Okay, i want everyone to try this... and i'll post the answers in a few days... don't cheat and look up the answers... this is no open book test... just guess if you don't know the answer...

I myself have not even looked at the answers... they are in a seperate email.
i'll give it a few days then i'll post the answers

History Exam...
Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time at this exam. If you are under 40 you can claim a handicap.

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 & pencil & number from 1 to 20.
****Write the letter of each answer & score at the end.


Then before you pass this test on, put your score in the subject line. Send to friends so everyone can HAVE 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 i f 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 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 inl ine 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 1940s and 1950s?
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 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 st udents 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, 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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My answers (not neccessarily the real answers i'll post those in a few days.

1.b
2.c
3.c
4.a
5.C
6.a
7.a
8.a
9.a
10.C
11.a
12.b
13.c
14.c
15.b
16.a
17.B
18.a
19.c
20.c

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oooh I know 18. its a serj tankian song

<< WWII version

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Yea i don't know any of those pretty much.

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well if no answer post then i guess i wont bother posting the answers lol...

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I tired to do it, but I could answer very few. Most are before my time.

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"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools..."

ah well no one is interested anyways lol... its cool u can close this if u like lol.

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I will probably give it ago when I have them time to spare. Is it okay if I go back to my old school and ask the History Teacher if he will give me the answers?

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hmmm. those are hard questions.

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here's my answers:
1. b
2. b
3. c
4. b
5. b
6. a
7. c
8. a
9. a
10. c
11. a
12. b
13. c
14. c
15. a
16. a
17. b
18. a
19. a
20. a

I'd just like to say that all these questions are based on USA...since I'm not from USA a lot of this was guess work. but some if it is from old movies and such

knoxbox would you be able to post the ansers to these now? I would like to know hat the answers are. It would be intresting to know. I didn't really do much History.

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