A TEST FOR THE OLD FOLKS HOME

NO Cheating - don't look at the  answers until you take the test!!!
  History Exam...

Everyone over 60 should have a pretty easy time at this exam. If  you are under 60 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.

Then before you pass this test on, put your score in the subject  line. Send to friends so everyone can HAVE FUN!!!!
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 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

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 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 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.