How old a coot are you? (test)

[John D Harris]

Are you old enough to know the answers to these questions?
NOTE: Young folks are not likely to answer half of them correctly.
Write down your responses--then scroll down for answers...

1. Where did headlight dimmer switches 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. For
what was it used?
a. Capture lightning bugs.
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing
c. Large salt shaker
d. Squirting 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

5. 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 flattop 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 brilling side of the morgastraker

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
a 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 "Cabdriver" a
hit?
a. The Ink Spots
b. The Supremes
c. The Esquires
d. Robert DeNiro and the Cappolas

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?
a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin
d. Liberace

Ready for the ANSWERS?
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ANSWERS
1. b) On the floor, left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe, took till the 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) Cooties.
12. b) Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!
13. c) Macaroni.
14. c) Hiding under your desk, covering your head with your arms in
an A-bomb drill.
15. a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring.
16. a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get 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 all male, all black group, The Inkspots.
20. a) Tony Bennett. And he's still grinding on, today

[J.J.]

I missed the princess' name on howdy doody, but must admit to seeing it in black and white and not paying any attention because 'colored cartoons' came on after it....

[Davros]

Twelve isn't a bad score, considerin ima coming from a country which didn't have Howdy Doody and a few other thangs that yooos guys done got.

Does that qualify me as an old coot? If so, then WOOHOO - where's our "eye candy" .

[skywalker]

Hmmm, 17 of 20. Pretty close to being an old coot, I'd say!

Mark

[Grojlach]

I suddenly feel so young and so full of energy again... Thanks John! I needed that.

[ 08-06-2002, 07:13 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Melusine]

Originally posted by John D Harris: Are you old enough to know the answers to these questions? NOTE: Young folks are not likely to answer half of them correctly.

Nor are foreigners, at a guess. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Attalus]

Hmm, missed 6 and 11. But, I admit that I guessed on the Ink Spots. I clearly remember hearing "Cab Driver" on my father's car radio. PS,on #2, b AND c are correct. In lots of cheap places, like watermelon stands, they used pop bottles as salt dispensers. Also, probably from a misspent childhood, I heard about VD (from service station restroom condom dispensers) long before I heard that you could get cooties from girls. I thought cooties were that game where you put the plastics parts onto the insect body. I guess that was because I never went through the stage when I knew that girls were different but disliked them. I've always liked girls. Melusine, no one would suspect you of being an old coot, anyway.

[johnny]

Originally posted by Grojlach: I suddenly feel so young and so full of energy again... Thanks John! I needed that.

Um Groj, you ARE still young Maybe you shouldn't smoke and drink so much. Perhaps then you wouldn't feel that old [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] Btw, you still didn't explain what Those "twee kroketten" in your avatar at Pandemonium mean.

[Grojlach]

Originally posted by johnny: quote: Originally posted by Grojlach: I suddenly feel so young and so full of energy again... Thanks John! I needed that.

Um Groj, you ARE still young Maybe you shouldn't smoke and drink so much. Perhaps then you wouldn't feel that old [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] Btw, you still didn't explain what Those "twee kroketten" in your avatar at Pandemonium mean. [/QUOTE]Already explained that here, Johnny.
And you're as old as you feel, of course.

[johnny]

LOL Okay thx Groj, i didn't have a chance to check it out yet, damn, and i was quite sure it were kroketten