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I'm working away this morning and at about 10:30 I realized, "Ack, it's Tuesday, time for Trivia!" Luckily, I've tucked away a few questions for just such an occasion when I needed to come up with some at the last minute.
Oh Bush Administration, is there any outrage you cannot put forth? Apparently they are taking a cue from Walmart that Armageddon is coming with a Democratic White House. For in the waning days of this Administration, the Interior Department has proposed an administrative rule that would wipe out the independent scientific review currently used to determine harmful impacts on species and replacing it with a unilateral government review devoid of scientific data.
So, in Trivia Tuesday's little corner of the world, let's focus on political questions that relate to the protection of our country's and state's natural heritage.
Since today is a special day, I decided to make our Colorado Pop Culture Trivia quiz about important state dates. Just to be mean, I'm starting it out bare bones, but if need be, I will add hints later.
So here you go. No Googling, just guessing and being goofy!
Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Trivia Tuesday. Today I thought I'd throw in a few questions related to our neighbors here in the Rocky Mountain West. Yes, our beautiful region where the mountains are taller, the rivers are wider and where national networks forget our time zone exists ("Catch The Office, 8 Eastern and Pacific/7 Central on NBC!").
Here's some food trivia for you. I just ate a bowl of Cheerios for dinner because it is WAY too hot to eat anything warm, or even to stand around in the kitchen long enough to make a sandwich.
But you clicked on this post seeking answers, so here they are.
Tjlord knew that Rocky Ford is the Melon Capital of the World.
Bco Gal knew one of the SquareStaters that has a restaurant, Greenchiledem. That's Fiesta's New Mexican Cafe & Cantina in Edwards (Eagle County). She also had the location right for the other place, plus she knew that of the foods listed in #2, it is cheese that has no festival of its own.
ELuning knew the Colorado Beetle preys on potato crops, and also that we kan haz cheesburger because Louis Ballast of Denver invented and trademarked them in 1936. AND also that the other Square State restauranteur is Wanda James.
(That would be the 8 Rivers Restaurant. I believe they are opening a second one soon, in LoDo, but I couldn't find anything current about it.)
ELuning then posed TWO new bonus questions"
6.a. Sam Arnold's The Fort in Morrison revived Mountain Man cuisine for the masses. What is the special ingredient Arnold would serve with Old Crow Whiskey?
b. Arnold used to keep a tame bear in the courtyard. He would amuse -- and startle -- guests by feeding the bear what food item. Bonus bonus: How would he feed it to the bear?
Ralphie posted this bonus question: "What Colorado Buffalo wrote the intelligence report on JFK's heroics in the aftermath of the crash of PT-109?"
ELuning knew it was Byron "Whizzer" White.
That's it. I'm going to go water my few pitiful remaining tomato plants now.
(No, I am not intentionally going to a bi-weekly format. It just happened. Twice. But it's not a tradition until it happens three times.)
OK, first let's honor our prize answerers from last quiz. ELuning scored first by naming the Westernaires, the CSU Rams, the town of Dinosaur and also the song about the fox out on the town-o. Plus (eventually) the singer, Peter Yarrow. AND he got a bonus funny answer point for suggesting Dick Wadhams as the state reptile, plus two more for naming the state bird (lark bunting) and animal (bighorn sheep).
Frankenoid knew the Fruita bird was Mike the Headless Chicken. This question/answer became a good mini course on strange Colorado festivals! I love it when that happens!
The two questions that didn't get answered were the state fish (Greenback Cutthroat Trout) and state reptile, which is the Western Painted Turtle. You may recall this from this year's lege session, when the nomination was introduced and lobbied for by a class of third graders. Unsurprisingly, the ONLY representative to vote against it was...Doug Bruce.
Here's your bonus pic -- a Colorado Aggie, seen here as Sophomore of the year in 1948, who went on to become a Colorado governor.
And now, THIS week's quiz, at last!
1. What Colorado town is the Melon Capital of the World?
2. Which of these foods is NOT the subject of an annual festival here in Colorado? Cheese, oatmeal, strawberry, sweet corn, tea.
3. What food crop is attacked by the Colorado Beetle?
4. This massively popular food item was invented in Denver in 1936, and even trademarked! What is it?
5. Two frequent SquareState posters are restauranteurs. Give their screen names, and for bonus points, the restaurant names.
As always, no fair Googling. Funny and/or interesting answers get bonus points!
At Netroots Nation this year the second annual PubQuiz took place. The idea - form a team and answer politial minutiae. AdamB from Daily Kos is the host. Our team, Shock and Awesome, was ready for the challenge. But we soon were "shocked" to discover we weren't as "awesome" as we thought.
Hello everyone and welcome again to Trivia Tuesday. For this week's edition, I'd like to focus on the years 1969 - 1974 (aka the Nixon Years). So let's slip into our bell bottoms, jump in the van and pop the music into our 8-track. On to trivia baby!
Yes, time for another session of Colorado Pop Culture Trivia! I had wildlife on my mind today. Not because my personal life is all that wild, I'm sorry to say, but because this week I've been treated to catching views of teeny toads (and one big one tonight!) and a pair of young foxes. More about the foxes later.
