Keep It Under Your Hat

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1. Most sports fans are familiar with this sports expression. Black hat Hat trick Hat in the air Hat man

2. Where should one never wear a brown hat? Moldavia Russia Jutland Friesland

3. Nowadays, "to be knocked into a cocked hat" means to be taken aback, but that's not what it first meant. What's the original source? Boxing Hatmaking Ninepins Being pressed into military service

4. "You are only fit to wear the steeple-crowned hat," was a phrase that struck fear into anyone to whom it was said. Why? The person had been ordered to put the weather vane on top of the church steeple The person had to wear a dunce's cap in front of the whole school The person had been found guilty of heresy The person had the plague

5. Who were the Hats and Caps? Upper class and working class British schoolmasters and schoolboys Ladies of the manor and their maids Political factions

6. Who wore cockle hats? Cockle sellers Fashionable women in the Edwardian era Towncriers Pilgrims

7. What have you done if you have "thrown your hat into the ring"? Accepted a challenge Any one of these Declared your candidacy for elected office Entered a contest

8. Why would hatters go mad, as in the term "Mad as a hatter"? Too many customers not paying their bills Hatters don't go mad. It's a nonsense term Constant changes in headgear fashions From the effects of chemicals

9. American vaudeville star J.J. Sullivan had great success in the late 1800s with this song, written by James Rolmaz of London. Where Did You Get that Hat? Top Hat, White Tie and Tails The Bird on Nellie's Hat Somebody Stole my Hat

10. What does the expression "old hat" mean? Outdated Shabby Comfortable Second-hand