Barack XXII

 Colour Green Quiz 

Barack Obama, who joins JFK and twenty other US presidents in boasting Irish roots, is set to visit the Emerald Isle in under three weeks. Quite handy to be in a position to point to such ancestry when 12% of the electorate in the United States identify themselves in census returns as being Irish-American. Handier still to embark on a high profile visit to the Irish family homestead in the run up to the 2012 elections that will decide if Obama will be returned to the White House for a second term. The current President will visit both Dublin and the village of Moneygall in County Offaly from where his great, great, great grandfather, on his mother's side, Falmouth Kearney emigrated in the 1780s. Given that the Highly Questionable blog emanates from County Down in Ireland, we're looking forward to the sheer theatre of the occasion when Obama arrives with a security entourage that will surely outnumber Moneygall's population of three hundred souls. Meanwhile in anticipation of the shenanigans to come, today's Highly Questionable quiz takes green, that most Irish of colours, as the theme of today's quiz.

 Colour Green Quiz Questions 

 1  Which prestigious annual golf tournament culminates in the presentation of a green jacket to the winner of the event?

 2  After World War II the United States offered to buy Greenland from which country?

 3  In the board game Trivial Pursuit, a player secures a green wedge after successfully answering a question from which category?

 4  Which country's national flag consists purely of the colour green? 

 5  Objects made from which commonly used element turn green over time?

The answers to our colour green quiz will be published along with the next Highly Questionable blog post.

 Colour Black Quiz Answers 

 1  Amy Winehouse was the singer who recorded the multi Grammy award winning album 'Back To Black'.

 2  Anna Sewell wrote 'Black Beauty'. 

 3  Seven is the points value attached to successfully potting the black ball in a game of snooker.

 4  Theophile Steinlen was the artist who created the iconic 'Black Cat' Parisian poster of 1896 (pictured in yesterday's post) that is often mistakenly attributed to Toulouse Lautrec.

 5  Twenty-one is the maximum permissible score in the card game blackjack. 

The author of the Highly Questionable? quiz and trivia blog, Harry Reid, is a freelance question setter, writer and blogger. He can be contacted at harryreid@btinternet.com