Are you over 40? FUN LITTLE TEST!!!!!

1. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, "Who was that masked man?" Invariably, someone would answer, "I don't know, but he left this behind." "What did he leave behind?_______________________.

2. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on the, _________________________________Show.

4. The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed ___________________________.

6. After the twist, the mashed potatoes, and the watusi, we "danced" under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the _______________________________.

8. Sachmo was America's "ambassador of goodwill". Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was, ________________________________________.

10. Red Skelton's hobo character was, __________________________, and he always ended his television show by saying, "Good night, and_____________________________.

11. Some of us who protested the Vietnam war did so by burning our ________________________.

12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front, was called the VW. What other names did it go by? _______________________&_______________________.

13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about,"the day the music died." This was a tribute to__________________.

14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it; it was called, _______________________________________.

15 One of the big fads of the late fifties and sixties was a large plastic ring that we twined around our waist; it was called the _________________________.

ANSWERS; 1. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet. 2. The Ed Sullivan Show 3. Route 66 4. To protect the innocent. 5. The lion sleeps tonight. 6. The limbo 7. Chocolate 8. Louis Armstrong 9. The Timex watch. l0. Freddy the Freeloader, and "Good night and God Bless". ll. Draft cards. 12. Beetle or Bug 13. Buddy Holly. 14. Sputnik. 15. Hoola-hoop

It was a television show that was on Channel 11 in New York in the early sixties.....?

But it was on radio in the 40's and even in the 30's <•¿•)>

Courtesy of Snopes

Three different actors ended up voicing the title role during the show's first three months on the air 1933. The original Ranger was a man named George Stenius who left the role after two and a half months to pursue a career as a writer in New York. (As George Seaton, he would go on to a career in Hollywood as a screenwriter-director-producer, winning two Academy Awards for his screenplays along the way.) Stenius was replaced by Jack Deeds, who lasted only a few days before demonstrating himself to be ill-suited for the job. James Jewell, the station's dramatic director, filled in for one performance before hiring Earle Graser, who took over as the Lone Ranger on 18 April 1933.

Earle Graser was the Lone Ranger on radio for the next eight years, until tragedy struck. On the morning of 8 April 1941, he fell asleep at the wheel of his car and was killed when it slammed into a parked trailer. Graser's death presented two immediate problems to The Lone Ranger's producers: a new actor had to be found fast (the show was broadcast live three days a week; no reruns, and no pre-recorded broadcasts), and the transition had to be handled smoothly to avoid alienating the audience with an abrupt and obvious change in actors. Moreover, the many adolescents in the listening audience had to be reassured that it was not the Lone Ranger himself who had died. Earle Graser was so little-known outside of The Lone Ranger (and received scarcely any publicity even for that role), that his name became almost a footnote in news stories reporting the death of the "Lone Ranger."

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