memory test for the "senior" members
 

how much do you really remember (answers below)?

1. In the 1940/50s, 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 may have had holes put in it. For what was it frequently used?
a. Capture lightning bugs
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing
c. 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 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.

2. b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing.

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..
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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 their wisdom!

12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind is getting keen.

0 -11 correct: You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your
experiences.

I got 18 of 20 correct, & I'll still argue that rear end of a Tucker could have been the front end of anything else of the era. As to my mom's legs - well, she DID lie in the sun a lot.

Ron (Older than Martian dirt, but not especially smarter).

16 out of 20, and I'm 18. Well almost 19. Wait, thats not any better!:eek:

I missed 6 (which is obviously contested), 12, 15, 19.

Is that something to be proud of? :confused:

Jeremy

Gosh that brought back memories. I still hate to think that far back. :D

18 out of 20, and I am an alien.

I got 18 out of 20 and I wasn't even born 'til the mid fifties. :D

O'course, it takes us a while to catch up with the rest of the world, here in Kentucky. I based my answers on the 1980's. :D

So Randy - do you still do that trick when you don't have nylons? :rolleyes: ;) :)

19 out of 20, but i sorta guessed at the inkspots. love the design of the studabaker golden, silver and grandturesmo hawks though!!!

Of course not. But, I have drawn zebra stripes on my . . . . well, in case I'm caught not wearing underwear. :p :D

I honestly got 12 right. Makes me feel older knowing I got more than 50% correct and I'm only 26. :(

I chose the Tucker, also, Ron. I'd be right there with you, arguing. The other one I missed were the Inkspots (actually my forst choice). I second guessed myself and went with the Esquires.

I got 18 out of 20. We never sniffed the mimeo fluid. We wrote names of students in other classes then dropped the paper on the floor on in the coat closet so it could be retrieved latter. Then we could sell the tests to studeents in the grade below ours for their use next year.

Also,

The old 4-wheel "Chicago" roller skates had toe clamps plus genuine leather straps which went around the ankles of the skater.

I have socks older than dirt.I wear them regularly. :D

Not to be nitpicky (OK, yes it's to be nitpicky) but cars into the '60s and '70s still had dimmer switches on the floor - at least American cars.

Not saying what my score was :rolleyes:

Yea my mom's 1986 (I think) Ford F100 had that dimmer switch on the floor.... I remember that.. :):D:D

On my Volare, It has a dimmer switch on the floor. Goes bad when it gets wet.