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[mellowmom]

Thought this might be a fun thing to do. Maybe start a thread with a daily joke or "test" to take... Here's one I received this morning that confirmed that in fac, I AM older than Dirt!

My score was 19.

Enjoy

OH, GO AHEAD, TAKE IT.....

Just for fun!!

 

History Exam...
Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time with this exam.  If you are under 40 you can claim a handicap, or that you are blonde!

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!

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 t he 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 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, 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 '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 ar ound 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.  Did they really do this in the 40s????

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..
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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.

Post your score, if you dare!

Carmel

[Tankie]

I scored "older than dirt"....damnit....I just turned 30......

Amy

[JKSRN]

Hi Carmel, great quiz! Only two wrong. Just aged and dated myself big time!!!

Got the leg painting wrong. During the winter here in Sarasota, they have art displays on the Bay. And, one of the displays was a bigger than life(cranes needed to put it together), statue of the famous 'Kiss between the Sailor and the Nurse' in Time's Square, NY, at the end of WWII. The nurse had white seamed stockings on. But, then I goofed and realized, hardly anyone else did during wartime.

As a kid, I never roller-skated, only ice-skated. Oh and yes, we had the white lace-up figure skates back then, too!!!! Same as they have today!!

Thank you so much, Carmel, for the recall of some great memories and some of the very best of times!!! I am old enough to say that those were the good old days!
Joan

[Mike]

I got a 15 and I was born in 1969.... I was a history major once upon a time though, so I guess I am not your average 36 year old.

[DogMa]

I got 18, but most of it either I was guessing or I'd read about it somewhere.

I'm 45 (or will be in three weeks), but even when I was a kid, we got our milk from the supermarket. And holes in the cap of a soda bottle? Never heard of it. (Those weren't the two I got wrong, though. I missed the RC Cola one and the one about the princess on Howdy Doody.)

[supermom]

See---I told ya'll. I am older than it seems. I will be 35 on the 29 of this month. I am not handling this well at all. I took this stupid test and got them all right. My grandpa was a barber, my aunt had a skating rink, my mom has all of the old Howdy Doody dolls. The rest, well, I guess I am a freak of nature. UGH!

[DogMa]

Aw, it just means you're wise beyond your years.

[Serendipity]

13 for me. I'm getting there.

[alpha femme]

i missed 2. i must be as old as i look....

[MISSANNE]

Got like 3 right and I guessed. I feel dumb, but ok cus I'm only 29........bring on the 80's!!!