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History Exam...
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 do g sle d.
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardb oard 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 f l oors 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 Doodyshow?
a. Princess Summerfallwinter spring
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 wa s 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

Spoiler

ANSWERS

1. (b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular inEurope , took till the late '60's to catch on.

2. (b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing. W h o 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 famo us 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 f ind 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.

Send this to your ('old') friends with your score in the subject line

Kay should ace this test.....

lb13

Why is 40 considered the easy/hard cutoff for this test when most of the questions deal with the 1940's and 50's.....?

I'm happy that I know a few of them though....

lb13

I'm old and dirty.

I'm not quite old enough to remember all of those.

But,

Spoiler

you really could get high from sniffing mimeo fluid. Sort of like "huffing" today.

Before I took the test I knew I was older than dirt, more along the compost line.

Aced the test, remember doing, eating, using, etc. most of the questions - thanks a lot Pea, now I'm really depressed, lol.

Spoiler

Often wondered if the term she's a butch came from the butch wax that was so popular in the 50's, good for ducktails also.

'sigh'

19 out of 20


forget the dirt, I'm older than rock.



(where's my dang glasses?????)

I've owned several cars made in the 70s that had the dimmer button on the floor. I still prefer it that way. Cars today have too many gadgets.

It would be interesting to take a survey of what kids said for the second line of "eeny-meeny-miny-mo."

Thousandaire wrote:I've owned several cars made in the 70s that had the dimmer button on the floor. I still prefer it that way. Cars today have too many gadgets.

It would be interesting to take a survey of what kids said for the second line of "eeny-meeny-miny-mo."

The way Carlin did -- Catch a fella by the toe.

13 - so according to them I'm not as old as dirt.

My teenage daughter would disagree strenuously.

SportsFan68 wrote:

Thousandaire wrote:I've owned several cars made in the 70s that had the dimmer button on the floor. I still prefer it that way. Cars today have too many gadgets.

It would be interesting to take a survey of what kids said for the second line of "eeny-meeny-miny-mo."

The way Carlin did -- Catch a fella by the toe.

I grew up saying "catch a tiger by the toe," and I never heard it any other way until my freshman year in college. I thought the person who said it another way had made it up himself, just to be a jerk. (He was a jerk, actually, but not because he had any originality.)

littlebeast13 wrote:Why is 40 considered the easy/hard cutoff for this test when most of the questions deal with the 1940's and 50's.....?

I'm happy that I know a few of them though....

lb13

I agree with lb. People are 40 who were born in 1968.

I was born before that but most of this stuff is from before my time.

I did get 19 of them but mostly from reading about stuff that was popular before I was born.

silvercamaro wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:

Thousandaire wrote:I've owned several cars made in the 70s that had the dimmer button on the floor. I still prefer it that way. Cars today have too many gadgets.

It would be interesting to take a survey of what kids said for the second line of "eeny-meeny-miny-mo."

The way Carlin did -- Catch a fella by the toe.

I grew up saying "catch a tiger by the toe,"

I'm in the "tiger" camp myself.

And, I'm glad to see that I didn't know but maybe 13 or 14 of these and I think I can lay claim to being older than most of our esteemed residents here.

littlebeast13 wrote:Kay should ace this test.....

lb13

You are really, really, really, really, really, really asking for it, aren't you??

silvercamaro wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:

Thousandaire wrote:I've owned several cars made in the 70s that had the dimmer button on the floor. I still prefer it that way. Cars today have too many gadgets.

It would be interesting to take a survey of what kids said for the second line of "eeny-meeny-miny-mo."

The way Carlin did -- Catch a fella by the toe.

I grew up saying "catch a tiger by the toe," and I never heard it any other way until my freshman year in college. I thought the person who said it another way had made it up himself, just to be a jerk. (He was a jerk, actually, but not because he had any originality.)

I know of one quite offensive version that was popular when I was growing up.....

lb13

kayrharris wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:Kay should ace this test.....

lb13

You are really, really, really, really, really, really asking for it, aren't you??

Have you taken the test yet?

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:

kayrharris wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:Kay should ace this test.....

lb13

You are really, really, really, really, really, really asking for it, aren't you??

Have you taken the test yet?

lb13

Didn't know 4, 6, 8 or 19. So there!

I scored very well, thank you, but only because my coach, HotSeatOrBust, makes me studystudystudy for that other quiz show, the one without questions.

I can't be as old as dirt. I'm pretty sure dirt was already in the second grade when I entered kindergarten.

kayrharris wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

kayrharris wrote: You are really, really, really, really, really, really asking for it, aren't you??

Have you taken the test yet?

lb13

Didn't know 4, 6, 8 or 19. So there!

Even I knew the Studebaker one...

Then again, I only remember that fact from it being mentioned in a 90's Dockers commercial....

lb13

andrewjackson wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:Why is 40 considered the easy/hard cutoff for this test when most of the questions deal with the 1940's and 50's.....?

I'm happy that I know a few of them though....

lb13

I agree with lb. People are 40 who were born in 1968.

I was born before that but most of this stuff is from before my time.

I did get 19 of them but mostly from reading about stuff that was popular before I was born.

Maybe at the time the quiz was originally written most 40 year olds had been born in the late 40s/early 50s.

I only missed one and, to my embarassment, it was a car question (the Studebaker one)! But I know most of these things from my Dad or grandparents. My grandma still uses a coke bottle with a sprinkler when she irons. She also used to keep my grandpa's shirts in a plastic bag in the refrigerator until she had time to iron them.

The first car I had that didn't have the dimmer switch on the floor was my 88 Cougar. But I remember my dad talking about some other switch that was under the gas pedals on 40s or 50s model GMs.

18

An I'm way too young for most of this. I just have picked up quite a bit of trivia along the way.

I knew I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing mimeograph ink...

vettech wrote:I knew I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing mimeograph ink...

Hey, vettech, did you ever get a card from your audition? I'm trying to finish up the 2008 Audition List. --Bob

fanny:

But I remember my dad talking about some other switch that was under the gas pedals on 40s or 50s model GMs.

That would have been the starter switch.

Bob78164 wrote:

vettech wrote:I knew I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing mimeograph ink...

Hey, vettech, did you ever get a card from your audition? I'm trying to finish up the 2008 Audition List. --Bob

Oh yes, sorry to be delinquent in my update. As expected, I got the sad postcard. Thanks for bringing up that happy memory.

To add to my joy, I managed to get 18 right at the ripe old age of 44.