I'm So Blue Trivia Quiz

Answer:

Blue is one of the three primary colours and two shades of it appear on the visible spectrum which contains the colours red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and violet.

Pure blue sits in-between cyan and violet and as it moves towards violet it becomes indigo and ultramarine whilst azure is towards the cyan. Between cyan and green there are many shades of blue-greens like turquoise, teal and the aquamarines.

The colour is also dependent on the shades it contains. Darker shades of blue such as Prussian, cobalt and navy have black hues while white hues appear in Egyptian, azure and sky blues.

It has long been a colour of law and order with both Frederick William I of Prussia changing the colours of his army's uniforms and the British Royal Navy adopting a dark shade of blue for its officers in the mid-eighteenth century.

In the next century the UK adopted a navy blue uniform for all its law enforcement officers which continues to this day and they became affectionately named 'our boys in blue'. In Australian slang, policemen - particularly country ones - are known as Blue Heelers.

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Sapphire and Lapis Lazuli are both blue precious stones.
Cobalt is a blue pigment made by sintering cobalt oxide with aluminium oxide.
Robin eggs are a shade of teal.
Ulysses butterflies are a striking blue and black.
Peacock blue has a teal undertone and is brilliantly bright.
Jeans are made from indigo denim in which the warp thread is dyed while the weft thread is left white.
Neptune's traces of methane in its atmosphere are one of the reasons it appears blue.
Cookie Monster and Grover are both blue Muppets on "Sesame Street."
James P. Sullivan 'Sully' is the blue behemoth from "Monsters, Inc."
Dory is the blue tang fish in "Finding Nemo."
Smurfs are the main characters in the franchise that began in 1958.
Merryweather is one of three good fairies in "Sleeping Beauty."
Sonic the Hedgehog began in a 1991 video game series.
Na'vi are characters from the science fiction film "Avatar."
Mystique is an antagonist from the "X-Men" franchise.
Billy Cranston was the first Blue Ranger of the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers"

WRONG ANSWERS:

Mars is known as the red planet.
Rhodonite is a rose red precious stone.
Ostrich eggs are glossy and cream-colored.
Monarch butterflies are orange and black
Snagglepuss is a Hanna-Barbera pink cartoon character
Nemo is an orange and white clown fish.
Oscar the Grouch from "Sesame Street" is green.