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! :)
Nope, he was always on an air base in the Pacific (Barber Point, P.I., Guam, Diego Garcia(I think), and Whidby Island. Worked on avionics systems. He wants to move back to Whidby.
Oh, and Okinawa too.
We used shaving soap and a block of Alum. The alum makes the soap harden and it holds the flat-top straight
At 64 I got them all right, My only objection to answers is that it was the '47 Studebaker not the '46 the '46 was still rounded like the pre-war cars or the 47 Ford. The '47 was the first of the new style....we called the '54 sedan a "smiling Jap" because of the front.
I missed three of them (5, 13, and 19) and I'm proud that I didn't know #13. :-)
I'm 52 and most of these brought back pretty good memories. Thanks!
Very good. I'm also 58 and got only 17 correct.
A mind is a terrible thing!
Multiple Cheaters? Thought that was par for a 58 year old. From where I'm setting in front of the computer I can see 4 sets not counting the ones I'm wearing.
Heck, I didn't start wearing glasses until 55...still don't wear them most of the day...can't get used to them....if my arms were 2 inches longer, wouldn't bother with the cheaters...don't need glasses for the PC yet, but time is against me...
My 4th grade math teacher drove a Studebaker - never really liked the things because of it. Missed 4 - who would know Caroline's horse's name?
My memory tells me that light dimmers stayed on the floor until the late 60's and early 70's. My '72 Chevy Blazer had its dimmer on the floor, I'm sure.
I saw it in a Life magazine, a picture of her on her horse with the caption giving the horse's name. I was in the fourth grade when Kennedy was assassinated, and this was before that. I have absolutely no idea why I remembered it, except I remember (1) being envious because she had a horse, and (2) thinking if I had a horse, I'd name it Scout (I always liked Tonto better than the Lone Ranger). I've always been great at remembering goofy, non-essential things that will never make me any money or do me any good.
Got 16 right, am the BIG 50 now.
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