KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLORS
This is the number of primary colors.
What is three?
The colors are red, blue, and yellow. Primary colors can be mixed to make the secondary colors orange, green, and violet.
This is the land down under.
What is Australia?
Before its discovery, the area was known as Terra Australis Incognita, or "the unknown southern land."
This is Grandma's remedy for colds and the flu.
What is chicken noodle soup?
In this case, doctors and researchers agree with grandma because it helps hydrate and acts as a natural decongestant.
It takes this number of bad bat swings to strike out.
What is three?
Four balls allow batters to walk to first base.
This member of the orchestra faces the musicians.
Who is conductor?
Famous conductors include André Previn and Leonard Bernstein.
Denver is nicknamed this because of its elevation.
What is the Mile High City?
When dieticians tell us to eat a variety of colored fruits and vegetables, they tell us to eat the colors of this.
What is rainbow?
Five to nine servings are suggested per day.
This is the home of the United States Naval Academy.
What is Annapolis (Maryland)?
Members of the Navy do more than work on naval ships. For example, they can train to become aviation rescue swimmers, cryptologists, and members of the Navy Seals, an elite group.
This Greek dairy product is added to many cold soups.
What is yogurt?
It's an ingredient in cucumber soup, strawberry soup, roasted red pepper soup, etc.
It could be called fourth base.
What is home?
Every musical note is named for one of these.
What is letter (of the alphabet)? The letters are A through G.
Colorado became a state in this year.
What is 1876?
Colorado earned the nickname “The Centennial State” because it became a state 100 years after the Declaration of Independence.
These items have this color in common-stop or danger sign, Coca-Cola, and Valentine's Day.
What is red?
Red is the international safety color used in graphical symbols.
This medical doctor provides pain relief before, during, and after surgery.
What is anesthesiologist?
Today, certified registered nurse anesthetists can provide the same service, often under the direction of a doctor.
This orange melon is used in cold summer soups.
What is cantaloupe?
The cantaloupe is usually pureed.
Players who are not on the field during play sit in this location.
What is dugout or bullpen?
The coaches also sit in the dugout. Pitchers who are available to play sit in the bullpen and wait until it's their time to warm up and enter the game as the relief pitcher.
Country music performers sometimes call the violin this.
What is fiddle?
The difference is how you play the instrument. Classical violinists play a piece true to the music as it is written. Fiddlers take liberties in terms of interpretation.
This industry helped many Colorado towns grow in the late 1800s.
What is mining?
During Colorado’s mining boom, entire towns appeared almost overnight - some became major cities, while others later turned into ghost towns.
To see the essence of someone is to see their [missing word] colors.
What is true?
When you tell someone a secret and they tell others, they have shown their true colors; that is, they are not trustworthy.
The Sahara Desert is found on this continent.
What is Africa?
It's the largest desert in the world.
Traditional gazpacho is made primarily with this salad ingredient.
What is tomato?
It is served cold or at room temperature.
This song is associated with baseball.
What is "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"?
Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, and others have recorded the song. It's traditionally sung during the seventh-inning stretch.
The "heavenly" member of the string family is the largest in the family and played sitting down.
What is harp?
Other members of the string family are violin, viola, cello, and bass. All are played by bowing or plucking.
This Colorado landmark is famous for its naturally formed red sandstone towers.
What is Garden of the Gods?
The red rock formations at Garden of the Gods are millions of years old, and the land was gifted to the city so it would always remain free to the public.
A heart of this color is used for a military medal.
What is purple?
Any military member who has been wounded or killed in action qualifies for the Purple Heart.
This seed is what licorice is flavored with.
What is anise?
It is commonly used in baking, soups and stews, and liquors such as ouzo and sambuca. It is not. related to star anise.
This hot or cold Russian soup's primary ingredient is beet.
What is borscht?
It can be served hot or cold. The hot version is similar to a hearty stew, while the cold version is lighter and brighter and often includes sour cream.
MLB rules call for the bat to be made from a single piece of this material.
What is wood?
Aluminum bats were banned because they can make the ball travel around 10 percent faster.
Some chords are major, and some are these chords.
What is minor?
Major chords sound bright or uplifting, and minor chords sound darker and can elicit a feeling of sadness.
This Colorado mountain is the highest peak in the state.
What is Mount Elbert?
Mount Elbert stands at over 14,000 feet, making it not only Colorado’s highest peak but also the second-highest peak in the continental U.S.
Idioms with slip, tickled, and elephant have this color in common.
What is pink?
A pink slip informs employees their services are no longer needed. If someone is tickled pink, they are pleased or happy about something. A pink elephant is a hallucination caused by alcohol or drugs.
This car brand's logo has four linked rings.
What is Audi?
The four rings symbolize the four auto companies that merged into one during the Great Depression.
This soup is thickened with rice or barley instead of cream.
What is mulligatawny?
The baseball umpire is required to wear this color underwear.
What is black?
If the umpire should split his pants during the game, the black underwear will make it less detectible.
This is the nickname for piano keys.
What are ivories?
They are so named because they used to be made of ivory.
This Colorado town became famous for silver mining and later for hosting a major winter sports event.
What is Aspen?
Aspen was once a bustling mining town, then nearly abandoned, before reinventing itself as one of the world’s most famous ski destinations.