Posted on 01/14/2005 7:55:32 PM PST by CHARLITE
I missed 5 out of 20........!! not such a hot score! .....but it's a fun test to take......."back down Memory Lane!"
History Exam...
Everyone over 50 should have a pretty easy time at this exam.
If you are under 50 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
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Answers below, in first comment! :)
I'm not of *ahem* the greatest generation BUT I do remember wondering aloud why I couldn't get a jheri curl and everyone else could :o)
and did that life kill any of us? Heck no. My 18 year old daughter has never had the adventure of walking to school. Sad.
My in-laws were playing this game once, and as the only white guy there, I was able to correctly identify what "butch wax" was. I still had to guess, but at least I knew what a "butch" haircut was.
What is that?
Yeah. Back when it meant a male thing.
LOL!!!!!!
Well, I missed number six, about the Studebaker. How i remembered Caroline Kennedy's horse was macaroni, I'll never know. However, I did find an error in the answers, although probably not completely. Judy Tyler played Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was extremely attractive, and also appeared opposite Elvis in Jailhouse Rock. She and her husband were killed in a car wreck three days after filming was completed. Elvis reportedly never watched the movie because of it.
I just looked. Reminds of me Dax hairgrease that my mom used in a futile attempt to subdue my bighair.
A butch haircut or butch wax? Post #27 got it right. It used to be popular with boys. Never heard of any kids putting wax in their hair, though. Grease, yes.
I do remember my father using vitalis.
I remember Score, Brylcreme, and Dipity-Do being popular hair stuff.
Yep, I remember Vitalis. Oh, and "Score" never lived up to it's name.
LOL
It was pink waxy stuff in a push up stick (like deoderant today) that you used to make the front or sides of your butch or crew cut stand up straight.
Like "Spin", on "Spin and Marty". Spin was cool (Tim Considine)
I am 45, and I got two wrong. I must have covered my handicap, I think!
Dang! I missed one. At 49, I guess I am old. I never realise it until I look in the mirror. I FEEL 32! HAHAHA
"not sure I should be happy about it,"
Hey, any age you can make it to is something to be happy about.
I'm 48. I missed the following four.
3(b) (ice on highways)
12(c) (streetcar)
16(c) (another pupil's name on top)
19(c) (The Esquires)
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