Colour in Entertainment Trivia

1. 'Lemon Tree' has been recorded many times. Which singer, who died in 2020, had the most successful chart version in 1965?

From Quiz If Life Gives You Lemons...

Answer: Trini Lopez

Based on a traditional tune from Brazil, words were added by folk singer Will Holt. It became a popular choice for many artistes, but has never been a huge hit. The version by Trini Lopez cracked the US Billboard Hot 100, reaching number twenty in 1965. Others to record the song include Peter, Paul and Mary and Herb Alpert. Trini, whose biggest hit was 'If I Had a Hammer' in 1963, died in August 2020 - his death was due, at least partly, to COVID-19.

From Quiz Color Me Purple Part 2: Purple Screenings

Answer: Oklahoma!

Lynn Riggs's play used traditional folk songs (hence the title) which were replaced by material from Rodgers and Hammerstein for the 1943 musical. The plot was basically the same: Laurey is a farm girl in the Oklahoma Territory, which is just about to become a state (setting things in late 1906 or early 1907), who is being courted by two men, a farmhand named Jud and a cowboy named Curly. The conflict between the two is representative of the ongoing conflict in the region between farmers and cattlemen. In the movie, Laurey was played by Shirley Jones, Curly by Gordon MacRae, and Jud by Rod Steiger. Question prepared by looney_tunes

From Quiz In the Red: Leisure

Answer: China

Nixon's seven day visit to People's Republic of China in February 1972 was the first time that any American president had visited the country. His meetings with Mao Zedong and the First Lady's openness to touring schools and hospitals in cities such as Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai helped to cement USA relationships with China, while implementing a split between China and Soviet Union. Since "the week that changed the world" as it was dubbed, every USA president from Nixon to Trump, with the exception of Carter, has visited China. "Red Detachment of Women" tells the tale of a peasant girl, freed from her life of poverty and her subsequent rise in the Chinese Communist Party and is based on the real life events of the all-female Special Company of the 2nd Independent Division of Chinese Red Army, which was formed in May 1931. 480154st choreographed this question.

From Quiz More Color Me Purple: Entertainment

Answer: Superman

Bizarro first appeared in Superboy #68, (October 1958). He lives in Bizarro World and is an imperfect duplicate of Superman, but opposite. Superman has heat vision, freeze breath, and X-Ray vision (blocked by lead), whereas Bizarro has arctic vision, flame breath, and the ability to see through lead but nothing else. There have been multiple versions of Bizarro. Although he originally wore a blue-and-red outfit like Superman's, in the 21st century he has donned shades of purple and violet, with a gold belt and shield. He is sometimes a supervillain and sometimes more of an anti-hero, but always a thorn in Superman's side. A floorless roller coaster, painted purple, is named for Bizarro at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey.

From Quiz It's Not Easy Being Green

Answer: Oscar the Grouch

Although Oscar's trash can may appear to be a normal sized trash can, it is far, far bigger on the inside than it looks on the outside, housing a farm, a swimming pool and a bowling alley. Oscar was originally orange in the first season of "Sesame Street" in 1969 but changed to his green colour in between seasons one and two, after visiting Swamp Mushy Muddy.

From Quiz The Light Is Always Green

Answer: Ryan Reynolds

Several superheroes have fought evil under the name of Green Lantern, having been chosen by a magic ring, and Hal Jordan - played by Ryan Reynolds - is the Green Lantern who appears in the 2011 film. He is a test pilot and a member of the Justice League. The ring enables him to fly, creates energy swords and shields, and is powered by Jordan's imagination and willpower. The film also featured Peter Saarsgaard as the mad scientist Hector Hammond, and Mark Strong, Geoffrey Rush and Michael Clarke Duncan as fellow Green Lantern Corps members Sinestro, Tomar-Re and Kilowog.

From Quiz White in Entertainment

Answer: Procol Harum

The lyrics to "A Whiter Shade of Pale" were written by band member Keith Reid. Litigation arose between two band members over royalties for composing the music. Originally Gary Brooker received the royalties, but was sued by organist Matthew Fisher. Ultimately in 2009 the House of Lords ruled in Fisher's favor.

From Quiz A Potpourri of Colours to Entertain You

Answer: Pink

'Pink Moon' (released 1972) was Nick Drake's third and final album before he died of an overdose of anti-depressants at the age of 26. His first two albums were 'Five Leaves Left' (released 1969) and 'Bryter Layter' (released 1971).

From Quiz Come On You Reds

Answer: Po

"Teletubbies" first aired on BBC2 in Britain on 31st March 1997. It centred around the four main characters Tinky Winky (coloured purple with a triangular antenna on his head), Laa-Laa (coloured yellow with a curly antenna on her head), Dipsy (coloured green with an antenna resembling a dipstick on his head) and Po (coloured red with a circular antenna on a stick on her head). The brightly colourd, almost psychedelic, landscape the show was set it was designed to stimulate the attention span of young children. There were several re-occuring supporting characters including the Noo-Noo which was the Teletubbies hard working vacuum cleaner. The programme has been aired in over 120 countries.

