get a new one and then retake the quiz. it is seriously that simple and easy. have your granddaughter stop by circuit city and get you one... thats what i did the other day... 20 years ago hahaha!!!! oh man.. time flies.... sheesh, were all getting so old!!!!
Yes some colors seem way off. But I think that might be a cultural/regional thing. That is for instance definitely not what we would call beige. I see an offwhite/ivory color but we use beige for a color closer to what is called tan here. Brown grey sandy color. Mix of tan and silver here perhaps. The one here I would call creme, ivory, eggshell or something else that is off white.
Another example is violet, we don't use it for pink, but a more purple color.
I also guessed 23 and I mean guessed. I can't tell green from purple. I just started typing in words that I have heard other people use to describe colors and the first letters helped. That's why I don't even attempt the flag quizzes.
Actually, you can. This is where all color words (with the exception of "red", which predates the English language) come from. "Orange" is named for the fruit. "Green" is named for the open area in the middle of a village. etc.
Really all the names come frome somewhere, some were just named more recent or are still more recognisable than others. I am not gonna go through the etymolgy of all of them ( but a few years ago I looked them all up) But some come from the regions some people heard or saw it from (like it happens with foodstuff too) and sometimes after the substance it was made from.
Crimson/carmine for instance are named after the insects it is made from. And it is also used as foodcoloring.. so if you eat food with E120 you are eating crushed scale insects..
Lots of those colors I don't know (like puce and cerise, which should at least look cherry red but doesn't even seem to), but I should have thought of teal by myself and probably sepia too. And I lyped "lilac" three times but couldn't think of anything else. Lavendar. Ugh.
They don't match the colours much, but something yellow-ish with a C or pink-ish with an F is a good enough clue for me. Just.. I think lavender should be a bit darker? It's hardly distinguishable from white.
Anyway I had fun and actually I have *heard* of those colours before!
Could "cadmium (yellow)" be accepted for chartreuse? It's also a yellow colour that starts with a C.
I gave up after 10 and then i just copied everything that everyone put in their comments, which boosted me up to 29! Thanks guys! Btw they need to change gold to make it look more realistic.
This was always going to be tricky one. The colour representation on different screens is wide open to interpretation. The chartreuse looks yellow on mine, and the ultramarine looks exactly the same as the navy blue.
if you are colour blind you cant see the difference between green and red (generally), so it is most likely that you would ve found out much earlier in life.
I remembered a Tide commercial from the '70s which talked about the mom's school colors of pomegranate and puce. I'd never heard of puce at the time and had to look it up. Turns out it is just a "grayer" form of pomegranate.
Great quiz, enjoyed it. I hear the comments about the exact shade but was close enough for me and you gave us the first letter to help, anyway. Nice one
I had to google what an 'eggplant' was and couldn't believe that that's what Americans call aubergines! Eggplants?! Wtf - where did they get that from?
Taupe seems totally completely wrong to me. And I disagree slightly with a lot of your shades and tones slightly but they all seem close enough and it was a fun quiz.
For me, ultramarine and cerulean are color words I never use but, even though I didn't get them: auburn, eggplant, chartreuse, and more . . . all legit. Just that taupe . . .
I remember the revelation at age 6 or so that we could also call it 'peach' and feel more dignified/non-racist, although one person still called it 'the colour of your skin' (only ever to white people, in my limited experience). This contrived and uninteresting anecdote is why I want 'peach' accepted for pink, and add a pink that looks more like your fuchsia.
I'm finally forgetting the chorus, apparently (30 years later). It was one of 5 that I missed - I knew there was a section I was dropping out and that was in there. But I tried scarlet, black, ochre and peach right in line.... 3 out of 4 ain't bad....
I can’t believe I actually got 29 on this one! Usually I don’t do very good on “common knowledge” quizzes. I did some painting a couple years back which helped me get some of the more uncommon ones like ultramarine and ochre.
Eggplant is generally a term only used in the USA. Aubergine is the term used by most of the world. It should probably be accepted as an answer. Side notes - Often clothing will be described even in the USA as "aubergine" - sounds fancier than eggplant. Also, Eggplant/Aubergine varieties come in many different colors, white, black, purple skinned and probably some other colors I am not aware of.
I agree. I was born and raised in the US, and have lived here all of my life. I've never even been to another country. And I was stumped on the "E" color until I realized that the color was aubergine and remembered that aubergine is called that because it's the name of the food that we call eggplant. I've eaten eggplant, but I've never, ever bought an "eggplant" sweater.
Another example is violet, we don't use it for pink, but a more purple color.
HAH! I looked it up and there is a cat breed called chartreux.. and it is.... grey(-blue) !! Like the russian blue :)
Guess my mind got it from somewhere !!
Rainbow Dash will be disappointed!
Really all the names come frome somewhere, some were just named more recent or are still more recognisable than others. I am not gonna go through the etymolgy of all of them ( but a few years ago I looked them all up) But some come from the regions some people heard or saw it from (like it happens with foodstuff too) and sometimes after the substance it was made from.
Crimson/carmine for instance are named after the insects it is made from. And it is also used as foodcoloring.. so if you eat food with E120 you are eating crushed scale insects..
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Ehhh...go figure.
Anyway I had fun and actually I have *heard* of those colours before!
Could "cadmium (yellow)" be accepted for chartreuse? It's also a yellow colour that starts with a C.
OK, my brother helped me
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And I just found out that the word aubergine actually comes from the arabic word for eggplant ! Now that is new :)
You scored 39/43 = 91%.
This beats or equals 98.6% of test takers
For me, ultramarine and cerulean are color words I never use but, even though I didn't get them: auburn, eggplant, chartreuse, and more . . . all legit. Just that taupe . . .