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ctivnan
03/01/08, 01:38 PM
Patis... you may fancy this! :lol:

Colorful Language

The clues lead to familiar words, phrases, expressions, names, and titles that incorporate the name of a color.

e.g.
An extremely rare lunar event.
- a blue moon
- once in a blue moon

1. The object of the question “Have you any wool?”
2. What you follow to get to the Emerald City.
3. A colorful name for Vermont.
4. It was all around 1960s rock star Jimi Hendrix.
5. A famous George Gershwin composition.
6. A colorful novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
7. An infamous dungeon in Bengal, India.
8. In the Peanuts comic strip, Snoopy’s nemesis.
9. The colors of Harvard and Yale.
10. A poetic name for Ireland.
11. A colorful novel by Anthony Burgess.
12. One of the four bodily humors in medieval medicine, known also as melancholy.
13. A powerful, toxic defoliant used in the Viet Nam War.
14. A name for a member of Hitler’s Nazi party.
15. What some say an inebriated person sees.
16. When writers overwrite, his can be the result.
17. Another name for England’s King William III.
18. Activists for the elderly.
19. Random House Webster’s College Dictionary defines this two-word epithet as “a person who wields unofficial power, esp. through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.”
20. Sensationalism and unscrupulousness in the media.

ENJOY... :yey:

patis
03/01/08, 08:02 PM
:D:D:D:D course i do!

1. the black sheep
2. yellow brick road (Wizard of Oz reference?)
3. the green mountain state
4. LOL a purple haze (jeez, what a stoner)
5. rhapsody in blue
6. the scarlet letter
7. the black hole
8. the red baron!
9. the crimson and the blue
10. the emerald isle
11. a clockwork orange ( i havent seen the movie nor read the book yet)
12. the black bile
13. agent orange
14. right, i have been reading whole articles about nazism and adolf hitler for about 40 minutes now without any luck. so im thinking it's red stripes? black swastika? the rainbow swastika was a lead for some time.
15. i dont know what this is called, but i always see this
16. i can't think of a color associated with wordiness...
17. the william of orange!
right, im going to have to skip 18-20 and those i havent answered yet because im too lazy to do research LOL

thanks ctivnan!

atimeloop
03/01/08, 09:00 PM
That was fun! Thanks ctivnan. I was about to post my answers, but Patis beat me to it... and good work, too! Hats off!

I believe 20 is yellow journalism, and I'm thinking 14 is brownshirt.

The only others I got were black sheep, yellow brick road, scarlet letter, black hole, red baron, a clockwork orange, agent orange, and the prince of orange.

Thanks again for the fun shared! :bgigrin1:

patis
03/01/08, 09:01 PM
oh jeez. so that's what they are called!

ctivnan
03/01/08, 09:16 PM
:D:D:D:D course i do!

1. the black sheep
2. yellow brick road (Wizard of Oz reference?)
3. the green mountain state
4. LOL a purple haze (jeez, what a stoner)
5. rhapsody in blue
6. the scarlet letter
7. the black hole
8. the red baron!
9. the crimson and the blue
10. the emerald isle
11. a clockwork orange ( i havent seen the movie nor read the book yet)
12. the black bile
13. agent orange
14. right, i have been reading whole articles about nazism and adolf hitler for about 40 minutes now without any luck. so im thinking it's red stripes? black swastika? the rainbow swastika was a lead for some time.
15. i dont know what this is called, but i always see this
16. i can't think of a color associated with wordiness...
17. the william of orange!
right, im going to have to skip 18-20 and those i havent answered yet because im too lazy to do research LOL

thanks ctivnan!

Very good, Patis! :Cat Smiley 6117:

You've got almost everything!

ctivnan
03/01/08, 09:21 PM
That was fun! Thanks ctivnan. I was about to post my answers, but Patis beat me to it... and good work, too! Hats off!

I believe 20 is yellow journalism, and I'm thinking 14 is brownshirt.

The only others I got were black sheep, yellow brick road, scarlet letter, black hole, red baron, a clockwork orange, agent orange, and the prince of orange.

Thanks again for the fun shared! :bgigrin1:

I'm glad you had fun! :thankyou:

Patis can really be fast, especially when it comes to trivias! ^^

You're right about 14 and 20! :yey:

Number 17 is William of Orange.

Wanna try 15, 16, 18, and 19? :fishin:

racz_jay25
03/01/08, 09:21 PM
really smart patis..:loveyah: :lol:

sbenosa
03/02/08, 08:34 PM
Whoa! You guys are good! Managed to answer only 4 items! Huh!
This is fun! :-) Learned a lot too!

Wish school is as fun as posting your thoughts and answering trivias online! :-)

Hmmm....

atimeloop
03/03/08, 12:43 PM
Hi ctivnan! I'm having dreams already figuring out answers to 15, 16, 18 and 19, but still... nada. hehehe!

ctivnan
03/03/08, 06:08 PM
Hi ctivnan! I'm having dreams already figuring out answers to 15, 16, 18 and 19, but still... nada. hehehe!

:lol:

Keep trying, atimeloop! :Cat Smiley 6117: