Match That Hat! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Fred Astaire (movie musicals)

Fred Astaire is synonymous with the top hat...in fact, one of his signature songs is Irving Berlin's title song for his 1935 vehicle "Top Hat": "I'm...puttin' on my Top Hat..." (Of course, his partner was Ginger Rogers!)

Answer: Holden Caulfield (Catcher In The Rye)

It was a red hunting cap that prep school reject Holden Caulfield bought and wore in J.D. Salinger's masterwork "The Catcher In The Rye". And he wore it with the bill turned to the back; later, in the Hip-Hop era, this way of wearing billed caps was all the rage.

Answer: Maurice Chevalier (stage and screen)

Though he wore a top hat in 1958's "Gigi" (which netted him an honorary Oscar), Chevalier, France's best-known singer and boulevardier, had the white straw boater as his trademark.

Answer: B.D. (Doonesbury)

A star college quarterback, B.D. was never seen with his helmet off his head, even in Vietnam! He's one of the huge cast in Garry Trudeau's long-running (since 1970!), Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip.

Answer: Buster Keaton (silent movies)

A pork pie hat usually is a high-crowned hat (such as a Stetson) that is crushed or flattened; it gets its name from its resemblance to the food dish of the same name. Though jazz icon Lester Young also sported a pork pie hat, silent comedy legend Keaton made it his immortal calling card.

Answer: Laurel and Hardy (silent and sound comedies)

The greatest comedy duo in filmdom, skinny Stan Laurel and fat Oliver Hardy made the bowler (or derby) an essential part of their screen personas.

Answer: Michael Nesmith (the Monkees)

Michael Nesmith was the only one of the Monkees ever to wear headgear, a wool cap with a pom-pom on top. The Monkees were originally created as a TV spoof of the Beatles in the mid-60s.

Answer: Rocky the Squirrel (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

Rocky the Flying Squirrel always wore a WW1 flying helmet with goggles, just as the flying aces of that era did. (Snoopy from "Peanuts" only wore it when he pretended to be a WW1 ace, so he doesn't count!) Rocky's partner was the dim-witted moose Bullwinkle.

Answer: The Shadow (pulp, radio and movies)

Compared to many a later superhero's costume, the Shadow's costume was simple: mostly black clothes and cloak, a red scarf and that black slouch hat. The Shadow was created by Street and Smith for their radio mystery program before getting his own pulp magazine.

Answer: Thor (Marvel Comics)

Though Thor was an important god in Norse mythology, today's image of him comes from Stan Lee's reworking of the Thunder God in his mid-60s series. Lee and artist Jack Kirby gave him shoulder length blonde hair and that winged helmet (he still owned the hammer Mjolnir!)