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A GEEZER TEST

1. In the 1940's, 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 cap.


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 WW 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 flattop 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. P! rincess 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, that tasted like bubblegum
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. Zavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin

Hey PAT!  I think I got 'em all except for the Howdy Doody show 'cuz we never had a TV!   

I have the answers here.

How will I do this?

Just wait a while and see if others want to guess ..

It's scary...  I got them almost all right!  LOL

OK soooooooo where are the answers?

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 gatherings 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 (or bad, depending on your taste).


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.

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!

PLEASE NOTE THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING A GEEZER. 

I am afraid that I am "older than dirt" as knew all but one of them.  This brought back some good memories.  I didn't know the "Howdy Doody" one although remember seeing the show on TV when we first got it.  However, I was in my late teens so wasn't very interested in that program.

Well LARRY I'm older than dirt, too ... That Howdy Doody one was the only one I didn't get.   

I'm a lot OLDER'N dirt! In fact, I have a correction:

Mimeograph copies were black, because the text was typed on wax covered sheets so that the wax was partially removed by the typewriter keys. Then, they were placed on a round roller face down, so the ink would seep through the wax as the operator turned the handle.

Ditto machines, on the other hand, used paper that carried a special purple ink on the back side of the 2-page form, and then, when the front page was put upside down on the ditto machine, then the ether-like liquid dampened the ink enough that the purple ink would put the impression upon the paper being rolled through the machine.

How do I know all this? Well, when I was a student secretary at Peabody College, my boss used mimeographed materials.

When I opened the day care center for our church, I purchased a ditto machine so we wouldn't have to deal with that messy black ink!!! 

So, I really can claim being "older'n dirt" - I got 'em ALL right! <chuckle>

Ruth Ann

Now, where'd I put my glasses??

i got like4 right.... i knew the wax bottle one, ammunition, eney meny miny mo, and polio.