From Quiz All Things Brown

Answer: Agatha Christie

"The Man in the Brown Suit" was one of Christie's earlier novels, released in 1924. The heroine, Anne Beddingfield, didn't appear in any other novels. This is the first novel where the character Colonel Race appears. With the five hundred pounds that Agatha received for the first publication of this book she purchased her first car - a Morris Cowley.

From Quiz Colorful Entertainment

Answer: Red Ryder BB Gun

To be precise, he wanted an official Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Poor Ralphie couldn't even get Santa on his side, because even Santa told him that he would shoot his eye out. "A Christmas Story" is a 1983 movie that has become a holiday classic. In 1997, Turner Broadcasting began running a marathon of the movie every Christmas season. The marathon starts on the evening of Christmas Eve and they air the movie for 24 hours. Throughout the years the marathon has been on TNT and/or TBS, which are both owned by Turner Broadcasting.

From Quiz Life is Like a Box of Crayons

Answer: Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta in 1900 and was fascinated with Civil War stories as a child. "Gone with the Wind" was published in 1937 and it earned her the Pulitzer Prize a year later. Interestingly, Scarlet's character was originally named Pansy.

From Quiz Entertainment Can Be Colorful

Answer: Red River Valley

"The Grapes Of Wrath", based on John Steinbeck's novel of the same name, follows the Joad family who lost their home in Oklahoma in the Great Depression as they become migrant workers on an arduous trek to California. "Red River Valley" also was the theme for the film "The Ox-Bow Incident" and for the radio serial "Our Gal Sunday" that aired on CBS from 1937-1959.

From Quiz Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Answer: Pokémon

The Pokémon world is based on insect collecting, which creator Satoshi Tajiri enjoyed as a child. The player travels, collecting and training all the Pokémon or "Pocket Monsters" found in a particular area. The first game, "Pokémon Red and Blue" (originally "Red and Green" in Japan) was released in 1996. It had 151 Pokémon, termed Generation 1; there are now over 800 different Pokémon! The most famous is perhaps Pikachu, a small yellow electric-type Pokémon. As well as video games, there is a Pokémon anime TV series as well as multiple films. More recently, the "Pokémon GO" app was released; this is a game that uses GPS signals so that the player can walk around in real time and find Pokémon in their cities.

From Quiz Entertainment in Red, White and Blue

Answer: "The Island of the Blue Dolphins"

"The Island of the Blue Dolphins" was based on a true story of a girl named Juana Maria, who was left alone on an island off the coast of California for eighteen years before being found and rescued by a party of men whose boat landed on the island. It is a story of incredible hardship, loneliness, and bravery.

From Quiz Color Your World

Answer: blue

"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" was on Bob Dylan's 1965 "Bringing It All Back Home" album and was also released as a single. It can be considered a 'break up' song and one about new beginnings. As with many Dylan songs there has been speculation regarding what the song was about, in this case who Baby Blue was; Joan Baez, Dylan himself and the folk music audience in general have been suggested as the subject of the song.

From Quiz That's Not the Right Color

Answer: Pink

Bart had put his lucky red hat in the laundry, which then bled into Homer's shirt causing it to turn pink. At the asylum, Homer met a man named Leon Kompowsky, who claimed to be Michael Jackson. In actuality, Leon was voiced by Michael Jackson but was credited under the name John Jay Smith for contractual reasons.

From Quiz Entertainment in the Black

Answer: Blackboard Jungle

Evan Hunter (who also wrote as Ed McBain) had a hit with his book about a teacher in a tough New York school, 'The Blackboard Jungle', in 1954. The following year it was filmed as 'Blackboard Jungle' with Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier. The use at several stages in the movie of 'Rock Around the Clock' performed by Bill Haley and His Comets, had a big impact.

From Quiz An Entertainment Rainbow

Answer: Western

'Red Dead Revolver' was a third person shooter game produced by Rockstar Games in 2004 and set in the 1880s Wild West. Its success led to further games in the 'Red Dead' franchise.

From Quiz The "Silver" Screen and Beyond

Answer: Fantastic Four

The titular Silver Surfer begins wreaking havoc across Earth, creating huge craters. The team follow the Surfer across the globe whereupon they discover it is merely serving a greater entity, Galactus, and thanks to his "surfboard" emitting a cosmic signal, it is drawing Galactus towards Earth so it can feed off its energy. Sick of the constant planetary destruction that Galactus causes, in order to save the Earth from destruction, the Surfer sacrifices himself and destroys Galactus. Each of the four main cast members reprised their roles from the previous film: Jessica Alba as the Invisible Woman, Michael Chiklis as the Thing, Ioan Gruffudd as Mister Fantastic, and Chris Evans as the Human Torch. Interestingly, Chris Evans later played the role of Captain America in "Captain America: The First Avenger", another film based on Marvel comics and characters.

