Color Me Purple Part 10: Purple Reigns Quiz

Answer: Art Modell

Modell purchased the Cleveland Browns in 1961, but changes were needed to the stadium three decades later. Originally he had planned to move the Browns franchise to Maryland, but after some legal maneuvering, that brand remained with Cleveland. Instead a new franchise was started in 1996. The name Ravens was selected after much polling of fans. The team colors are black, purple and metallic gold.

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Answer: Fiorentina

Founded in 1926, ACF Fiorentina is Florence's professional football club. The team adopted its distinctive purple colours in 1929; the player's shirts were originally red and white, the colours of Florence's coat of arms, representing a red fleur-de-lis on a white field. The fleur-de-lis is also used as the club's badge - hence the team's other nickname of "I Gigliati" (those that wear the lily). Fiorentina's stadium, located outside the city centre, in the neighbourhood named Campo di Marte, was built in 1931, and is dedicated to Artemio Franchi, a former president of the Italian Football
Federation.

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Answer: Fremantle Dockers

The Freemantle Football Club, founded in 1994 as the Dockers. They play AFL, which is known more familiarly as Aussie Rules, an Australian specific game which came into being in 1896. Although the club and training grounds were indeed once based at Freemantle in Western Australia, 19km south of Perth, the club and training grounds are now based in Cockburn Central in Perth.

Matches are played between two teams of eighteen players. Players are not allowed to run while holding onto the ball, but must bounce it on the ground as they gallop up and down the field. That oddly shaped ball isn't a nice round ball at all, but more oval in shape with pointed ends, and when bounced it has a tendency to bounce anywhere but straight back up. Players are also not allowed to be caught while in possession of the ball. Another unusual feature of this game takes place at the start of each game. The umpire bounces the ball on the ground between the teams, and two ruckman (usually the tallest in the teams) leap up into the air as high as they can go - as they battle to get possession of that oval shaped piece of leather. This has led to Aussie Rules being given the nickname by tougher League and Union players, of "aerial Ping-Pong".

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Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

From an early age Queen Elizabeth displayed a keen interest and love of horses, which was hardly surprising as both of her parents were similarly enthusiastic. As time passed, this developed into a passion to breed thoroughbred horses for competition in the world of horse racing. The Queen's registered colours for her jockey's racing silks are a purple bodied jacket with scarlet sleeves and gold braiding, together with a black velvet cap with a gold fringe.

Horses owned by the Queen have won in excess of 1600 races including each of the British Classic Races, with the exception of the Epsom Derby. In the Derby her closest finish was provided by the racehorse Aureole, which finished in second place in 1953, the year of the Queen's coronation.

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Answer: Colorado Rockies

In the previous season season, the Rockies had a losing record, but turned it around with a 90-73 record and a National League Wild Card in 2007. To get into the playoffs, the team needed to win 13 of its last 14 regular season games, including a one-game tie-breaker series against the San Diego Padres. The Rockies followed that by sweeping the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League Divisional Series and the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League Championship Series. The luck of the Rockies ran out in the World Series where Colorado was swept by the Boston Red Sox.

While Colorado's uniforms usually have purple as an accent color, an alternate uniform has a Jersey with the main color of purple.

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Answer: Liverpool

Liverpool fans' opinions were divided over the 2018-2019 kit; some fans likened it to the purple bins seen around Liverpool! Goalkeeper Simon Mignolet also sported a purple kit in the 2014-2015 season.

Anfield is Liverpool's home ground. Mohamed Salah is an Egyptian international who signed for Liverpool from Roma in 2016. He won the award for BBC African Player of the Year in 2017 and 2018. Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk was signed from Southampton in 2018, and proved to be a key figure in strengthening Liverpool's defence. Trent Alexander-Arnold, meanwhile, is a homegrown Academy player from West Derby in Liverpool.

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Answer: Toronto Raptors

When the Raptors joined the NBA as an expansion team, their colours included purple for their road uniforms, which also sported a cartoon dinosaur wearing sneakers. In 1999 the road jersey had a purple front and black back, and by 2007 purple was dropped entirely in favour of a red and black colour scheme. Given their name when the movie "Jurassic Park" was popular, the team's loyal fans have been known to gather in an area outside the team's home court to cheer on their team both for home and away games. That area has been dubbed Jurassic Park, of course.

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Answer: Hobart Hurricanes

The Big Bash League is a Twenty20 competition involving eight teams, conducted over the Australian summer (December to February). Teams are composed of a combination of Australian and (some) overseas players. Because the competition overlaps the international competitions, most players are either still making themselves known, or older players who are not selected for the national team, but who have proven ability as cricketers. Many fans enjoy the chance to see a familiar face from days gone by.

The eight teams that have been in the competition since its inception (with uniform colour shown) are: Adelaide Strikers (blue), Brisbane Heat (teal), Hobart Hurricanes (purple), Perth Scorchers (orange), Melbourne Renegades (red), Melbourne Stars (green), Sydney sixers (pink) and Sydney Thunder (electric green).

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Answer: Los Angeles Lakers

The Lakers were founded in the state called the "land of 10,000 lakes". They never changed their name when they moved to Los Angeles, California. The team's official colors are purple, gold and white.

Adding in LeBron James, who was fourth on the all-time points leader board at the end of the season, made it so that the top four, and six of the top 10 scorers of all time had played for the Lakers for at least one season in their careers. At the end of the 2018-19 season, the career scoring list saw Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, and James as the top four. Wilt Chamberlain (6th) and Shaquille O'Neal (10th) were also in the top 10 at that time.

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Answer: California Chrome

A chestnut-colored horse stallion named for his flashy white markings (called "chrome"), California Chrome was American Horse of the Year in 2014 and 2016. By the time he won the 2014 Santa Anita Derby, California Chrome had developed a dedicated fan base known as "Chromies" who were invited into the winner's circle. He won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes that year, but lost the Belmont Stakes (and therefore the Triple Crown), possibly due to an injury to his hoof he sustained at the beginning of the race. The Kentucky Derby victory was named the NTRA "Moment of the Year". California Chrome won the 2014 Secretariat Vox Populi Award given each year to "the horse whose popularity and racing excellence best resounded with the American public and gained recognition for Thoroughbred racing." In 2016 he won the Dubai Cup and set the record for the greatest earnings won by a North American horse.

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