Q 01/05

Blond hair is characterised by low levels of which dark pigment?

A) Haemoglobin

B) Eumelanin

C) Carotene

D) Keratin

Answer · why

B) Eumelanin

Eumelanin. It is the brown-black form of melanin, and hair colour is largely a sliding scale of it: black hair has a lot, brown hair a moderate amount...

Q 02/05

Why is natural blond hair significantly less common in adults than in children?

A) Blond hairs fall out first

B) Sunlight lightens only children

C) Adults produce less keratin

D) It tends to darken with age

Answer · why

D) It tends to darken with age

It tends to darken with age. Many fair-haired children have brown hair by their teens, probably because pigment-making proteins switch on as hormones ...

Q 03/05

The English word 'blond' comes from Old French and possibly from Medieval Latin 'blundus', meaning what?

A) Northern

B) Yellow

C) Pale

D) Beautiful

Answer · why

B) Yellow

Yellow. The root is uncertain, though, and in French the word once named a shade between golden and light chestnut; English borrowed it in the 1400s a...

Q 04/05

Traditionally, the spelling 'blonde' with an e is used for whom?

A) Men

B) Women

C) Children

D) The elderly

Answer · why

B) Women

Women. English kept both French forms, blond for males and blonde for females, a rare gendered spelling in English that works like fiancé and fiancée.

Q 05/05

Which singer's 1990 world tour was called Blond Ambition?

A) Cyndi Lauper

B) Kylie Minogue

C) Madonna

D) Annie Lennox

Answer · why

C) Madonna

Madonna. Jean Paul Gaultier designed the cone-bra corsets she wore on it, and a film crew followed the tour for the 1991 documentary Truth or Dare.