Fun History Exam... (No, not the 1895 one. This is for kids of the 20th century)

[GreenPartyVoter]

Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time at this exam. If 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 and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboa rd 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 whe= n 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 com ing 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-an d-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 in 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 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 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 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 , 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 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.

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.

[ceile]

1. I only missed 4.

I was born in the 70s, so I guess I know most of the answers from watching WAY too much tv.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I knew the car headlight one from my parents having older cars, I guess?

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. The first car I actually owned...

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...was a 1971 Opel Sport Coupe. I had experience driving a 1964 push-button
automatic transmission ragtop Dodge Dart and a Jeep snd field ambulance and
military 2-1/2 ton trucks.
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Until I bought the Opel, all had headlight dimmer switches on the floor (I'm
pretty sure about the military vehicles).
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Bought it in a RUSH -- took it straight home, loaded it up and headed down
South for my new post with the 101st Airborne.
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My dad was friends with the dealer and got me a GREAT deal (I thought --
but the rusted-out exhaust system simply fell off 3 days after I got it).
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Starting to get dark. Probed around FOREVER with my left foot for the dimmer
switch. Finally pulled over and "realized" that it had been "taken out", almost
certainly ruined by the previous owner. They even replaced the carpet perfectly
to conceal its absence.
.
GREAT. No dimmer switch -- luckily my headlights weren't already on bright.
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It was a good 3 weeks before I accidentally found my dimmer "switch" on the
turn-signal column stick.
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I felt like a doofus and a genius in the same moment.
.

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. 18 right (missed the coming-and-going car and "I'll be down to get you in a____")

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It is true.
.
I am officially older than dirt.
.
.
.
(In my best Darth Vader voice) "Dirt... ... ... I am your father."
.
.
.
.
.
Where the hell ARE those glasses?
.
.
.
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AND YOU PUNKS GET OFF MY DAMN LAWN!!!
.

[huskerlaw]

5. I missed 3...

I'm 31. :)

[redqueen]

6. I missed 5...

yep, 40 is getting there I suppose.

[nolabear]

7. I missed two but wasn't born til the mid fifties. But I had a VERY talkative grandfather!

[Deep13]

8. Haven't looked at answers, so let's see how I do.

1. In the 1940s, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?
b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch...

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it.. For what was it used?
No idea, but I really doubt it was for lightning bugs.

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
c.. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboa rd bottle top.
(I'm guessing here.)

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a.. Blackjack (tasted like licorice)

5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings whe= n none were available due to rationing during WW II.
b. Leg painting (they painted seams that stockings had then)


6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was com ing or going?
a. Studebaker
(Shot in the dark. Don't really know.)

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
(gross, but they were around. wax lips too)

8. How was Butch wax used?
a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up.
(Um, "was?")

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key. (I've got a brand new pair of roller skates....)

10.. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-MO.
(Odds or evens. 1, 2, 3 shoot!)

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940s and 1950s?
c. Polio

12. 'I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey'
b. Taxi
(a guess)

13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pony?
No idea.

14. What was a Duck-an d-Cover Drill?
c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.
(3/4" of plywood vs. atomic bomb. That sounds fair.)


15 . What was the name of the Indian Princess in the Howdy Doody Show?
(no idea. too early.)

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.
(See, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items.
(They were on their way out in the 1970s and gone in the 80s)

18. Praise the Lord , & pass the _________?
c. Ammunition (Because nothing says "Jesus" like blowing shit up.)

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song 'Cabdriver' a hit?
a. The Ink Spots
(a guess)

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco ?
a. Tony Bennett

EDIT

Three wrong and one right by chance.

[Inchworm]

9. "Not quite dirt yet, but you're getting there"

So true :P

:hi:

[retread]

10. Only missed 2. I think you have it wrong about Princess Summerfall Winterspring. I remember a human

woman dressed in buckskin, not a puppet.

[sarge43]

11. Missed one. I'm older than dirt.

Those things aren't ancient history; they're my life experiences.

[supernova]

12. I got two wrong

Ha. Fun quiz tho'; lots of memories. :-)


1. In the 1940s, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?
.
b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch...


2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it.. For what was it used?

b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing.
.

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?

c.. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboa rd bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a.. Blackjack


5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings whe= n none were available due to rationing during WW II.

b. Leg painting


6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was com ing or going?
a. Studebaker


7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?

c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

8. How was Butch wax used?
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?
b. Woven straps that crossed the foot.


10.. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?

c. Eeny-meeny-miney-MO.

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940s and 1950s?

c. Polio

12. 'I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey'

b. Taxi


13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pony?

c Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-an d-Cover Drill?

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 in the Howdy Doody Show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring


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.


17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items.


18. Praise the Lord , & pass the _________?

c. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song 'Cabdriver' a hit?
a. The Ink Spots

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco ?
a. Tony Bennett

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Got 'em all right. I am definitely older than dirt.

But I already knew that.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Heheh