1. Where did headlight dimmer switches on cars used to be located?
a. On the floor shift knob
b. On the floor, left of the clutch
c. Next to the horn
d. Behind the front seat
2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle has holes in it. What was it used for?
a. To capture lightning bugs
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing
c. Large salt shaker
d. To squirt your sisters
3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce.
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled.
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.
d. Drunken milkmen drinking anti-freeze.
4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps
d. Slot Machine
6. What method did women adapt to look as if they were wearing stockings when none was available due to rationing during WWII?
a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks
d. Long gloves on their feet
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
d. Yugo
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
d. Slightly-used bubble gum
8. How was Butch wax used?
a. To stiffen hair cut into a flat top so it stood up
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing
c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust
d. On the private parts of lesbians
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 string or twine
d. Lots of glue
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-moe"
d. Toss a coin
11. What was the worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex?
a. A cold
b. VD
c. Cooties
d. A water balloon
12. I'll be down to get you in a ____, Honey?"
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar
d. Day or two
13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pet pony?
a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c. Macaroni
d. Dumb-Ass
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, covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill
d. Quack, quack, quack
15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajewea
c. Princess Moonshadow
d. Princess Diana
16. What did all 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 pupils name on the top, to avoid failure.
d. Sing out, "Wudden 'posed to be no test today!"
17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
a. To keep you out of mischief 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.
d. She wasn't allowed in other stores.
18. "Praise the Lord, and pass the ____?"
a. Meatballs
b. Dames
c. Ammunition
d. Wine bottle
19. What was the name of the group who made the song "Cab Driver" a hit?
a. Mills Brothers
b. The Supremes
c. The Esquires
d. Robert DeNiro and the Cappolas
e. The Ink Spots
20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?
a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin
d. Liberace
OK So How many could you answer? bring back any memories?
a. On the floor shift knob
b. On the floor, left of the clutch
c. Next to the horn
d. Behind the front seat
2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle has holes in it. What was it used for?
a. To capture lightning bugs
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing
c. Large salt shaker
d. To squirt your sisters
3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce.
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled.
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.
d. Drunken milkmen drinking anti-freeze.
4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps
d. Slot Machine
6. What method did women adapt to look as if they were wearing stockings when none was available due to rationing during WWII?
a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks
d. Long gloves on their feet
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
d. Yugo
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
d. Slightly-used bubble gum
8. How was Butch wax used?
a. To stiffen hair cut into a flat top so it stood up
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing
c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust
d. On the private parts of lesbians
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 string or twine
d. Lots of glue
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-moe"
d. Toss a coin
11. What was the worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex?
a. A cold
b. VD
c. Cooties
d. A water balloon
12. I'll be down to get you in a ____, Honey?"
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar
d. Day or two
13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pet pony?
a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c. Macaroni
d. Dumb-Ass
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, covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill
d. Quack, quack, quack
15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajewea
c. Princess Moonshadow
d. Princess Diana
16. What did all 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 pupils name on the top, to avoid failure.
d. Sing out, "Wudden 'posed to be no test today!"
17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
a. To keep you out of mischief 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.
d. She wasn't allowed in other stores.
18. "Praise the Lord, and pass the ____?"
a. Meatballs
b. Dames
c. Ammunition
d. Wine bottle
19. What was the name of the group who made the song "Cab Driver" a hit?
a. Mills Brothers
b. The Supremes
c. The Esquires
d. Robert DeNiro and the Cappolas
e. The Ink Spots
20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?
a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin
d. Liberace
OK So How many could you answer? bring back any memories?
