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[rotciv KOTHRT]

History Exam


Everyone
over 60 should have a pretty easy time at this exam. I
f you are
under 40 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 a nd 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 di
sease 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 Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajawea
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 ba cks,
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 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, swimming pools were closed, movies and other public
gathering places were closed to try to prevent spread of the disease.

12. (b) Taxi. Bette r 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 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 widely
famous 50's group: The Inkspots.

20. (a) Tony Bennett , and he sounds just as good today.

SCORI NG

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/U> : Not quite dirt yet, but you're getting there.

0 -11 correct : You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your
experiences.


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Sir Rotvic Knight of the Halfround Table
MAD, MAD I tell you.They're all MAD.
I am the only sane one here, my Doctor told me I was cured after the shock treatments. Big Brother Is Aways Watching.

[mohrorless]

I got 16 and I was 50/50 on 2 of them and picked the wrong one each time. Not bad for 39.
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Keeper of the Unending keg of PGGBs
Taunter in Training
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Plus

[KWSN Im Not Dead]

Well dont you look Butch!

Only scored 14 myself, but im also only 32, so im ok that with that
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KWSNImNotDead - "I don't want to go on the cart!". It is spelled LooNies.

[Sir Furry Mark]

19/20 - and that is despite not being a merkin
Had to guess 2 of them and I got one wrong...
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(Sir Furry - Occasional member of the Migratory Coconuts)
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." Steve Wozniak

[Grizzly]

Test is rather aimed at USA residents , and I admit I had to guess a couple , Viz :


Cola bottle - gotta be something silly - water sprinkler ? - Yeah !

Score 19 .

Wrong answer was in Howdy Doody Princess - There was no Lady Penelope there , so Princess Moonshadow - UhUh !

Grizzly .

PS : Technically , BlackJack was not a gum , but a chew sweet . Costing a farthing (¼ penny) each .

Leg painting media mainly used was gravy brownig (Bisto) and an eye liner type pencil for the seam .
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Oh Bugger Forgot again - or is it Oh Father Reboot again ?

Ps Grizz in his second childhood - but not his last !

Edihtor of the KoKC (excused spel;l checher'er)

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