Blue Monday?

#9 Week 3

Author

Sigrun Sørumgård
January 13, 2025

Think you’ve got the blue clue? From blue whales to blueberries, and everything in between, test your knowledge about all things blue!

  1. What was the name of the chess-playing computer that beat world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997?

  2. Which American state is known as The Bluegrass State?

  3. Which actress was just 14 years of age when she appeared in the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon?

  4. What name is the precious gemstone blue corundum better known by?

  5. The Elton John song I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues features which equally as famous musician on harmonica?

  6. Which club in the English football league are nicknamed The Bluebirds?

  7. In which city would you find the Blue Mosque?

  8. Which sheep milk cheese from the south of France is one of the world's best known blue cheeses?

  9. Who wrote the children´s book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish?

  10. In which country does the Blue Nile meet the White Nile?

The Wonder Wall

  • The second most common eye color on Earth is blue. However, only 8 to 10 percent of individuals actually have blue eyes.

  • From what we know, owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.

  • Blue is the world’s favourite colour – it’s above us in the sky and we are surrounded by blue seas and ocean and yet when it comes to blue in nature, it’s the rarest colour.

Yesterday´s Answers

  1. 2, their names are Phobos and Deimos and are named after the horses that pulled Mars’ chariot. They may be captured asteroids. They're potato-shaped because they have too little mass for gravity to make them spherical.

  2. War. Mars was named by the Romans for their god of war because its reddish color was reminiscent of blood. The Egyptians called it "Her Desher," meaning "the red one."

  3. Carbon dioxide

  4. Olympus Mons. Standing a whopping 24 kilometres high, it’s about three times the height of Mount Everest and it´s so large it would cover the state of Arizona!

  5. In 1976.

  6. Mars Pathfinder launched Dec. 4, 1996 and landed on Mars' Ares Vallis on July 4, 1997.

  7. A day on Mars is 24 hours and 37 minutes, only a little bit longer than a day on our own planet. However, a year on Mars is almost twice as long, lasting 687 Earth days! This is because it takes a lot longer than Earth to complete its orbit around the Sun.

  8. It takes approximately 300 days (9-10 months) to travel there from Earth.

  9. The median surface temperature on Mars is -65°C. Because the atmosphere is so thin, heat from the Sun easily escapes Mars. Temperatures on the Red Planet range from the 20s°C to -153°C.

  10. The people of early Mesopotamia studied astronomy as early as 3500 years ago, piqued by their appreciation of mystery and order. The earliest written record we have of Mars, itself, however dates from 3,000 years ago in ancient Babylonia where it was called, Nergal, god of death and pestilence.