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take this test guys. it will show your
age. clay& Kay
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 12:17
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
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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 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.
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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!
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