Al
At 07:25 PM 2/10/2003, you wrote:
Well shoot, I got them all, even though I disagree with the answer to #19. I believe it was the Mills Brothers who had the hit, not the Ink Spots. However, for extra credit, who was the lead tenor for the Ink Spots?
TFlan
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- Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:17 PM
- Subject: ShopTalk: it's snowing
- HISTORY EXAM: (Don't peek at the answers 'til you try it)
- 1) In the 1940s, where were automobile headlight-dimmer switches
- located?
- a. On the floor-shift knob
- b. On the floorboard, 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 milk delivery 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 your 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:
- 1) b. On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls ---
- popular in Europe --- took till the late 60's 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.
- 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 bya 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, movies &other
- public-gathering places were closed --- to try to prevent the spread of
- the disease.
- 12) b. Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!
- 13) c. Macaroni.
- 14) c. Hiding under your desk, &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 all-male, all-black group: The Inkspots.
- 20) a. Tony Bennett --- and he sounds just as good today.
- ______________________________________________
- SCORING: (number of correct answers)
- 17- 20 correct: You are not only older than dirt, but obviously gifted
- with mind bloat. Now, if you could only find your glasses. Definitely a
- GEEZER!
- 12- 16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind is definitely muddy.
- 0 - 11 correct: You are a sad excuse for a geezer --- or you are
- younger than springtime!
