Movie Palette Trivia Quiz

Answer: Green

The two colours were blue and yellow, which combine to make the colour green. The Na'vi were blue-skinned humanoids of the moon Pandora in James Cameron's 2009 sci-fi epic 'Avatar'. They were in tune with the natural world, but were being driven from their home and sacred places by humans who were trying to exploit Pandora's mineral wealth. The Simpsons were yellow-skinned cartoon people in the 2007 animated film 'The Simpsons Movie'. Apart from the character Lisa, they were pretty much out of tune with the natural world, especially since Homer Simpson polluted the environment so badly that a dome was placed over the entire town to keep it from harming the outside world, and the Government made plans to obliterate the site.

Answer: Orange

The two colours were yellow and red, which combine to make the colour orange. The 1968 movie which starred The Beatles was 'Yellow Submarine', an animated musical about the band's alter egos who come to save the undersea, music-loving Pepperland from the music-hating Blue Meanies.
The title of the 1990 film was 'The Hunt for Red October', a thriller about a Soviet submarine ('Red October') which, against orders, is steered by its commander (played by Sean Connery) toward the United States during the Cold War.

Answer: Pink

The two colours were white and red, which combine to make the colour pink. A white whale featured in the 1956 film 'Moby Dick', which starred Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab. Based on Herman Melville's classic literary tale, the story was one of vengeance and obsession, with Ahab determined to find and destroy the whale which had previously taken his leg. The title of the 2002 film, which starred Anthony Hopkins as the insane Dr. Hannibal Lecter, was 'Red Dragon'.

It was a prequel to the film 'The Silence of the Lambs', which made the character famous, and told the story of his arrest and incarceration for serial killings (and cannibalism), and his subsequent role as adviser in helping to catch a different serial killer who was obsessed with the Blake painting, 'The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Sun'.

Answer: Grey

The two colours were black and white, which combine to make the colour grey. The name of the 2010 film starring Natalie Portman was 'Black Swan'. Its story involved a ballerina (played by Portman, who earned a Best Actress Oscar for her performance) who began to develop a dark side to her character while struggling to earn a role in a production of 'Swan Lake'.
The title of the 2004 comedy was 'White Chicks', which starred Shawn and Marlon Wayans as male African American FBI agents who went undercover as young white women in order to crack a case.

Answer: Purple

The two colours were blue and red, which combine to make the colour purple. Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins starred in 1980's 'Blue Lagoon', a tale about two children shipwrecked on a tropical island, who grow up in isolation from civilisation and discover love and sexuality.
The second movie was 1948's 'Red River', a Western directed by Howard Hawks about a long and perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri, led by an uncompromising rancher (played by John Wayne).

Answer: Brown

The two colours were green and red, which combine to make the colour brown. The name of the 1991 movie which starred Kathy Bates was 'Fried Green Tomatoes'. Also starring Jessica Tandy and Mary Stuart Masterson, the film was about a repressed Southern wife who became inspired by an intriguing depression-era tale told to her by an elderly lady in a nursing home.
The 1978 horror spoof was 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes', where the tomatoes, albeit giant mutants with a penchant for eating people, were nevertheless the traditional red colour. This film is a staple at 'bad movie' festivals.

Answer: Lavender

The two colours were purple and white, which combine to make the colour lavender (a pastel shade of purple).
The 1984 musical, which starred the pop singer Prince, was 'Purple Rain'. It was about a troubled musician who struggled to win acceptance for his music, while trying to stop himself from becoming abusive like his father in his personal relationships.
The title of the 1954 musical which starred Bing Crosby was 'White Christmas'. The story involved two ex-army buddies (played by Crosby and Danny Kaye) who became successful entertainers and tried to support a struggling Vermont hotel while wooing a pair of singing sisters.

Answer: Teal

The two colours were green and blue, which combine to make the colour teal (a blue-green).
Eric Bana played the title character in the 2003 movie 'Hulk', who was a green-coloured muscular brute. Based on the comic book character of the same name, 'Hulk' was about a scientist who was exposed to gamma rays and subsequently turned into a monstrous muscle-bound alter ego whenever he became angry.
In the 1992 animated Disney film 'Aladdin', the Genie (voiced by Robin Williams) was blue. The story was loosely based on the 'Arabian Nights' tale of the same name, and saw the title character obtain three wishes from a genie in a lamp as he tried to win the hand of the Sultan's daughter and contend with an evil palace official.

Answer: Cream

The two colours were yellow and white, which combine to make the colour cream. The Yellow Brick Road was the path which took the heroine Dorothy and her friends to Emerald City in the 1939 fantasy classic 'The Wizard of Oz'. This was a wholesome family film about a young girl's adventures in a fantasy land over the rainbow. The name of the second movie was 'Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle', which was a completely unwholesome comedy about two young men (who were often in a self-induced fantasy land) and the many misadventures they had while trying to get to the hamburger restaurant named in the title.

Answer: Olive

The two colours were yellow and black, which combine to make the colour olive (nb: whilst true olive looks greenish, it is actually a dark shade of yellow, with the RGB values of 128, 128, 0).
The name of the first movie was 1949's 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon', a classic John Ford Western about a retiring US Cavalry captain (played by John Wayne) who rides out on one last patrol to prevent war with the Indians, following Custer's defeat.
The 1997 sci-fi comedy which starred Will Smith (and Tommy Lee Jones) was 'Men in Black', where the suits worn were of course black. In this movie, a secret organisation which polices extraterrestrial visitors to Earth was forced to save the planet from a particularly nasty illegal alien.