Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time
at this exam. If you are
under 40 you can claim a handicap.
This is aHistory
Examfor
those who don't mind seeing how much they really remember about what
went on in their life.
*** Get paper & pencil &
number from 1 to 20.
****Write the letter of each answer & score at the end.
Then before you pass this
test on, put your score in the subject line. Send to friends so
everyone can HAVE FUN!!!!Also
send it back to me.
1. In the 1940s, 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 method did women use
to look as if they were wearing stockings when none were available
due to rationing during WW 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 ca ndy
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 preve nt 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 toreach
a decision?
a. Consider all the facts.
b. Ask Mom.
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.
11. What was the most dreaded
disease in the 1940s and 1950s?
a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio
12. "I'll be d own to get you
in a ________, Honey"
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar
13. What was the name of
Caroline Kennedy's 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 do when dittoed 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 out the window.
c. Wrote another pupil's name on the top, to avoid their failure.
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
ANSWERS
1. (b) On the floor, to the
left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe , took till the
late '60's to catch on.
2. (b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing. Who had a steam iron?
3. (c) Cold weather cause d the milk to freeze and expand, popping
the bottle top.
4 . (a) Blackjack Gum.
5. (b) 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) Een y-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. (b) 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 Summerfallwinterspri ng. She was another puppet.
16. (a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a high.
17. (b) 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 there.
0 -11 correct:
You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your experiences.
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