As always, funny answers are just as welcome as correct ones. No Googling Allowed. Feel free to share cool info in your answers--I love that!
1. The largest youth horse club in the world and the location of their headquarters. (And be nice, I'm an alumnus!)
2. They used to be the Colorado Aggies. Who are they now? (Be nice, a former CO governor is an alumnus!)
3. Where would you find the following streets: Brontosaurus Boulevard, Stegosaurus Freeway, Triceratops Terrace, Brachiosaurus Bypass, and Diplodicus Drive?
4. What animal became the state reptile this year? For extra credit, name the state animal, state bird, and/or state fish.
5. What bird is honored with a celebration every year in Fruita?
Okay, about that fox. I was driving the last mile home and an animal dashed across the road in front of me. I slowed down to check it out and saw it was a young fox holding a dead bird (?) in its mouth. There was another interested party checking out the dinner too, a second fox. Since its sibling didn't want to share, it turned around and started heading up the edge of the cornfield. Amazingly, me driving along just a few yards away didn't bother it a bit. You can't see much because of the dim light, but what it was doing was BROWSING, looking down each row between the cornstalks, just like it was shopping at a supermarket!
I will tell you up front, the video quality is poor, because the sun was down and I only had my old junky camera (the one I don't mind carrying in my purse because it's no great loss if something happens to it). The only reason I am posting it at all is because I am very proud that I have figured out how to overlay a sound clip when editing a video!
I guess I could give extra credit for IDing the singer and song....
I'm back from vacation! Had too good a time, because I overdid a little and had to limp back home early. The few times we did end up somewhere with wifi, I couldn't manage to stay awake long enough to do much more than check my email. That's why I didn't do an answer post until now.
Now I am home and in half-catch up, half recuperate mode. So I'm taking the week off for the Colorado Pop Culture Trivia. I'll try to make next Friday's twice as fun to make up for it.
So, on to the answers and star answerers!
GreenChiliDem was first to ID #1, the location of Buffalo Bill's grave. She also identified the Four Corners marker and knew it was the Navajo people in charge at the park (#5). Then she got an honorary bonus point for suggesting Pikes Peak for #3, the place you can see six states from. I believe that was a correct answer, even though it wasn't the one I was thinking of.
Frankenoid knew #2, that Colfax is the longest street in the US.
The answer I was looking for for #3, was this site:
the Wonder Tower in Genoa. It's about 10 miles east of Limon, and it's AMAZING! If you like oddball and old stuff as much I as I do, anyway. If you want a taste, here's a link to a photo essay page I did on our visit last year.
CLICK ME!
Question #4, about Steve Canyon, was touched on by Frankenoid. She knew he was a character in the Sunday comix years ago, but not the Colorado connection.
Here's the short version. In 1947, a neighborhood of Idaho Springs decided to change its name from Squirrel Gulch to Steve Canyon. (Hey, seems like an improvement to me!) Then they somehow wangled $12,000 in Federal funds to get a big statue of the character carved. And it's still there today, because we SAW it on the way home from vacation!
You can go HERE to read more, and learn about many other zany roadside attractions all across America!
In a few days we celebrate the 232nd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. An excerpt from this historic document:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Because I'm heading off in the morning to Glenwood Springs to attend RootsCamp, and will be wheeling around the state for the following week, trying to subject my son to stately history and culture, this week's theme for Colorado pop culture trivia is tourist attractions!
As always, you may not Google, but you may be as funny as you like with your answers. Assuming I can get a good wifi hotspot, winners and the correct answers will be posted Sunday night. Have fun, I know I'm going to!
1. Where is Buffalo Bill's grave? (I know it's easy--consider me starting my vacation early.)
2. Colfax Avenue holds a place the the USA record books for ?
3. Ripley's Believe It Or Not verified this site's claim that from it you could see six states. Where and what is it?
4. Steve Canyon -- what, who, why?
5. The easy part: Where would you find this marker? The hard part: what entity is in charge of the site?
Welcome back to another edition of Trivia Tuesday! I hope everyone had a fine weekend, and for those lucky few, I imagine a good time was had by all at Frankenoid's garden party. I hope the chocolate flowed endlessly and Arwen didn't live up to her nickname.
Luis knew Mamie Eisenhower had been a Denver debutante, and also that the oldest wooden carousel now resides in Burlington. By the way, you can still ride it! I highly recommend it, and their Old Town Museum as well.
W0nderM0nkey identified the place where Mamie got busted for 'dancing too closely', the old Trocadero Ballroom at the original Elitch Gardens.
Eluning got two more, by knowing the Tower of Jewels:
was at Lakeside, and also that #4, with the walls containing trout and roses, were clear bricks of ice making up the incredible Leadville Ice Palace in 1896. (Click here for more info--it's amazing stuff!)
I had a hard time choosing how to write that Lakeside question, because there is so much interesting stuff about it. Lakeside is celebrating its 100th year THIS year! Its start-up was financed by area brewer Adolph Zang, and it was called The White City because it had so many electric lights strung all over.
