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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Danielle Ownbey
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 2:10am ET 7/2/25
  • Don't cheat. Cheating is bad. Using Google IS cheating.
  • Trivia graders don't care about spelling (but try your hardest)
  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
  • Email [email protected] for clarification on any questions

The days are long, but the inseams are getting shorter!

While spring and autumn fashion get so many of the headlines, we’re all about the summer sartorial situation.



This week’s quiz is all about making a big impression while minimizing fabric!

MISCELLANEOUS Q1. Sun Specs: Ray-Ban has ruled the summer sunglasses game since 1936. Tom Cruise rocked their Wayfarers in Risky Business. In “Top Gun,” he took off in what high-flying style of sunglasses?



MISCELLANEOUS Q2. Summer Staples: Around the world, these summer staples go by countless names – thongs, pluggers, jandals, slops, plakkies, tsinelas, chappals, chanclas, chinelos, and slippers to name a few. In America and the UK, they go by what thwacking sound effect name?



MISCELLANEOUS Q3. Fabled Fabrics: “Hold me closer, tiny dancer / Count the headlights on the highway / Lay me down in sheets of ______.” It’s breezy. It’s breathable. It wrinkles if you look at it too hard. Which ancient fabric has been the MVP of summer wardrobes for literal millennia and completes the “Tiny Dancer” lyric?



MISCELLANEOUS Q4. Stylish Shorts: For most of the world, shorts are considered rather informal attire. Proven by an iconic photo of Prince Charles from 1957, what shorts named for an Atlantic island can certainly be worn in formal situations?



POP CULTURE Q5. Classic Cousins: These days, Gen Z just calls them jorts. “Hazzard” a guess and tell us: what TV cousin inspired the original slang term for denim short-shorts in 1979?



MISCELLANEOUS Q6. Cool Caps: Launched in the '70s and revived in the 2000s, foam and mesh caps named for what profession provide a breathable alternative to the standard cloth baseball hat?



MISCELLANEOUS Q7. Clothing Compromises: Summer sundresses are essential to any wardrobe, but it’s tough to choose which to wear with so many styles in your closet. There’s the short and flirty mini, or the long and flowy maxi. What four-letter name do we use for the compromise between those two poles of the dress world?



MISCELLANEOUS Q8. Spanish Shoes: Owing its name to the fact that the soles are made up of esparto rope, what Spanish footwear originally only came in flats but now can be found in heels for those outdoor summer weddings?



MISCELLANEOUS Q9. Daring Designers: Wearing white during summer is socially acceptable, but you better darken your wardrobe by Labor Day according to a fashion rule that can be traced all the way back to the Gilded Age. In the 1920s and ‘30s, however, which famous clothing designer and perfumer bucked that trend by including white in her collections all year long?



MISCELLANEOUS Q10. Igniting Innovations: Which iconic piece of summer fashion got its name from a nuclear bomb testing site, thanks to French designer Louis Réard morbidly hoping it would generate the same shock and horror as the atomic bomb upon its release in 1946?



TIEBREAKER Water Wear: While nautical footwear has been around since ancient times, what we now know as a “boat shoe” is a more recent innovation. In what year did Paul A. Sperry invent the topsider?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 7/2/25