Whose Hat Is That? Trivia Quiz

This baseball cap might have been worn by many players, from Babe Ruth to Roberto Clemente to Shohei Ohtani, but it seemed appropriate to choose Jackie Robinson to own it. His number, 42, is retired throughout Major League Baseball, except on that one day a year when everybody wears it. That day in April commemorates Jackie Robinson's first appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, breaking MLB's long-standing "color barrier".

Jack Roosevelt Robinson (1919-1972) won baseball's very first Rookie of the Year award in 1947, was the National League MVP (most valuable player) in 1949, and helped the Dodgers to a World Series victory in 1955. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY in 1962.

Charlie Chaplin isn't the only person to be associated with a bowler hat, but he is quite famous for wearing one, as well as for his baggy pants and cane.

Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977), born in London, England, had a long career in motion pictures, establishing his Little Tramp character in a multitude of short films starting in 1914. Later films include "Modern Times" (1936), "The Great Dictator" (1940) and "Limelight" (1952). He received Honorary Academy Awards in 1929, for his work on "The Circus" (1928) and in 1972 for his lifetime of work and "incalculable effect" on art of making motion pictures.

Lots of women wore cloche hats in the 1920s, but I've chosen the fictional Daisy Buchanan to own this one.

As the woman with whom Jay Gatsby is obsessed, Daisy is a major character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby". A stumbling block to their relationship is the fact of her marriage to Tom Buchanan. Since the novel's publication in 1925, several film versions have appeared. Daisy has been played by Lois Wilson (1926), Mia Farrow (1974), Carey Mulligan (2013) and quite a few others.

Fedoras were quite common in the middle decades of the twentieth century, giving lots of folk, both real and fictional from whom to make a choice, but comic strip hero Dick Tracy has won out here.

Tough police detective Dick Tracy, created by Chester Gould, made his first appearance in a Detroit newspaper in October 1931, and his fame grew from there. After Gould retired, other writers carried on with the strip, into the 21st century. Tracy's two-way radio wristwatch, introduced in 1946, was well ahead of its time. Warren Beatty portrayed Tracy in a 1990 movie.

Tracy's fedora is usually yellow, so this must have been the one he had for St Patrick's Day.

Hard hats are required on building sites and for other dangerous jobs all over the world, so many people wear them, including my own father many years ago. I've chosen Bob the Builder to represent all of the workers who wear hard hats on the job.

"Bob the Builder" was an animated children's show on British television which ran originally from 1999 until 2011. Bob's hard hat was usually yellow, but I've given him a red one for better visibility. His catchphrase, "Can we fix it?" would be answered in panto style by a resounding "Yes we can!" from the rest of the cast.

This pilgrim's hat might have been worn by John Alden or Isaac Allerton, or some other Pilgrim Father, but instead we'll talk about the use of a hat like this one by Jack Pearson, father of "The Big Three" in the television series "This Is Us".

In the season one episode "Pilgrim Rick" the Pearson family are having a hard time getting where they are going one Thanksgiving, when they encounter an innkeeper who celebrates Thanksgiving as "Pilgrim Rick", wearing this hat. During their stay there, Jack borrows the hat to wear and extemporizes a number of other fun activities to cheer up the family. All of these become Thanksgiving traditions for the Pearsons, with "the Hat" being worn each year by Jack, or other senior male family members.

The US Navy sailor's cap ("dixie cup" or "gob hat") has been worn by innumerable members of that service, including the fictional Jake Holman, from "The Sand Pebbles".

Machinist's Mate 1st class J.K. (Jake) Holman first appeared in the 1962 novel by Richard McKenna, about an American gunboat on the Yangtze River in China in the 1920s. He was brought to life, complete with sailor's hat, by Steve McQueen, in the 1966 movie "The Sand Pebbles", directed by Robert Wise.

The image is meant to be a stovepipe hat, which is a very tall top hat, of the type cartoonists often depicted Abraham Lincoln to be wearing. Photos of Lincoln wearing a somewhat shorter version also exist.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the 16th President of the United States of America, leading the Union throughout the Civil War. His greatest achievement is most probably signing the Emancipation Proclamation. He is also remembered for "The Gettysburg Address" and for his reputation as an honest man. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in April 1865.

Although this sort of hat was worn by many military types in the Napoleonic Era, it was usual to place the points fore and aft. Napoleon wore his sideways, purportedly so he could be more easily recognized by his troops on the field of battle.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was born in Corsica, France and rose from fairly humble beginnings to become Emperor of France, and conqueror of much of Europe. Finally defeated at Waterloo in 1815, he died in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic.

There are a lot of fictional witches who might wear this hat, but for the purposes of this quiz, this one is being given to Granny Weatherwax, one of the witches on Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

Esmerelda "Esme" Weatherwax, also known as Granny, is one of the most powerful witches on Discworld. She appears in a number of Terry Pratchett's novels, including "Equal Rights", "Lords and Ladies" and "Maskerade". Her cronies include Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick.