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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Jun 11 2009 : 4:00:28 PM
20 QUESTION HISTORY EXAM FOR FUN *
History Exam............ ......... ...
Everyone over 50 should have a pretty easy time at this exam. If you are under 45 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 & pencil & number from 1 to 20.
****Write the letter of each answer & score at the end.
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 WW 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 1940s and 1950s?
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 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 Summerfallwinterspr ing
b. Princess Sacajawea
c. Princess Moonshadow
16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in SC hool?
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, & pass the _________?
a. Meatballs
B. Dames
C. Ammunition
19. What was t he 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
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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 '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, swi mming 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 Summerfallwinterspr ing. 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 50s 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.
Linda in Scranton, PA
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Jun 16 2009 : 07:18:29 AM
I missed 5, so I guess I'm not quite as old as dirt at 54, lol
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
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| Faransgirl |
Posted - Jun 16 2009 : 01:11:36 AM
Remember when the first PC's came out and you had to buy a TV so you could have a monitor. We had one of those. The only Video games then were Pong and Pac Man. I don't think I have played a video game since.
Farmgirl Sister 572
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| CountryBorn |
Posted - Jun 15 2009 : 5:52:22 PM
I missed 2. I thought it was the Inkspots too.The other one was the taxi one. I am 60, so I remember all from memory that I got right. I don't remember the button starter for a car, but, we have one on our '35 Plymouth. Tom has had that since he was 18 he's 63 now. He is making it into a street rod now. We also have a 40 Olds. So I know a bit about the older cars too.
MJ
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| AmethystRose |
Posted - Jun 15 2009 : 5:14:19 PM
Amie, the roller skates had a leather strap that secured your shoe to the skate at the ankle and around the heel. It also had a little clamp at each side of the toe to hold the front of the shoe to the skate. You would use the key to tighten or loosen these clamps. You could also use the key to lengthen the skate, as your shoe size grew.
In my neighborhood in Philadelphia in the fifties, you took a skate apart for the wheels to make a scooter with a wooden milk crate, a two by four, and two pieces of wood for handlebars. |
| greyghost |
Posted - Jun 15 2009 : 4:51:29 PM
five wrong. I'm 32. So I guess I'm young with an older soul.
And I do pop my popcorn on the stove! |
| Merry |
Posted - Jun 15 2009 : 4:47:40 PM
Its hard for young ones to believe that we didn't always have computers, microwaves and many other conveniences. Remember popcorn popped on the stove in the big pot?
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Jun 15 2009 : 2:38:00 PM
Belle, ain't it the truth...lol
The 2nd time I was in college it was the FIRST time they used desktops....the year before the computer students used the big pile of cards...and I was 32 years old then!
Linda in Scranton, PA
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Jun 15 2009 : 2:35:56 PM
Play Dough still smells the same...!
My little son is not around any more but maybe I'll buy some for me!! LOL
Linda in Scranton, PA
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! |
| Bellepepper |
Posted - Jun 15 2009 : 09:00:32 AM
I don't remember the first calculator, well I do but it was called an adding machine. When my neice went to college, my brother bought her a calculator (TI) It cost him a couple of hundred. I thought it was awful, I thought she was going to college to LEARN, not how to use a fancy adding machine. |
| harmonyfarm |
Posted - Jun 15 2009 : 08:45:04 AM
Oh and to bottle the smell of Play Dough.....maybe Pla Deaux?
I remember on hot summer days, our milkman used to give us "Fudgecicles" and Ice Cream Bars when he delivered the milk. We would come running out of the woodwork when we heard the metal lid on the milkbox close.
A much simpler time for sure!
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
| nubidane |
Posted - Jun 14 2009 : 9:06:06 PM
OH I miss those mimeograph tests!! I would snff & sniff until the smell was gone & then get down to business! Loved that smell. Is there a cologne out there?? Tre Mimeo??.. I would buy it. |
| Amie C. |
Posted - Jun 14 2009 : 6:28:10 PM
I've got a question about the roller skates...I had skates with a key as a kid, but as I remember it, the key was to "unlock" the bottom of the skate - they could be adjusted front to back to fit the size of your shoe. The skates were held on over my shoes with leather buckled straps. Did anyone else have this variety? Or is it the same thing, and I just remember them differently?
My dad works for a milk processing plant, and they still had individual milkmen picking up milk for their routes into the second half of the 70s (when I was a baby, so I'm not quite dirt yet). |
| Faransgirl |
Posted - Jun 14 2009 : 12:03:24 PM
53 here and am older than dirt. I guessed the Inkspots, I knew about them so I only missed that one. My Father was actually a Milkman and took my Mom to the hospital in the Mild Delivery Truck when I was born. You asked about other things we remembered. Does anyone remember the button you pushed in the car to start it, instead of having a key.
Farmgirl Sister 572
May the force of the horse be with you. |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Jun 14 2009 : 05:32:13 AM
I had no idea on #8, #16 and #19. But then I'm only 46!
Farmgirl Sister #35
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| Tapestry |
Posted - Jun 14 2009 : 12:24:03 AM
Got all 20 right but think some of these things I've just heard about and remembered but an awful lot of them I remember...fun stuff. Makes me wish we could all ride our bikes down to the drug store and have cherry cokes at the soda fountain.
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| Sheep Mom 2 |
Posted - Jun 13 2009 : 12:34:35 PM
Well I'm 51 and I only missed one. I remember when the first calculator came out my junior year of high school - the slide rule math geeks had one called "The Bomar Brain" and it was the size of a small 5x7 tablet and about 2" thick and cost around $200. They were testing it's capability and speed against their slide rules before Algebra class. Heck, the one I have in my wallet that cost three or four bucks does more than the original did. Older than dirt? Maybe if you add up all my lifetimes!!! Wiser, probably not....
Sheri |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Jun 13 2009 : 11:50:08 AM
I used to work at a work/study paid job in school. The main thing I did was run the tests on mimeograph. It was a big large wheel type thing filled with ink that would seep into the holes of the master sheet...while I cranked it by hand with a big crank...(I really enjoyed it)then that would seep into the paper...making the copies...I didn't think of the smell as causing a high...but I did enjoy it! LOL LOL
are we getting old to remember when modern copy machines were just invented to way too "expensive" to use even at school! They would only make a few copies and them get too hot and had to cool the machine down.
Also we used the manual typewritters..the keys had to be pushed hard to make them move down...the keys moved far and had to hit the papter with a large enough "tap" or it wouldn't print at all.
wow...if ya got them all right....especially from memory, ya sure are telling your age! LOL
Anyone else remember something interresting? I used hand cranked calculators too...not plug in, neither were the manual needed an electric outlet.
Linda in Scranton, PA
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! |
| Bellepepper |
Posted - Jun 13 2009 : 10:59:22 AM
Lordy, Lordy, I got them all right. I'm 69. |
| Annab |
Posted - Jun 13 2009 : 03:21:15 AM
The memeograph one is one of those that the smell will take you down memory lane.
I was in second grade and still recall sniffing new handouts every Monday. |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 8:02:22 PM
yeah Debbie...good dirt full of worms! LOL
Linda in Scranton, PA
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! |
| harmonyfarm |
Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 12:42:36 PM
I missed the Studebaker one and the Princess "whats-her-name" one. I'm 52. I might be older than dirt but by golly my dirt's organic and full of worms.......
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 07:11:58 AM
I remember most of the 20 but admit some I was guessing and some not from experience.
I remember coke in a cold ice box for 5 cents!
Linda in Scranton, PA
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! |
| kpaints |
Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 07:09:38 AM
Wow, that was a trip down memory lane. Speaking of 'trips' I did not get the smelling mineograph sheets, Ha! I missed two, opps three with the inkspots. It sure is a funny list of memories when you look at it with a younger eye.
I am 63 and we had milk delivered and I remember ice blocks being delivered to the corner lady! Wow, that is old!!!! :D
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 06:38:45 AM
I found it...you are right!
That means I got the answer wrong...LOL
Mills Brothers Cab Driver CD
Mills Brothers Discography of CDs (1 Customer Review)
Regular Price: $11.98
Our Price: $10.99 CD
site address is:
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1013828/a/Cab+Driver.htm
Linda in Scranton, PA
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 06:30:32 AM
http://inkspots.ca/ISALPHAZ.htm
This is an Ink Spots site...
Cabdriver is not on this list of songs by Ink Spots
now to go look up Mills Brothers
Linda in Scranton, PA
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! |
