Norman Darlo
This quiz is all about visible light and its various hues, tints and shades. How much do you know about this everyday subject? Find out now 🙂
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All data correct per Wikipedia. Cover image: Wikimedia Commons.
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Black is the darkest colour. Why?
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Because it absorbs all light
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Because it reflects all light
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Because it is the colour of evil
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The Irish for this colour is ‘bándearg’, literally ‘white-red’. Which colour is it?
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Crimson
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Cyan
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Pink
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The colour orange is named after the fruit. Or is it?
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Yes, the colour is named after the fruit
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No, the fruit is named after the colour
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Actually they are completely separate words, and it is just coincidence that the fruit is the colour orange
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What’s the difference between a tint and a shade?
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A shade is a hue mixed with white, a tint is a hue mixed with black
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A tint is a hue mixed with white, a shade is a hue mixed with black
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And tint and a shade mean the same thing
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Which of the following is NOT achromatic (a colour without hue)?
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White
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Grey
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Yellow
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Black
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Which colour is evoked by the shortest wavelengths on the visible spectrum, typically 380–450 nm?
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Violet
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Red
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Green
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In the measure of colour wavelength, nm stands for nanometer. How long is one nanometer?
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One then-thousandth (1/10,000) of a metre
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One millionth (1/1,000,000) of a metre
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One billionth (1/1,000,000,000) of a metre
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Visible colours are all part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Which of the following is not part of that spectrum?
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X-rays
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Radio waves
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Sound waves
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Infrared
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Our word colour comes from which of the following?
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Greek χρώμα (chroma)
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Arabic لون (lawn)
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Polish odcień
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Welsh lliw
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Latin color
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Interesting writing. Congrats!
Thank you, Houda. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
interesting writings love it!!!!! # got 6
Not bad at all! Thanks for playing, Jasmine 🙂
got 8 out of 9 right! (second time around)
Hurray for you! Well done, Edith, and thanks for trying a second time 🙂
got 7 out of 9 right!
Very nice score, Edith! Thanks for playing 🙂
Very interesting post
Thank you, Steve! Much appreciated 🙂
I need to go back to color theory I guess…I got 1 correct! I guess I should retry 🙂
Whew! Neat quiz. I should have ticked my first more often but if ya don’t know, ya don’t know!. :- ) Thanks for the info.
That’s how it goes, isn’t it! (Did you get my PM a few days back?)
Wow! I really blew this one out my shorts. 4/9.
Oops, I’m not very good with colors. Fun quiz though!
Haha, so long as you had fun, Ellie 🙂
Only got 4 correct, this one was a challenge.
By the way, congrats for going over 100k points!
Oh thank you, Carol! (It seems I didn’t reply to anyone on this post for some reason 😮 )
Ouch five of nine. Why so hard? giggles. Great quiz! I did learn new things…
So long as it was fun! It seems to have been harder for most than expected – well, that’s me for ya 😉
I only have 4 correct ones
It wasn’t easy! And I bet the translator made a mess of hue, shade and tint 🙂
7/9 Lost one because I didn’t read it carefully enough. Well done Norman.
Only three right. 🙁 Gotta study some.