Something I did NOT know is that Lakeside is its own Colorado Municipality, the second smallest one in the state, claiming 20 people in 2005. Their Town Hall is in a corner of the Lakeside Mall.
Because my son is a coaster nut, our family visited Lakeside a couple years back. The Clone and I had not been there in decades, and we were both surprised how nice it still is, and cheap compared to the new fake Elitch's!
I just happened to notice they had an on-site dump, so of course I had to check it out. It, and some shots of the old abandoned Speedway, made up Page 3 of my photo essay, Lakeside Derelicts. I'm afraid if you want to see the other 2 pages you would have to circle back around by clicking on the link that says Photo Essay Page. But if you feel like it, you are welcome.
The sole unanswered question this week was the one with the picture of a stone building with arches. If you thought they looked like a WPA project, you're right! Those are the horse stalls at the Colorado State Fairgrounds. They got a grant from the State Historical Fund in 2007 to repair the roofs so they can go on being used.
See you all again on Friday with more Colorado based pop culture trivia!
Popular culture is such a wide-ranging field, eh? This week our Colorado PopCultTrivia features places people could go to have fun. No Googling allowed, but entertaining answers are always appropriate!
1. If you got on the tramway in Denver a hundred years ago and headed towards the tallest structure in the state, the Tower of Jewels, where would you end up?
2. Which future First Lady was scolded as a debutante by chaperones who said she was dancing too closely with her partner? Where did this happen?
3. Where would you go to find America's oldest wooden carousel?
4. What tourist attraction was decorated with American Beauty roses and 18 inch trout displayed within its walls?
5. This structure got a grant from the State Historical Fund last year. Where is it and what is it for?
Hello and welcome to the late edition of Trivia Tuesday. Our category for today is political quotes.
And because Trivia Tuesday is running late, I've decided to make these questions a bit easier than usual (at least I hope I did!). This means I resisted the temptation to pull out my old Poli Sci textbooks and get a few quotes from Plato, John Locke or Pliny the Younger. So take a look below and see if you can guess who said which particular quote.
We had a good week for answers! W0nderm0nkey got South Park right (Q#2) as well as Sex and the City (Q#4), and Luis got Mork & Mindy (Q#1).
The answer to Q#3 was Sheryl Lee, who played the ill-fated Laura Palmer as well as Laura's cousin Maddy Ferguson in David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Always remember -- the owls are not what they seem!
Q#5 was my favorite this week. The prime time soap was Dynasty, and they got permission to use a clip from one of the Carousel Balls in Denver, which featured President and Mrs. Ford, as well as Henry Kissinger!
See you Friday! Remember I am always looking for guest questioners!
My bad, I didn't plan ahead for the quiz, thinking I could squeeze it into an already swamped day. But as JohnE says, better late than never!
This week the focus is on Colorado and TV. You aren't allowed to Google for answers, but you ARE allowed to make up your own funny ones! Go for it!
1. This house was the exterior shot for a 1978 sitcom set in Boulder. Name the show and the stars.
2. You might be more familiar with a later (1997) comedy set in Colorado, (in)famous for its weird and raunchy humor. The creators were both CU alums. That show is ?
3. This Boulder-born actress had her first stage appearance in a Fairview High School play. She hit the big time in a David Lynch cult classic, playing two roles. Looking for the show, the actress and both roles. Bonus points for any quotes you remember from the show.
4. Another Boulder baby grew up to star in a hit TV series, and its recent movie version as well. Her character's name is Charlotte York. Give the show and actress.
5. Hard, politically related one: What was the only prime-time soap opera in history to feature a former U.S. president and first lady and U.S. secretary of state playing themselves? What event were they filmed at?
Hello all and welcome back to Trivia Tuesday. After all that traveling the last two weeks, Trivia Tuesday is back to our regular potpourri of political trivia questions.
But before we dive right in, a plug, once again for two events I'm involved with this week - Save the Ales tomorrow night at the Skylark Lounge in Denver and the Democrats Work forest restoration project this Saturday in Boulder County. Hope to see you at either of these events!
First of all, sorry I kind of disappeared for most of the weekend. Yard sales can be brutal, you know?
This week our SS folks did great! There were answers to all but the last, really hard question.
1. The house pictured was the one where Woody Allen filmed part of "Sleeper".
2. The three movies based on Stephen King books set at least partly in Colorado were "The Shining", "The Stand" and "Misery".
3. Johnny Depp portrayed Hunter Thompson in 1998 movie, following in Bill Murray's footsteps.
4. Two actresses who portrayed Molly Brown in movies were Debbie Reynolds in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and Kathy Bates in "Titanic". The extra credit for the Broadway actress went unclaimed. That was Tammy Grimes.
5. The only one no one knew was about the movie "The Christmas Gift". This was filmed in Georgetown and starred good old John Denver.
I decided to make our Colorado Pop Culture Trivia quiz about important state dates. Just to be mean, I'm starting it out bare bones, but if need be, I will add hints later.
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