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Pink Dolphins (Inia Geoffrensis) are found in the wild in the South American Orinoco River systems. In Brazil, their common name is Botos. They are now endangered like many inhabitants of the rain forest ecosystem. There are also two species of highly endangered Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins native to Chinese and Sumatran waters that vary in colour (white, gray, pink, speckled pink). Pink Fairy Armadillos (Chlamyphorus truncatus) are rose-coloured and the smallest of all armadillos. Native to Argentina, it is yet another animal listed as endangered. And yes, Virginia, there really are pink elephants, due to a form of albinism which occurs much more frequently in Asian elephants than it does in African elephants. Survival rate for African elephants born with this condition is very low due to the hot sun (with little shade) which results in blindness and skin afflictions including severe sunburn and melanoma.

Answer: Marty Robbins

The song features a sad singer who is all dressed up for the dance, but has no date. Marty's most famous song is perhaps "El Paso". Besides being a multiple Grammy winner, an inductee to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, being named "Country Artist of the Decade" 1960-69 and being given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he was also an avid race car driver who participated in many NASCAR events and acted in a few movies to boot.

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Seeing "pink elephants" is a euphemism for the potentially fatal condition called delirium tremens (DT's), also known as seeing (purple) snakes or (blue) rats, the jitterbugs, the shakes, etc. Heupink & Bloemen Tabak, a Dutch tobacco company, makes Pink Elephant cigarettes.

They are vanilla flavoured, are rolled in hot pink coloured cigarette paper and are apparently a popular seller in France. They also make chocolate flavoured ones called Black Devils. The idiom "pink elephant in a room" means that although there is a huge problem or issue present amongst a group, the group chooses to deal with petty things and ignore the obvious truth as if it doesn't exist (similar in meaning to a "gorilla" in the room).

Answer: a flawed diamond

The diamond had a colour flaw, which upon magnification and a specific illumination, supposedly looked somewhat like a leaping panther. David Niven's character name was Sir Charles Lytton, a debonair cat burglar who intended to steal the diamond. His criminal alias was "The Phantom". While a pink Cadillac is definitely a "gem", one did not make an appearance in the movie. Many people seem to think the Pink Panther is the Clouseau character, but that is not the case in the original plot.

Answer: Pinkerton Detective Agency

The Pinkerton Detective Agency was formed by Allan Pinkerton in 1852. Above their motto "We Never Sleep" was a graphic logo of "the all seeing eye", which gave rise to the term "private eye". Pinkerton agents were hired to track down many "infamous" outlaws of the time, including Frank/Jesse James, the Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy/The Sundance Kid.

Much of Pinkerton's methodology was adopted by the FBI when it was first formed. The nickname of the London Metropolitan Police is "Scotland Yard". It is also called "the Met", to differentiate it from the other two police services that operate in the London area. FBI agents are called "G-Men" (short for "Government Men"), a nickname supposedly coined by the gangster "Machine Gun" Kelly circa 1933. Members of the R.C.M.P. are called "Mounties".

Their dress uniforms are scarlet, not pink.

Answer: Mary Kay

In 1968, Mary Kay purchased a Cadillac and had it custom painted to match a cosmetic colour "Mountain Laurel Pink Blush". Later she decided to reward her top sellers with pink Cadillacs. These days, in the US, the reward vehicles are leased, not given outright, and do not have to be pink.

In other places in the world, they are still pink, but not necessarily Cadillacs ... for example, in Japan it's a pink Toyota, in Argentina it's a pink Ford, in the UK/Netherlands/Germany/Spain it's a pink Mercedes Benz.

The cosmetic company Mary Kay Inc. was founded in 1963. Estimated annual revenue in 2008 was somewhere around $2 billion USD.

Answer: Carnations

Pinks, Carnations and Sweet William all belong to the genus Dianthus. Pinks actually come in a variety of hues, not just pink. Their common name comes not from their colour, but from their characteristic serrated petal edges (as if they were cut with pinking shears). The flowers of most plants of the Dianthus group have a clove-like spicy aroma and are a wonderful addition to any garden.

Answer: wearing a red hunting jacket

"Formerly no man might hunt even on his own estate until he had a license of free warren from the Crown. Consequently he merely hunted by the pleasure of the crown, taking part in what was an exclusively Royal Sport by Royal permission. And for this Royal sport, he wore the King's livery of scarlet." - Michael J O'Shea, James Joyce and Heraldry (SUNY 1986, p. 69). "Pinks" was (and still is) the nickname for the red jackets worn in fox hunting. If you were "in the pink" it meant you had demonstrated excellent horsemanship and hunting skills and had earned the right to wear the jacket.

Answer: Jeanne Crain

It was a brave film, considering the year it was made. Ethel Barrymore was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal as Ms. Em, but did not win. Jeanne Crain played the lead role of Patricia "Pinky" Johnson and was nominated for Best Actress, but also did not win. Ethel Waters played Pinky's grandmother. Olivia de Havilland won the Best Actress Award in 1949 for the movie "The Heiress".

Answer: Shirley Muldowney

Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney has been called perhaps the most famous female driver of all time. Her hot pink dragster was her trademark signature - which most male drivers in the "macho" world of racing probably found intimidating, as not only were they being beaten by a woman, but a woman in a pink car! Shirley retired from drag racing at the remarkable age of 63. Reinhold Joest drove a Porsche 917-20 in the 1971 Le Mans.

The car was nicknamed the "Pink Pig" because of its body shape and the pale pink colour of its paint and is now in the new Porsche museum in Stuttgart. Danica Patrick, the first woman to win an Indy event (the Indy Japan 300, in 2008), is as well known for her modelling as her racing.

While she doesn't drive a pink racecar, I'm sure she looks very good in pink. Believe it or not, Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s very first racecar, with the number "K-2", was a 1956 Ford Victoria painted in a sickly salmon pink colour (a result of a purple paint job that went horribly wrong and he couldn't afford to have it repainted at the time).