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Fun quizzes about hats
Hat Quiz No.1
- The detective Sherlock Holmes is famous for which type of hat?
- Which American historical figure would you most associate with the stovepipe hat?
- Which traditional Scottish men’s bonnet takes its name from the hero of a 1790 Robert Burns poem?
- Which 1964 James Bond movie features Oddjob and his razor-edged bowler hat weapon?
- Which hat is named after the city that produced the dye, made from crimson berries, to colour the hat?
- Which British Prime Minister regularly wore a type of Homburg hat, which became associated with his name?
- What name is given to the traditional ceremonial headdress of bishops?
- What is the Spanish word for hat?
- “Mad as a hatter” come from men suffering from dementia symptoms due to working with which 19th century product used for hat manufacturing?
- What name is given to the designing and manufacture of hats?
Answers:
- Deerstalker
- Abraham Lincoln
- Tam o’ Shanter
- Goldfinger
- Fez
- Anthony Eden
- Mitre
- Sombrero
- Mercury
- Millinery
Hat Quiz No.2
- The film Casablanca features Humphrey Bogart wearing which kind of hat?
- Which headwear gets its name from a battle in the Crimean War?
- Which tall, furry hat of the Brigade of Guards’ full-dress uniform is sometimes mistakenly identified as a busby?
- The Boss of the Plains hat is also known by which name?
- What’s the name of the brimless cap, usually made of cloth, worn by male Jews?
- The Campaign Hat is most commonly associated with which organisation?
- What’s the name of the Russian hat with its characteristic earflaps? It derives its name from the Russian word for ‘ears’.
- Che Guevara wore which type of hat?
- What hat derives its name from the stage adaptation of a George du Maurier 1894 novel?
- Barbershop quartets are associated with which kind of hat?
Answers:
- Fedora
- Balaclava
- Bearskin
- Stetson
- Kippah or Yarmulke
- Mounties or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Ushanka
- Beret
- Trilby
- Boater
Hat Quiz No.3
- What name is given to the act of tipping one’s hat as a cultural expression of respect or acknowledgement between two people?
- Who wrote the lyrics: “In your Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it, you’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade”?
- Which band said, “there’s fewer more distressing sights than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap”, in their song Time for Heroes?
- Which lady’s hat popular in the 1920s gets its name from its shape, which is the French word for “bell”?
- Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, was well known for wearing which sort of hat? She was wearing a pink one on the day of her husband President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
- What sort of helmet, also known as the safari helmet, is associated with European explorers and travellers in the warm climates of Africa and Southeast Asia?
- Who would normally wear a toque blanche?
- What four letter name is given to the cap with a flat circular top and a peak most commonly associated with French police and military uniforms, with versions worn by American Civil War soldiers?
- What’s the name of the hat widely associated with Napoleon Bonaparte and worn by European and American military officers of the same era?
- Panama hats are made and originated in which South American country?
- A classic chef’s hat has how many folds?
Answers:
- Doffing
- Irving Berlin
- The Libertines
- Cloche hat
- Pillbox hat
- Pith helmet
- A chef (toque is actually an Arabic word for hat.)
- Kepi
- Bicorne or bicorn
- Ecuador
- 100 (which are said to symbolise the number of ways a chef can prepare or cook an egg)
Hat Quiz No.4
- Which British annual sporting event do you associate with Boaters?
- Who did the Cavalier hat wearing Royalists fight against?
- What colour is a Cardinal’s hat?
- Who used to wear a Dunce’s hat or cap?
- Which overseas legion wore a Kepi?
- What are Pith Helmets made from?
- What is distinctive about a Slouch Hat?
- Where do Tyrolean hats come from?
- Which headwear has led the fashion for hat wearing since the 1980s?
- Which comic magician used to wear a Fez?
Answers:
- Henley Regatta
- Parliamentarians (Roundheads)
- Red
- Pupils who were slow at learning
- French Foreign Legion
- Cork or pith
- One side is turned up
- The Alps
- Baseball Cap
- Tommy Cooper