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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Alzheimer's / February 2008A GEEZER TEST
A GEEZER TEST 1. In the 1940's, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located? a. On the floor shift knob b. On the floorboard, 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 saltshaker 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 cap. 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 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 flattop 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 Sacajewea c. P! rincess 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 your 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, that tasted like bubblegum 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. Zavier Cugat c. George Gershwin _____________________________________ Answers tomorrow.  SignatureI had a friend once, but the wheels fell off. Sad, very sad. Nightwing, I got every one with no problem at all. I must be getting old, because I thought everybody knew those! :-) But of course the young ones today wouldn't know any of them. SignatureBest Regards, Evelyn >A GEEZER TEST > [quoted text clipped - 131 lines] > > Answers tomorrow. I've done this before and I am definitely a GEEZER! >A GEEZER TEST > [quoted text clipped - 131 lines] > > Answers tomorrow. Gee, Caroline Kennedy is a couple of years older than I am, and I still got most of these!! Adelle ANSWERS 1. b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe, took till the late '60s 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 gatherings 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 all male, all black group: The Inkspots. 20. a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today (or bad, depending on your taste). SCORING 17- 20 correct: You are not only older than dirt, but obviously gifted with mind bloat. Now if you could only find your glasses. 12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind is definitely muddy. 0 -11 correct: You are a sad excuse for a geezer or you are younger than springtime! I got every one right. I guess I'm in the older'n dirt category! Thanks, Nightwing. A nice diversion. SignatureBest Regards, Evelyn > ANSWERS > [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > 0 -11 correct: You are a sad excuse for a geezer or you are younger than > springtime! > I got every one right. I guess I'm in the older'n dirt category! > Thanks, Nightwing. A nice diversion. I knew most of them, except for #6 and #19 Older than dirt, as well. But I do know where my glasses are - Now, what did I do with my embroidery scissors? SignatureA R Pickett aka Woodstock "Sometimes the facts threaten the truth" Amos Oz, prize winning Israeli author Read my book reviews at: http://www.booksnbytes.com/reviews/_idx_ws_all_byauth.html Now blogging! http://www.journalscape.com/woodstock/ Remove lower case "e" to respond > > I got every one right. I guess I'm in the older'n dirt category! > > Thanks, Nightwing. A nice diversion. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Now, what did I do with my embroidery scissors? I missed number 12. Does that mean there's still hope for me? Or am I irretrievably over the hill? Alan Well, I qualify as a 100% geezer, but I'd rather than dirt, I'll just say that I'm older than the good blackland priairie soil that Dallas and its suburbs have been covering over since 1950. Good blackland cotton land----what a waste for all those Yankees. Cotton in the fields is a beautiful thing at all stages. My husband still keeps three or four stalk of cotton in our garden, just to watch it grow, and to have the grandchildren help him pick it when it's ready. So that's my walk down memory lane this morning. . . . :-) Donna P.S. No serious offense meant to the Yankees, but we native Texans are getting squeezed from intruders both from north and south. I'd like to see walls on both ends. Pretty soon these interlopers will haul us up and deport us because we're native Texans. (Stranger things have happened; ask any Cherokee.) I actually consider an interloper as one whose family members did not lay down blood for the Republic of Texas beginning in 1836---seems to be a good cutoff point. > Well, I qualify as a 100% geezer, but I'd rather than dirt, I'll just say > that I'm older than the good blackland priairie soil that Dallas and its [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > members did not lay down blood for the Republic of Texas beginning in > 1836---seems to be a good cutoff point. My Goodness Donna, that's an awful attitude. I will be moving to Texas sometime in the next couple of years, and I have to tell you that most of the Texans I have met were nice people. My grandsons moved there as babies, and they are nice polite Texas boys who go to UT. I hate to break it to ya, but there were 3 New Yorkers who died at the Alamo. Go to San Antonio and check it out. It's true. It is also a FACT that more people from other places died at the Alamo than actual Texans. Got that fact from my husband who knows these things. SignatureBest Regards, Evelyn (Future Texan and proud to be going there soon) |
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