>DON'T CHEAT AND LOOK AT THE BOTTOM FOR THE ANSWERS!!!
>
>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 and pencil
>and number from 1 to 20.
>Write the letter of each answer and score at the end.
>Then, best of all, before you pass this test on, put your score in the
>subject line!
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>1. In the 1940's, 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 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 Sacajawea
>c. Princess Moonshadow
>
>16. What did all the really savvy students d o 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, 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
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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.
____________________ If you can't read this, you're illiterate.
I didn't keep track, but I got quite a few right. Some I guessed and others I knew.
Also, I love those wax Coke bottles with sugar-water in them! And there's still a dairy aorund here that delivers milk like the old school way, in boxes outside on the porch- it's excellent milk.
