What is the color white?
A: White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue).
It is the color of objects such as what?
A: Snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black.
White objects fully reflect and scatter all what?
A: Visible wavelengths of light.
White on television and computer screens is created by
a mixture of what?
A: Red, blue, and green light.
The color white can be given with white what?
A: Pigments, especially titanium dioxide.
In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore
white as a symbol of what?
A: Purity.
Romans wore white togas as symbols of what?
A: Citizenship.
In the Middle Ages and Renaissance what did a white
unicorn symbolize?
A: Chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity.
It was the royal color of whom?
A: The kings of France, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the
Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922).
Greek and Roman temples were faced with what?
A: White marble.
Beginning in the 18th century, with the advent of
neoclassical architecture, white became what?
A: The most common color of new churches, capitols and other government
buildings.
It was also widely used in 20th century modern
architecture as a symbol of what?
A: Modernity and simplicity.
According to surveys in Europe and the United States,
white is the color most often associated with what?
A: Perfection, the good, honesty, cleanliness, the beginning, the new,
neutrality, and exactitude.
White is an important color for almost all world what?
A: Religions.
The pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has
worn white since when?
A: Since 1566, as a symbol of purity and sacrifice.
In Islam, and in the Shinto
religion of
Japan, it is
worn by whom?
A: Pilgrims.
In Western cultures and in Japan, white is the most
common color for what kind of dresses?
A: wedding dresses.
In many Asian cultures, white is also the color of
what?
A: Mourning.