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Whether you have a “Native” sticker on your Subaru or you’ve recently moved to the Centennial State, this collection of quizzes, puzzles, and brainteasers will let you know just how Colorado you truly are. BY DALIAH SINGER ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN HENDRIX 56 | 5280 | FEBRUARY 2017 < Write in your results! HOW COLORADO ARE YOU? score score At A Glance It’s All In The Past Skyscrapers may not be our thing, but Colorado has its own monuments. Identify six well-known Our pioneering history makes for some great stories, but how well do you know local lore? landmarks from these shots. Score one point for each correct answer. Give yourself six points for solving the whole crossword or three points if you get at least 15 right. CLUES 1 2 3 ACROSS 4 2. “For all who wish to ____” 5 6 (Emily Griffith’s motto) 7. The national recreation area in 7 8 which Colorado’s largest body of water is located 9 8. Tribe responsible for 10 11 12 Mesa Verde National Park’s cliff dwellings 13 1 2 3 10. Historical northern Colorado crop 14 15 16 12. Highest peak in the Rocky 17 Mountains, with “Mt.” 13. Used for gold mining—or 18 cooking Denver omelets 19 20 17. Onetime jazz hub and center of Denver’s African-American 21 22 community 20. Music venue whose first 23 show was played by Pietro 24 Satriano in 1906 22. Earner of 25 the nickname “Unsinkable” 26 27 4 5 6 23. Meaty 28 29 30 31 sandwich rumored to 5. Colorado State Capitol Building; 6. “I See What You Mean” (aka the Big Blue Bear sculpture) Bear Blue Big the (aka Mean” You What See “I 6. Building; Capitol State Colorado 5. have been Gods; the of Garden 4. Restaurant; Fort The 3. Gorge; Royal 2. Museum; Art Denver 1. Solutions: Solutions: created in 32 33 34 35 36 37 Denver 24. The “longest, wickedest street 38 in America,” per Playboy 39 score 25. The Highland area, to longtime Denverites 40 41 MARBLENOOB SYELIWTWOY EBMAKOLNPE HROCERAUHR OAFKDNOVID FNFHZLNDRE LSAARPERUN AOTWUSGADC MNIKTIPWPV LRVOTIPWAS AMUZETNOMN 26. Our state tree, with “blue” TINY TOWNS 27. Western legend Carson, for short 42 Locate 16 Colorado hamlets, among the 28. One-time nuclear weapons least populous in the state, in the word parts production facility 32. 1992 Colorado Constitution 4. Coors’ home operation, for short of Colorado’s best-known search. Remember that words can be amendment, briefly 5. Color from which Colorado 33. Rocky Mountain News mountain peaks oriented backward or diagonal. Award 35. Famous chief or northern derived its name founding editor 37. Former Tuskegee Airmen Colorado town 6. Small, high-elevation mammal 34. Juicy Palisade crop pilot (after whom a Denver yourself one point if you find six or 37. Colorado invention that’s the library is named) bane of the illegally parked 9. Mountain division founded 36. Namesake of one fewer; two points for getting seven to at Camp Hale 39. Lucrative plant 38. Buffalo ____ Cody (buried (Solved puzzle on page 108) 12; and three if you uncover them all. on Lookout Mountain) 10. Cowboy button type designed by Rockmount Ranch Wear 40. Elegant downtown hotel founder Mr. Brown 11. Colorado’s first governor 41. Steamboat Springs’ 14. President whose moniker trademark powder graces a tunnel 42. One of Colorado’s original 15. Infamous 1864 massacre of Native American tribes Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples 16. Bear cub who lived at the Fort Restaurant in 1963 18. Erstwhile artist commune DOWN in Trinidad 19. A canyon and 1. Black national monument cowboy and 21. Fashionable 1900s home inventor of style, with “Denver” bulldogging 22. 5,280 feet 3. Japanese- 29. Local leader of the Chicano American movement internment (Solved puzzle on page 108) camp 30. Site of a significant fossil established discovery in 2010 Alma; Black Hawk; Bonanza; Boone; Branson; Genoa; Marble; Moffat; Montezuma; Ophir; Ovid; Pitkin; Rye; Sawpit; Ward; Wiley Ward; Sawpit; Rye; Pitkin; Ovid; Ophir; Montezuma; Moffat; Marble; Genoa; Branson; Boone; Bonanza; Hawk; Black Alma; Solutions: Previous spread: Shutterstock | Clockwise from top left: iStock; Courtesy of Eve Nagode; Courtesy of the Fort Restaurant; iStock; Courtesy of Jeffrey Beall; iStock (2) top left: iStock; Courtesy of Eve Nagode; the Fort Restaurant; Jeffrey Shutterstock | Clockwise from spread: Previous Library/University of California, Prints and Photographs Division; Courtesy of Bancroft Berkeley top: Courtesy of Library Congress From in 1942 31. Denver’s oldest bar still in 58 | 5280 | FEBRUARY 2017 FEBRUARY 2017 | 5280 | 59 HOW COLORADO ARE YOU? score score score Peak Show Candid Camera Many people move to the Centennial State for the mountains, but that doesn’t mean they can If you’ve lived here for more than six months, you actually tell them apart. Only true Colorado explorers will be able to recognize these four famous should be