Revealing Your Age

Anonymous

Here's a test to evaluate your age based upon things you thought you'd forgotten. My sister (7 years my senior) sent it to me. I scored 18 = 'old as dirt' but I say that I just have excellent recall regarding ancient trivia that was passed down to me !

HISTORY EXAM

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.


NUMBER 1-20, Write the letter of each answer and score at the end.

Then, best of all, before you pass this test on, put your score in
the subject line, send to friends AND HAVE FUN!!!!



1. In the 1940's and early 1950's, where were automobile headlight
high beam 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. Wha t 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 in-line 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-50'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 calle d 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, 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. Hand controls,
popular in Europe, took till the late '60's 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 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 yourexperiences.

ADK

17 - I guess I am older than dirt. However, I was born in the late fifties and some of the answers I knew were not through first hand experience.

candie1971

I am not quite dirt yet!!


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life is a long song

lv2cmp

I'm not quiet dirt yet.

I think I knew most of these because of older sisters,,lmao.

amy

NancyLee13

OMG--I'm older than, Older than dirt because I got all 20 right. I'm 55 so a lot of these were actually before my time, but my brothers used butch wax and I used to smell the purple ink on the copies. How funny!! But I'm REALLY good at Trivial Pursuit so I think that some of my answers came from that. Either that or 55 is Older than Dirt!! Smiles NancyLee

bearlysane111

Nancylee,I am right there w/you;older than dirt and one yr older than you. Sad part is I used to tell the schl children that and they believed me(like being around when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth!)Ha! Got 19/20 and I always wished for an A in school. I got my wish tonight! LOL! You are right abt Trivial Pursuit;love that game and usu my team would win. We are very much alike--Jeeps,work w/small children and from the Glittertush clan,to boot! Thanks,Marin,this was fun and for once something was easy! Wish I could find some of this stuff,again,that was priced like we paid. All the reproductions are so expensive now.

Have a good evening,everyone!
Iris

CherrylH

Older than dirt hre, 17/20. This was fun. Thanks for sharing.

Cherryl

sam408

17 out of 20 -- Also older than dirt! Thanks for the walk down memory lane although most of this was also before my time since I wasn't born until 1957.

Sheila

ravdeb

12 out of 20....ahhhhhhhhhhhhh to be young and "not quite dirt yet". Or just dumb? I was born in the 50's.

lauri

18 -- Not only older than dirt -- older than Baby Boomers! (I was a war baby, born 3 months after D-Day)

newter

That was fun, got 6 right.  Guess I am just too young (dumb from chemo brain) to share anything.  Born in 63.

How long can I keep using chemo brain as an excuse?

Nan72

Woah ! older than dirt....lol  18/20  early 50's baby ..Thanks for the fun:)

JustOne

16/20... I'm 53 and remember my grandmother had a milkman, water sprinkled laundry and put them in the fridge until time to iron, and used me to lick all those green stamps!

~Pam

christineK

I.m just 45 and older than dirt. I got 17 right, an old soul, I guess? The realage.com test says I am in my late 60's anyhow. Breast cancer and diabetes helped me out there. lol

KLynn

WOW 16/20 Very close to old as dirt, only 46 and don't remember much except for the yucky wax bottle candy and the skates.Fun to take ,Hugs KLynn