Pantone Colors - "C" Trivia Quiz

Hex code #ff0eee9

Although clouds look light and fluffy, they actually contain millions of kilograms of water. It's the fact that the water is in tiny droplets that they can be suspended in the slightly denser air.

Hex code #bc4869

"Carmine" has been used as a color name as early as 1799. It is derived from Medieval Latin "carminium", meaning crimson.

The red colorant carmine was extracted from dead female insects such as Kermes Vermilio.

Hex code #44bbca

This color is named for the color of the Mediterranean Sea (specifcally the Blue Grotto) on the Italian island of Capri.

Hex code #009288

"Columbia" (sometimes Colombia) is a common name used by cities, towns, and companies. It's derived from the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, whose exploration voyages in the late 15th century opened the way for European colonization of the Americas.

Hex code #cb3373

A cabaret is a style of entertainment performed on stage at a nightclub or restaurant.

"Cabaret" is a 1972 American musical/drama film, directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey. It won eight Academy Awards. The color is one of a spectrum of colors on this movie's advertising poster.

Hex code #f3774d

Carrots are a root vegetable of the family Apiaceae. Carrots are typically orange in color due to their beta-carotene content. Heirloom varieties may be white, red, black, yellow, or purple.

Carrots were cultivated from wild carrots, which are native to Europe and southwestern Asia.

Hex code #702f3b

Besides the color named cordovan, it also is the name of a breed of honey bee, a type of leather, and is the demonym of anything from places named Córdoba.

Hex code #3272af

Campanula is the type genus of the Campanulaceae family of flowering plants. Campanula are commonly known as bellflowers and take both their common and scientific names from the bell-shaped flowers-campanula is Latin for "little bell". Typical flowers in this genus are blue to purple in color.

Hex code #53713d

Cactus (plural cacti) are plants of the family Cactaceae. Most are succulents, having fleshy parts adapted to store water. There are 127 genera with 1,750 known species.

Hex code #f7cee0

Cherry blossoms are the pink flowers of cherry trees. Once pollenated, the cherry fruit grows from the base of the flower.

Thousands of Japanese cherry trees were gifted to Washington, D.C., by Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City in 1912. They were planted around the Tidal Basin of the Potomac River in the District of Columbia. Their spring blooming is celebrated every year with the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

On December 11, 1941, four days after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, HI, four trees were cut down by vandals. This is presumedly in retaliation for the Pearl Harbor attack, though this is never proven. For the duration of World War II, the trees around the Tidal Basin were referred to as Oriental flowering cherry trees. The Cherry Blossom Festival was suspended throughout the war years, then resumed in 1947.

Hex code #ed7464

The orange-ish color coral is representative of the cnidarians known as precious corals.

The first recorded use of "coral" as a color name in English was in 1513.

Hex code #006380

Celestial is a term that refers to the sky or to the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere. The deep blue color is reminiscent of the sky's color before sunrise or after sunset.

The Celestials are fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Depicted as cosmic beings, they debuted in the Bronze Age of Comic Books and have reappeared on numerous occasions.

Hex code #b8af23

Citronella oil is an essential oil that has a yellow-green tint. It is used as a plant-based insect repellent. It is classified by the US Enviromental Protection Agency as a biopesticide with non-toxic mode of action.

Hex code #656344

Colors called olive are typically a muted shade of green. It is used as a color of military equipment because it can camouflage easily in areas with widespread plant cover.

Olives trees are among the oldest fruit trees domesticated by humans. The fruit has a deep historical, cultural, and economic significance in the Mediterranean region.

Hex code #9c453b

Cinnabar is a mineral of mercury sulfide (HgS) which has coloring from brick-red to scarlet. It was used historically as the source of the pigment vermilion. Because of its mercury content (making it toxic), vermillion was replaced with cadmium red. Since this too is toxic, it has been proposed to replace cadmium red with solid solutions of perovskites (CaTaO2N and LaTaON2).

Cinnabar is the most common ore for refining elemental mercury.