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Quaker Oats Company
The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago-based American food maker of Quaker oatmeal, Life cereal, Cap'n Crunch, and Quaker Chewy bars; trademark registered 1877, incorporated 1901, a wholly owned PepsiCo subsidiary since the 2001 merger.
Quaker Tapestry
The Quaker Tapestry is a 77-panel crewel embroidery begun in 1981 in Somerset by Anne Wynn-Wilson, made by 4,000 people in 15 countries, housed in Kendal, England; its museum closed in December 2025.
Quality Street (confectionery)
Quality Street is a British assortment of wrapped chocolates and toffees launched in 1936 by Harold Mackintosh in Halifax, named after J.M. Barrie's play, made by Nestlé since 1988, famous for the Purple One, Green Triangle, and Christmas tins.
Quark (dairy product)
Quark (German Quark, Topfen; fromage frais, tvorog) is a fresh, unripened acid-set dairy product of Central Europe, made by fermenting pasteurized milk to about pH 4.6 with lactic acid bacteria and a little rennet, then draining the curd without cutting, cooking, or aging.
Quarter (Canadian coin)
The Canadian quarter is the 25-cent circulation coin first issued in 1870, carrying Emanuel Hahn's caribou reverse since 1937, 23.88 mm in diameter, cupronickel, and the most commemorated Canadian coin.
Quarter Pounder
Quarter Pounder: McDonald's hamburger named for its 4 oz pre-cooked beef patty, created by Al Bernardin in Fremont, California in 1971, added to the U.S. national menu in 1973, switched to fresh beef in 2018, and sold abroad as the Royal Cheese or McRoyal Cheese.
Quebec Winter Carnival
Carnaval de Québec (Quebec Winter Carnival), Quebec City's ten-day winter festival since its 1955 relaunch (first large edition 1894), features Bonhomme Carnaval, the St. Lawrence ice canoe race, night parades, snow sculpture, and an ice palace.
Quechua (brand)
Quechua is Decathlon's in-house mountain sports brand, created in 1996-1997 near Mont-Blanc, known for the 2 Seconds pop-up tent, about 1.7 billion euros revenue in 2013, and since 2024 including winter sports from Wedze.
Quesadilla
Quesadilla: a Mexican folded corn or flour tortilla filled with cheese (queso) or other stews, cooked on a comal or fried; famously cheese-optional in Mexico City, a 16th-century post-colonial Spanish-indigenous fusion.
Quest Nutrition
Quest Nutrition, LLC is an El Segundo, California maker of high-protein, low-sugar protein bars, chips, cookies and shakes, acquired by Simply Good Foods in 2019 for $1.0 billion; Quest net sales grew from about $345 million to $863 million by fiscal 2025.
Queue (hairstyle)
Queue (辮子, bianzi): Manchu male hairstyle with shaved forehead and a long back braid, imposed on Han Chinese men by Qing law in 1645 and worn for over 260 years until the 1911 revolution.
Quiche
Quiche, best known as quiche lorraine, is a French savory egg-and-cream custard baked in a pastry crust, originating in Lorraine; the original version uses bacon, eggs, and crème fraîche and contains no cheese.
Quiksilver
Quiksilver, surfwear brand founded 1969 in Torquay, Australia, by Alan Green and John Law; known for boardshorts and the mountain-and-wave logo. Went bankrupt in 2015, now owned by Authentic Brands Group and run by regional licensees.
QuikTrip
QuikTrip (QT) is a privately held Tulsa, Oklahoma-based convenience store and gas station chain founded in 1958 by Burt Holmes and Chester Cadieux, operating over 1,250 stores in 23 states with QT Kitchens foodservice and Guaranteed Gasoline.
Quilt
Quilt: a bedcover of two fabric layers with batting between, joined by patterned stitching or ties; related to patchwork. Key facts: three-layer sandwich, tacking knots about 4 inches apart, 13th-century Sicilian Tristan Quilt, Latin culcita etymology.
