of the Bruins, who protested the Penguins' new uniforms. The protest failed -- largely due to Pittsburgh having a tradition of sports teams wearing gold and black -- and the Penguins wore the shade of gold, now dubbed "Pittsburgh gold", until 2002 and once again in 2014. In college sports, the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy use gold as a primary color. The Golden Gloves is the name given to annual competitions for amateur boxing in the United States. State decorations The Gold Star was the highest state decoration in the Soviet Union and remains so in several post-Soviet states. Vexillology Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bhutan, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador, Germany, Ghana, Malaysia, the Philippines Spain, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Vietnam are examples of modern nations that use the color golden in their national flags. The Holy Roman Empire, which existed from 800 to 1806, had a golden flag with a black double-headed Imperial Eagle on the field, the origin of the use of the color in the German and Belgian flags. The Byzantine Empire from 1261 until its collapse in 1453 had a flag that had a black double-headed eagle on a field of golden. This flag is still used today as the flag of the Mount Athos autonomous region in Greece. The Flag of the Hispanic People (Bandera de la Raza) is an ethnic flag that is golden and purpure (purple) on a white field. It is also used as the flag of Hispanic America. (This flag is sometimes also called the Flag of the Americas when used on a non-ethnic basis to symbolically represent the combined geographical area of North America and South America together.) Video games Pokémon Gold (and its remake, Pokémon HeartGold) are entries in the Pokémon franchise of video games. Golden Sun is a series of role-playing games (RPGs). Chemical compounds In addition to elemental gold, a number of compounds or alloys have a reflective gold hue: Several brasses, specifically those rich (65%+ wt.) in copper. Prince's metal is a brass-based gold simulant. Titanium nitride Zirconium nitride See also Or List of colors References External links Quaternary colors Symbols of California Shades of yellow Shades of orange Gold