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Colorado Trivia
Uncover jaw-dropping Colorado facts that will amaze every mountain lover! From the highest paved road in North America to ghost towns hiding gold rush secrets โ these incredible Centennial State truths will surprise you.
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What is the name of the dramatic rock formation at the entrance to the Garden of the Gods that resembles kissing camels?
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What animal appears on the Colorado state flag?
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How many counties does Colorado have?
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What famous Colorado city is known as a world-class ski resort?
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What year did the Cog Railway to the summit of Pikes Peak first begin operation?
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What Colorado ski resort is the largest single-mountain ski area in the United States?
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What Colorado town is famous for its hot springs pool, the largest in the world?
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What Colorado mountain pass at 11,990 feet connects Lake County and Chaffee County?
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In what year did the Sand Creek Massacre occur, in which U.S. troops attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho village?
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What professional baseball team calls Denver home?
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What architect designed Denver International Airport's iconic white tent-like roof?
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What direction do you travel on I-70 from Denver to reach the ski resorts?
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In what year did the Pikes Peak Gold Rush begin, drawing thousands to Colorado?
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What Colorado town is famous for its annual Frozen Dead Guy Days festival?
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What university in Golden, Colorado specializes in engineering and applied sciences related to earth resources?
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What is the exact length of the Eisenhower Tunnel on I-70?
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How many peaks over 14,000 feet (fourteeners) does Colorado have?
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What major east-west interstate crosses Colorado through the Rocky Mountains?
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What Colorado engineer designed the system of transmountain water diversion tunnels that supply Denver?
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What professional basketball team plays in Denver?
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What Denver Broncos quarterback led the team to back-to-back Super Bowl wins in 1998 and 1999?
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What Colorado canyon, one of the deepest in North America, is carved by the Gunnison River?
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What Colorado county is the most populous?
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What year did Colorado legalize recreational marijuana, becoming one of the first U.S. states to do so?
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What is the approximate elevation of Denver in feet?
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What Colorado festival in Crested Butte celebrates a spring wildflower each July?
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What river, a major tributary of the Colorado, flows through Aspen and joins the Colorado at Glenwood Springs?
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What tunnel on I-70 is one of the highest vehicular tunnels in the world?
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What Denver muralist painted the controversial 'Children of the World Dream of Peace' murals at Denver International Airport?
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What is the name of the historic narrow-gauge railroad that operates from Cripple Creek?
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What is the highest peak in Colorado?
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What famous slogan was associated with the 1858-1859 Colorado Gold Rush?
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What famous peak near Colorado Springs was the inspiration for the song 'America the Beautiful'?
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What Colorado city was the original capital of the Territory of Colorado?
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What beer company was founded in Golden, Colorado in 1873?
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What type of precious metal sparked a major rush to Colorado in 1858?
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What is the state animal of Colorado?
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What Colorado mountain town, nicknamed 'Little Switzerland,' is famous for its ice climbing?
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What natural landmark in Colorado is the tallest sand dune in North America?
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What Colorado ranch, at over 137,000 acres, is one of the largest private landholdings in the state?
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What popular Denver neighborhood is known for its trendy shops and Cherry Creek Mall?
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What massive outdoor sculpture of a blue bear peers into the Denver Convention Center?
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What is Colorado's official nickname?
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What is the name of Colorado's famous red rock outdoor amphitheater near Denver?
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What continental feature runs through Colorado, dividing water flow east and west?
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What is the name of the Colorado 14er that is the highest point on the Continental Divide in North America?
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What former mining town is now Colorado's highest incorporated city at 10,152 feet?
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What famous outlaw gang robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride in 1889?
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What famous park in Colorado Springs features towering red sandstone formations?
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Which Colorado national park is named for a type of sand formation?
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What Colorado mountain town hosted the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships?
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What Colorado river is famous for its extreme whitewater rafting through the Royal Gorge?
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Denver is famously known as the 'Mile High City' because of what?
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What is the state tree of Colorado?
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What is the elevation of Mount Elbert, Colorado's highest peak?
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What Colorado mountain pass is known as one of the most dangerous roads in the state?
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What Colorado mining disaster in 1917 killed 121 miners in the Hastings Mine?
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What was the original name of Denver before it was renamed in 1858?
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What controversial blue horse sculpture stands at Denver International Airport and is nicknamed 'Blucifer'?
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What New Belgium Brewing beer, brewed in Fort Collins, is one of Colorado's best-selling craft beers?
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What is the average annual snowfall in Vail, Colorado, measured in inches?
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What rare Colorado butterfly, found only in the San Juan Mountains, is listed as an endangered species?
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What Native American tribe's name means 'blue sky people' and is associated with Colorado?
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What Denver park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., is one of the city's largest urban parks?
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What is the deepest point of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison?
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What Denver brewery, founded in 1988, is known for its Titan IPA?
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What year was Rocky Mountain National Park established?
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What Colorado university's athletic teams are called the Rams?
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What Rocky Mountain National Park road is the highest continuous paved road in the U.S.?
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What prestigious bicycle race was held annually in Colorado from 1975 to 1988?
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What Denver Broncos quarterback won Super Bowl 50 in February 2016?
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What famous Denver restaurant, opened in 1893, claims to have invented the cheeseburger?
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What is the name of the Denver neighborhood known for its arts, restaurants, and historic Victorian homes?
