General Awareness

Color Theory and Symbolism

1,525 Questions

Color theory and symbolism examine primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, alongside their psychological and cultural meanings. Questions also cover color spaces, photography, and optical properties. This specialized topic appears in design, architecture, and general intelligence sections of various competitive exams.

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Color Theory and Symbolism Questions

Multiple choice

What colors are on the kinara and mkeke?

  1. black, red, green

  2. red, white, blue
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The colors of Kwanzaa are black, red, and green. These colors are represented on the kinara (candle holder) and the mkeke (mat).

Multiple choice bio-chemistry inborn errors of metabolism haemophilia and colour blindness non infectious diseases keeping diseases away

A daughter will not normally be colourblind, unless her mother is ...... and her father is ....

  1. Carrier, colour blind

  2. Colour blind, normal

  3. Colour blind, carrier

  4. Carrier, carrier
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Daughters inherit x chromosomes of father & mother respectively since one x chromosome masks the effect of another x chromosome, a daughter will only be colourblind if her mother is a carrier & father is colorblind.

So, the correct option is 'Carrier, colour blind'.

Multiple choice digital painting tux paint physics

When you start paint what are the different foreground and background color?

  1. White and White

  2. White and Black

  3. Black and White

  4. Black and Black
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

MS Paint use black as foreground and white as background colour.

Foreground colour is the beginning colour of a default gradient applied by the gradient tool.
Background colour is the colour you apply with the eraser tool and is the ending colour of the default gradient.

Multiple choice digital painting tux paint physics

When you increase the size of the drawing area what will the color of the increased area be?

  1. The color of the existing drawing area

  2. White

  3. Black

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The colour of the increased area be the colour of the existing drawing area when you increase the size of the drawing area.

Multiple choice

What is the color of a young flamingo?

  1. pink

  2. white

  3. orange

  4. gray
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Flamingos are not born pink; they acquire their characteristic color from the pigments in the crustaceans and algae they eat as they mature.

Multiple choice electromagnetic spectrum electromagnetic waves physics

Mark the correct option in impure spectrum :

  1. Order of colours is reverse

  2. Order of colours is irregular

  3. colours are overlapped

  4. no colours is present
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

For impure spectrum:

  1. The order of colours is are straight, hence option a is false
  2. Order of colours are regular
  3. Colours are overlapped each other in impure spectrum
  4. Colours are present in impure spectrum
Hence option C is the correct statement according to the impure spectrum

Multiple choice evs magic with mirrors kaleidoscope uses of plane mirror reflected light can be reflected again

When does the tumbling of coloured objects presents varying colours and patterns in kaleidoscope?

  1. When kaleidoscope tube is stood erect
  2. When kaleidoscope tube is tilted at $180^0$

  3. When kaleidoscope tube is rotated

  4. When kaleidoscope tube is inverted
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

When kaleidoscope tube is rotated then it forms different varying patterns and colours.

Multiple choice evs light and shadow nature and sources of light how light travels path of light elementary ideas of astronomy

The colour of a green leaf, when white light passing through a yellow filter is applied on it is:

  1. black

  2. yellow

  3. red

  4. green
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A yellow filter allows only yellow colour to pass through it. A leaf looks green because leaf reflects green colour and absorbs the rest. Thus, the yellow light passing through the filter will be absorbed by the green leaf. Thus, no colour will be reflected by the leaf making it appear black.

Multiple choice botany flower to flower flower: parts of a flower flower and pollination calyx and corolla importance of pollination

Colour of night blooming flowers is usually.

  1. Violet to purple

  2. Red

  3. Yellow

  4. Whitish
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Most of the night flowers are white emerges better in low light conditions. Hence making it simpler for insects to discover. As they bloom at night the plant does not have to waste resources producing coloured pigments to attract the day insects. Night blossoming blooms are ordinarily and vigorously scented. Then it goes about as an attractant for nighttime insects and mammals.

Thus the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice newton's colour disc light and the formation of shadows physics

How many colours comprises white light?

  1. infinite

  2. seven

  3. three

  4. fourteen
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

White light comprises of seven colours- Violet, Indigo, Blue. Green, Yellow, Orange , Red. 

So, when white light consisting  of seven colors falls on a transparent medium (glass prism) , each color in it is refracted ( or deviated ) by a different angle , with the result that seven colors are spread out to form a spectrum, The red color is deviated least , so it forms the upper part of the spectrum . On the other hand, violet color is deviated the maximum, so violet appears at the bottom of the spectrum.