Pink of Romance and Cotton Candy Quiz

Answer: Pink Martini

Thomas Lauderdale was the creator of the band "Pink Martini" in 1994, in Portland, Oregon. Originally, the band did covers of international pop and jazz songs, which were played at fundraisers for civil rights causes. When singer China Forbes joined the band, she and Thomas Lauderdale started writing songs which became international successes in festivals and on charts. "Pink Martini" evolved into a twelve-member band which performs songs in more than 25 languages throughout the world.

Answer: BonBon

Viktor & Rolf is a fashion house founded in 1993 by Dutch duo Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren. It specializes in contemporary and avant-garde fashion. The BonBon perfume, packaged in the iconic, hand-crafted, bow-shaped bottle, is a perfume with floral and fruity undertones of mandarin, orange blossom, grapefruit, jasmine and caramel.

The BonBon line includes BONBON shower gel, body lotion and hair mist.

Answer: Salmon

Salmon is a ray-finned fish which is native both to the North Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. It belongs to the family of Salmonidae. It is a very popular consumer fish rich in omega 3 fatty oils, and this makes it one of the most intensively farmed fish.
The pink color of its flesh comes from its diet, both in the wild and in the farms. In the wild it eats krill which is rich in beta-carotene, while the farm-raised salmon eat beta-carotene enriched pellets.

Answer: Pink ribbon

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an annual international campaign to draw awareness to the disease and channel funds towards the research for its early diagnosis, treatment and cure. It is celebrated every year between October 1st and October 31st.

Charlotte Haley, a 68 year old woman whose sister, daughter and granddaughter had breast cancer, was the first to create peach colored ribbons with messages encouraging the wider funding of breast cancer research. In 1993, Estee Lauder Cosmetics created the Breast Cancer Research Foundation which established a pink ribbon as the symbol for the awareness campaign.

Answer: Casa Rosada

Casa Rosada (Pink House), the seat of the Argentine National Government and the President's office, dominates the eastern part of Plaza de Mayo, the most iconic square of Buenos Aires. Casa Rosada was built on the site of a 1580 Spanish fort and the color is believed to have been chosen in the 19th century by Domingo Sarmiento as a compromise, a mix of the two colors of the rival political parties, the Federales (red) and the Unitarians (white).

Answer: Jaipur

Jaipur is the largest city and capital of Rajasthan, a province in Northern India. It is a major tourist attraction and one of the Indian cities in the "Golden Triangle" which includes New Delhi and Agra as tourist destinations. Jaipur is called the Pink City because of the distinctive color of its buildings which were painted pink in 1876 for the visit of then Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. Architectural highlights in the city include Hawa Mahal (Palace of Winds), a palace made out of white and pink sandstone and Jal Mahal (Water Palace), a palace located in the middle of Man Sagar Lake.

Answer: Shocking pink

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was a pioneer French fashion designer. She considered herself an artist more than a dressmaker and she often collaborated with other artists for her designs, most notably with Salvador Dali.

Shocking pink or hot pink was her signature color, one that was inspired by a pink diamond called "Tête de Belier" (Ram's Head) which belonged to Singer sewing machine heiress Daisy Fellowes, one of her best clients.

Elsa Schiaparelli herself described her pink color as "life-giving, like all the light and the birds and the fish in the world put together, a color of China and Peru but not of the West."

Answer: Cotton candy

Cotton candy is an all sugar confection with the addition of food coloring or flavoring. It is a favorite confection in fairs, circuses and festivals and it is sold either on a stick or in a plastic bag. The sugar is heated and spun in a machine which turns it into "glass-like" threads, mostly filled with air and usually either pink or white in color.

It first appeared in Europe in the 19th century and it became very popular after machine-spun sugar was introduced at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.

Answer: Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite is a manganese mineral which in its pure form has a rose-red color but when it bonds with impurities it ranges from a deep red to a cinnamon brown. The name comes from the Greek, and it means rose-colored. It is Argentina's national gemstone and Colorado's state mineral. Sometimes it is referred to as "Rosa del Inca" or "Rosinca."

Answer: Dianthus plumarius

Dianthus plumarius is a flower of the family of Caryophyllaceae, same family as the carnation. It is also called common pink, garden pink and wild pink and its color is a deep pink with a darker center. It blooms from May to September.

Conclusion for the color pink: Since pink is a combination of red and white it incorporates characteristics from both colors. It has the passion of red softened by the purity and innocence of white. It is also associated with femininity, romance, caring, calmness and hope, thus the expression "everything is rosy."