Hair Today Gone Tomorrow Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mohawk

The Huron tribe wore this hairstyle and the French gave it the name from the word "hure" which means the characteristic male boar's crested head. (Un sanglier is, of course, a boar for you 'Asterisk' fans). Sometimes it was actually deer fur and leather and a type of wig strapped on the head.

The use of the haircut in the twentieth century to challenge authority can be traced and there are many cases documented of students attempting to keep their Mohawks despite school authorities protesting. The punk movement adopted this hairstyle as well, and added bright colours that were neither known to the Huron nor to nature such as red, pink, blue etc.

This might be one of the only examples of a hairstyle eventually giving its name to a tribe then Lake Huron, one of the Great Lakes.

Answer: Farrah Fawcett-Majors

Twiggy's haircut was asked for in the sixties during her enormous popularity, Lindsey basically had long blond hair and Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman's hair wasn't cut in a terribly distinctive way. Farrah's hairstyle was adopted by many women plastering their "wings" back each morning. "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston's hairstyle is said to be the one requested by more women for the nineties though this is supposition. Twiggy's hair was quite short, there was another model who popularized the "Plain Jane" or hair slicked behind the ears.

Answer: All of these

Urea, one of the components of urine is used in cosmetics and pharmaceutical preparations, but it's made synthetically now. In the past though, some cultures used this to make their hair shine.

Answer: Sikhs

The Sikhs cover their heads in their characteristic turban and also grow their topknot. Some of them have incredibly long hair. The topknot is one of the pillars of their religious observance. Though the Sikhs are warriors and have served in the British Army in their own regiments; the US has had some instances where they refuse to accept Sikh soldiers unless they shave off their hair. Buddhist monks shave their heads in a gesture of humility. Catholic monks used to use the "tonsure" or characteristic head shaving technique. And nuns often either shaved or cropped their hair to avoid vanity.

The Hindu rituals include the Brahmin who cuts the hair. There are temples which collect hair in India too in rituals. I came across a site that said that some Sikh men secretly shaved a bit of their heads to keep cool beneath their turban and that this hair is used, but, not substantiated.

Answer: the Beehive

The beehive hairdo required you to tease the strands of hair with a comb or brush and copious amounts of hairspray by holding the strand then combing it to give it volume. The Duck's butt or DA was the slicked back look which formed the shape of a duck's posterior and tail of the rockers.

The crew cut, brush cut or in my neighborhood, the "skitch", was immensely popular. The Prince Valiant hairdo came from the cartoon strip character in the newspaper that had what we'd also call a pageboy. The hair was smooth and turned under. How I wish my curls had done that!

Answer: Henna

Henna is actually made from leaves from a shrub called Lawsonia inermis and gives a reddish, orangish or brownish tint. Some cultures use it for tattoos or decorative marks. Coconut and Aloe Vera have certainly been used in hair preparations (what plant hasn't these days?) but, not for coloration.

Answer: True

Believe it or not, this is one of the last resorts for men afflicted with male pattern baldness who really cannot live with it. The resulting scar is then implanted with hair grafts. The area with hair is revolved like a beanie or cap and then attached. All I can say is that men who live with their baldness gracefully are much more attractive!

Answer: their skin will let in more sunlight and Vitamin D in the short summers of the north

Rickets or Vitamin D deficiency occurs in populations without enough sunlight in their climate and in fact, there are more redheads found in those areas of the world. One theory suggest that this is a good thing for those who live in those climates. As far as I know, there haven't been any scientific studies for the bad temper, but unsubstantiated rumors.

Answer: The Bob

Normally this hairdo was called the Bob. My grandmother wrote about getting hers cut and her husband not noticing, but her mother wanting to faint. It was quite the revolution as when you think that without a hair dryer, haircare must have been a major chore in a cold climate in particular, it must have felt good!
The Gibson Girl is late nineteenth early twentieth and is a graceful way to put your hair up that was popularized by the Gibson magazine drawings women loved.
The Gamine was a French short hairstyle popularized by actresses like Jean Simmons and others.

Answer: Rastafarian

Ras Tafari was the name that Haile Selassie bore before he became Emperor of Ethiopia and the Rastafarians proclaimed him their leader. Dreadlocks are said to be from the Bible. Jamaicans were the primary proponents of the modern version of dreadlocks. They were recorded in other cultures however such as the Indian sadhus.