Signs and Symbols

What this quiz asks

• The Red Cross emblem was created by reversing the colours of which country's flag?
• The three chasing arrows of the recycling symbol were designed by a student for a contest linked to which event?
• The peace symbol, designed in 1958 for a British anti-nuclear march, combines the semaphore signals for which two letters?
• How many snakes are coiled around the Rod of Asclepius, the traditional symbol of medicine?
• The symbol ♀, used to mean 'female', is also the astronomical sign of the planet Venus.
• The standard power symbol combines a short line and a broken circle. What do they stand for?
• In 2007, who first proposed using the # sign to group topics on Twitter?
• On a topographic map, what does each contour line join?
• Was the @ sign already in use centuries before the first email was sent?
• The ampersand, &, began as a joined-up way of writing which Latin word?
• Italians call the @ sign 'chiocciola'. What does that word mean?
• Select ALL of these shapes that are among the basic symbols on clothing care labels.
• The biohazard symbol was designed to look like a familiar object, so that people would recognise it at once.
• The red-and-white barber's pole goes back to the days when barbers also performed what?
• Select ALL of these emblems used by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
• On Japanese maps, a symbol shaped like a torii gate marks what?
• In which year did Danish design student Susanne Koefoed create the wheelchair symbol for accessibility?
• Put these symbols in order of when they were designed, earliest first.
• Apple's ⌘ Command key symbol was borrowed from signs that, in Sweden, point the way to what?
• What does the pilcrow, ¶, mark in a text?