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What is the state flower of Colorado?
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What is the name of the scenic highway that connects Nederland and Estes Park along the Front Range?
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What Colorado city was once the richest city per capita in the United States thanks to its gold mines?
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What Colorado mesa is famous for its peach orchards and vineyards near Grand Junction?
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What wild horse management area in northwestern Colorado is one of the last havens for wild mustangs?
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What is the name of the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Colorado that preserves Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings?
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What large reservoir west of Denver is a popular recreation area and water supply?
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What year did the Colorado Rockies play their first MLB game?
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What is the oldest operating restaurant in Denver, opened in 1893?
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What year did the Colorado Avalanche win their first Stanley Cup?
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What popular activity draws millions of visitors to Colorado's mountains each winter?
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What year was the Ute Indian Treaty signed, forcibly removing the Ute from Colorado's western slope?
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What scenic area near Aspen features two 14,000-foot peaks reflected in Maroon Lake?
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What is the capital city of Colorado?
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What is the name of the geologic period when the Rocky Mountains first began to form, roughly 70 million years ago?
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What national park in southwestern Colorado features ancient cliff dwellings?
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What is the highest paved road in Colorado that reaches the summit of a 14er?
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What NFL team plays its home games in Denver?
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What is the total length of the Continental Divide as it passes through Colorado?
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What philanthropist built the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, which opened in 1918?
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What Colorado ghost town near Aspen was once a thriving silver mining camp?
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What endangered fish species, native to the Colorado River, can grow up to six feet long?
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What is the name of the highway between Silverton and Ouray nicknamed for its cost to build?
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What year did Denver host the Democratic National Convention that nominated Barack Obama?
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What section of Denver was originally a separate city called Auraria before merging with Denver in 1860?
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What Denver hotel, opened in 1892, is famous for its atrium lobby and afternoon tea?
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What is the name of Denver's iconic train station that was renovated into a hotel and transit hub?
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What is the name of the 470-mile Colorado Trail that runs from Denver to Durango?
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What mesa in western Colorado is the largest flat-topped mountain in the world?
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What Colorado city on the Western Slope is known as the gateway to wine country?
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What Colorado governor was impeached and removed from office in 1901 for election fraud?
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What is Denver's major international airport code?
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What is the name of the Denver art museum's distinctive angular titanium building designed by Daniel Libeskind?
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What year was the Denver Broncos' first Super Bowl victory?
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What is the only Colorado county that is entirely within a Native American reservation?
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What Colorado mining tycoon built the Tabor Opera House in Leadville in 1879?
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What Colorado governor signed the state's recreational marijuana law into effect?
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What is the total area of Rocky Mountain National Park in square miles?
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What year did Denver International Airport open, replacing Stapleton International Airport?
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What massive underground military installation is built inside Cheyenne Mountain?
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What year was the Moffat Tunnel, a 6.2-mile rail tunnel through the Continental Divide, completed?
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What year was the first permanent European settlement established in Colorado's San Luis Valley?
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What is the name of the massive flood event that devastated the Big Thompson Canyon in 1976?
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What professional hockey team plays in Denver?
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What is the name of the bridge that spans the Royal Gorge, once the highest suspension bridge in the world?
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What is the name of the annual automobile hill climb race to the summit of Pikes Peak, first held in 1916?
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What is the deepest hot spring in the world, located in Pagosa Springs, Colorado?
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What scenic mountain highway west of Denver is famous for switchbacks and views?
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What percentage of Colorado's land area is above 10,000 feet in elevation?
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What military institution is located in Colorado Springs?
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What year did Katharine Lee Bates write 'America the Beautiful' after visiting the summit of Pikes Peak?
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What year was the Denver Mint established?
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What type of beer is Colorado especially famous for producing?
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Which Colorado city is home to the University of Colorado's flagship campus?
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What famous Beat Generation author lived in Denver and wrote about it in 'On the Road'?
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What large Denver park shares its name with a major U.S. city?
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What substance was discovered near Leadville that led to a second Colorado mining boom?
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What was the name of the NHL team that relocated to Denver and became the Colorado Avalanche?
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What river carved the Grand Canyon and also flows through Colorado?
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What major mountain range runs through Colorado?
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What Denver Broncos running back rushed for 2,008 yards in 1998, setting a then-franchise record?
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What interstate highway runs north-south through Denver?
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What Colorado destination is known for the Maroon Bells, two iconic peaks?
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What 1965 flood caused over $500 million in damage along the South Platte River in Denver?
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What Denver neighborhood, historically African American, is known for its jazz heritage?
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What Colorado city served as a temporary territorial capital before Denver, from 1862 to 1867?
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What is the name of the narrow-gauge railroad that runs between Durango and Silverton?
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What famous hotel in Estes Park inspired Stephen King's 'The Shining'?
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What famous suffragist helped Colorado become the second state to grant women's voting rights in 1893?
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What Colorado town was the site of America's deadliest labor conflict, the 1914 Ludlow Massacre?
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What event devastated much of downtown Denver in 1863?
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What Native American people built the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde?
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What rare mineral, found near Pikes Peak, was named after the state of Colorado?
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What is the name of the largest natural lake in Colorado?
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What letter does the 'C' on the Colorado state flag stand for?
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What year did Colorado become a U.S. state?
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What Colorado inventor patented the first portable electric vacuum cleaner in 1907?
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