Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

History Exam...

raiderrescuer

One of the Regulars
Messages
209
Location
Salem Oregon
Get paper and pencil and number from 1 to 20.
Write the letter of each answer and score at the end.

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 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 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


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.
 

Dixon Cannon

My Mail is Forwarded Here
Messages
3,157
Location
Sonoran Desert Hideaway
Eny-Meany-Miney-Mo...

And I didn't look at the crib sheet either!!!
1b 2b 3c 4a 5b 6c 7c 8a 9a 10c 11c 12c 13c 14c 15a 16a 17b 18c 10a 20a.

Give me a Wilkey button!!!.... or a Kewpi Doll!!!

Pretty said that none of these seemed difficult or ancient - that means that I MUST BE! !!!

-dixon cannon

Results: I missed 6c and 12b - interesting!....both are about cars! Do I still get a door prize????
 

carebear

My Mail is Forwarded Here
Messages
3,220
Location
Anchorage, AK
My '71 Ford pick 'em up truck still had the floor dimmer but no clutch. :)

19 of 20, I was taking the streetcar to get her. Didn't have cab fare.

Many of these I got solely from reading and listening to my parents.
 

Atomic Glee

Practically Family
Messages
628
Location
Fort Worth, TX
Heck, my grandfather's old '84 Ford pickup still had the dimmer switch on the floor, and I think my mom's old '88 Ford pickup had it there, too.

My old VW Karmann Ghia features the heater controls on the center console between the seats, and features a windshield washer system that runs off the air pressure in the spare tire (!).
 

K.D. Lightner

Call Me a Cab
Messages
2,354
Location
Des Moines, IA
I guessed at a few of them, got all but two.

But, hey, Butchwax was not only used for flattops, but by some to keep their Ducktails neatlycombed. Ducktails were also called D.A.'s by we who used more obscene words.

Does that date me?

karol
 

funneman

Practically Family
Messages
851
Location
South Florida
History exam,

I missed one. 6-Studebaker, Doh!

My first car was a '55 Bel Air, had the dimmer right there on the left on the floor.
 

jazzbass

Familiar Face
Messages
70
Location
San Francisco
I got 'em ALL right. I did guess at number 16 though. Part of the answer to number 20 is wrong though. Tony Bennet actually sounds even better today than he did then. His voice is like 60 year old cognac. It just keeps getting smoother, more nuanced and more expressive.




jazzbass
 

Forum statistics

Threads
107,023
Messages
3,026,607
Members
52,528
Latest member
Zonko
Top