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Quiz about All You Need Is Gloves
Quiz about All You Need Is Gloves

All You Need Is Gloves Trivia Quiz


Fill in each blank with two rhyming words (and sometimes another word like "a" or "he") about things we wear to keep our hands warm. Word lengths and other hints are given.

A multiple-choice quiz by nannywoo. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
nannywoo
Time
7 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
357,941
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
317
Question 1 of 10
1. Walking through the fields, I spied one of a pair in a soft shade of grey, like the wings and breast of a cooing bird. What bird-colored item of clothing did I find?

Answer: (Three Words: 1, 4, and 5 letters, beginning with A, D, and G)
Question 2 of 10
2. It was cold, so I slipped my shivering fingers into a handwarmer made of pale, yellow-brown faux fur. What sandy-colored clothing accessory was I wearing?

Answer: (Three Words: 1, 4, and 4 letters, beginning with A, B, and M)
Question 3 of 10
3. Not content with wearing cowhide jackets and gloves that look brand new, some people find ways to make these items look older, placing them in water and wearing them wet for a custom fit, even sandpapering and gouging for a worn look. What are these people trying to do?

Answer: (Two Words: 7 and 7 letters, beginning with W and L)
Question 4 of 10
4. The dog gnawed a hole right through the thumb of one knitted item I need to put on my hand! What do I have now?

Answer: (Three Words: 1, 6, and 6 letters, beginning with A, B, and M)
Question 5 of 10
5. I think the dog got to my granddaughter's softball glove, or maybe she forgot to properly season it, because it has a big tear all the way down the middle. What could we call this damaged glove she used as a catcher for her team?

Answer: (Three Words: 1, 5, and 4 letters, beginning with A, S, and M)
Question 6 of 10
6. Medical workers often use disposable gloves made of a special kind of rubber material. If they piled them all in one stack, like a mountain, what might we rhymingly call the very tip top of the pile?

Answer: (Three Words: 1, 5, and 4 letters, beginning with A, L, and A)
Question 7 of 10
7. If at an animal rights demonstration we are urging a legal ban on the use of the soft skin of young goats in making gloves, what rhyming admonition might we write on our sign?

Answer: (Two Word command: 6 and 3 letters, beginning with F and K)
Question 8 of 10
8. A dealer at a textile market offered cloth made using an ancient process that condenses, mats, and presses down the fibers of wool. How could you say in rhyme that he sold and distributed this woolen fabric sometimes used for gloves?

Answer: (Three words: 2, 5, and 4 letters, beginning with H, D, and F)
Question 9 of 10
9. In medieval Europe, one knight might insult and challenge another by tearing off his long-cuffed glove and throwing it on the ground. If a knight made this challenge on a clear night when the moon was full, what near rhyme describes his glove as it would appear in the reflected light?

Answer: (Three Words: 1, 7, and 8 letters, beginning with A, M, and G (or A, H, and G))
Question 10 of 10
10. Michael Jackson famously performed while wearing a single glove, studded with crystals that sparkled in the spotlight. If a collector begs, whines, connives, and shamelessly manipulates to acquire some of the shiny decorations from Michael's glove, what could we say - in rhyme - that he does?

Answer: (Three words: 2, 7, and 8 letters, beginning with H, W, and S.)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Walking through the fields, I spied one of a pair in a soft shade of grey, like the wings and breast of a cooing bird. What bird-colored item of clothing did I find?

Answer: a dove glove

The idea of a dove-grey glove makes me think of a poem by Frances Cornford.

"To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train"

O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much?
O fat white woman whom nobody loves,
Why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
When the grass is soft as the breast of doves
And shivering-sweet to the touch?
O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much?
2. It was cold, so I slipped my shivering fingers into a handwarmer made of pale, yellow-brown faux fur. What sandy-colored clothing accessory was I wearing?

Answer: a buff muff

A handwarmer made of fur or fabric sewn into a cylinder shape, the muff was a popular alternative or addition to gloves from the 1500s-1700s for both men and women. Later, it became a woman's fashion accessory. My cousin had one when we were children in the 1950s that had a decorative cord worn around the neck; I really wanted one like it, because I frequently lost my mittens, and it looked so warm, soft, and secure, tied behind her neck.

The color called "buff" is the natural color of some fine leathers. I chose "faux fur" for my imaginary muff because that is the kind I would wear today.
3. Not content with wearing cowhide jackets and gloves that look brand new, some people find ways to make these items look older, placing them in water and wearing them wet for a custom fit, even sandpapering and gouging for a worn look. What are these people trying to do?

Answer: weather leather

Can you say it fast: "Red leather, weather leather"? (I know, the tongue-twister goes "Red leather, yellow leather" but mine is harder.) You can form fit a jacket to your shoulders and a glove to your hands and fingers by wearing them wet. Remember Johnny Cochran's famous defense of O.J. Simpson? "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit!" O.J. was wearing latex gloves when he tried on the evidence gloves, which dramatically did not fit, but a new pair of the same brand, size, and style fit easily over the latex gloves.

The expert argued that moisture had caused the murder gloves to shrink a full size, but the harm to the prosecution's case was done.
4. The dog gnawed a hole right through the thumb of one knitted item I need to put on my hand! What do I have now?

