Roy G. Biv Trivia Quiz

Answer: Yellowstone National Park

Home of the geyser Old Faithful, Yellowstone was established in 1872 as America's first national park. It is located primarily in Wyoming, but its borders also encompass a small part of both Idaho and Montana. According to the National Park Service website, Yellowstone is home to the majority of the world's geysers.

Blue Ridge is located in North Carolina. Redwood is located in California. Green Springs is located in Virginia.

Answer: In-Violet

Plum Crazy (also named In-violet) was used on Chrysler muscle cars beginning in the 1960s. It has been reintroduced by Dodge.

Other paint colors (or perhaps just their names) said to have been rejected are Catch Me Copper, Gang Green and Frank Lloyd White.

Answer: Erik the Red

Erik the Red's real name was Erik Thorvaldson. He was exiled from Iceland around 980, and founded his colony in Greenland around 986. He is the father of the explorer Leif Eriksson, who was one of the first Europeans to reach North America.

Answer: Blue Suede Shoes

Recorded in 1955, "Blue Suede Shoes' is considered by many to be the first true rock & roll hit, appealing to lovers of many musical styles.

As the story goes, in 1955, Johnny Cash told Perkins of a man he had seen while serving in the Air Force cautioning people not to step on his blue suede shoes. A few days after his conversation with Cash, while performing at a dance in Jackson, Tennessee, Perkins witnessed a man on the dance floor trying to keep his girlfriend off of his blue suede shoes. The following morning, the song is begun in Perkins' head.

He went downstairs and wrote the song on the back of a potato sack, spelling suede "swaed". (From the Rockabilly Hall of Fame)

Answer: Anne of Green Gables

Ms. Montgomery ultimately wrote eight books in this series: "Anne of Green Gables", "Anne of Avonlea", "Anne of the Island", "Anne of Windy Poplars", "Anne's House of Dreams", "Anne of Ingleside", "Rainbow Valley", and "Rilla of Ingleside".

Upon its publication in 1908, "Anne of Green Gables" was an immediate success, selling nearly 20 thousand copies in the first five months and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. The story has been adapted for stage and screen on numerous occasions.

Answer: Orange Blossom Special

The Seaboard Air Line Railroad train known as the Orange Blossom Special ran from New York City to Florida from 1925 to 1953. The brainchild of SAL president S. Davies Warfield, this luxury train was started to lure wealthy and influential people to Florida, thought to be a land of opportunity.

"Orange Blossom Special" was written as a fiddle tune by Ervin T. Rouse and Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise. It was recorded by Bill Monroe in 1942 and by Johnny Cash in 1965.

Answer: Indigofera

Indigofera tinctoria is the plant responsible for the blue known as indigo blue.
Blueberries will produce a purplish color. Logwood will produce a purple color.
Woad will produce a pale to medium blue color. It was used by ancient Celts to paint their bodies blue.

Answer: Redwood Trees

The Avenue of the Giants is a 40 mile stretch of highway running between Garberville and Pepperwood. Located on or near it, you'll find such sights as the Immortal Tree, a near 1,000-year-old redwood that has survived lightning, floods and fire. You can also see the Shrine Drive-Through Tree, a redwood large enough to drive your car right through! It is located in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park.

Answer: Bluegrass State

Bluegrass isn't really blue, it's green. In springtime, bluish-purple buds are produced on the grass that, when seen in large fields, give the appearance of grass that is blue. Early traders to the area began asking for seeds from the blue grass from Kentucky, and the name stuck.

Delaware is called the Blue Hen State because of the fighting Blue Hen cocks carried by Revolutionary War soldiers from Delaware that were used in cockfights for the soldiers' entertainment.

Vermont is known as the Green Mountain State due to its Green Mountains. Makes sense, right? French explorer Samuel de Champlain named the area now known as Vermont "Verd Mont", meaning Green Mountain, on his 1647 map.

California has been called the Golden State since gold was discovered there in 1848.

Answer: Yellow journalism

Led by newspaper owners Joseph Pulitzer (New York World) and William Randolph Hearst (New York Journal), journalism took a turn for the worse in the 1890s. Sensational headlines were used to draw in readers for stories with little or no substance.

Yellow journalism stories were widely blamed for the Spanish-American War. While they were not the sole cause the war, they certainly fueled the public's passion for it. Hearst sent an artist to Cuba to paint atrocities committed there by General Weyler. The artist reported back that the atrocities were overblown, to which Hearst is said to have responded "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war". The papers were soon filled with stories of starving women and children, executions and brave rebel fighters.

The sinking of the battleship "Maine" in Havana Harbor gave Hearst his big story. His newspaper blamed Spain for this, with no evidence, and the U.S. public demanded action.