Colors by Letter

Name these colors. To help, we give you the first letter.

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First submitted	May 20, 2012
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Average score	53.5%
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		Color
	A	Auburn
	B	Blue
	B	Beige
	B	Black
	B	Brown
	C	Cerise
	C	Cerulean
	C	Chartreuse
	C	Crimson
	C	Cyan
	E	Eggplant

		Color
	F	Fuchsia
	G	Gold
	G	Gray
	G	Green
	I	Indigo
	L	Lavender
	M	Magenta
	M	Maroon
	M	Mauve
	N	Navy blue
	O	Ochre

		Color
	O	Olive
	O	Orange
	P	Periwinkle
	P	Pink
	P	Puce
	P	Purple
	R	Red
	R	Russet
	S	Salmon
	S	Scarlet
	S	Sepia

		Color
	S	Sienna
	S	Silver
	T	Tan
	T	Taupe
	T	Teal
	T	Turquoise
	U	Ultramarine
	V	Violet
	W	White
	Y	Yellow

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100 Recent Comments

Level 49

Feb 13, 2016

Accept claret for crimson?

Level 69

May 8, 2016

Carmine should be also be accepted for Crimson. Same goes for Lilac for Lavender.

Level 36

Jul 7, 2016

43/43 with 5 seconds left lol

Level 55

Aug 31, 2016

Didn't know eggplant was a color. Good quiz!

Level 82

Aug 31, 2016

Well I did better than average, so I'm fairly sure I'm not colour blind. Still missed some obvious ones.

Level 72

Jun 19, 2019

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.

Level 69

Aug 31, 2016

Got so caught up in figuring out the hard ones that I missed pink. PINK

Level 49

Aug 31, 2016

This quiz would be impossible without the first letters! Thanks, QM!

Level 58

Aug 31, 2016

i kept spelling "Maroon" as "Marron" because I'm a moron. Still, 34 ain't bad.

Level 60

Jun 8, 2018

You’re such a maroon moron. We should maroon you on maroon moron’s island with it’s maroon coloured sand and what not. Moron.

Level 74

Aug 31, 2016

I hate this quiz. Signed, partially colourblind user.

Level 60

Aug 31, 2016

I'm sure any colorblind person hates this quiz.

Level 72

Jun 19, 2019

seeing the colours hardly helped. The letters were more helpfull.

Level 55

Aug 31, 2016

Lol ... I missed red.

Level 96

Sep 4, 2016

No skobeloff? Zaffre? Scarcoline?

Level 74

Sep 4, 2016

Didn't get white. I thought there was no W answer. The color looked blank. Didn't even try.

Level 93

Jan 2, 2017

"Oh that's puce." If someone can get that reference then they are awesome

Level 75

Mar 9, 2017

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.

Level 24

Feb 8, 2017

FULL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, my brother helped me

hi hi

Level 70

May 25, 2017

Who's your brother........ Banksy?

Level 73

Mar 9, 2017

Coral for Crimson?

Level 51

Mar 9, 2017

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

Level 43

Mar 9, 2017

And to think, these only actually exist in our minds...Black and white aren't colors.

Level 64

May 25, 2017

I have never heard of Cerise, Cerulean or Russet before. And I know more colours than this. I'm surprised jade or cobalt weren't on this quiz...

Level 65

May 26, 2017

Eggplant??? Really?

Level 72

Jun 19, 2019

Or aubergine on the other side of the pond ;)

Level 85

Jul 18, 2024

I'm American, and usually refer to the vegetable as 'eggplant,' and the color as 'aubergine.' Guess that makes me weird.

Level 32

May 26, 2017

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?

Level 16

Aug 23, 2017

i'm american how do you pronounce that word?

Level 44

Jul 8, 2018

aw-burr-jean

Level 70

Dec 29, 2018

O Ber Gene

Level 72

Jun 19, 2019

o bur sjien

And I just found out that the word aubergine actually comes from the arabic word for eggplant ! Now that is new :)

Level 43

Jun 10, 2022

It's actually pronounced baa-thin-jaan(باثنجان) in Arabic :)

Level 59

Sep 28, 2021

A bit like 195 countries call it Football and the US calls it Soccer. You have your own words for stuff. Eggplant is one of these.

Level 28

May 26, 2017

when you get sepia, russet and cerise but miss purple and pink

Level 45

May 26, 2017

Seriously, the worst color chips ever. Even taking into account every monitor is different, some of them are SUPER WAY OFF. :(

Level 83

Jun 18, 2019

Yeah... Could you state your source, Quizmaster? Then we'd know where to direct our anger. ;-) Perhaps you could redo this quiz using Pantone chips?

Level ∞

Jun 18, 2019

Wikipedia. Pantone colors aren't going to show up the same on every monitor.

Level 16

Aug 23, 2017

Scoring

You scored 39/43 = 91%.

This beats or equals 98.6% of test takers

Level 35

Oct 2, 2017

The Chartreuse one can also be Canary Yellow.

