I got 14 out of 20 correct.



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History Exam...

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.

NUMBER 1-20, 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, send to friends AND HAVE FUN!!!!

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 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-50'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 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 Francisc o?
a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin

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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 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..


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.

15 correct out of 20 for me.
Yotebuster

guess I'm old as dirt got 18

13 out of 20 but I'm 19 so I got my excuse.

Thouse coke bottle candies are good!

Dimitri

LOL... 12 correct ones..

The intro paragraph should say anyone over 60 will have it easy ...

14/20. I'm only 20 though, so what's my handicap?

codybrown wrote:

14/20. I'm only 20 though, so what's my handicap?

Another young guy here.

Dimitri

Weeell pardon my dumbness, I only got 16/20. shame on me . I thought I was smarter than that. oh well, just a test. later ya'll Dave

Either I spent to much time around my grandparents, an reincarnated as an old fart or spent way to much time in my popular culter history class. I missed #8 and 12. So that's an 18 out of 20 for the 29 year old historian. Guess that means that me taking the test ain't fair.

Rocks are older then dirt..19/20

hey ya'll my mom did the test and got 19 out of 20. so guess even though she's a few years younger than my dad (that would be fireball 3) she's older than dirt.

But I still like those wax cooke-bottles. Get'm at a store in the neighboring town.

19/20 and not even close to dirt, thank you very much.

I hate it when I ace a test like this !!! Confirms that I'm an ole goat.

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

Applied to the hair on the front to make the front hair stand up. For long hair we used Brillcream to make the duck-tails stay in place. "Greasy Kid's stuff."

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

Actually a. is most correct. b. & c are correct too and there should be a D answer too "Electrical tape...the kind made out of cloth not plastic". We made wood box scooters by taking a scate apart and nailing one half to the rear and half to the front.

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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.

This was the first time sugar cubes were used to administer drugs....years later other more recreational drugs were administered on sugar cubes.

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

Taxi????!!!! Heck, we walked to the "picture show" ... Theater....movies?

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

We couldn't fit under our crappy desks. We went into the hall, head to the wall, in the KYAG position.

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17. b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for household items at the Green Stamp store.

This is how I got my first .22 Rifle... a Marlin simi-auto. You could redeam your books for just about anything if you had enough books of stamps. Some items were worth less than a book and they would tear out the required pages at purchase time.

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19. a) The widely famous 50's group: The Inkspots. 20. a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today..

Don't get me started on the music subject. Who was the family series tv star that became a rock (popular) singer and later died in a flaming airplane crash? The airplane was not a jet.

This should confirm my ole goat status.

Well, I'm startin' to get a few years up.....I got 13/20. Not bad for an aussie that doesn't know much about the USA during the 40's.

Cheers, Vince

popgun wrote:

Who was the family series tv star that became a rock (popular) singer and later died in a flaming airplane crash?

You are talking about Ricky Nelson, right? If not I lost a dead singer somewhere.