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Written by NEXTnc staff reports
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Thursday, 28 June 2007 |
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Page 6 of 6
WHAT DO YOU KNOW? POP QUIZ
By NEXTnc staff
The Fourth of July is a time to remember the past. We remember our Founding Fathers who bravely signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, and then fought a war to win our country’s independence.
We remember others who fought in subsequent wars.
And so on.
So, in the spirit of such nostalgia, we put together a quick little quiz to test your knowledge about the history of northern Colorado. Some questions are slam-dunk easy, others we didn’t even know the answer to.
Put on your thinking caps and find out if you have any game — history game, that is.
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QUESTIONS
1. The city of Greeley is named after Horace Greeley, a well-known newspaper
editor in New York. What was the name of Greeley’s newspaper?
[2 points]
2. Who did Horace Greeley hire in the 1950s as his European correspondent?
[3 points]
3. What was the name of the colony before it became Greeley?
[2 points]
4. What year did the Agricultural College of Colorado open its doors in Fort
Collins? [4 points] (Give yourself two points if you guess the right decade.)
5. Factories opened in Loveland in 1901, in Greeley and Eaton
in 1902, and in Fort Collins, Windsor and Longmont in 1903, to process what?
[2 points]
6. Maj. Stephen H. Long, after whom Longs Peak is named, is also wellknown for calling the plains east of the Rocky Mountains what?
[2 points]
7. Name the two Indian tribes that were dominant on plains near Fort Collins and Greeley when white settlers began to move in.
[2 points]
8. Name the first U.S. Army officer to lead an expedition into Colorado.
[2 points]
9. Name the newspaper published in Fort Collins in the latter part of the 19th
century. [3 points]
10. Who was the first governor of the Colorado Territory, appointed by President Lincoln on March 22, 1861?
[4 points]
11. Lt. Col. William O. Collins established the post that would eventually
become Fort Collins in what year?
[4 points] (Give yourself two points if you guess the right decade.)
12. Name the first county seat of Larimer County, so designated in 1861.
[3 points]
13. Colorado is a Spanish word meaning what?
[1 point]
14. What invention, patented in 1874, allowed farmers and ranchers to
control where livestock
[1 point]
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ANSWERS:
1. New York Tribune 2. Karl Marx 3. Union Colony 4. 1879. (Nineteen students were in that first class.) 5. Sugar beets 6. Great American Desert 7. Arapahoe and Cheyenne. (This is kind of tricky, because the tribes didn’t have defined borders. Other tribes in the region were the Utes, who were in the mountains, the Commanches and Kiowas were south of the Arkansas River, the Pawnee to the east, and the Sioux to the north and east, among others.) 8. Capt. Zebulon Pike in 1806-07 9. Fort Collins Courier 10. William Gilpin of Missouri 11. 1864 12. Laporte 13. “Red” or “ruddy” 14. Barbed wire
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SCORING
22+ points — Yup, you’ve got game.
14-20 points — Not bad. You must
have paid attention in school.
8-14 points — You cheated to get
that diploma, didn’t you?
0-8 points — Time to put the
remote down. That thing on the
coffee table is a book, not a coaster.
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