Quiff The Quiff is a hairstyle that combines the 50's pompadour hairstyle, the 50's flattop, and sometimes a Mohawk hairstyle. The hairstyle was a staple in the British 'Teddy Boy' movement, but became popular again in Europe in the early 1980's with early psychobilly acts including The Meteors, Demented Are Go, and others.
	Quill A quill pen is made from a flight feather of a large bird, most often a goose. Quills were used as instruments for writing with ink before the metal dip pen, the fountain pen, and eventually the ball point pen came into use. The hand-cut goose quill is still a superior Western calligraphy tool, providing a sharp stroke and flexibility unmatched in steel pens.
	Quills Quills is a 2000 in film based on a play that was inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade. It relates the last years of the Marquis, while incarcerated in the insane asylum at Charenton. The movie screenplay by Doug Wright from his play, and was directed by Philip Kaufman.
	Quillwort Quillworts are plants of the genus Isoetes in the class Isoetopsida and order Isoetales. The order Isoetales is sometimes placed in the class Isoetopsida, sometimes in the Selaginellopsida or Lycopsida. They are considered "fern ally". There are about 140-150 species, with a cosmopolitan distribution but often scarce to rare.
	Quilt A quilt is a type of bedding a bed covering composed of a quilt top, a layer of batting, and a layer of fabric for backing, generally combined using the technique of quilting. Another technique for securing the quilt layers is tying. Tying refers to the technique of using thread, yarn or ribbon to pass through all three layers of the quilt at reqular intervals.
	Quin Quin is a small village in County Clare, Republic of Ireland, situated north of Limerick City and near Ennis, County Clare in the Midwest of Ireland. The town's main attraction, Quin Abbey, is open to the public, and although mostly ruined, much of the structure remains.
	Quinacrine Quinacrine is a medication with a number of different medicine applications. As an antimalarial drug, it has been available since the 1930s, but it is currently used as an antibiotic in the treatment of Giardiasis, an intestinal parasite. Extended consumption of quinacrine is also linked to a yellowing of the epidermis in a fashion similar to, and easily mistaken for, jaundice.
	Quince The Quince Cydonia oblonga is the sole member of the genus Cydonia and native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region. It is a small deciduous tree, growing 5-8 m tall and 4-6 m wide, related to apples and pears, and like them has a pome fruit, which is bright golden yellow when mature, pear-shaped, 7-12 cm long and 6-9 cm broad.
	Quinine Quinine is a natural white crystalline alkaloid having antipyretic, antimalarial drug with analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties and a bitter taste. It is a stereoisomer of quinidine. Quinine was previously superseded by chloroquine, but is now again the drug of choice for treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria because of the rise of chloroquine resistance.
	Quinone A quinone is either one of the two isomers of cyclohexadienedione or a derivative thereof. Quinones are not aromatic, but are dienes. The carbonyl groups are ketone-like. Benzoquinone exists in either of two isomers with the chemical formula C6H4O2. Ortho-Benzoquinone is the 1,2-dione, whereas para-quinone, or 1,4-Benzoquinone, is the 1,4-dione.
	Quintana Roo Quintana Roo [ki?'t?ana ro] is a mexican state of Mexico, on the eastern part of the Yucatn. It borders the states of Yucatn and Campeche to the north and west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the nation of Belize to the south. The capital of Quintana Roo is the city of Chetumal.
	Quipu Quipu or khipu were recording devices used in the Inca Empire and its predecessor societies in the Andes region. A quipu usually consists of colored spun and plied thread from llama or alpaca hair or cotton cords with numeric and other values encoded by knots in a Decimal positional system.
	Quirt A quirt is a forked type of Whip which usually has two falls at the end. Sometimes called a riding quirt, horse quirt, or a dog quirt. The falls on a quirt are made of leather, American bison, or cow hide. The core of the quirt is usually a leather bag filled with lead shot, the main part including the handle is often made from braided leather or kangaroo hide and is usually somewhat stiff but flexable.
	Quiscalus The avian genus Quiscalus contains six of the ten species of grackle, gregarious passerine birds in the Icterid family. They are native to North America and South America. The six species are: * Boat-tailed Grackle, Quiscalus major * Common Grackle, Quiscalus quiscula
	Quito Quito is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in northern Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin on the eastern slopes of the Pichincha , an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains. The city's elevation is 9,300 Foot above sea level, making Quito the second highest capital city in the world.
	Quonset hut A Quonset hut is a lightweight prefabricated structure of Corrugated iron having a semicircular cross section. The design was based on the Nissen hut developed by the British during World War I. The name comes from their site of first manufacture, Quonset Point, at the Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center in Davisville, Rhode Island.
	Quotation A quotation, also called a quote, is a fragment of a human expression, most often written or oral, which has been inserted into another human expression. This latter type of quotation is almost always taken from literature, though speech transcripts, film dialogues, and song lyrics are also common and valid sources.
	Quotation mark For the wikipedia quotation template, please click Template:Cquote2. Quotation marks, also called quotes or inverted commas, are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character.