Question: How many different words for the varieties of green exist in Latin?
Answer: ten

Question: What color did the Romans attribute to Venus, the goddess of gardens, vegetables, and vineyards?
Answer: green

Question: Why were vegetal green dyes less than ideal?
Answer: they rapidly faded or changed color

Question: When was a good green vegetal dye finally produced?
Answer: 16th century

Question: What was known as yellow-weed?
Answer: reseda luteola

Question: When was green associated with the romantic movement in literature and art?
Answer: 18th and 19th century

Question: Who was a French philospher that celebrated the virtues of nature?
Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question: Which German poet and philospher declared green to be the most restful color?
Answer: Goethe

Question: When did the systematic study of color theory begin?
Answer: late nineteenth century

Question: Who painted The Night Cafe?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Question: What type of colors are red and green?
Answer: complementary

Question: When were green and red standardized as the colors of international railroad signs?
Answer: 19th century

Question: When was the first traffic light erected?
Answer: 1868

Question: Where were the first modern electric traffic lights erected in 1912?
Answer: Salt Lake City, Utah

Question: Besides its association with danger, why was red chosen for traffic lights?
Answer: high visibility

Question: What was absinthe known as?
Answer: the green fairy

Question: Why were popular paints and pigments in the nineteenth century highly toxic?
Answer: copper or arsenic

Question: What color is most associated with toxicity and poison?
Answer: green

Question: Which country had a flag in 1977 that was only green?
Answer: Libya

Question: What does the green in Jamaica's flag represent?
Answer: country's lush vegetation

Question: What does the green cedar of Lebanon tree represent on the Flag of Lebanon?
Answer: steadiness and tolerance

Question: Which color is considered sacred in Islam?
Answer: green

Question: What is the largest green party in Europe?
Answer: Alliance '90/The Greens

Question: Why was green chosen for a number of new European political parties in the 1980s?
Answer: environmentalism

Question: When was the German green party founded in West Germany?
Answer: 1980

Question: What color vestments do Roman Catholic and traditional Protestant clergy wear at liturgical celebrations during Ordinary time?
Answer: green

Question: What is green the color of in the Eastern Catholic Church?
Answer: Pentecost

Question: What does green represent in Ireland and Scotland?
Answer: Catholics

Question: What did Romans use as decorations for their winter solstice celebration called Saturnalia?
Answer: green holly and evergreen

Question: What was worshipped for their ability to maintain their color through the winter season?
Answer: evergreens

Question: What was designed to standardize the connection of computer peripherals?
Answer: USB

Question: USB has become what on other devices?
Answer: commonplace

Question: What has USB effectively replaced?
Answer: a variety of earlier interfaces

Question: What are the different kinds of USB connectors?
Answer: Type-A or a Type-B

Question: Why were the designs for different USB connectors made?
Answer: to prevent electrical overloads and damaged equipment

Question: The Type-A connector is usually what size?
Answer: the Type-A connector is usually the full size

Question: What size is the Type-B connector?
Answer: the Type-B side can vary as needed

Question: What size is the most durable from the point of designed insertion lifetime?
Answer: the "micro" size

Question: What was designed for less daily connections?
Answer: The standard and mini connectors

Question: What has reached 5,000-cycle lifetimes?
Answer: Improved mini-B connectors

Question: What was designed with frequent charging of portable devices in mind?
Answer: Micro connectors

Question: USB connections come in what?
Answer: five data transfer modes

Question: What is High Speed only supported by?
Answer: specifically designed USB 2.0 High Speed interfaces

Question: SuperSpeed is only supported by?
Answer: USB 3.0 and newer interfaces

Question: When did the seven companies begin developing USB's?
Answer: 1994

Question: How many companies developed USB's?
Answer: seven

Question: What was the goal for USB's?
Answer: to make it fundamentally easier to connect external devices to PCs

Question: Who was included in a team that worked on the standard at Intel?
Answer: Ajay Bhatt

Question: When was the original USB 1.0 Specification introduced?
Answer: January 1996

Question: How fast was the slowest data transfer rate of the USB 1.0?
Answer: 1.5 Mbit/s "Low Speed"

Question: What was the fastest data transfer rate of the USB 1.0?
Answer: 12 Mbit/s "Full Speed"

Question: 1.1 was the first widely used version of what?
Answer: USB

Question: When was the first widely used version of USB released?
Answer: September 1998

Question: What provides a fourth transfer mode?
Answer: The new SuperSpeed bus

Question: How fast is the new SuperSpeed bus data signaling rate?
Answer: 5.0 Gbit/s

Question: What is full-duplex in SuperSpeed transfer mode?
Answer: Communication

Question: What are the power variants in USB 3.0 ports?
Answer: low-power and high-power

Question: What do the power variants provide?
Answer: 150 mA and 900 mA respectively

Question: What does the Battery Charging Specification do?
Answer: increases the power handling capability to 1.5 A

Question: What is a downfall of the Battery Charging Specification?
Answer: does not allow concurrent data transmission

Question: When were the plans to update USB 3.0 to 10 Gbit/s revealed?
Answer: January 2013

Question: What actually happened whenever USB 3.0 was updated?
Answer: The group ended up creating a new USB version

Question: When was USB 3.1 released?
Answer: 31 July 2013

Question: What does the USB 3.1 standard increase?
Answer: the data signaling rate to 10 Gbit/s in the USB 3.1 Gen2 mode

Question: When was the Type-C Specification 1.0 finalized?
Answer: August 2014

Question: What defined a new reversible-plug connector for USB devices?
Answer: USB Type-C Specification 1.0

Question: What does Type-C connect to?
Answer: both hosts and devices

Question: What connector provides four power/ground pairs?
Answer: The 24-pin double-sided connector

Question: Electronically marked cables have a chip that contains what?
Answer: an ID function based on the configuration data channel and vendor-defined messages

Question: What kind of cables does the fully featured USB Type-C contain?
Answer: active, electronically marked cables

Question: What is the shortened version of vendor-defined messages?
Answer: (VDMs)

Question: The design of USB is asymmetrical in what?
Answer: its topology

Question: How many devices may be connected to a host controller?
Answer: 127 devices

Question: How are USB devices linked?
Answer: in series through hubs

Question: What HUB is built into the host controller?
Answer: the root hub

Question: The design of the USB is asymmetrical in its what?
Answer: topology

Question: How many devices can be connected to a host controller?
Answer: Up to 127 devices

Question: What hub is built into the host controller?
Answer: the root hub

Question: A USB host may implement how many host controllers?
Answer: multiple

Question: How many USB ports may a host controller provide?
Answer: one or more USB ports

Question: What are logical sub-devices referred to as?
Answer: device functions

Question: A single device can provide an audio device function such as?
Answer: built-in microphone

Question: A single device can provide a video device function such as?
Answer: a webcam

Question: What is a pipe?
Answer: a connection from the host controller to a logical entity

Question: A USB connection is based on what?
Answer: pipes (logical channels)