Match the Colours Trivia Quiz

Answer: Yellow

In some countries, the bananas used for cooking are called plantains. Bananas aren't always yellow -- they are green when picked and as they get older they go from yellow to dark brown or black.

Answer: Red

The tomato is a fruit belonging to the nightshade family which also includes potatoes, bell peppers, chili pepper and eggplant. Tomatoes grow on a bush that produces yellow flowers.

Answer: White

The polar bear is the largest bear species in the world. Polar bears do not eat penguins -- polar bears live only in Arctic regions whereas penguins are from Antarctica and the southern hemisphere. A polar bear's skin is actually black.

Answer: Blue

'Blue' can also be used as a verb: when you are feeling blue you do not change colour, you just aren't full of the joys of spring. The sky is not really blue, of course: in outer space it looks black, but air scatters the sunlight to make it appear blue from the Earth.

Answer: Purple

Historically, purple was one of the most expensive dyes to make, so only rich people could afford to wear purple cloth. It was the colour worn by emperors in Japan, the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. Roman Catholic bishops also traditionally wore purple.

In the USA, the purple heart is awarded service men and women injured in the line of duty. Amethyst is a purple (or violet) coloured quartz often used for jewellery - it is the birthstone for February.

Answer: Black

Technically, black (like white) is not a colour, but purely an absence of colour. The world is turning away from coal as a fuel because of the detrimental effects that burning it has on the climate, but the older generation will remember the coal man coming around on his truck to fill their coal shed, and coal fires were the primary source of heat for many homes.

Answer: Pink

Traditionally, blue is for boys and pink for girls, and even in these modern times many new mothers still dress their babies in those colours. Flamingos usually appear to be pink, but they are really white: the pink colouring comes from a protein that is present in their diet of plankton. Ancient Egyptians worshipped flamingos as the living representation of the god Ra.

Answer: Orange

We are not talking about the Chinese language here, nor about a high-flying member of the British civil service, but the small, somewhat oblate cousin of the common fruit we know simply by its colour, orange. They are generally sweeter, less-sour and stronger-tasting than other types of orange.

When you see the crowd at a soccer match all dressed in orange and carrying orange flags, they are almost certain to be Dutch supporters. Traditionally, this comes from the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau, which has ruled the Netherlands since the 16th century. Did you also know that 'orange' is one of the few words in the English language that has no rhyme?

Answer: Brown

Camels can traditionally be found in the desert, so their brown colouring provides them with perfect camouflage against the sand. There are two distinct species of camel: the Dromedary camel has only one hump on its back, whereas the Bactrian camel has two. The llama, alpaca, guanaco and vicuņa are close relatives of the camel.

Answer: Green

"The green, green grass of home" was a 1960s country ballad made famous by Tom Jones, who had a worldwide number one hit with it in 1966. We associate grass with the green carpeting that we see on nicely-tended lawns and in the African savannahs known as grasslands, but grass comes in numerous different forms. Bamboo, the sole diet of the giant panda, is technically a grass -- the world's largest species of grass.