Play "Twenty Questions!" - How much do you remember from your school days?

A Friend | JANUARY 14, 2005 | Examiner

[CHARLITE]

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..

[Repub4bush]

I must really be bored I took the test...LOL

I missed 5 out of 20 also. I am 45, so I guess I am supposed to miss more LOL

[highlander_UW]

I also took the test...missed 4...I'm 47. Much of this predates me, actually.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I missed 5. I'm 38.

[A_perfect_lady]

Wow. Only 2 truly stumped me, and I'm only 39. Ah, but I was raised by my grandparents, on a farm in Michigan. So I was born in '65, but I was raised in the 40s. LOL!

[dr_pat]

I missed two (for an A-minus, right?), but only because where I grew up, the rhythm phrase we learned for making decisions was "ensy-peensy-skivery-dick". Oh, yeah, and the Inkspots.

...but I was only guessing on that...

[CzarNicky]

I got 17 out of 20 and I am only 31

[PolishProud]

I'm 68 and didn't miss one answer

[vetvetdoug]

I'm 51 and missed the indian princess from Howdy Doody. For some reason she escaped my memory. Buffalo Bob was my hero.

[506trooper]

I'm an old f@rt 58 - got them all, though I'm not sure I should be happy about it,

[Repub4bush]

OK then you have an excuse for being young and missing only 2.

Boy I am glad you mentioned that farm, or I'd have thought you were lying about your age....LOL

[Keith in Iowa]

I only missed 4 and I'm younger than you...but not much :)

[stylin19a]

I missed 2.
For extra credit...Howdy Doody had an evil twin...what was his name ?

[A_perfect_lady]

My situation was pretty unusual. My mother was the youngest of six, Grandma had her when she herself was 45! Darn old! So I was raised by people born in 1901. We lived on a dirt road, on an 80-acre farm, complete with cows, chickens, corncribs, outhouse, silos, hornet's nests, a well, and flowerboxes made of discarded tires. My sandbox was one of Grandpa's old John Deere tractor tires, just tossed on its side and filled with sand. Once a snake cropped up in my sandbox, and Grandma, tough old bird that she was, fished it out with a garden hoe and chopped it to bits in the driveway.

Yep. I'm not that old. But I'm old.

[KimmyJaye]

Huh. I missed one.

And I remember doing #16 and it sure wasn't to get high. It's cuz it smelled awesome...

[Larry Lucido]

I'm 48 and missed 2. Had to guess on a few of them.

Missed taxi and eenie meenie (seemed like a trick question, since it's still popular now).

[NutCrackerBoy]

bump to the top

[chaosagent]

Actually I believe that Princess Summerfallwinterspring was both a puppet and real person at various times.

[llevrok]

I'm 54. Got them all too. I recall No. 10 and when it changed from "catch a ___ by the toe" to "catch a tiger by the toe". Times change..for the better some times.

[dr_pat]

Howdy Doody had an evil twin...what was his name?

Ted Koppel?