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Fifty More Shades of Grey Trivia Quiz

Nothing salacious here, just questions on my favourite colour, grey, and shades thereof.

A multiple-choice quiz by Seurat. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
Seurat

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
353,112

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
1767

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. What shade of grey is also an artist's material? Hint

Battleship

Gainsboro

Taupe

Charcoal

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which Irish author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"? Hint

James Joyce

Oscar Wilde

Samuel Beckett

William Carleton

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which dancing movie starred Jennifer Grey? Hint

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dirty Dancing

Dancing at the Blue Iguana

Slow Dancing in the Big City

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Question 4 of 10

4. What shade of grey links the following: writing, Fred's boss, online magazine, and snooker table? Hint

Silver

Charcoal

Slate

Battleship

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Question 5 of 10

5. What is the HTML hex value for grey/gray? Hint

#0000FF

#FFFFFF

#808080

#000000

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Question 6 of 10

6. The Gray Panthers is an organisation that has notably campaigned (amongst other areas of action) against which "ism"? Hint

Sexism

Communism

Racism

Ageism

7. Battleship Grey is a medium grey with tinges of blue, most often associated with warships. During WWI and WWII, however, navies experimented with complicated colour schemes of geometric designs and colours. What was the term used for these designs? Hint

Camo Ships

Shock Ships

Geometric Ships

Dazzle Ships

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which famous newspaper has been nicknamed "The Grey Lady"? Hint

The Times

The New York Times

The Washington Post

The Daily Telegraph

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which of these isn't a shade of grey? Hint

Byzantium

Payne's Grey

Davy's Grey

Taupe

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Question 10 of 10

10. No quiz on shades of grey would be complete without mention of the publishing sensation of 2011, "Fifty Shades of Grey". Who wrote it? Hint

C. L. R. James

M. R. James

P. D. James

E. L. James

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What shade of grey is also an artist's material?

Answer: Charcoal

Charcoal is quite versatile. This leads to its use in horticulture, cooking, art, filtration, etc.

Source: Wikipedia.org

2. Which Irish author wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?

Answer: Oscar Wilde

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" was released in 1890. It was Oscar's only published novel.

3. Which dancing movie starred Jennifer Grey?

Answer: Dirty Dancing

Jennifer's father is the Oscar-winning actor Joel Grey. "Dirty Dancing" came out in 1987.

4. What shade of grey links the following: writing, Fred's boss, online magazine, and snooker table?

Answer: Slate

Writing in chalk on tablets of slate led to the phrase "To wipe the slate clean". Cartoon character Fred Flintstone's boss was Mr Slate. "Slate" is a famous online magazine of news, politics and culture. Good quality and professional snooker/pool tables use smoothly ground slate as the base material.

5. What is the HTML hex value for grey/gray?

Answer: #808080

#FFFFFF is the code for white.
#000000 is the code for black.
#0000FF is the code for blue.

6. The Gray Panthers is an organisation that has notably campaigned (amongst other areas of action) against which "ism"?

Answer: Ageism

Beginning as the Consultation of Older and Younger Adults for Social Change, the Gray Panthers have listed their values as: Honoring Maturity; Unifying the Generations; Active Engagement; and Participatory Democracy.

Answer: Dazzle Ships

Dazzle paint schemes were the brainchild of marine artist and illustrator Norman Wilkinson. The paint was thought to confuse rangefinders by making it difficult to estimate the speed, size and course of a target.

8. Which famous newspaper has been nicknamed "The Grey Lady"?

Answer: The New York Times

"The Times" has the traditional nickname of The Thunderer. "The Daily Telegraph" is somewhat derogatorily nicknamed The Torygraph due to an assumed right-of-centre viewpoint. From what I can find, the "Washington Post" doesn't have a nickname, though the shortened form WaPo is sometimes used.

9. Which of these isn't a shade of grey?

Answer: Byzantium

Byzantium is a dark purple. Davy's grey and Payne's grey are both shades supposedly named after the prominent artists who used them, while taupe comes from the Latin name for a mole, talpa.

10. No quiz on shades of grey would be complete without mention of the publishing sensation of 2011, "Fifty Shades of Grey". Who wrote it?

Answer: E. L. James

"Fifty Shades of Grey" started out as a piece of "Twilight" fan fiction. It later went on (along with its sequels) to become one of the fastest-selling paperback books of all time.

Source: Author Seurat

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