Colors

(Page One consisted of 40 boxes, each colored in with a different Crayola type. Teams had to name the forty specific crayon names.)

RED

1. Who is the "Red Rocker"?

2. Which of the following is not a real brand of beer? Red Dog / Red Wolf / Red Lion / Red Elk / Red Moose / Red Beaver / Red Dragon / Red Elephant / Red Bull / Red Frog

3. Name the famous Renaissance painter that had a shade of red named after him.

4. Who is Jan Van Eyck' s "Man in a Red Turban" a portrait of?

5. What red wine is traditionally served for Seder? (check accuracy)

6. What type of critters are responsible for 'red tide'?

7. What is the red dye cochineal prepared from?

8. According to fairy folklore, whv are the redcaps named as they are?

9. Who was the principal founder of the American Red Cross?

10. In "The Hunt for Red October," what is the name of the strait that the Red October had to steer through in order to avoid the Russians?

11. Name the Red assassin in Wizards.

12. In "Peanuts," what is the little redheaded girl's name?

13. What are the cardinal virtues according to ancient philosophy?

14. In the Redwall series, which races are considered to be the "good guys," and which ones are the "bad guys"'?

15. What is the rhyme coined by Lord Percie to describe the Scarlet Pimpernel?

16. What is a large red birthmark called?

17. Name Scarlett O'Hara's three husbands.

18. Who is the owner of Clifford the Big Red Dog?

19. How can you tell that Rimmer of "Red Dwarf" is a hologram?

20. The Red Dwarf is a bilingual ship-- what are its two official languages?

21. Two American pilots of "Red Dwarf"were created, but never aired. Who played the cat in the second one?

22. What is the favorite insult word used on "Red Dwarf"?

PURPLE

23. What is the most common bird house design used to attract purple martins?

24. One night the giant purple snorklewacker presented Mrs. McGreevy as one of Binkley's anxieties. Who is she and why is she an anxiety?

YELLOW

25. What is little, yellow, and different?

26. If you sign a yellow dog contract, what are you agreeing to?

27. The humour yellow bile was thought to cause which emotions/ traits?

28. Name the nine princes of Amber.

29. Who were the bad guys in "Yellow Submarine"?

30. In "Beavis and Butthead Do America," what attraction at Yellowstone endlessly fascinated them?

31. A 1908 issue of the Williams Record reports that "the structure has been painted a colonial yellow." What structure were they talking about?

32. What is the hexadecimal code for basic yellow?

GREEN

33. Who allegedly wrote "Greensleeves"? For whom was it written? What is the connection between who it was written for and the title (be specific)?

34. Who is the Green Lantern's nemesis? What color is his ring?

35. There are 4 different types of non-speckled green Jelly Bellys. Name the flavors.

36. What is the difference between green tea and black tea?

37. What chemical does green tea contain that is a powerful antioxidant?

BLUE

38. What is the more common name for the bluegum tree?

39. What is Cyan, Inc.'s claim to fame?

40. What do the blue sky laws regulate? How about the blue laws?

41. What is unusual about the mixing of the components of blue pyrotechnics?

42. There is only one kind of blue liqueur widely available; what is it?

OTHER

43. In which novel are Ann and Dan the protagonist's pets?

44. What tune is used as a mnemonic for the German dative prepositions? Which preposition is left out?

45. What is the Judo belt progression?

46. Name all the Clue characters.

47. What color is vitamin A'? B 1 2?

48. In "Into the Woods," what four things does the witch need for her potion?

49. Who directed the movies "Red," White," and "Blue"?

50. What is the French town of de Nimes' claim to fame?

51. "This is designed to be the most redundant programming language in existence. It has over eighty reserved words, a needlessly convoluted exception system...." What are they talking about?

52. "When the third lord of the new frontier is in her 17th year, the _____ _____ will descend back upon the earth to redeem the faithful." So it is written in the annals of Mu in the secret diaries of Lao Tzu.

53. The "coin check" is a challenge presented to what group of people?

54. What Chinese imperial order was named after the color of paper on which it was written?

55. What liqueur was created by French monks in Grenoble?

56. What color lights does a boat have on its stem, starboard, and port, respectively?

57. In Piers Anthony' s "Adept" series, what were the colors of the adepts, and what were their magics based on?

58. What are the various ribbon campaigns? What do the different color ribbons stand for?

59. In the late 80's, it was discovered that a variety of lick-on tattoos were laced with LSD. What kind of tattoo was it?

