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History
Exam
Grab a pencil and
paper and take this History Exam... c'mon... it's fun!
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
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 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
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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 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!
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