Answer: a bitten mitten

Mittens, which have a sheath for the thumb but a rounded common space for the four fingers, have been around much longer than gloves and are warmer because the fingers can move more freely in relation to each other and provide body heat. A mitten at least a thousand years old has been found in Latvia, where the knitting of mittens is still a tradition, very useful in cold winters. Paintings from the medieval period in other parts of Europe show workers wearing mittens, some with three sections. These mittens would provide warmth since a couple of the fingers would be in the same pouch, but allow more flexibility for manual labor than the traditional mitten.
5. I think the dog got to my granddaughter's softball glove, or maybe she forgot to properly season it, because it has a big tear all the way down the middle. What could we call this damaged glove she used as a catcher for her team?

Answer: a split mitt

You can buy baseball and softball gloves that are already seasoned, but the best way to break in a glove is to wear it and play catch repeatedly, until it conforms to your hand and the ball. There are special foams you can apply to season it more quickly, but you can do it at home; most methods involve moistening and applying heat in some way, then rubbing oil into the leather.

A catcher's mitt will crack and split if you don't take care of it properly, but the effort is worth it to have a good glove that fits you perfectly. Until the 1870s, baseball players caught the ball with their bare hands, and the first catcher's mitts were used to deflect the ball to the ground rather than having the hinged design that scoops up the ball as they do now.
6. Medical workers often use disposable gloves made of a special kind of rubber material. If they piled them all in one stack, like a mountain, what might we rhymingly call the very tip top of the pile?

Answer: a latex apex

Since their first use in 1964, latex gloves have been almost synonymous with the disposable medical gloves used in the thousands each day by doctors, nurses, and other medical workers. Their zealous use prevents diseases from being spread from surfaces to the patient or from one person to another. Latex is processed from the sap of rubber trees and other plants, but latex also can be synthesized in the laboratory. Because many people have severe allergies to latex from rubber trees, natural and synthetic substitutes are increasingly being used, even though latex is valued for its pliability and resistance to tearing.
7. If at an animal rights demonstration we are urging a legal ban on the use of the soft skin of young goats in making gloves, what rhyming admonition might we write on our sign?

Answer: forbid kid

An idiom in the English language advises handling a difficult person or situation "with kid gloves" - literally, gloves made from the skin of a kid, or baby goat, a leather that is strong, and at the same time it feels smooth and soft. The first recorded example of a glove made from kidskin is from the 1600s. Opera gloves are traditionlly made of supple kidskin, because they are often very long, covering the whole arm, and allow graceful movement while looking elegant and beautiful. You may find an interesting article with pictures by searching for "opera gloves history" online (as I did) or finding an out of print book by C. Cody Collins called "Love of a Glove", published by Fairchild in 1945.
8. A dealer at a textile market offered cloth made using an ancient process that condenses, mats, and presses down the fibers of wool. How could you say in rhyme that he sold and distributed this woolen fabric sometimes used for gloves?

Answer: He dealt felt

Wool felt is known from earliest recorded history, among the Sumerians of the ancient Middle East, and it is still used for tents and rugs, as well as clothing, in some parts of the world. You can make felt mittens out of pure wool yarn by knitting them too large, then washing them with very hot soapy water, the more abrasion and agitation the better. (You should knit and wash a test swatch first.) Felted wool mittens are much warmer and water repellent than mittens simply knitted from wool yarn.

The word "dealt" has an old-fashioned sound and form, and most of us are more familiar with it from dealing cards than other usages, but "dealt" is the proper past tense for the verb "deal" in this case, too.
9. In medieval Europe, one knight might insult and challenge another by tearing off his long-cuffed glove and throwing it on the ground. If a knight made this challenge on a clear night when the moon was full, what near rhyme describes his glove as it would appear in the reflected light?

Answer: a moonlit gauntlet

The word "gauntlet" usually refers to the heavy glove familiar in depictions of knights, with a cuff that flares and extends over the wrist and lower arm. Gauntlets were made of fabric, various kinds of leather, and of metal armor. There are different styles, some without fingers for more flexibility, some with "knuckle dusters" that added extra punch to the fist during battle. To "throw down the gauntlet" meant to challenge another knight to one-on-one combat.

The challenged knight was expected to pick up the gauntlet to accept the dare.

It was considered a special insult to pull the gauntlet off with one's teeth. The word "gauntlet" has no true rhyme for both syllables at once; "sunlit" might be a closer rhyme, but I liked the idea of a "moonlit" scene. Professor101 suggested "haunted gauntlet" as a closer rhyme, so I added it as an alternate answer.
10. Michael Jackson famously performed while wearing a single glove, studded with crystals that sparkled in the spotlight. If a collector begs, whines, connives, and shamelessly manipulates to acquire some of the shiny decorations from Michael's glove, what could we say - in rhyme - that he does?

Answer: He wangles spangles

Michael Jackson died June 25, 2009, and later that year the white sequined glove he wore while first performing his "moonwalk" in 1983 sold at auction for $420,000, and the glove from the Australian leg of the 1987-88 BAD tour sold in 2010 for $330,000.

In 2012, the first black glove he wore on stage was sold for almost $200,000; the black glove was worn at the 1984 Grammy Awards ceremony, when his "Thriller" album was awarded the Grammy. The gloves are usually described as "Swarovski-crystal-encrusted"; the sparkling objects decorating MJ's gloves also could be called "spangles" (shiny decorations sewn onto garments). Someone who "wangles" will go to any lengths - honest, dishonest, or emotionally manipulative - to get something he or she wants.
Source: Author nannywoo

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