I missed 2!

> (Don't peek at the answers 'til you try it. Put your score on the subject
> line!)
>
> 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. What was
> it used for?
> 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 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 redeem 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 '60s 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 all male, all black group: The Inkspots.
>
> 20. a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> SCORING
>
> 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!
>
>
>
>
> Larry A. Barnes
> Systems Administrator - HP3000
> Coldwater Creek Inc.
>
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