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GEEZER QUIZ - FUN MEMORIES

1. In the 50s, if you had a flat rear tire, you often had to remove the?
a. Necker knob
b. Curb feeler
c. Fender skirt

2. What color flash bulbs did Dad use for color film?
a. Blue
b. Pink
c. Plaid

3. What was the parking brake called when you were a kid?
a. Emergency brake
b. Pull Stop
c. Breaker. Breaker.

4. Way before Air Jordan, what was a kids shoe of choice?
a. Buster Brown
b. PF Flyers
c. Old Stinkers

5. In what year did Dewey Defeat Truman according to the Chicago Tribune?
a. 1946
b. 1948
c. 1952

6. Before the Orin Man, what technology was part of most home bug deterrence?
a. Shoe Fly
b. Fly paper
c. 50 mm Phlit gun

7. Dixie cups had what printed on their tops?
a. Secret decoders
b. Movie stars
c. WW II propaganda slogans

8. What was the prevailing method of birth control in the 50s?
a. Heavy lifting and cold showers
b. Fear
c. Girdles and crinoline petticoats

9. Jimmy Durante said what at the end of every show?
a. Aloha, my friends.
b. Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
c. Remember, wherever you go, my nose will get there first.

10. Popeye the sailor man; Popeye the sailor man. Im strong to the finish, _ _ _ _ _ , Popeye the sailor man.
a. cause I eats me spinach
b. my dad was big and Finnish
c. the music a bit tinnish?

11. In the quaint greasy spoon jargon of yore, what did 'knock the horns off one, and drag it through the garden' mean?
a. 86 the customer, then kick him out the back door
b. Rare hamburger or steak with tomato and lettuce
c. Cooties

12. Lincoln Logs were for what use?
a. A diary of the presidency
b. Keep track of fat cats who sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom
c. Building toy structures

13. Ward and June bring what to mind?
a. A popular TV series called Leave it to Beaver
b. A Chicago family of butchers and knife sharpeners called The Cleavers
c. Inventors of the clicker, Jack Ward and Ernest June

14. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro are all forms of what?
a. Alcoholic beverages
b. Capitalism
c. Childrens play

15. What was the cheapest way to turn a bicycle into a motorcycle?
a. Baseball cards in the spokes
b. Rig an electric motor with a very long cord
c. Turning left into the path of a Harley

16. Tinker toys date back to when?
a. 1914
b. 1949
c. 1967

17. In grade school, what was the worst thing that could happen to you when being picked for a team?
a. Getting picked last
b. Getting your uniform dirty
c. Not having the team tattoo

18. If we dared to swear and our parents heard us, we immediately found out what _ _ _ tasted like.
a. Meatballs
b. Soap
c. Sarsaparilla

19. What was one thing the Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers would never do?
a. Kill someone
b. Shot a squirrel
c. Eat lima beans

20. What convertible offered an optional radio that automatically increased its volume as the car accelerated?
a. 1912 Franklin
b. 1943 Jeep
c. 1957 Ford Thunderbird




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ANSWERS
1. c) Fender skirts, attached to the rear fenders, covered fully half the wheel streamlining the car.
2. a) Blue
3. a) Emergency brake. We grew up in much more dramatic times.
4. b) PF Flyers.
5. b) It was November 3,1948, when Truman upset Republican Thomas Dewey in the first postwar presidential election.
6. b) Sticky fly paper hanging from kitchen ceilings was common in American homes until insecticides like Flit became available in 40s.
7. b) Movie stars. Most people over 55 recall with nostalgia the Dixie Cup ice cream picture lids that appeared all over America from 1930 to 1954.
In the final year, the lids were in 3D, full color, and styled in left and right action poses. These were used in stereo card viewers for the
3D effect.
8. c) This is a tough one, but the answer is girdles and crinoline petticoats.
9. b) Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
10. a) cause I eats me spinach
11. b) Rare hamburger or steak with tomato and lettuce.
12. c) Building toy structures.
13. a) A popular TV series called Leave it to Beaver.
14. c) Childrens play.
15. a) Baseball cards in the spokes. Who among you never did this?
16. a) 1914 Good then, 1935 Good now, 2000 Good always, read the back cover of a 1935 Toy Tinkers catalog. Charles H. Pajeau and
Robert Pettit, the founders of The Toy Tinkers of Evanston, Illinois,and the creators of the TINKER TOY construction set, knew that the
Thousand Wonder Builders would continue to inspire the imaginations of children because of its easy-to-use, yet versatile construction
system. They are still made today, now by Hasbro.
17. a) Getting picked last.
18. b) Soap.
19. a) Kill someone. I can not remember ever seeing the Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers or other cowboy heroes actually kill someone.
They would just shoot the gun out of the bad guys hand. There was no blood, no violence, just folks wondering who that masked man was.
20. c) 1957 Ford Thunderbird. Hard one but, lets face it, easy answer. The option was available only that year.

SCORING
17-20 correct: You are not only older than dirt, but obviously gifted with mind bloat.
12-16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind is definitely muddy, ready to muck up others.
0-11 correct: You are one sad excuse of a geezer

OTD for sure, got 19. Missed the girdles and petticoats.

Missed 2. Who had bike? But I knew that one anywho.

iguessed fear - cuz that's what worked in the 60,s!

DITTO ... Got 19.

That was fun. Thanks for posting.

Got 19 of them. Missed the Tinker Toy question.

The 57 Tbird was to uppity for us.I had no Idea such a radio existed,got the rest.

Dewey defeats Truman?!

Hail far,....I'm puckered up like a prune that was excavated from Woodstock,....but both Dewey *and* Truman were moulderin' in the grave long before I was born.

Bring it up to post Beaver fuggin' Cleaver so I can participate.

Who is the oldest fugger' in America with internet access, anyway?

I mean,...what's next?

"Who was here when the bullet exited Lincoln's left eyeball?"

Ain't no doubt somebody on here would say, "I've got it wrapped up in Papaw's sock!"

But,....you know,...Dewey?,....Truman?,...

Got all 20, but I was born in the Late Holocene Epoch...

Got 'em all! I was here...two days before dirt!!

Bristoe

We can't help the fact that you didn't get to watch any Tom Mix movies!!

I got all 20, since I will be turning 61 on Monday- My Geezer status is assured!

Anybody who answers more than 11 of them correct has been constipated since Thanksgiving Eve.

"I'd participate but I'm own the pot!!"

I got 18 correct: missed #5 - guessed '46. missed #6 - went with the flit gun(should have caught the 50mm part) memtb

Ha! I turn 69 in a couple weeks.

There's something about that number... Nah. I forget.

I was right in the middle,some of those were waaaay before me

All but three, and Penny got those, so we're a geezer between us.

#8 HAS to be FEAR!!!

What was the popular 'chewing gum' named for a game of chance ?

a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps

Me, too...that stuff just slowed you down a little.

I got 19 correct and I'm only 50.

I missed just one...#7.

Gifted with mind bloat?? I missed one. I tried the electric motor and extension cord trick on the bicycle. Never got out of the driveway.

The man who had sonic chili dog for supper has the right of way at all outhouse intersections.

Black Jack. It's tough to get good licorice flavored gum these days.

Missed two, but by the time I finished, and began this post, I forget which two....just sayin'.....


maddog

I agree... and number 18 would be an ass whippin with tabasco sauce as a side dish...

Missed one, the tinkertoy question. Guessed at the Dixie cup but got it correct. I have never seen a Dixie cup with a top. miles

Missed numbers 7 & 8.
I'm not older than dirt, but am older than asphalt. The 4-lane in front of my house was a dirt road when we moved here