Mullet Mania Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Normans.

Take another look at your history book! Who would have believed these ancient peoples embraced the long/short hairstyle? The Egyptian hairstyle was made with a wig but surprisingly mullet-like. The Assyrians combined facial hair and their mullets and used wigs and false beards to create their elaborate hairstyles.

The Persians' hairstyle was curly on top. It was also shorter and they did not use wigs.

Answer: A fish and a hairstyle.

The definition is: "(1) Any of various stout-bodied, edible fishes of the family Mugilidae, found worldwide in tropical and temperate coastal waters and some freshwater streams. (2) Hairstyle short on top and long in back," 1996, perhaps from mullet-head "stupid, dull person" (1857), also the name of a type of U.S. freshwater fish with a large, flat head (1866).

The term in ref. to the haircut seemed to emerge into pop culture with the Beastie Boys song "Mullet Head."

Answer: False

Though the modern mullet was created in the early 1970s the first dictionary definition referring to hair appeared in 1932. At that time "mullet" was a verb meaning "to curl or dress hair". Imagine, there was a time when people said, "Madam, please mullet my hair."

Answer: The Beastie Boys

A sampling of the lyrics "Number one on the sides, don't touch the back, Number six on the top and don't cut it wack, Jack."

Answer: The Guido

It is "a glorious example of the outer borough Italian-American mullet" and is seen in New York and New Jersey (complete with gold neck chain) and also on the head of Mr. Mullet. Check him out at http://www.mulletmadness.com/mr-mullet.html

Answer: "Lobster Mud Flap", "Bridge and Tunnel", "Lawnmower Man", "Either/Or"

Though your lawnmower man may have a mullet, it is not currently a nickname for the hairstyle.

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

After the French Revolution the new society embraced the Mullet with a fervor not seen again until the 1970s and 80s. The style caught on outside of France and was adopted by Romantic Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and United States general Horatio Gates.

Answer: High collars.

Men's high collars in the Victorian Era spelled doom for the mullet. From that time until the Beatles became popular in the early 1960s mens' hair remained uniformly short, with the exception of the pompadour in the 1950s.

Answer: David Bowie

David and Angie Bowie, along with Angie's hair stylist, Suzy Fossey created it one night. It was an instant hit.

Answer: "Vogue"

The Mullet was actually inspired by three separate issues of "Vogue". An issue of French "Vogue" gave us the front while two different issues of German "Vogue" inspired the sides and back.

Answer: "Grand Royal"

The Beastie Boys print magazine was the first to use the term with an essay on mullets that was ahead of its time. The article was written by Casey Fahy and is does not appear to be available anywhere on the web. If you know of a link, I would love it if you would send it to me.

Answer: "Joe Dirt"

David Spade in an ironic mullet. See www.IMDB.com for the review.

Answer: "Cool Hand Luke"

This happens in the scene where Paul Newman gets his prison nickname, "Cool Hand". The word "mullet-head" was apparently a derogatory term in the United States as early as 1857. There is some confusion if the term was named after the fish or the fish was named after the term.

Answer: Henry Kissinger

While Michael Bolton's and Billy Ray Cyrus' mullets are nearly legendary, most people forget that super hunk Brad Pitt had a mullet in the film "Thelma and Louise". In an interview with MulletMadness.com he attributes his success as an actor to his mullet haircut. Really! http://www.mulletmadness.com/mullet-news.php?cat=3

Answer: True

The figures all sport fabulous mullets and come with biographical information about the characters including favorite band, favorite movie and favorite hotspot.