BRAIN test

This week the theme is colour.

1. What colour is the cross on the Swedish flag?

2. Which colour is associated with breast cancer awareness?

3. What colour is the panther who lives in Wakanda according to the Marvel superhero franchise?

4. What colour would you associate with the secret agents played by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones who monitor extra-terrestrial life on Earth?

5. What is the traditional colour of New York taxis?

6. What colour is the compass in the Philip Pullman book title?

7. Complete the title of the Alice Walker novel: “The Color …”.

8. In karate, on what colour belt do beginners start?

9. What colour completes the title of a 1990 cartoon about two mice scheming to take over the world: “[something] and the Brain”?

10. One of Henri Matisse’s most famous series of paintings are of abstract naked women painted in a single colour. What colour?

11. The name Belarus comes from “Rus” meaning land and “Belo” meaning what? A) White, B) Red, C) Green, D) Yellow

12. What colour is the black box on aeroplanes? (Hint: it’s not black!)

13. What was the colourful name of the Norse explorer who is believed to be the first person to set foot on Greenland and gave the island its colourful name?

14. What was the nickname of Baron von Richthofen (pictured) who, in World War 1, shot down 80

Allied planes before being shot down himself (he died on April 21 1918 at the age of 25)?

15. What colour makes up the expression meaning to be cowardly or timid: [something]-bellied?

16. Name the band that won the 2005 Grammy Award for best alternative music album with their album “American Idiot”?

17. In his song, what colour is Prince’s Little Corvette? A) Purple, B) Blue, C) Gold, D) Red

18. What colour are amethysts in their natural state?

19. What is the more common name for an erythrocyte?

20. In F1, what colour flag do the race marshals wave to indicate to a driver that another driver is about to lap him and that he should give way?

Answers on this page.