Name That A Color!
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Since Jan. 1st
"Cat" Facts
Modern Artists
100
This light yellow color is also the name of fossilized tree sap.
What is amber?
100
Traditional Japanese free-divers called ama (literally women of the sea) brave below-freezing temperatures to descend 30 meters wearing only a loincloth to gather seaweed, abalone, and these precious stone-producing molluscs.
What are oysters?
100
January 31st, 2020: After three years of deliberation, the United Kingdom withdrew from this international coalition of countries.
What is the European Union?
100
Computerized axial tomography combines data from several X-rays to produce a detailed image of structures inside the body, but it is often just referred to as this.
What is a CAT scan?
100
This artist, famous for dreamlike abstract work, teamed up with Walt Disney to produce the animated short Destino, and went on to have a lifelong friendship with Disney. This relationship makes sense, as this surrealist painter was also a racist, anti-semetic, Hitler sympathizer.
Who is Salvador Dalí?
200
Don't have a cow, man! Maybe have this nut instead, which is the basis for the most popular milk alternative, and refers to a color that is light, creamy, and brown.
What is almond?
200
This oil was a popular staple in Ancient Rome as an excellent source of nutrients, and had a plethora of applications such as lamp fuel, liquid soap, and lube.
What is olive oil?
200
March 16th, 2020: This index fell 2,997 points within the first minute of opening, the largest single point drop of all time.
What is the Dow (Jones National Average)?
200
There once was a kid from Peru
Who taught a kitten in a pew
To learn how to speak
Using Ancient Greek
But it never got further than this denotation for the statistical average that is found by adding together all the values in a set then dividing that sum by the number of values in the set.
What is μ or Mu (or mew)?
200
This anonymous group formed in New York City in 1985 with the mission of bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within the greater arts community. They employ "culture jamming" in the form of posters, books, billboards, and public appearances, and hide their identities by wearing masks of a certain animal.
Who are the Guerilla Girls?
300
Sapphires, garnets and even pearls can be virtually any color. This precious stone, however, is almost always transparent violet.
What is amethyst?
300
Peoples of the Andean region of South America first domesticated potatoes, sweet potatoes, and quinoa for human consumption, as well as raised llamas and this rodent unique to the region as livestock.
What is the guinea pig?
300
January 22nd, 2020: This mascot was announced dead due to a car accident at the age of 104, only to be announced 12 days later as returned via reincarnation as a baby version of itself.
What (who?) is Mr. Peanut?
300
Cat got your tongue? If not, then this question shouldn't phase-ya! But if so, then you may have this clinical condition defined as the loss of the ability to speak.
What is aphasia?
300
This artist, whose homosexuality is often completely removed from their work, is considered the pioneer of popular art. Pop art critiques modern elitist fine art by using common, banal, or cheap imagery. Ironically, the works of this artist have themselves become symbols of inaccessible elitist modern art.
Who is Andy Warhol?
400
Water, water everywhere, but definitely don't drink this blue-green color whose name is a compound of two roots that both mean water.
What is aquamarine?
400
This trio of crops native to the Americas consisting of squash, maize, and beans are grown together interdependently and are referred to with a specific familial relationship.
What are the Three Sisters?
400
April 20th, 2020: A key benchmark price of a US barrel of oil went below $0 for the first time in history due to oil price negotiations falling out between these two countries.
What are Russia and Saudi Arabia?
400
Is it raining cats and dogs out there?! It might be if El Niño has arrived in the Pacific, bringing increased rainfall and tropical cyclones, but if not, then it may be a persistent episode of this reverse phase of El Niño.
What is La Niña?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!
The contestant selecting this clue may wager any amount of money that they currently have, which they will gain or lose depending on their answer.
If they lose, then the guessing period begins, but the reward will be for the original value of the question.
Name the artist of:
The Artist Is Present
(Yugoslav, born 1946)
2010. Performance.
500
Hate the french? Me too! They have a stupid word for eggplant that has been loaned into English to describe a shade of purple.
What is aubergine?
500
Traditional Aboriginal cuisine consists of many species unique to Australia, including kangaroo, goanna, emu, and this spiny animal, one of only two species that classify as monotremes.
What is the echidna?
500
February 9th, 2020: This director made history for directing the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture.
Who is Boon Joon-ho?
500
A cat's purr has been found in some studies to reduce stress and possibly lower blood pressure, which is a measure of force applied against the walls of these blood vessels that exclusively move oxygenated blood from the heart out to the body (unlike veins, which move deoxygenated blood from the body back to the heart.)
What are arteries*?
(*almost exclusively moving oxygenated blood--excepting the pulmonary and umbilical arteries--but as brevity is quickly becoming an issue here, as you can see! some details must be left out of definitions.)
500
This Swedish artist and mystic demanded their art remain unpublished until after their death, knowing they would not be understood or appreciated in their times. This artist work precedes any works of Kadinsky or other "forefathers of abstract art" by several decades.
Who is Hilma af Klint?