Sorting Blue Trivia Quiz

Answer: Songs

Nat King Cole performed the song "Blue Gardenia" in the 1953 film noir "The Blue Gardenia", starring Anne Baxter, Richard Conte and Ann Sothern. Nat's recording of the song, written by Bob Russell and Lester Lee and arranged by Nelson Riddle, also serves as a crucial plot point in the movie. Capitol Records released that recording as the B-side of Nat's single "Can't I".

The song has also been recorded by such greats as Dinah Washington and Johnny Mathis.

Answer: Songs

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the perennial favorite "Blue Moon" in 1934. Since then, it has been recorded by numerous pop, jazz, R&B and rock 'n' roll artists from Connee Boswell to Elvis Presley.

Answer: Painting

"The Blue Period" refers to the years from 1900 through 1904 when the painter Pablo Picasso produced monochromatic works in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally relieved by other colors. Both the colors and the somber subject matter (largely the poor, marginalized and exploited) of his paintings during this time reflect his deepening depression.

As such, they were unpopular with critics and the public alike. Today, however, the paintings of Picasso's Blue Period are recognized as among his greatest works.

Answer: Painting

Prussian blue is a chemical compound best known to most people as a pigment used in paints and dyes. Interestingly, it also has other diverse applications, including as an efficient conductor of electrons in sodium-ion battery electrodes and as an antidote for heavy-metal poisoning.

Answer: Mammals

Also known as the Archangel blue or the Archangel cat, the Russian blue is a domestic cat breed whose coat colors vary from a light shimmering silver to a darker, slate gray. Although thought to be a naturally occurring breed originating in the Russian port of Arkhangelsk as the names suggest, the breed was largely developed in Britain during the nineteenth century.

Answer: Mammals

The term roan is perhaps most familiar when applied to a horse's coat. It refers to a coloring pattern in which the coat's underlying color occurs on head, tail and legs, while on the body it is diluted with an intermixture of white hairs. If you're like me, the term conjures up the image of a strawberry or red roan, a horse that is basically chestnut, but whose body displays a reddish or pinkish coloration.

But there is also a blue roan - a fundamentally black horse, whose roaning results in a slate gray or blue appearance.

Answer: Detective Fiction

Agatha Christie's collection of short stories that includes "The Blue Geranium", featuring amateur sleuth Jane Marple, was first published in Britain in 1932 under the title "The Thirteen Problems". The next year, the volume appeared in the United States with the title "The Tuesday Club Murders".

Answer: Detective Fiction

"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", featuring consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, was first collected in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's volume "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". The volume was published in 1892.

Answer: Geographic Features

The largest sea hole in the world, the Belize Blue Hole or the Great Blue Hole, which can be seen from space, is a marine sinkhole and underwater cave system near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small coral atoll in the Caribbean Sea forty-three miles (seventy kilometers) off the coast of the Central American country of Belize.

A nearly perfectly circular body of water, the nine hundred eighty-four foot (three hundred meter) wide, three hundred fifty-four foot (one hundred eight meter) deep hole is surrounded by an inner ring of shallow, lighter colored water that forms a natural ring around the deeper sapphire waters of the flooded cave. Home to diverse sea life including the elusive hammerhead shark, the site is a favorite SCUBA diving destination, though only seasoned divers are permitted to brave its depths.

The Belize Blue Hole is a part of the larger Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the second largest barrier reef in the world, surpassed only by Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Answer: Geographic Features

Located at the southern tip of Banff National Park, the Blue Range of the Canadian Rockies straddles both the continental divide and the Alberta-British Columbia border. This remote and beautiful range, whose highest point is the 99,038 feet (3,029 meters), Mount Alcantara covers some seventy-five square miles (193 square kilometers).

As elsewhere in the Canadian Rockies, here you can see every type of animal from Canada jays (grey jays), ravens, and great grey owls to big horn sheep, brown bears, and grey wolves.