree River
15. What is the rank of the state based on population?
Answer: 21st
Colorado Trivia Facts
16. What is the official language of the state?
Answer: English
17. What is the state bird?
Answer: Lark Bunting
18. What is Colorado’s state flower?
Answer: Rocky Mountain Columbine
19. What does the word ‘Colorado’ mean?
Answer: Colored Red
20. Which is the only place in the U.S where the corners of four states meet?
Answer: Colorado
21. How much land in Colorado is owned by the U.S federal government?
Answer: 1/3rd
22. How many state wildlife areas are there in Colorado?
Answer: 222
23. Which is the longest continuous street in America?
Answer: Colfax Avenue, Denver
24. Which is the only state to turn down the Olympics?
Answer: Colorado
25. Which Olympic Games were planned to held in Colorado?
Answer: The 1976 Winter Olympics
26. What percent of the state voters choose not to host the Olympics?
Answer: 62 percent
27. Why the state refused to host the Olympics?
Answer: Because of the cost, pollution and population boom expected to have in the state.
28. Where is the world’s largest flattop mountain?
Answer: In Grand-Mesa
29. Which is the tallest building in Colorado?
Answer: The Republic Plaza, Denver
30. How many stories are there in the building?
Answer: 57
Colorado History Trivia
31. Which is the world’s largest Rodeo hosted by Denver every year?
Answer: The Western Stock show
32. How many living recipients of Medal of Honors does Pueblo have?
Answer: Four
33. When the world’s first Rodeo held?
Answer: On July 4, 1869
34. Where the world’s first Rodeo held?
Answer: In Deer Trail
35. What is Colorado’s state gemstone?
Answer: Aquamarine
36. What is the state tree of Colorado?
Answer: Colorado blue spruce
37. Where is the world’s largest natural hot spring swimming pool?
Answer: In Colorado
38. Which is the highest paved road in Colorado?
Answer: The Mount Evans Scenic Byway
39. Which is the highest incorporated city in the United State?
Answer: Leadville, Colorado
40. Which is the tallest sand dune in America?
Answer: The Star Dune
41. Where it is located?
Answer: In the San Luis Valley of Colorado.
42. Which city of Colorado is known as ‘the sweet melon capital of the world’?
Answer: Rocky Ford
43. How many cities of Colorado are located at the Front Range of the Rockies?
Answer: Ten
44. What percent of the total population of the state lives at the Front Range?
Answer: 70 percent
45. What is the anthem of the state?
Answer: ‘Where the Columbines Grow’ and ‘Rocky Mountain High’
Colorado Rockies Trivia
46. Which is the largest metro in the state?
Answer: Denver Metropolitan area
47. What is Colorado’s state mammal?
Answer: Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
48. What is the state fish?
Answer: Greenback Cutthroat Trout
49. What is Colorado’s state grass?
Answer: Blue Grama Grass
50. What is the major source of water in Colorado?
Answer: Snow
51. The word ‘Colorado’ is from which language?
Answer: Spanish
52. How many gambling towns are there in Colorado?
Answer: Three
53. What are the gambling towns in Colorado?
Answer: Central City, Cripple Creek, and Black Hawk
54. In which year gambling became legal in these areas?
Answer: 1991
55. Which city of Colorado is famous for its peaches?
Answer: Palisade
56. Where the great corn festival happens every year?
Answer: Olathe
57. From which Colorado’s city the best green chilies come?
Answer: Pueblo
58. What annual sports event happens in Grand Junction?
Answer: Junior College World Series
59. Where is Colorado’s geographic center?
Answer: Park Count
60. Where the Jolly Rancher Candy Company originated?
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