color
Screens create colors by combining red, green, and blue light. This topic is part of Optics within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 7 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
color trivia questions
Which three colors are the additive primary colors of light?
Answer: Red, green, and blue
Bonus fact: Screens create colors by combining red, green, and blue light.
What color is produced by mixing red and green light in equal amounts?
Answer: Yellow
Bonus fact: In additive color mixing, red plus green light produces yellow.
What cells in the human retina are primarily responsible for color vision?
Answer: Cones
Bonus fact: Cone cells respond to different ranges of wavelengths and enable color vision.
Mahogany is especially valued for its rich reddish-brown what?
Answer: Color
Bonus fact: Its color and workability made it popular in fine woodworking.
Coral bleaching makes corals lose much of their what?
Answer: Color
Bonus fact: Bleached corals appear pale or white.
Color television added what to images that black-and-white television lacked?
Answer: Color
Bonus fact: Color broadcasting became widespread in the 1960s and 1970s.
"Equinox Flower" is notable in Ozu's career because it was his first film made in what format?
Answer: Color
Bonus fact: Ozu continued using color in several of his later films.