EXTRA! EXTRA!! Buzztime screws up name of leading Colorado newspaper! United States Post Office distances themselves from involvement! EXTRA!!!
Now there is . . . something calling itself the Denver Herald Dispatch, using the domain hdnewspaper.com. Their home page wouldn't fully load for me, and when I clicked their About link, I got an online pharmacy. Apropos, considering the boner Buzztime pulled with this question
Anyway, I have another one of my crossword margin recaps to share, ironically written on the puzzle page of the Calgary Herald. Scroll down for the answers
1. They were the first Europeans in the Colorado area
2. Colorado is called the ______ State
3. Which Colorado city is home to the headquarters of the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Company?
4. At 14,440 feet, this is the highest point in Colorado:
. The Denver ______ is the leading newspaper of Colorado
6. Fine examples of Anasazi cliff dwellings can be found in ______ National Park
7. This Titanic survivor's home is now a Denver tourist attraction:
8. One of Colorado's two State Songs is "Where the ______ grow"
9. Cory Gardner is well known to Coloradans as a:
10. Leadville is the ______ incorporated city in the U.S. (options were Driest, Highest, Oldest, Wealthiest, Wettest)
11. Which attraction is *not* found in the city of Denver? (Buzztime's emphasis)
12. The Coors brewery in found in which Colorado city?
13. Colorado's scenic and [adjective forgotten] Durango and ______ Railway has operated since 1881
14. The ______ Concert Hall is home base for the Colorado Symphony Orchestra
15. The current population of Colorado is estimated at just over:
1. Spaniards
2. Centennial
3. Durango (I was totally in the dark on this one, and failed to milk more than 3rd clue points)
4. Mount Elbert (easy if you bothered to read the Wikipedia sidebar)
5. Answer coded: Herald. Third clue: Post office. Actual retail answer: Post
6. Mesa Verde
7. Molly Brown
8. Columbines (a pocket strike if you reviewed the list of state symbols)
9. Politician (totally blew this one by failing to comprehend the word politician among the answers)
10. Highest
11. U.S. Air Force Academy (I crashed and burned on this one)
12. Golden
13. Silverton (very pretty valley, especially from the US 550 overlook to the south)
14. Boettcher (guessed it on a phonetic hunch. Considering the previous answers, it's too bad BT didn't ask about something to do with copper here)
15. 5.3 million (other choices were something like 2.1, 3.5, 7.4 and 9.2 millions)
I think I scored 12,140, which includes a full thousand for being lucky enough to choose the "right" newspaper. Aside from that debacle, I liked this game well enough. Shoulda been a question about sports (e.g. Where did the Avalanche move from in 1995?), and I personally would have liked to see a question about the Denver Mint