Level 46

Oct 12, 2017

auburn and cyan on your colors dont look real

Level 60

Dec 11, 2017

I think having one colour per letter would be better than an imbalance where some letters have 4 colours and others have 1

Level 72

Jun 19, 2019

Yea it discrimination

Level 61

Mar 16, 2023

This way there's a more gradual distribution. That would cause the quiz to appeal much more to harder audiences and would be a bit discouraging to less color-wise quizzers.

Level 37

Mar 31, 2018

Mispelled Grey!

Level 21

Apr 8, 2018

you could add vermillion for red...I don't think that's too obscure?

Level 72

Jun 19, 2019

Yea I knew a red one was missing, coulndt think of the word during the quiz

Level 25

Apr 22, 2018

I...... f-forgot pink......

Level 81

Apr 22, 2018

We have aubergine in UK, not eggplant - and they're not that colour :)

Level 71

Jan 14, 2019

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 . . .

Level 71

Jun 18, 2019

Yeah, Taupe looks like olive. Orange looks gold. Mauve looks lavender. But most are great.

Level 45

Jan 29, 2019

I remember when there was a crayon color called "skin color"

Level 77

Apr 4, 2019

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.

Level 46

May 19, 2021

Wait, the "sKiN cOlOr" crayon wasn't just in a slightly controversial Studio C sketch?

Level 47

Apr 8, 2019

My memorizing crayon names at 5 years old finally pays off!!!

Level 85

Apr 24, 2019

Thanks to Tim Rice and Joseph for russet :)

Level 81

Jun 18, 2019

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....

Level 64

Jun 18, 2019

Chartreuse looks far too yellowish.

Level 44

Jun 19, 2019

I missed brown -_-

Level 49

Jan 30, 2020

Wow. Got 30 and only bad miss was navy

Level 18

Feb 20, 2020

I got Sienna first... hmm I wonder why

Level 72

Jan 18, 2021

Maybe you ve watched Bob Ross?

Level 85

Sep 26, 2021

Bob Ross gave me sienna, but cost me hwite.

Level 44

Mar 10, 2020

Hm, couldn't you add a D color with the yellowish-green color Dandelion

Level 59

Nov 2, 2020

Why is Ruby not on here? I thought that was what the red one was.

Level 58

Feb 27, 2021

I would like to thank Pokemon for helping me get "cerulean" :>

Level 67

Mar 30, 2021

I was surprised I didn't see any Pokemon comments until yours, it was the first thing I thought of

Level 85

Sep 26, 2021

I'd have to thank "The Devil Wears Prada" for getting cerulean.

Level 54

Mar 22, 2021

😑 I can't believe I missed magenta...😑😑😑

Level 69

Mar 30, 2021

If Eggplant had been put in as E or A I probably would have got it. Aubergine!!

Level 22

Apr 30, 2021

I got all easyyyy lesss gooo

Level 58

Jul 17, 2021

whats ur fav colour?

Level 69

Jul 27, 2021

Level 60

Aug 25, 2021

Rust for R?

Level 44

Sep 26, 2021

White is shown black if you are using dark mode

Level ∞

Sep 26, 2021

Fixed. Hope you are liking the new dark mode!

Level 78

Sep 26, 2021

Wikipedia customer service are very helpful and friendly!

Level 70

Sep 27, 2021

Yes, Customer Service was very satisfactory

Level 66

Mar 15, 2024

Never let me down so far...

Level 80

Sep 26, 2021

What is the difference between plum & puce?

Level 57

Sep 27, 2021

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.

Level 48

Sep 28, 2021

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.

Level 57

Sep 29, 2021

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.

Level 68

Sep 28, 2021

Couldn't get through to the Wikipedia Customer Service team. I won't give up.

Level 68

Sep 28, 2021

Fun quiz. Though I think taupe is not that colour.

Level 89

Oct 30, 2021

Any goofy color name like cerulean, chartreuse, mauve, fuschia, puce, I just assume is pink or purple and forget about it.

Level 85

Dec 5, 2021

Cherry should be accepted for cerise as it is the English translation of the French word.

Level 81

Dec 16, 2021

Do you also want Turkish for Turquoise?

Level 89

Jan 23, 2022

Seeing as cherry red is a far more common color description than cerise...

Level 53

Mar 22, 2022

34/43... Some mention-able colors that I missed included navy, teal, and turquoise... we don't talk about that...

Level 57

Jan 18, 2023

Turqouis was apparently wrong, can this spelling be added?

Level 20

Feb 16, 2023

These colors don't seem to match up with the colors Google says lol

Level ∞

Sep 25, 2024

Try contacting Wikipedia. Maybe they can fix it for you.

Level 54

May 2, 2023

you should add different shades for each color. as an example, violet could be #710080 or #da6eeb which look completely different

Level 64

Jul 2, 2023

1 minute silence for everyone who clicked the wikipedia link...

Level 76

Sep 24, 2023

What about cobalt or cornflower instead of cerulean?

Level 46

Feb 7, 2024

Accept Kobe for Sienna?

Level 66

Mar 15, 2024

took me forever. Hard quiz.

Level 55

Mar 15, 2024

31/43! Still mad that I missed Violet.

Level 43

Sep 10, 2024

I knew that the Wikipedia customer service thing was gonna be rick astley

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