[ST] History exam - I got nineteen right

[George <gkeslin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>History Exam (Don't peek at the answers 'til you try it)
>
>
>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 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
>
>2. "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 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
>--------------------------------------
>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.
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>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!
>
>Send this to your friends with your score in the subject line!
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