From Quiz Pretty In Pink

Answer: John Hughes

Molly Ringwald stars as Andie Walsh, a working-class teenager with a crush on wealthy, preppy Blane. Unbeknownst to Andie, her best friend Duckie is in love with her. This film was adapted into a novel in 1986.

From Quiz Well, Color Me Entertained!

Answer: the mean reds

Holly described "the mean reds" as a feeling of being afraid, yet not knowing what you are afraid of. She said "the blues are because you're getting fat, and maybe it's been raining too long."

From Quiz Colourful Entertainment by Royal Command

Answer: Perry White

Perry White was introduced in issue seven in 1940. He is the employer of Clark Kent (Superman) and Lois Lane. His catch phrases are "Great Caesar's ghost" and "Don't call me chief". Barry White was a singer. The two Jimmies are fillers.

From Quiz The Multi-Coloured World of Entertainment

Answer: Charles Dickens

David Copperfield has been responsible for several spectacular and elaborate illusions, including making the Statue of Liberty 'disappear' and seeming to walk through the Great Wall of China. His television specials have won many awards including over twenty Emmy Awards, and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the first magician to be so honoured during his lifetime. Having been serialised previously, Charles Dickens's 'David Copperfield' was published in novel form in 1850. It was his eighth novel and one of his best known and most-loved works.

From Quiz Not All These Colours are in the Rainbow

Answer: Blue

"The Thin Blue Line" was a BBC TV comedy programme about a small town police station, which ran from 1995 to 1996. Rowan Atkinson played the part of Inspector Raymond Fowler in this comedy written by Ben Elton. Being a self-confessed "Dad's Army" fan, Ben Elton wrote the relationship between Inspectors Fowler and Grim very similar to the relationship between Chief Air Raid Precautions Warden William (Willie) Hodges and Captain George Mainwaring in "Dad's Army". In fact in the episode "Rag Week", Inspector Fowler can actually be seen walking past a shop called "Mainwaring's".

From Quiz Azure By Any Other Name

Answer: Amy Lowell

'Azure and Gold' was included in Amy Lowell's book 'A Dome of Many-Colored Glass' published in 1912. The poem is an ode to nature, comparing it to a brilliant gem: "Centre stone of the crown of the world, 'sincerity' graved on your youth, and your eyes hold the blue-bird flash, the sapphire shaft, which is truth." A Massachusetts native who lived from 1874-1925, Lowell's brother Percival instituted the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, from which the former planet Pluto was discovered. Amy Lowell was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for the collection 'What's O'Clock'.

From Quiz A Colour is the Answer

Answer: Silver

Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish writer, medievalist, literary critic, essayist and theologian, who lived from 1898 to 1963. "The Chronicles of Narnia" is a series of seven fantasy books, which include (in order of publication): "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "Prince Caspian", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "The Silver Chair", "The Horse and His Boy", "The Magician's Nephew" and "The Last Battle". So, "The Silver Chair" is the fourth book of the "The Chronicles of Narnia" series.

From Quiz Entertain Me with Colour

Answer: The Scarlet Pimpernel

This play, based on the novel of the same name by Baroness Orczy, was not a success initially. With a rewritten last act, however, it took off, and it and the novel became such a success that Fred Terry, the actor who played the daring Pimpernel, continued to act in that role for the rest of his life. The storyline is set during the period of the French Revolution. The English hero of the work, Sir Percy Blakeney, in his secret disguise of the Scarlet Pimpernel, daringly rescues many people doomed to have their heads lopped off by the guillotine. To protect his identity, he adopts the daily persona of a somewhat dim-witted man about town who has become everything his wife dislikes. She of course has no idea as to his secret life, but when she finally learns of his identity, she rushes to save him from an act of betrayal, swoons in his arms, they fall in love once more and all ends most unrealistically, but very satisfactorily, ever after. This play was accepted as a work while its author was still awaiting a decision on its publication as a novel, but it was the play that was first presented to the public. Such was its popularity that it generated enormous sales of the follow up novel.

From Quiz I've Got the Entertainment Blues, Mama!

Answer: Bobby "Blue" Bland

Bobby Bland's birth name was Robert Brooks. Leroy Bland was his stepfather. Although never a huge crossover success in the pop charts, Bobby "Blue" Bland had 25 Top Ten singles on the US R&B charts between 1957 and 1974, including "Stormy Monday Blues" and "Turn on Your Love Light". The stage name Bobby "Blue" Bland is catchy. Much better, I think, than plain Robert Bland would have been.

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