able to recognize some of our state’s hills. Award yourself one point for each correct answer. beautiful flora and fauna. Earn one point for each of these plants and animals you can name. Bonus Question: 1 2 Earn an extra point if you know which of these four peaks was the model for the Coors Brewing Com- pany’s logo. THE YEAR WAS… » Native Americans sometimes » Males are called rams, and Four numbers, four clues. Solve them used this native flower, in their curled horns can weigh up all to reveal one of the most important combination with other plants, to 30 pounds. to dye deerskins. years in Centennial State history. Award yourself one point if you crack the full 1 2 puzzle—and another if you can answer 3 4 the bonus question. CLUES Wilson Peak Wilson | Peak Wilson 4. Peak; Pikes 3. Peak; Longs 2. Flatirons; The 1. Bonus solution: Bonus Solutions: Times the city of Denver has turned down the Olympic Games score EQUIPMENT MANAGER » Colorado schoolchildren » These birds live only in areas voted this bloom the state with abundant sagebrush. National monuments in the state We need a lot of stuff to live in Colorado, and that often means packed closets and basements. flower in 1899. Fill in the blanks based on how many of these items you own. If your total adds up to 10 or less, allot one point. A total of 11 to 20 earns two points. Score 21 or more to notch three points. 3 4 Legislators Colorado has in the U.S. House of Representatives I own ____ pair(s) of skis/snowboards + ____ tent(s) + ____ fishing rod(s) + ____ bike(s) + ____ pair(s) of State highway that takes you into Golden from Denver hiking boots + ____ water bottle(s) + ____ beanie(s) + ____ Bonus Question: » These rare and threatened » Native Americans once used winter coat(s) + ____ pair(s) of sunglasses + ____ swimmers are our state fish. the straight, slim poles of these What happened that year? trees to support their lodges. dog(s) + ____ bottle opener(s) + ___ GoPro(s) 5 6 4. Greater Sage-Grouse; 5. Greenback Cutthroat Trout; 6. Lodgepole Pine Lodgepole 6. Trout; Cutthroat Greenback 5. Sage-Grouse; Greater 4. Columbine; 3. Sheep; Bighorn Mountain Rocky 2. Paintbrush; Indian 1. Colorado became the 38th state state 38th the became Colorado | 1876 Solutions: Bonus solution: solution: Bonus Solution: Total = _________ top left: iStock; Courtesy of Wikipedia;Clockwise from iStock (2); (icons) iStock (7) 60 | 5280 | FEBRUARY 2017 FEBRUARY 2017 | 5280 | 61 HOW COLORADO ARE YOU? score score score MISSION Brand Identity One thing many Coloradans can agree on: supporting local businesses. Lucky for us, our ACCOMPLISHED rectangular state is home to dozens of well-known companies, the logos for some of which you should probably be familiar with—even without their names. Earn one point If you haven’t been every time you correctly identify a Colorado biz from its anonymous logo. ticking your way through these Colorado bucket-list experiences, your score will certainly suffer. Tally one 1 point for each box you can check off. 2 Leaf-peep on Kebler Pass Drink a martini at the Cruise Room, Denver’s first post-Prohibition bar Local Lingo 3 Unscramble these outdoorsy words, then use the letters in the shaded Hear elk bugle in Rocky Mountain boxes to form new words that answer the bonus clue. One point for National Park each correct answer. Pitch a tent for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival Sit in the outfield Rockpile at a Colorado Rockies game »erertufone Hint: A mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet Set your mouth on fire by biting 4 into a Pueblo green chile Hike up 750-foot-tall dunes at »delsad A connecting landform between two summits Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Picnic with thousands of Denverites at City Park Jazz »dary When aleas skier crashes and his gear ends up spread out all over the hill 6 »ruty A round tentlike dwelling iranc 5 » Mounds of stones hikers leave behind that demarcate the trail celestial seasons »plrageu Small pellets of ice created when super-cooled water droplets coat a snowflake See a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre White-water raft the Arkansas River »mpcoran Footwear you attach to the outside of your shoe to help with traction while ice climbing Soak au naturel in Strawberry Park Hot Springs in Steamboat Springs Fly-fish on Gold Medal waters »rgpae A clueless skier or snowboarder standing, mouth agape, on the hill—usually a tourist Cycle up Lookout Mountain 9 Stand in line for a scoop of salted 8 Oreo at Little Man Ice Cream »ncor The ideal spring-snow condition—soft but not too wet and slushy Pose for a photo op at the Maroon Bells near Aspen Smoke a joint, legally 7 »fiteil Slang for a ski-lift operator Fill a growler at a local taproom Don a cowboy hat for the National Bonus Clue: The Highway to the Sky Western Stock Show Drive the 195 miles of the Santa Fe 8.