| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| A small finch which is yellow in the wild (but bred to be various colours). | Canary | 78%
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| This dessert (or sauce) can be made from milk, eggs and vanilla. | Custard | 78%
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| This acid bright yellow matches the element also known as brimstone. | Sulphur or Sulfur | 78%
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| Found in meadows, a flower in the Ranunculaceae family. | Buttercup | 56%
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| A brownish-yellow earth pigment can be found in prehistoric cave art. | Ochre or Ocher | 56%
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| Donovan sang about this rhyming colour in the 1960s. | Mellow | 44%
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| This dye is obtained from the flowers of crocuses. | Saffron | 44%
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| This yellow-green colour means 'lemon' in French | Citron | 33%
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| This cheerful yellow might remind you of the photons streaming from our star. | Sunshine | 33%
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| This yellow used to give lovely colours to ceramics and glass, but it's radioactive. | Uranium | 33%
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| A spring flower, with a rosette of very wrinkled leaves (Primula vulgaris). | Primrose | 22%
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| This pale yellow is the same colour as the cut dry stalks of cereal plants. | Straw | 22%
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| This type of yellow is an artists' pigment (and compound of a heavy metal). | Cadmium or Cobalt | 11%
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| Derived from a tree resin, this dyes Buddhist monk's robes their distinctive hue. | Gamboge | 0%
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