Question: Which church has had a large influence over Galicia since the Middle Ages?
Answer: Catholic Church

Question: Which five positions are held by church leaders?
Answer: one archbishop and four bishops

Question: Which civilization was it that founded some of the first Galician cities?
Answer: Romans

Question: Name two of these cities.
Answer: Lugo and Ourense

Question: Who is Galicia's patron saint?
Answer: Saint James the Greater

Question: Name another saint associated with Galicia.
Answer: Saint Senorina

Question: Which metro area is largest in terms of population?
Answer: A Coruña-Ferrol

Question: What was it's total population back in 1900?
Answer: 653,556

Question: What to Galician's call themselves in their language?
Answer: galegos

Question: Aside from Spain, where have Galicians emigrated to?
Answer: Latin America

Question: Which Spanish city does the Autovía A-6 lead to?
Answer: Madrid

Question: The Autovía A-8 enters Galicia on which coast?
Answer: Cantabrian

Question: Which old english word does the word "green" originate from?
Answer: grene

Question: Other than "grass", what other Germanic root word is similar to green?
Answer: grow

Question: Which season is green most commonly associated with?
Answer: springtime

Question: Which chemical in plants is the largest contributor to the color green?
Answer: chlorophyll

Question: What an is an example of a green mineral?
Answer: emerald

Question: What, in nature, is most likely to make things green?
Answer: chlorophyll

Question: For what do some animals use the color green?
Answer: camouflage

Question: What chemical causes emeralds to be green?
Answer: chromium

Question: From which Middle English and Anglo-Saxon word is green derived?
Answer: grene

Question: What is green a symbol of in China?
Answer: fertility and happiness

Question: In the Middle Ages, which color was associated with merchants, bankers, and the gentry?
Answer: green

Question: What does the Mona Lisa wearing green symbolize?
Answer: she is not from a noble family

Question: What does the color green represent in the flags of Islamic countries?
Answer: lush vegetation of Paradise

Question: Why is green the color of the environmental movement?
Answer: its association with nature

Question: Germanic, Romance, Slavic, and Greek all has old terms for "green" which are derived from words for what?
Answer: fresh, sprouting vegetation

Question: How were the terms for "green" derived in the Germanic, Romance, Slavic, and Greek languages?
Answer: independently

Question: Which language has a word for "green" that is comparable to a Mongolian word for "meadow"?
Answer: Turkic

Question: How many terms does Japanese have for the color green?
Answer: two

Question: What is the Vietnamese word for both blue and green?
Answer: xanh

Question: What are the colors of traffic lights in Japan?
Answer: the same colors that other countries have

Question: In which language does the word for "green" also mean "rank" and "smelly"?
Answer: Thai

Question: In what range does the color green fall in modern European languages?
Answer: 520–570 nm

Question: What is the origin of the word "orange"?
Answer: the name of a fruit

Question: In which color system is green created by combining yellow and blue?
Answer: subtractive

Question: In which color model is green one of the additive primary colors?
Answer: RGB

Question: What is the complement of green on the HSV color wheel?
Answer: magenta

Question: What is the complement of green on the traditional color wheel?
Answer: red

Question: What is produced on a computer display when light from the green primary is mixed with some light from the blue primary?
Answer: A unique green

Question: At what wavelength is green on computer displays?
Answer: ~550 nm

Question: What type of color devices are computer displays and televisions?
Answer: additive

Question: Which color of lasers are widely available to the general public?
Answer: green

Question: What is the wavelength of inexpensive green lasers?
Answer: 532 nm

Question: What type of technology is used in the most common green lasers?
Answer: diode pumped solid state

Question: What is the range of green wavelengths available when using DPSS technology?
Answer: 501 nm to 543 nm

Question: What do pigments do with the color green?
Answer: reflect

Question: What are green paints and dyes usually made of?
Answer: minerals

Question: What is the main chemical that causes emeralds to be green?
Answer: chromium

Question: What is the source of the green color in malachite pigments?
Answer: Copper

Question: What is the source of amazonite's color?
Answer: small quantities of lead and water in the feldspar

Question: What is made by placing a plate of blade of copper, brass, or bronze into vat of fermenting wine for several weeks, then scraping off and drying the green powder?
Answer: Verdigris

Question: Who described the process of making verdigris in ancient times?
Answer: Pliny

Question: In what city did the Romans use verdigris in murals?
Answer: Pompeii

Question: What would verdigris do to other colors that it came in contact with?
Answer: ruin

Question: Which famous artist warned other artists not to use verdigris?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Question: Which green food coloring is known to cause hyperactivity, asthma, urticaria, and insomnia?
Answer: Green S (E142)

Question: What is a commonly used food coloring in the United Kingdom that is banned in Australia, Japan, Norway, and the United States?
Answer: Quinoline Yellow

Question: What is the most common green chemical found in nature?
Answer: Chlorophyll

Question: How do fireworks create green sparks?
Answer: barium salts

Question: Which copper salt can produce green glames?
Answer: cupric chloride

Question: What is the ratio of boron to potassium nitrate in green pyrotechnic flares?
Answer: 75:25

Question: Why are many plants green?
Answer: chlorophyll

Question: What does chlorophyll do with long (red) and short (blue) wavelengths of light?
Answer: absorbs

Question: Where did chlorophyll first arise?
Answer: organisms living in oceans

Question: How do animals typically use the color green?
Answer: camouflage

Question: Why do most fish, reptiles, amphibians, and birds appear green?
Answer: reflection of blue light coming through an over-layer of yellow pigment

Question: What is a chemical that can cause green hue in birds?
Answer: Turacoverdin

Question: What is a protein that carries copper ions in chelation?
Answer: ceruloplasmin

Question: What is the green pigment in bile called?
Answer: biliverdin

Question: What is the appearance of green in th eyes attributed to?
Answer: an optical illusion

Question: Where are green eyes most common?
Answer: Northern and Central Europe

Question: Among Icelandic and Dutch adults, which sex more commonly has green eyes?
Answer: women

Question: Which color was the symbol to regeneration and rebirth in Ancient Egypt?
Answer: green

Question: What did Egyptian artists grind to use to paint on the walls of tombs or on papyrus?
Answer: malachite

Question: How did Egyptians dye fabrics yellow?
Answer: saffron

Question: What is the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for green?
Answer: a growing papyrus sprout

Question: Who was the ruler of the underworld in ancient Egypt?
Answer: Osiris

Question: Why was green facial makeup worn by ancient Egyptians?
Answer: to protect them from evil

Question: Which ancient greek philosopher considered green to be located midway between black and white?
Answer: Aristotle

Question: Which ancient greek philosopher describe pale green as cloron and leek green as prasinon?
Answer: Democritus

Question: Red, yellow, and black are three of the four classis colors of Greek painting. What is the fourth color?
Answer: white

Question: What pigment was made by soaking copper plates in fermenting wine?
Answer: verdigris