Wednesday, May 28, 2008

#014, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 131 TO 140, Adjectives describing 'hats and caps'

BRIEFING
Hats and Caps are head coverings. They protect us from sunlight, rain and snow. Hats have cosmetic value. They hide bald heads and receding hairlines. Right from Queen Elizabeth to a roadside hobo anybody can wear a hat. The prices and appearances of the hats and caps may vary from country to country and culture to culture. American hat makers traditionally used beaver, rabbit fur and felt in making hats.

Writers of the past have splendidly described the hats worn by their characters, in varying degrees.

This is a Multiple Choice Vocabulary Test based on Adjectival Phrases describing 'hats and caps'.

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CHOICE BOX
Adjective Phrases describing 'hats and caps'
Akubra hat
1 Baseball caps
2 Boonie hat
Bridal hats
Bucket hat
3 Campaign hat
Cowboy hat
Fashion hat
Fatigue cap
Festival hat
Flax hat
4 Fur hat
5 Gatsby hats
Hard hat
6 Mortarboard hats
7 Mourning caps
Paper hat
8 Slouch hat
9 Stovepipe hat
Straw hat
Top hat
10 Wedding hats
Winter hat

131. Soldiers wear campaign hats when on the field and service caps on other occasions.


132. Many Universities have dispensed with the requirement of wearing hoods during convocation ceremonies. However, the mortarboard hats continue.


133. We were all dressed alike: broad slouch hats, to keep the sun off; gray knapsacks; blue army shirts; blue overalls; leathern gaiters buttoned tight from knee down to ankle; high-quarter coarse shoes snugly laced. [Mark Twain in his novel 'A Tramp Abroad'].


134. There are baseball caps which can when worn detect and analyse electroencephhalogram (E.E.G) signals from brain.


135. President Abraham Lincoln wore a stovepipe hat.


136. Boonie hats are common in US Army.


137. Gatsby Hats are of the 20th Century Jazz Age. .


138. A man without a wife is like a man in winter without a fur hat. [A Russian proverb].


139. Are colorful floral wedding hats good substitutes to bridal veils?


140. Mourning caps use black color.

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