Oldies Nostalga

[martymas]

hi team

try this over-----s test ans see if it applis to you

marty

This is really a great test for the over 40 crowd. Take a stroll down memory lane.

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This is a History Exam for those who don't mind seeing how much they really

remember about what went on in their life. Get paper and pencil and number

from 1 to 20.

Write the letter of each answer and score at the end.

Then, best of all, before you pass this test on, put your score in the

subject line!

1. In the 1940's, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?

a. On the floor shift knob

b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch

c. Next to the horn

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it. For what was

it used?

a. Capture lightning bugs

b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing

c. Large salt shaker

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?

a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce milk

b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled

c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze,

expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?

a. Blackjack

b. Gin

c. Craps!

5. What m! ethod did women use to look as if they were wearing! stockings

when no ne were available due to rationing during W.W.II

a. Suntan

b. Leg painting

c. Wearing slacks

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't

tell whether it was coming or going?

a. Studebaker

b. Nash Metro

c. Tucker

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?

a. Strips of dried peanut butter

b. Chocolate licorice bars

c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

8. How was Butch wax used?

a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up

b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing

c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to

your shoes?

a With clamps, tightened by a skate key

b. Woven straps that crossed the foot

c. Long pieces of twine

10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?

a. Consider all the facts

b. Ask! Mom

c. ! Eeny-meeny-miney-mo

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940's?

a. Smallpox

b. AIDS

c. Polio

12. "I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey"

a. SUV

b. Taxi

c. Streetcar

13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pet pony?

a. Old Blue

b. Paint

c. Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?

a. Part of the game of hide and seek

b What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores

c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an

A-bomb drill.

15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?

a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring

b. Princess Sacajawea

c. Princess Moonshadow

16. What did all the really savvy students d o when mimeographed tests were

handed out in school?

a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you high

b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs ou! t the wi! ndow

c. Wrote another pupil's name on the top, to avoid their fail ure

17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?

a. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like

bubble gum

b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household

items

c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos

18. Praise the Lord, and pass the _________?

a Meatballs

b. Dames

c. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song "Cabdriver" a

hit?

a. The Ink Spots

b. The Supremes

c. The Esquires

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?

a. Tony Bennett

b. Xavier Cugat

c. George Gershwin

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ANSWERS

1. On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in

Europe, took till the late '60's to catch on.

2. To sprinkle clothes before ironing. Who had a steam iron?

3. c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping the bottle

top.

4. a) Blackjac! k Gum.

5. Special makeup was applied, followed by drawing a seam down the back

of the leg with eyebrow pencil.

6. a) 1946 Studebaker.

7. c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water.

8 a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.

9. a) With clamps, tightened by a skate key, which you wore on a shoestring

around your neck.

10. c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

11. c) Polio In beginning of August, swimming pools were closed, movies and

other public gathering places were closed to try to prevent spread of the

disease.

12. Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!

13. c) Macaroni.

14. c) Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an

A-bomb drill.

15. a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was another puppet.

16. a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a high.

17. Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for household items

at the Green Stamp store.

18. c) Ammunition, and we'll all ! be free.

19. a) The widely famous 50's group: The Inkspots.

20. a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today..

SCORING

17- 20 correct: You are older than dirt, and obviously gifted with mental

abilities. Now if you could only find your glasses. Definitely someone who

should share your wisdom!

12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but you're getting ther! e.

0 -11 correct: You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your

experiences.

[CurlingSteve]

I must be older than "older than dirt".

I got them all right.

Pass the Geritol.

[martymas]

ha ha. me to steve

and the irony is im not american.

those Q are americans at the time

tho some are relivent

to others .

marty

[bozodog]

Older 'n dirt, you bet. I got them all correct.

Hoohoo! And looky at this......

[Makai]

Missed the Royal Crown soda one, but got the rest. Yes I'm older than I act.

[blim]

18 right, I'm older than dirt, too! But I wasn't even thought of till the mid 50's

Emailing that on on, thanks, Marty!

Liz

[jimras]

Yup

18 for me, too.

Dang, makes me feel REALLY old

[JDoors]

17 correct still qualifies as older than dirt? I'm outraged! I happen to BE older than dirt, but I'm still outraged!