Colorado Old Timer Trivia Quiz

Front Range Primer #611

Were you born when Colorado became a state in 1876? That would make you old enough to answer all of our test questions correctly the first time around. You youngsters, born in the 20th Century or later may have a struggle but please proceed. Our probability scale is as follows. There are built-in fail-safes for the kids in our readership. (Example: Someone born in 1955 should be able to answer 75% of the questions to qualify for expensive prizes.*
1.Douglas Fairbanks was expelled from what Denver high school in 1883?
2. Where was Bob Ford, the killer of Jesse James, himself slain?
3. Who wrote the Molly Mayfield column appearing in the Rocky Mountain News?
4. What does the white strip on Colorado’s state flag represent?
5. Mattie Silks opened her first parlor house on what street?
6. Which Presidents established a Summer White House in Colorado?
7. How many inches of snow fell on Denver during the Blizzard of 1913?
8. What year was gold discovered along the Platte River and Cherry Creek?
9. The Ku Klux Klan helped elect which Denver mayor in 1923?
10. How many peaks in the Rocky Mountain state are over 14,000 feet?
11. Who was Colorado’s first Miss America?
12. What team did the Denver Broncos beat to win a place in the 1978 Super Bowl?
13. How long is the Moffat Tunnel?
14. What 1973 movie was filmed in a futuristic house in Genesee Park?
15. McNichols Arena sat how many fans?
16. Who founded Tivoli Brewery in 1859?
17. How large was the screen at Phipps IMAX Theater in Denver?
18. What heavyweight boxer was born in Manassa, Colorado?
19. Under what name did the now defunct Lakeside Amusement Park open in 1908?
20. Who won the Pulitzer Prize for a story about an invisible rabbit named “Harvey”?
21. What metal originally covered Denver’s gold leaf capitol dome?
22. When did the Denver Nuggets sign David Thompson?
23. Where is the alleged cannibal, Alferd Packer, buried?
24. Coors Brewery was established in what year?
25. What Denver resident survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912?
Bonus question: How many Buffalo Bill’s Graves exist in the West?

Answers (No Peekie) to Trivia Quiz
1. East High School
2. Creede (in his saloon in 1892)
3. Francis Foster
4. The snow of our mountains
5. Holladay Street
6. Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford
7. 45.7 inches
8. 1858
9. Ben Stapleton
10. 53
11. Sharon Kay Ritchie
12. Oakland Raiders
13. 6.2 miles
14. “Sleeper”
15. 20,000
16. Moritz Sigi
17. 4.5 stories high and 6.5 stories wide
18. Jack Dempsey
19. White City
20. Mary Coyle Chase
21. Copper
22. 1975
23. Littleton
24. 1870
25. Molly Brown
– Lou Grant
Bonus question (tie breaker)
26. 22. But the Real McCoy is on Lookout Mountain.
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