Quilt art
Quilt art (art quilt, studio art quilt): quilts made as visual art rather than bedcovers; term generalized with the 1986 Art Quilt exhibition; key shows include the Whitney 1971 exhibit and Quilt National (1979), with Gee's Bend and SAQA central to the field.
Quilting
Quilting: the craft of stitching layered fabric with padding (batting) to make quilts, from Latin culcita. Covers quilt anatomy (top, batting, backing), patchwork and appliqué, medieval to American history, Gee's Bend, museums, and conservation.
Quilting stitch
A quilting stitch is a stitch or tied knot that passes through all three layers of a quilt at once, keeping the layers from shifting and the batting from bunching.
Quilts of Gee's Bend
Quilts of Gee's Bend: patchwork quilts by African American women of Boykin (Gee's Bend), Alabama, made from work clothes and scraps in improvisational Housetop and Bricklayer patterns; celebrated since the 2002 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston exhibition.
Quimbaya
Quimbaya is a pre-Hispanic culture of Colombia's middle Cauca River valley, one of the ancient Americas' finest goldworking traditions, from around 500 BC to 1600 AD.
Quince cheese
Quince cheese, also called dulce de membrillo or quince paste, is a dairy-free, sliceable paste of quince pulp and sugar set by the fruit's high pectin, classically served with Manchego as queso y dulce.
Quinceañera
Quinceañera (fiesta de quince años): Latin American coming-of-age celebration of a girl's 15th birthday, blending Mesoamerican puberty rites and Spanish Catholic tradition, with Mass, court of honor, waltz, and shoe-changing rituals.
Quintonil
Quintonil, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in Polanco, Mexico City, opened in 2012 by chef Jorge Vallejo and Alejandra Flores, serves contemporary Mexican cuisine with indigenous ingredients and insects; ranked No. 3 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025.
Quiznos
Quiznos is an American toasted-sub sandwich chain founded in Denver in 1981 by Jimmy Lambatos. It peaked near 4,700 U.S. stores in 2007, collapsed to about 150 after lawsuits and 2014 bankruptcy, and is owned by High Bluff Capital Partners.
R'Bonney Gabriel
R'Bonney Nola Gabriel, American fashion designer and model, Miss Texas USA 2022, Miss USA 2022, and Miss Universe 2022; first Filipino American to win both titles; founder of the sustainable label R'Bonney Nola.
Rabbit rabbit rabbit
Rabbit rabbit rabbit is a British and North American good-luck superstition: saying "rabbit", "rabbits", or "white rabbits" as the first words on the first of a month brings luck for the month. First recorded in Notes and Queries (1902/1909); practiced by Franklin D. Roosevelt; related to the lucky rabbit's foot.
Rachel Harlow
Rachel Harlow (Rachel Billebault, born Richard Finocchio, 1948) is an American transgender pageant queen, model, and actress who won the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant in The Queen (1968), starred in A Safe Place (1971), and ran Philadelphia's Harlow's nightclub; not the Vanderpump Rules reality contestant.
Rachel Khoo
Rachel Khoo is a British cook, cookbook author, and television presenter who became known for The Little Paris Kitchen, her 2012 BBC Two series built on the two-seater restaurant she ran in her Paris flat.
Rachel Roy
Rachel Roy, California-born American fashion designer, founder and creative director of the eponymous Rachel Roy label (2004) and the Macy's diffusion line RACHEL Rachel Roy; CFDA member known for dressing Michelle Obama, she won a 2014 lawsuit to keep control of her brand and later wrote Design Your Life.
Rachel Zoe
Rachel Zoe (Rachel Zoe Rosenzweig, born 1971) is an American celebrity stylist, designer, and entrepreneur who became famous styling Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan, starred in Bravo's The Rachel Zoe Project (2008-2013), and built a licensed lifestyle brand across 40+ categories plus The Zoe Report, Curateur, and Rachel Zoe Ventures.