you old geezer

[JustSkye]

Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time at this exam.
If you are under 40 you can claim a handicap.

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 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 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 Sacajewea
c. Princess Moonshadow

16. What did all the really savvy students do 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 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



I'll post the answers in a moment ....

 

[Bushido71XS]

1. B
2. C...X
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. B...X
7. C
8. A
9. B...X
10. C
11. C
12. B
13.B...X
14. C
15. C...X
16. A
17. B
18. C
19. C...X
20. A



Hmmm, getting keen...

 

[JustSkye]

Answers

It was just to lighten the night and kinda make folks smile.





ANSWERS

1. b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe, took till the late '60s to catch on.

2. b) 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) 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) 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.. 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 Summerfallwinterspring. 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..
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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 their wisdom!

12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind is getting keen.

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

 

[sweet soft kiss]

I got 19 of 20... think I will look online for a cheap coffin... just to be ready...

 

[JustSkye]

Mine:

b
c
c
a
b
a
c
a
a
c
c
b
a
c
a
a
b
a
a
a

 

[GeorgeWBush]

And i did not cheat.

1. B
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. B
7.C
8..A
9..A
10..C
11..A
12..B

13..C
14..C
15..A
16..A
17..B
18..C
19..C?
20..A

I sexy and how are you doing.

 

[JustSkye]

I sexy and how are you doing.

So you're older than dirt like me?

I'm doing ok . Packing , procrastinating ...

 

[The_old_man]

I missed 6, 8, 15, 19.

Comments:

#3, Houswifes used it as a way to skim the cream ( if the cat didn't get it first).

#4, all answers are correct as secondary means.

#16, it wasnt the ink, but the alcohol transfer liquid.

 

[GeorgeWBush]

So you're older than dirt like me?

I'm doing ok . Packing , procrastinating ...

I got 18/20 not bad the rc bottle thing my mom had them when we lived in texas.

Packing where you going somewhere fun.

 

[JustSkye]

I got 18/20 not bad the rc bottle thing my mom had them when we lived in texas.

Packing where you going somewhere fun.

Moving soon. Somewhere where it gets very very cold lol.

 

[GeorgeWBush]

Moving soon. Somewhere where it gets very very cold lol.

Well i know it's nowhere near me it hardly gets cold here even in the winter.

Hope you like it there and not gone to long from lit.

 

[someplace]

I only missed one. (#15) Howdy Doody was before my time. I was a Capt. Kangaroo/Bozo Show/Mousketeer type kid.

But I'm NOT old ......yet!

 

[JustSkye]

I only missed one. (#15) Howdy Doody was before my time. I was a Capt. Kangaroo/Bozo Show/Mousketeer type kid.

But I'm NOT old ......yet!

I loved those shows as kid ! I wish they still had stuff like that around too
Things just aren't the same.

 

[Lost Cause]

you didn't mention Beeman's or Clove gum!

How about a 12oz GLASS bottle of Coca Cola in a machine that you first opened the door on, inserted a DIME, and pulled out the GLASS bottle?

Or riding in a car WITHOUT seatbelts?

Or when doctors on tv sold cigarettes?

 

[JustSkye]

Re: you didn't mention Beeman's or Clove gum!

How about a 12oz GLASS bottle of Coca Cola in a machine that you first opened the door on, inserted a DIME, and pulled out the GLASS bottle?

Or riding in a car WITHOUT seatbelts?

Or when doctors on tv sold cigarettes?

Ahhhh those were the good ole days

 

[phrodeau]

Re: you didn't mention Beeman's or Clove gum!

How about a 12oz GLASS bottle of Coca Cola in a machine that you first opened the door on, inserted a DIME, and pulled out the GLASS bottle?

Or riding in a car WITHOUT seatbelts?

Or when doctors on tv sold cigarettes?

For a time, there were machines which kept bottles vertical, like a chest refrigerator, and you were supposed to shuttle the bottle to the extraction point, drop some change and pull it out.

But anyone with a church key, a straw and some discretion could drain the bottles without removing them.

 

[Lost Cause]

We used to go to the beer section in the store with a churchkey, pop a brewski, pound it down, and circle the aisle again.

Weehooo, life before store CCTV cameras!

 

[Weird Harold]

12. "I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey"
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar

Just missed this one.

This was a terribly cruel thing to post as my 55th birthday appraoches. FWIW, most of the questions are about things from before "my time;" it would take someone in their seventies to remember some of these things first hand.

 

[Bent]

I'm not even close to being 40 yet

 

[Justbutch]

Geezers

Next Wednesday will be my double-nickle.....I remember things like living in the Ginza in Tokyo (my father was a pilot in the AF) during the Korean 'Police Action'), and watching the Communists try to overturn our old Ford in the streets below our house.... the famous Orhan Annie Code Ring and Ovaltine, Buster Crab in the Flash Gordon cliffhangers before the Saturday Matinee... I never could understand why my dad would send me to the Matinee even if I had been awful all week.... it took me to adulthood and the rise of my own sexuality to realize he wanted privacy with my mom much much more than disciplining me.... When we were stationed in France, there was no English speaking TV. So we listened to all the great old radio shows of the forties over Armed Forces Radio .... Fibber McGee & Molly, Gunsmoke, The Shadow... The Green Hornet...so much more. Then when we returned there was the Hit Parade with Giselle McKenzie and Regis Philbin... 77 Sunset StripTom Terrific and His Mighty Dog Manfred (Duhh)...Mighty Mouse & Oilcan Harry.....any geezer or geezerettes that this rings a bell for?

 

[Lost Cause]

How about....

Meeting out by the bike racks for a fist fight?
No guns, no knives...just bloody noses and black eyes!

 

[Lost Cause]

Profiling...

Getting sent home from school for wearing boots and a leather motorcycle jacket because you looked like a "Wild One?"

 

[plasticman33]

OK, so I'm older than dirt, what of it!

 

[Draco]

Well, I'm pushing 40 (next week actually) AND NON-American, and only missed 3

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

12. "I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey"
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar

15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajewea
c. Princess Moonshadow

Not bad for being older than dirt

 

[ozraven]

As one whom is just 40 I'm not sure whether to claim the handicap or not, but 13 right............

I feel very fucking old for knowing tha many, particularly when many of the questions were Americanised in there slant and context.