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1. Merge the color of Erik the explorer with the color of 'The Face' in the Sherlock Holmes short story (featuring a hidden child) to form a color. This color is associated with the defense of an NFL team in the 1970s. Which?
2. Take the surname of Jack, star of motion pictures and the rock band Tenacious D; merge him with the color of the woman in Wilkie Collins' mystery novel, and you get the surname of one of England's queens. How long did she reign?
3. Take the color of the cook in Clue(do) the board game, and add it to the nickname of Paul Neal Adair, the world's most famous firefighter on oil well platforms, and you get a new color. This color is associated with one of the few global newspapers; which?
4. Let's move on to a variation in this theme. We won't be merging the two colors here. We start with the color associated with the nickname of the New York Times, and separately consider the color in the nickname of the son of Edward III, the first Knight of the Garter, who died before becoming king. The two colors appear in the title of a picture by Whistler, which is known by another name; what is it?
5. Take two colors, one most associated with the Minnesota Vikings, one the color of the child in the 1986 Eddie Murphy movie where he is looking for a kidnapped boy. The two colors appear as the outfit of the Assyrians, who 'came down like the wolf on the fold' in Byron's poem. Who was their leader?
6. Merge together the color of the surname of Rachel in 'Friends' with the color of 'heaven' in a Steve Martin movie, where he is in witness protection hiding from the Mafia. They form the name of a stone, which in itself is derived from the country where it was first found and imported to France. Which country?
7. Mix the three primary colors together and you get the color specifically mentioned in the title of three different hit songs. The question lists four well known singers but who is the odd one of the four who didn't have such a hit?
8. In this question there are two colors. One is the name of a woman in a song from Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, sung by a paralyzed veteran. The second is in the two-word title of a hit for the Marcels -- the second word is 'moon'. Mix those colors using more of the second color and you come up with a flower. Which national adjective appears most frequently with that flower?
9. We are looking for the color that is midway between a shade that could be clued as 'The color associated with the dress worn by the devil in an Easy Rawlins novel' and 'The color of the fairy associated with Absinthe'. Mix those two colors to get a four letter color. This is also the name of a breed of...?
10. Take the color associated with comic heroes The Lantern and The Hornet. Remove from that color the color Donovan associated with Mellow to achieve a color which is the third highest value at snooker. Just how many points is that ball worth?
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