COLOURS
Tuesday Quiz - Fan's Choice. Week 1
After 3000+ questions, we’ve grown a bit of a community! I’ve had a few hundred messages from you all, and a few suggestions for fans choice topics!
This week, one of you asked "Can we have a medium to easy level quiz - with colours in the answer. And don't repeat a colour!"
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TUESDAY QUIZ - THEME: COLOURS
Developing a distinct pink blush, which sweet apple cultivar originated in Australia as a Cripps Pink cross? The name also denotes the jacket-wearing female gang in the 1978 musical Grease.
Which acerbic media personality was the lead guitarist for the 1970s glam-rock band Skyhooks? Holding a pure mathematics degree, he famously wielded the buzzer as the snide stone-faced judge of "Red Faces" on Hey Hey It's Saturday.
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, which Marvel superhero played by the sadly late Chadwick Boseman rules Wakanda? The name also matches the 1960s influential, revolutionary Black Power and militant organization founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 in Oakland, California and a melanistic variant of the a large cat.
Contaminated with highly toxic TCDD dioxin, which military defoliant was used extensively during the Vietnam War and caused untold and uncountable damage to future generations? The chemical code name shares its name with Tim Roth's character in Reservoir Dogs... if he got a job in real-estate...
Worn as a traditional symbol of military support, which vibrant strip of garment or fabric is tied around an old oak tree in the title of a 1973 Tony Orlando pop song? When it was worn as a symbol of protest following the assassination of Filipino senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. in August 1983 upon his return to the Philippines from exile it sparked the Philippine People Power / February Revolution that ousted Ferdinand Marcos? (Looking for a two word answer).
First published in London in 1858, which definitive medical textbook inspired a hit TV medical drama starring Chandra Wilson, Sandra Oh, and Ellen Pompeo? It features some of the earliest and most detailed surgical diagrams of the human musculoskeletal system.
Established in Rhode Island in 1764, which Ivy League university shares its surname with the bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code? The name also denotes the Cleveland NFL franchise.
Created by Joe Brumm in Brisbane, name the pictured beloved Blue Heeler cartoon character who is playing Keepy Uppy with her sister Bingo?
There are four seas in the world named for colours. Name all four. For a bonus style point, can you name the one country that borders two of them?
So - sorry for the long Q - but I have heard about 10 different answers for "Who discovered _____", and wanted to set the record straight:
Calculated initially by Joseph Fourier in 1824 when he realized the Earth should logically be a frozen wasteland based on its distance from the sun, which process relies on atmospheric gases absorbing and re-radiating thermal infrared radiation?
While Claude Pouillet mapped the basic solar and terrestrial ray dynamics in 1836, the true experimental baseline was established in 1856 by female American amateur scientist Eunice Newton Foote.
Unaware of her breakthrough due to mid-nineteenth-century academic isolation, Irish physicist John Tyndall independently quantified the precise infrared absorption profiles of these gases three years later using a spectrophotometer.
By 1896, Swedish polymath Svante Arrhenius synthesized these collective pieces into the first comprehensive quantitative model.
Time for the answers! I hope you enjoyed!
ANSWERS:
Developing a distinct pink blush, which sweet apple cultivar originated in Australia as a Cripps Pink cross? The name also denotes the jacket-wearing female gang in the 1978 musical Grease.
The PINK LADIESWhich acerbic media personality was the lead guitarist for the 1970s glam-rock band Skyhooks? Holding a pure mathematics degree, he famously wielded the buzzer as the snide stone-faced judge of “Red Faces” on Hey Hey It’s Saturday.
RED SYMONS. He immigrated to Australia as a child on the exact same ship as the band members of the Bee Gees!Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, which Marvel superhero played by the sadly late Chadwick Boseman rules Wakanda? The name also matches the 1960s influential, revolutionary Black Power and militant organization founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 in Oakland, California and a melanistic variant of the a large cat.
BLACK PANTHER / The BLACK PANTHERSContaminated with highly toxic TCDD dioxin, which military defoliant was used extensively during the Vietnam War and caused untold and uncountable damage to future generations? The chemical code name shares its name with Tim Roth’s character in Reservoir Dogs... if he got a job in real-estate...
AGENT ORANGE (Tim Roth played Mr. Orange). The toxic chemical used during the Vietnam War was not actually orange; it got its name simply because it was shipped in barrels marked with bright orange stripes.Worn as a traditional symbol of military support, which vibrant strip of garment or fabric is tied around an old oak tree in the title of a 1973 Tony Orlando pop song? When it was worn as a symbol of protest following the assassination of Filipino senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. in August 1983 upon his return to the Philippines from exile it sparked the Philippine People Power / February Revolution that ousted Ferdinand Marcos? (Looking for a two word answer).
YELLOW RIBBONFirst published in London in 1858, which definitive medical textbook inspired a hit TV medical drama starring Chandra Wilson, Sandra Oh, and Ellen Pompeo? It features some of the earliest and most detailed surgical diagrams of the human musculoskeletal system.
GRAY’S ANATOMYEstablished in Rhode Island in 1764, which Ivy League university shares its surname with the bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code? The name also denotes the Cleveland NFL franchise.
BROWNCreated by Joe Brumm in Brisbane, name the pictured beloved Blue Heeler cartoon character who is playing Keepy Uppy with her sister Bingo?
BLUEYThere are four seas in the world named for colours. Name all four. For a bonus style point, can you name the one country that borders two of them?
RED SEA, BLACK SEA, YELLOW SEA, and WHITE SEA - and touching the Black and White… RUSSIASo - sorry for the long Q - but I have heard about 10 different answers for “Who discovered _____”, and wanted to set the record straight:
Calculated initially by Joseph Fourier in 1824 when he realized the Earth should logically be a frozen wasteland based on its distance from the sun, which process relies on atmospheric gases absorbing and re-radiating thermal infrared radiation?
While Claude Pouillet mapped the basic solar and terrestrial ray dynamics in 1836, the true experimental baseline was established in 1856 by female American amateur scientist Eunice Newton Foote.
Unaware of her breakthrough due to mid-nineteenth-century academic isolation, Irish physicist John Tyndall independently quantified the precise infrared absorption profiles of these gases three years later using a spectrophotometer.
By 1896, Swedish polymath Svante Arrhenius synthesized these collective pieces into the first comprehensive quantitative model.
GREENHOUSE EFFECT. Another case of snubbed women in science. She can add herself to the long long long long list - of which I will certainly do a topic of in the future!
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