Things that are Blue by Picture

Based on the picture, name these things that are some shade of blue.
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First submittedJuly 28, 2018
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animal
logo of this company
something in space
specific painting
flag of this country
flag of this country
these guys
gemstone
animal
fictional character
The Great Blue Hole in this country
this type of landform
animal
political party represented in blue
this type of cable - usually
software program (when crashing)
paintings by this artist during his
"Blue Period"
the Blue Mosque in this city
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Level 83
Jul 29, 2018
Maybe just accept "jay" seeing as "blue" is a given?
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Level ∞
Jul 29, 2018
Ok
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Level 56
Jan 8, 2024
... and I SUSPECT that your Blue Jay is Britain's Blue Tit, but I may be wrong
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Level 66
Jul 29, 2018
I wasn't thinking of the program, I was just thinking of "The Blue Screen of Death".
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Level 75
Jul 29, 2018
Me too!

And I've never seen an ethernet cable that wasn't yellow, so I only got that one by looking at the connectors.

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Level 77
Jul 29, 2018
Likewise. Blue Screen of Death (or BSOD) needs to be acceptable, given the category. And my ethernet cables are yellow as well.
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Level 77
Jul 29, 2018
Mine are all yellow too. Then replied RJ-45 because that's what the connectors looked like. Wasn't accepted so was stumped. Forgot the whole cable wasn't called the same.
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Level 40
Jul 29, 2018
I've seen ethernet cables in grey, yellow or red more usually than in blue. I don't really think that they qualify as something that's blue...
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Level 58
Nov 23, 2018
never in all my years seen a blue ethernet cable (and that aint no small amount of years)
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Level ∞
Jul 29, 2018
Blue Screen of Death isn't a computer program - that would be the world's stupidest program - but that answer will work now.
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Level 90
Jul 29, 2018
Yeah. That's not really a software program, nor is it really *when crashing*. BSOD is a memory dump displayed *after* the OS has experienced a fatal error aka system crash.
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Level 69
Aug 3, 2018
LOL, I also typed "blue screen of death" out of… habit? Anyway, it gave me a chuckle that it was accepted. I look forward to a future quiz where the spinning beach ball of death will also be featured!!
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Level 66
Aug 10, 2018
When I wrote that comment I didn’t think it would be accepted!
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Level 70
Jul 30, 2018
Is Paul Bunyon known outside of the US and Canada?
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Level 90
Jul 30, 2018
Fargo helps with that one I would surmise.
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Level 55
Jul 31, 2018
Definitely unknown here is Australia
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Level 46
Nov 29, 2018
You speaking on behalf of every Australian here?
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Level 59
Nov 22, 2018
No, not really known in the UK
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Level 90
Jul 30, 2018
I wouldn't say Ethernet is incorrect, but there are many other objects out there that could be used. I would hazard that yellow has become the generic color at this point. Probably close to 75% of the generic 4 foot cords that come with network gear that I see nowadays are yellow. 10 years ago it was still blue but not anymore. In all my years of running cable, I've never seen Ethernet anywhere on a box. Instead it is the category as in 5, 5e, 6 etc. At least cat 5 works, though.
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Level 69
Aug 3, 2018
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Ethernet is technically incorrect. Ethernet is a network *protocol*, not a cable type. Back in the proverbial day, Ethernet was almost always carried over coaxial cable, before we ran it on unshielded twisted pair (like the CAT5e cable with RJ45 connectors pictured in the quiz). Larger LANs usually use fiber optic cables, but Ethernet can and has been run on physical media as weird as home electrical wiring, microwave (look MA, no wires! And yes, it was brutal when it snowed), and once, in an April Fool's Day endeavor, carrier pigeons. Impractical, yes – but it works, because if you have the right equipment on the ends, you can run Ethernet on a string between two tin cans.
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Level 34
Jul 30, 2018
I tried Starry Sky for the Van Gogh painting. LOL!
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Level 66
Nov 22, 2018
I tried starry, starry night. Didn't work. Thank you Don McLean.
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Level 51
Nov 24, 2018
Yeah, me too! Then I figured I didn't really know the name of the painting and went on....
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Level 66
Jul 30, 2018
Could you accept Blue MEN Group, for Blue MAN Group?
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Level 59
Nov 22, 2018
Why? Could you try typing something (slightly) different if your first attempt doesn't work?
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Level 62
Jul 30, 2018
So, not that it matters in particular, but I feel compelled to share my story on this quiz.

After managing to guess the flag and the hole (I honestly only had a vague idea on both but got them after finishing the other questions), with less than a minute left I went back to the last two.questions. So I said to myself "No way am I gonna get these, but no harm in trying" and just started naming artists. First guess on the artist, bam. "Well, that was luck. I guess it's time to show how few cities in the world I know." And, wouldn't you know it, a song by 'They Might Be Giants' popped into my head and I said "Why not?" So I put it down and the quiz ended. I actually laughed because I couldn't believe it. Sometimes (when given infinite guesses within a time limit) you get things right.

tl;dr: It's like Journey said: Don't stop believing (unless your dream is stupid, then you should get a better dream).

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Level 72
Jul 30, 2018
Who or WTF is the answer to the 'fictional character', and how/where would I know it from? Ditto the 'these guys' question.

Could "Moon" not be an acceptable type in for the third question. I appreciate that is a picture of the correct answer, but for those who don't have a great knowledge of astronomy is it not at least a plausible answer that could be a type in?

Also, another who has only ever seen yellow cables for the 15th question.

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Level 75
Jul 31, 2018
From where would you know the fictional character? The same place I learned about the country with the blue hole or the type of cable - from taking quizzes on this site, of course. The blue ox is the pet of Paul Bunyan, a giant lumberjack from a series of American tall tales. If you drive through wooded areas of the northern US there are statues of him everywhere advertising restaurants, motels, etc.
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Level 72
Jul 23, 2022
Four years later and still no idea who he is, though thanks for the explanation @Ander217. He does strike me as a very US specific answer, but that’s not unusual on here.

No idea what I was on about regarding the planet though. Quite clearly the answer and not a moon.

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Level 76
Nov 22, 2018
That's no moon.

Seriously, it's not a moon, it's a gas giant.

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Level 55
Mar 5, 2024
It's really more of an ice giant
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Level 69
Aug 3, 2018
I don't know why I'm feeling so picky-surly tonight, but when I saw the "sapphire" photo, I thought something was amiss. It just really doesn't look like a sapphire at ALL (maybe a topaz, or a synthetic blue diamond?). So I checked out its provenance on Wikimedia Commons, and the person who uploaded it did so when he created his account in 2013, and has never done a thing in the Wiki world since then. In fact, reading his intro and username, I'm not convinced he didn't think he was actually uploading a profile pic for himself! And further tellingly, there are plenty of instances of the image on the web before the Wiki upload date. Anywho, none of this is your problem, Quizmaster, but if you wanted to consider an alternative, might I suggest this one, which seems much better sourced, and looks WAAAAY more like a sapphire (because, well, it is): https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yogo2783_Close_crop.JPG.
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Level 51
Nov 24, 2018
I'm with you. This didn't look like a sapphire to me, although I guessed that was what it was supposed to be.
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Level 48
Oct 19, 2018
for the round sphere i so wanted it to be blue moon....
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Level 68
Nov 22, 2018
Well, I learned something today. I have never heard of The Great Blue Hole, and I tried nearly every feasible country in the world for this one, except the correct answer!
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Level 67
Nov 23, 2018
there are other possibilities for the cable : RJ45 cable, utp cable (or ftp), we even call it "network cable".