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? Friesland Jutland Moldavia Russia

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? Hatmaking Boxing Being pressed into military service Ninepins

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 found guilty of heresy The person had the plague The person had to wear a dunce's cap in front of the whole school The person had been ordered to put the weather vane on top of the church steeple

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"? Entered a contest Accepted a challenge Any one of these Declared your candidacy for elected office

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

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

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 Second-hand Comfortable Outdated Shabby