> Which of the following colors isn't found on the Olympic flag?Considering black, yellow, green and purple, the answer is: purple.Photo credit: Kalamazooflag.com [https://kalamazooflag.com/olympic-flag-origin/].The Olympic flag consists of a white banner with five rings, one each that isblue, yellow, black, green, and red. The colors were chosen because theyincorporated the colors of all national flags in existence at the time theOlympic flag made its debut, in 1914.The flag represents the International Olympic Committee, or IOC. This is thecommittee responsible for organizing the Summer and Winter Olympics, and wasfounded back in 1894 for the first modern Olympic games. The Olympic flag, nowwidely-associated with the event, was first flown in 1920 at the Antwerp Summergames. The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius," which is Latin for "faster,higher, stronger." Creator of the IOC Pierre de Coubertin introduced this mottoin 1894 when the committee was created. Coubertin is also responsible for thedesign of the Olympic flag – according to Coubertin, the colors of the ringstogether with the white of the background included every color that composed anation's flag at the time. Upon its initial introduction, Coubertin stated thefollowing in the August 1913 edition of Olympique:> ... the six colours [including the flag's white background] combined in this wayreproduce the colours of every country without exception. The blue and yellow ofSweden, the blue and white of Greece, the tricolour flags of France, UnitedKingdom, the United States, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Hungary, and the yellowand red of Spain are included, as are the innovative flags of Brazil andAustralia, and those of ancient Japan and modern China. This, truly, is aninternational emblem.In 1936, the flag grew in popularity as an emblem of the games. Since then ithas remained a quintessential part of Olympic competition. Check out some footage of the flag from past and contemporary times below.