Can The Adults Please Smoke? Tawdry Thirteen- Page 31

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:14am

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.


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 agame 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 f lat-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 do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink
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 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 wi! th 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.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:16am

*clings to Addy*

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:17am

I think I have to go sit at the kiddie table having failed Boobsies' pop quiz

*Pipster squeeze*

[shameless]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:18am

I didn't even attempt it, Cookie, because I'm well under 40. :-P

Updated On: 4/16/07 at 11:18 AM

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:19am

Cookie...I'll help you with the quiz. Just cuddle up to me.

[RobbO]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:19am

they let 40-year-olds have computers now?

[DG]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:20am

Hi, Pip.

[Pip]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:20am

I humbly take my seat at the kiddie table in the kitchen. Didn't get very far with the quiz...

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:21am

*places Pip on my lap*

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:22am

t was fun being a baby boomer... until now. Some of
the artists of the 60's are revising their hits with new ones.

They include:

Herman's Hermits--- Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker

Ringo Starr--- I Get By With a Little Help from Depends

Bobby Darin--- Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' a Flash

Johnny Nash--- I Can't See Clearly Now

Paul Simon--- Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver

The Commodores--- Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom

Marvin Gaye--- Heard It Through the Grape Nuts

Procol Harem--- A Whiter Shade of Hair

Leo Sayer--- You Make Me Feel Like Napping

The Temptations--- Papa's Got a Kidney Stone

Abba --- Denture Queen

Tony Orlando--- Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You Hear
Me Fall

Helen Reddy--- I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore

Leslie Gore--- It's My Procedure, and I'll Cry If I Want To

And finally:

Willie Nelson--- On the Commode Again

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:24am

15. sh*t.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:25am

Damn. I only got one wrong. I AM older than dirt!

[Pip]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:26am

Hi, DG!

And Cookie! And Boobs! And Robb! And Shamey!

I DID try some Blackjack gum, once...Didn't like it...

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:28am

RobbO..don't even try it.

Moony..you are just so smart..has nothing to do with your age.

[shameless]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:30am

Hi Pip!


Moony, you're a history geek. Of course, you would know all of that stuff. Feel better?

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:31am

papa plant another one on me please...

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:33am

Yeah, it's all ancient history.


MY history. I need a ham sandwich to make me feel better.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:33am

Cut it tin Moony..cut it tin !!!

[shameless]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:33am

*Lucy coughs*

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:36am

don't touch my ham, shamey!

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:37am

*and touches...* Oh, TMI.

[shameless]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:40am

Moony!!!!

Cookie, it's toucha, you needa the "a"!

Updated On: 4/16/07 at 11:40 AM

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:42am

I gotta work on my accent!

[shameless]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:43am

Whena in doubt, adda an "a".

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:50am

I gotta go practice.

And have a ham sandwich.