Wednesday 23rd August 2023
    Difficulty: Very hard

    Colours in communication (Quiz #278)

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    1. Which of these is a term used to describe the sort of "Angry of Tunbridge Wells" letter, written to a newspaper, complaining that something or other heralds the end of civilization as we know it?

    2. What is meant by "the yellow press"?

    3. What colour is associated with writing that is "is overly ornate prose text that may disrupt a narrative flow by drawing undesirable attention to its own extravagant style of writing, thereby diminishing the appreciation of the prose overall" (definition from Wikipedia)?

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