[Rhodes22-list] FW: HISTORY EXAM

[Ellner]

>  Now that you've all voted.........here's the test!@

   Mary

   Waiting for the ice to be out in Wisconsin


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>History Exam .
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>Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time
>At this exam.   If you are under 40 you can claim a handicap.
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>*** Get paper & pencil & number from 1 to 20.
>****Write the letter of each answer & score at the end.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>4.   What was the popular chewing gum named for
>A game of chance?
>a. Blackjack
>B. Gin
>C. Craps
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>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
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>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
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>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.
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>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
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>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.
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>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..
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>11. What was the most  dreaded disease in the 1940s and 1950s?
>a. Smallpox
>B. AIDS
>C. Polio
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>12. "I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey"
>a. SUV
>B. Taxi
>C. Streetcar
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>13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's  pony?
>a. Old Blue
>B. Paint
>C. Macaroni
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>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.
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>15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on
>The Howdy Doody show?
>a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
>B. P rincess Sacajawea
>C. Princess Moonshadow
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>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.
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>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.
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>18. Praise the Lord, d pass the _________?
>a. Meatballs
>B. Dames
>C. Ammunition
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>19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song 
>"Cabdriv ER" a hit?
>a. The Ink Spots
>B. The Supremes
>C. The Esquires
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>20. Who left his heart in San Francisco ?
>a. Tony Bennett
>B. Xavier Cugat
>C. George Gershwin
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>ANSWERS
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>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.
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>2. (b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing. Who had a steam iron?
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>3. (c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping 
>the bottle top.
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>4. (a) Blackjack Gum.
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>5. (b) Special makeup was applied, followed by drawing a seam down 
>the back of the leg with eyebrow pencil.
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>6. (a) 1946 Studebaker.
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>7. (c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water.
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>8. (a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.
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>9. (a) With clamps , tightened by a skate key,
>which you wore on a shoestring around your
>neck.
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>10.  (c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.
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>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.
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>12. (b) Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!
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>13. (c) Macaroni.
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>14. (c) Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your 
>arms in an A-bomb drill.
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>15. (a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was another puppet.
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>16. (a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a high.
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>17. (b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for 
>household items at the Green Stamp store.
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>18. (c) Ammunition, and we'll all be free.
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>19. (a) The widely famous 50's group: The Inkspots.
>20. (a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today.
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>SCORING
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>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!
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>12 -16 correct/U> :  Not quite dirt yet, but you're getting there.
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>0 -11 correct :  You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your 
>experiences.
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>Send this to your friends with your score in the subject  line
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