The correct answers to each question are listed below in blue.
1. Denver (as in the capital of Colorado)
- a native peoples tribe named ‘Denfora’
- governor of Kansas Territory
- Sioux word for flat land
- famous ballad singer (think Rocky Mountain High)
2. Des Moines
- the rapids
- the workers (perhaps)
- from the monks
- from the river
3. Missouri
- those who have dugout canoes
- those who have sharp tomahawks
- those who have many pelts (perhaps)
- those who have many fields of corn
4. Peoria
- those who eat vegetables (perhaps)
- those who are swift and sure
- to dream with the help of a manitou (perhaps)
- those who are warlike
5. Cleveland (as in Ohio)
- President Grover Cleveland
- General Moses Cleaveland
- land of plenty
- confluence of rivers
6. Nashville
- city of trappers
- Joseph Nash, first country music singer
- Francis Nash, Revolutionary War hero
- Marion Nash, frontier trapper
7. Las Vegas
- the valleys
- the deserts
- the sands
- the meadows
8. Fort Collins
- Thomas Collins, inventor of carbonated beverages
- Judy Collins, Colorado-born folk singer
- Major William O. Collins, commandant of Fort Laramie
- Seth Collins, governor of the Colorado Territory
9. Tucson
- two rivers
- desert flowers
- twin suns
- at the base of the black hill
10. Orlando
- the protagonist in Shakespeare’s As You Like It (probably)
- a corruption of ‘Hernando de Soto,’ the area’s first explorer (probably)
- Seminole Indian word for ‘land of many lakes’ (likely)
- Ays Indian word for amusement (perhaps)
11. Bonus question: force behind the US interstate highway system
- President Harry Truman
- President Dwight Eisenhower
- economist John Maynard Keynes
- asphalt developer Francis Macadam
