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Which president signed the act of February 28, 1861 that created the Territory of Colorado?

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These trivia questions about Colorado count 697 boundary markers, follow the silver to Leadville and ask why a goat brought in from outside is called a native.

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Peoples, Pike and the territory ends on statehood day in 1876. Silver, suffrage and second looks adds booms, a vote of 1893 and two animals the state changed its mind about. Fourteeners, parks and the divide is the map, and Colleges, courts and counties the institutions.

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Are these Colorado trivia questions checked?

Yes, against the Wikipedia article Colorado as read on October 3, 2026, linked under each question. The state's tragedies are not quiz questions here. Weather records, brand names and living officials are left out as well.

What are some easy Colorado trivia questions?

What is a peak of 14,000 feet called? What is the country west of the Continental Divide called? Which city got the Air Force Academy? Fourteeners, the Western Slope and Colorado Springs.

When did Colorado become a state?

On August 1, 1876, as the 38th state, four weeks after the nation's centennial. It had been a territory since February 28, 1861.

What is the highest mountain in Colorado?

Mount Elbert, in Lake County. It is the highest point in the state and in the whole of the Rocky Mountains.

All 48 questions with answers

Peoples, Pike and the territory 12

  • After 165 years of surveys, the borders of Colorado were officially defined by how many boundary markers? Answer: 697. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Colorado's admission made it which state in order? Answer: The 38th. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Congress drew the Territory of Colorado in 1861 by lines of latitude and longitude alone. It ran from 37 degrees north to which other parallel? Answer: 41 degrees north. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • From which region did the Arapaho and Cheyenne move west in the 17th century to hunt the High Plains of Colorado? Answer: The Great Lakes. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • In which territory did the 1st Colorado Infantry fight the battles of Apache Canyon and Glorieta Pass in 1862? Answer: New Mexico Territory. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Under the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 the United States gave up its claims south of which river that crosses Colorado? Answer: The Arkansas. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • What happened to Zebulon Pike and his troops in the San Luis Valley in February 1807? Answer: Spanish cavalrymen arrested them. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which archaeological site in Colorado holds artifacts dating from about 8720 BCE? Answer: The Lindenmeier site. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which gold rush of 1858 to 1862 brought a flood of settlers to Colorado? Answer: The Pike's Peak Gold Rush. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which president signed the act of February 28, 1861 that created the Territory of Colorado? Answer: James Buchanan. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which president signed the proclamation that admitted Colorado to the Union on August 1, 1876? Answer: Ulysses S. Grant. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which village, settled on April 9, 1851 by Hispano families from the area of Taos, was Colorado's first permanent Euro-American settlement? Answer: San Luis. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado

Silver, suffrage and second looks 11

  • Denver's flower-growing boom of the 1880s to the 1930s was known locally as which rush? Answer: The Carnation Gold Rush. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • In 1908 Denver made Colorado the first western state to host what? Answer: A major party's national convention. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • In 2020 Coloradans voted to bring back which animal, whose last wild member in the state was shot in 1945? Answer: The gray wolf. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Naturita and Paradox earned the name yellowcake towns in the 1940s from the mining of which metal? Answer: Uranium. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Near which town was the silver lode found in 1878 that set off the Colorado Silver Boom? Answer: Leadville. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • On November 7, 1893 Colorado became the first state to do what by a popular vote? Answer: Give women the right to vote. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • The repeal of which act in 1893 brought a collapse of Colorado's mining and farm economy? Answer: The Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • What has it been against the law to sell in Colorado on a Sunday since at least 1953? Answer: Motor vehicles. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Where was Colorado's last, but greatest, gold strike made? Answer: Cripple Creek. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which animal was brought into Colorado between 1947 and 1972 and declared a native species by the state in 1993? Answer: The mountain goat. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which civil rights movement of Mexican Americans is widely considered to have begun in Denver? Answer: The Chicano Movement. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado

Fourteeners, parks and the divide 14

  • About how much of Colorado is flat and rolling land? Answer: About half. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Along which edge of the Rockies do most Coloradans live, in a corridor from Fort Collins through Denver to Pueblo? Answer: The Front Range. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Coloradans have a name for everything on the Pacific side of the Continental Divide. What is it? Answer: The Western Slope. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • The lowest point in Colorado is where which river flows out of Yuma County into Kansas? Answer: The Arikaree. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • No part of Colorado lies below which elevation, a distinction no other state shares? Answer: 1,000 meters. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • North Park and Middle Park, inside the Colorado Rockies, are not city parks. What are they? Answer: High, broad basins. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • The San Luis Closed Basin, which lets no water out, helped to create which Colorado landmark? Answer: The Great Sand Dunes. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • What are the peaks of Colorado that rise 14,000 feet or more called? Answer: Fourteeners. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • What is the band of country called that holds most of Colorado's historic gold and silver districts? Answer: The Colorado Mineral Belt. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which city, the largest in western Colorado, stands where the Gunnison River meets the Colorado? Answer: Grand Junction. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which great river flows through the San Luis Valley on its way south to New Mexico? Answer: The Rio Grande. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which is the snowiest month in much of eastern Colorado? Answer: March. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which mountain is the highest point in Colorado and in the whole of the Rocky Mountains? Answer: Mount Elbert. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which national monument in the far northwest of Colorado is both a fossil site and a country of canyons? Answer: Dinosaur National Monument. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado

Colleges, courts and counties 11

  • Both of the Native American reservations in Colorado today belong to which people? Answer: The Ute. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Colorado has specialized courts, sitting in seven divisions around the state, that decide disputes over what? Answer: Water rights. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • The Colorado Seminary, the territory's first college, opened in 1864 and closed three years later. Under which name did it reopen in 1880? Answer: The University of Denver. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Denver is one of two consolidated city and county governments in Colorado. Which is the other? Answer: Broomfield. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • In which city was the University of Colorado founded in 1876? Answer: Boulder. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • In which Colorado city is the U.S. National Earthquake Information Center? Answer: Golden. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Where did the Air Force Academy operate from 1955 until its own campus opened in 1958? Answer: Lowry Air Force Base in Denver. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which Colorado city was chosen in 1954 as the home of the United States Air Force Academy? Answer: Colorado Springs. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which interstate is Colorado's main north-south highway, linking Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Denver and Fort Collins? Answer: Interstate 25. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which Irish playwright toured Colorado in 1882 and called one of its mining towns the richest city in the world? Answer: Oscar Wilde. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
  • Which name did Colorado State University carry when it opened in 1879? Answer: The Agricultural College of Colorado. Source: Wikipedia: Colorado
How this list was compiled

Written for this site; nothing was copied from another list. Every answer was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article Colorado (text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license), which is linked beside each question; the questions, wrong choices and explanations are in our own words. Left out on purpose: population figures and ranks, current office-holders, living people, sports teams and leagues, companies and brands, and weather records. Levels are our estimate: easy is fair for any table, medium suits people who know the state, hard will stump most tables. Licence: own work