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arion

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A Little History Test for the older crowd
« on: February 06, 2010, 10:44:50 AM »

A Little History Test




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 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 1940s and 1950s ?
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 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 mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
a. Immediately sniffed t he 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 l ike 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, & 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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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 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 eye brow 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.


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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Stacey

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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2010, 12:01:42 PM »

Well I'm not quite dirt yet but getting there.  :)
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2010, 12:05:40 PM »

My score=12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but you're getting there.  ;D
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2010, 12:33:14 PM »

Ha.  Cute.  I am in the not quite dirt yet....brought back some memories for sure!!

Hey, Arion, do you have a lot of snow??  I live in Michigan also, but we are missing the storms--we have a dusting of snow, but can still see grass. It is cold tho!
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2010, 12:48:24 PM »

How sad!! I only missed 2!!! I say I'm still not old enough to know all those answers!!! uhhh I have older sisters who told me all about that stuff???? hehehe!!
Kathy ;)
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2010, 01:02:53 PM »

I'm watching with amazement the snow they are getting on the eastern seaboard.  Living up in Marquette usually we get dumped on with lake effect snow.  Several years ago we had 320 inches of snow for the season.  This year has been really weird.  I've got maybe a little over a foot of snow on the ground out in the woods and only used the snowblower a half dozen times since the beginning of the year. 
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2010, 01:55:17 PM »

I actually have in my possession one of the R.C. soda bottles used to sprinkle the clothes.  Pretty cool looking. 
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Linny

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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2010, 10:56:50 PM »

This was before my time too BUT between my honey and I, we only missed 3 so we're older than dirt! :D ::)
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2010, 03:52:17 AM »

oh dear.  i only missed one. i do have older sibs who are the reason i knew some of them, but, bottom line is according to the scoring, i am older than dirt.  :o   

wow. that would make me several bazillion years old. so, with that in mind, i don't look too bad for my age. hahahaha. ok. i must go to bed now.  ;)

claudia
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2010, 11:48:56 AM »

I'm not older than dirt, just smarter than allowed at my age hi hi ;D ;D
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2010, 11:55:43 AM »

Tasha just told me "hi hi" isn't english... sorry I just laughed at you in german :D
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2010, 03:20:22 PM »

LOL Silvia! I thought you just "typoed"!! :D

Claudia, I love that perspective-dirt IS quite old!
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2010, 04:27:40 AM »

Hi..

   & knew most of them . not bad for a kiwi ...a...  at 62 ...
  glass es   what are they no need they tryed to force me to wear them in 55  because i came out of the class room & could not see out side , it was fog never seen it before . hence the glass es ....dumb ...a....& we have our own sayings & ways of doing things & other tid bits .
  ...noeleena...
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2010, 03:01:37 PM »

Did any one catch the error in question 16?  Ditto machine, not mimeograph copies used purple, highly fragrant ink.
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2010, 06:35:41 PM »

I just missed the cutoff, getting 11 correct. I'm not old enough yet to be wise.   :-[
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2010, 06:00:15 PM »

This old pile of dirt has bowls that were purchased with H&S green stamps.  They also had Top Value stamps.

Dianne
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Linny

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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #16 on: February 15, 2010, 12:25:40 AM »

Just saw Blackjack gum at Cracker Barrel the other night!
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Ninny

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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2010, 11:50:14 AM »

Hey Chuck,
Was the ditto machine the one that used spirit masters? I remember a school I worked at in Hawaii in the late 70's used a spirit master copier and the ink was messy! In Hawaii then they were very careful who worked with children...you had to have yearly physicals and drug tests..once I had that spirit master ink under my fingernails and a smart alec nurse told me when I went for my physical, "You need to clean your fingernails." HOW DARE!!! HOW RUDE!! She never told me HOW I was supposed to get that purple junk out from under my fingernails!! Why, I NEVER!!  :o >:( I HATED that ink!!!  :P
Kathy ;)
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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2010, 04:54:04 PM »

I am a trespasser and I proudly got 4 right.

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Re: A Little History Test for the older crowd
« Reply #19 on: February 16, 2010, 09:42:38 AM »

  
A Little AMERICAN History Test.
 
Older folks from other countries may not fair so well.
 
« Last Edit: February 16, 2010, 09:46:13 AM by Fester »
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"Christianity began as a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. When it went to Athens, it became a philosophy. When it went to Rome, it became an organization. When it went to Europe, it became a culture. When it came to America, it became a business."
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