60. What paradise do sailors go to when they die?

61. Name all the colors Pern dragons come in, from largest to smallest.

62. Most know that the Hope diamond is blue, but what color is the Earthstar?

63. What is the gang color of the Crips?

64. What were the original marshmallow shapes and colors of Lucky Charms?

65. Which original one is no longer there?

66. What is the hexadecimal code for the gray used as the Netscape background?

67. Democritus describes the four "simple" (hapla) colors. What are they, and what do they symbolize?

68. Name the three primary colors in pigment and light?

69. What color of light is 560 nm?

70. In an electron discharge tube, what colors of visible light do the following elements emit:
    • Helium (He)--
    • Sodium (Na)--
    • Neon (Ne)--
    • Mercury (Hg)--

71. What is the absorption maxima of chlorophyll a?

72. Classical physics failed to explain the line spectra for atomic emission. How did Planck explain this mystery?

73. In "Philebus," Plato referred to the beauty of simple colors as analogous to what?

74. What color, produced by dyeing with murex, was used to distinguish the curators of the Imperial Court in Byzantium? Also, what are murex?

75. What color was used to sanctify weddings and funerals in ancient Greece?

76. This color originally meant "red" until about the 12th century-- but paradoxically came to mean "green" later on. Name the color.

77. What color was gules, in heraldry?

78. A popular mid-thirteenth century poem, "Ordene de Chevalerie," described how a knight should dress for his investiture ceremony. What should the discerning knight wear to his ceremony, what color are the articles of clothing, and what is the significance of each?

79. In Lorenzetti's "Maesta," the Virgin sits on a throne, the steps of which symbolize Faith, Hope and Charity. What are the corresponding colors for these concepts in the Christian mythology of the time (and therefore are the colors of the steps)?
    • Faith--
    • Hope--
    • Charity--

80. This color was thought to be a particularly "harmonious" hue in the later Middle Ages:

81. Describe the following colors from Antiquity. Be specific! One word answers are not always acceptable!
    1. flavus =
    2. lividus =
    3. albus =
    4. candidus =
    5. glaucus =
    6. ceruleus =
    7. pallidus =
    8. citirnus =
    9. igneus =
    10. puniceus =
    11. rufus =
    12. croceus =
    13. viridis =
    14. venetius =
    15. lazulus =
    16. heliotrope=

82. In "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," what is Lancelot's favorite color? What is Sir Robin's?

83. What do the colors of the uniforms in classic "Star Trek" signify? Be specific. What about "The Next Generation"?

84. What color are the following on a classic Monopoly board:
    • St. James Place--
    • Baltic Ave--
    • Marvin Garden--
    • Connecticut Ave--
    • Kentucky Ave--
    • Pacific Ave--
    • St. Charles Place--

85. One symptom of Hepatitis A is that the infected person's urine turns what color?

86. What are the five card colors in Magic: the Gathering?

87. Name the mox and lace for each.

88. What color light is used in a photography darkroom? Why?

89. Siamese cats come in different "points" which describe the color of the markings of the breeds. Name as many different points as you can, and describe their colorings.

90. What are the names of the following mixed drinks, given the ingredients:
    • 1 part vodka, 1 part creme de menthe--
    • 2 parts vodka, 1 part curacao, 1 part lemon juice--

91. Which Mighty Morphin Power Ranger controls the Ninja Frog Zord?

92. Filtered clove cigarettes are usually wrapped with brown paper. What color paper are unfiltered clove cigarettes usually wrapped in?

93. What Robert Frost poem begins:
    "Nature's first green is gold,
    Her hardest hue to hold.
    Her early leaf's a flower,
    But only so an hour."

94. Under the modem Japanese belt system for the martial arts (devised by Kano), what color belts do high ranking black belts wear?

95. What color belt did Ueshiba Morihei, grandmaster and founder of Aikido, wear during the last years of his life?

96. Monochrome usually means black and white, but what color(s) were monochrome computer monitors?

97. What does "oolong" (as in oolong tea) mean in Chinese?

98. Liquid nitrogen is clear; what color is liquid oxygen?

99. What is the common name for 2,4,5 chlorophenoxyacetic acid (also known as 2,4,5 T)?

100. What were the eight colors that Crayola retired?

101. What were the eight replacements?

102. What were the sixteen new neon colors Crayola added to its '96 box?

103. List the masters, and the colors of the hoods the graduates receive uponcompletion of their programs:

104. What are the colors of the chausables that Catholic priests wear according to the season/holy day:
     • All feasts of joyful and glorious mysteries of Jesus' life, feasts of Mary, angels and all saints who were not martyrs--
     • Feasts of Cross and Passion, the Apostles, and of all martyrs, Pentecost, and Masses of the Holy Spirit---
     • Advent, Septuagesima and Lent, on fast days and vigils--
     • Sundays after Epiphany and after Pentecost--
     • Gaudete and Laetare--
     • Good Friday and Masses for the dead---

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