Bing Homepage Quiz Answers (7/16/2022): 16 July 2022
1: This yellow bird is the official bird of three US states. What is it?
A Yellow-bellied flycatcher
B Yellow warbler
C American goldfinch
The correct answer is American goldfinch.
2: What artist created the 17th-century painting ‘The Goldfinch’?
A Frans Hals
B Johannes Vermeer
C Carel Fabritius
Carel Fabritius signed and dated ‘The Goldfinch’ in 1654. That same year, Fabritius died in a gunpowder explosion that not only destroyed his studio and most of his paintings, but also a quarter of the city of Delft, Netherlands. ‘The Goldfinch’ was found more than 200 years later in the possession of a former Dutch army officer and collector. The painting is the MacGuffin of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning eponymous novel by Donna Tartt, which was turned into a film in 2019.
The correct answer is Carel Fabritius.
3: What famous naturalist is associated with finches?
A Charles Darwin
B David Attenborough
C E.O. Wilson
The finch specimens collected by Darwin on the second Beagle voyage to the Galápagos weren’t of particular interest at first. However, upon further study it was discovered that the 15 collected species exhibited a variety of beak characteristics, and those differences eventually helped inform the theory of polymorphism and the evolution of species by natural selection. The various species later became known as Darwin’s finches.
The correct answer is Charles Darwin.