This is a
fairly long quiz, but funny (and scary, depending on your score!)
History Exam...
Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time at this exam.
If you are under 40, or didn't grow up in the States, you can
claim a
handicap.
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This is a
History Exam for those who don't mind seeing how much they really
remember about what went on in their life.
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Get
paper and pencil and number from 1 to 20. Write the letter of each
answer and score at the end.
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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
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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
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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.
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4. What
was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps
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5. What
method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings when
none were available due to rationing during W.WII?
a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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11. What
was the most dreaded disease in the 1940's?
a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio
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12. "I'll
be down to get you in a ________, Honey"
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar
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13. What
was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pet pony?
a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c. Macaroni
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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.
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15. What
was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajawea
c. Princess Moonshadow
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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
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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
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18.
Praise the Lord, and pass the _________?
a. Meatballs
b. Dames
c. Ammunition
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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
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20. Who
left his heart in
a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin
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ANSWERS
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1. b) On
the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in
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2. b) To
sprinkle clothes before ironing. Who had a steam iron?
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3. c)
Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping the bottle
top.
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4. a)
Blackjack Gum.
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5. b)
Special makeup was applied, followed by drawing a seam down the back of
the leg with eyebrow pencil.
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6. a)
1946 Studebaker.
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7. c) Wax
coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water.
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8. a) Wax
for your flat top (butch) haircut.
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9. a)
With clamps, tightened by a skate key, which you wore on a shoestring
around your neck.
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10. c)
Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.
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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.
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12. b)
Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!
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13. c)
Macaroni.
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14. c)
Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an
A-bomb drill.
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15. a)
Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was another puppet.
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16. a)
Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a high.
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17. b)
Put in a special stamp boo k, they could be traded for household items
at the Green Stamp store.
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18. c)
Ammunition, and we'll all be free.
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19. a)
The widely famous 50's group: The Inkspots.
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20. a)
Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today…
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SCORING
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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!
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12 -16
correct: Not quite dirt yet, but you're getting there.
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0 -11
correct: You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your
experiences.
NOW DIDN’T
YOU JUST REALLY NEED THIS 10 OR 15 MINUTE BREAK?!?!!!