What is yellow?
A: Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of visible
light
It is evoked by light with what dominant wavelength?
A: Roughly 575–585 nm.
It is a primary color in what?
A: Subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing.
In the RGB color model, used to create colors on
television and computer screens, yellow is a what?
A: A secondary color made by combining red and green at equal intensity.
Carotenoids give the characteristic yellow color to
what?
A: Autumn leaves, corn, canaries, daffodils, and lemons, as well as egg
yolks, buttercups, and bananas.
They absorb light energy and protect plants from what?
A: Photo damage in some cases.
Sunlight has a slight yellowish hue when the Sun is
near what?
A: The horizon, due to atmospheric scattering of shorter wavelengths (green,
blue, and violet).
Because it was widely available, yellow ochre pigment
was one of the first colors used in what?
A: Art.
The Lascaux cave in France has a painting of a yellow
what, 17,000 years old?
A: Horse.
Ochre and orpiment pigments were used to represent what
in Egyptian tombs?
A: Gold and skin color.
In the early Christian church, yellow was the color
associated with what?
A: The Pope and the golden keys of the Kingdom.
It was also associated with Judas Iscariot and used for
what?
A: To mark heretics.
In the 20th century, Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe were
forced to wear what?
A: A yellow star.
In China, bright yellow was the color of what?
A: The Middle Kingdom.
It could be worn only by whom?
A: The emperor and his household.
Special guests were welcomed on what?
A: A yellow carpet.
According to surveys in Europe, Canada, the United
States and elsewhere, yellow is the color people most often associate with
what?
A: Amusement, gentleness, humor, happiness, and spontaneity, but also with
duplicity, envy, jealousy, greed, and, in the U.S., cowardice.
In Iran it has connotations of what?
A: Pallor/sickness, but also wisdom and connection.
In China and many Asian countries, it is seen as the
color of what?
A: Happiness, glory, harmony and wisdom.
