Citizenship Test Answers for Colorado
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Colorado.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Colorado
Denver
This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for Colorado now
- John W. Hickenlooper
- Michael F. Bennet
You only need to give one of these names.
Colorado has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.
Look up Colorado's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.
All 8 of Colorado's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | Diana DeGette |
| 2 | Joe Neguse |
| 3 | Jeff Hurd |
| 4 | Lauren Boebert |
| 5 | Jeff Crank |
| 6 | Jason Crow |
| 7 | Brittany Pettersen |
| 8 | Gabe Evans |
If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for Colorado now
Jared Polis
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on Colorado
Denver is Colorado's capital and its largest city, founded as a gold camp in 1858 and nicknamed the Mile High City because the Capitol steps sit almost exactly 5,280 feet above sea level. Colorado joined the Union in 1876 as the 38th state, one hundred years after the Declaration of Independence, which is why it is called the Centennial State — a useful hook, since the test also asks when the Declaration was adopted. The state has 8 congressional districts and 10 electoral votes. Anyone studying the four location questions here should note the pattern: Denver is fixed, while the senators, the representative and the governor all change with elections and should be checked shortly before the interview.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.