Answers To The Old Geezers Memorys Test

THE ANSWERS 

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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. [I still call it that, do you too? -DAE]

           

4. b) PF Flyers.

           

5. b) It was November 3,1948, when Truman upset Republican Thomas Dewey in the first postwar presidential election. The Trib publisher got the news late.

           

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

            

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, perhaps the most unrealistic, misleading and shallow depiction of family life ever produced for TV.

          

14. c) Children's 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 Builder 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.

As an expert on this particular humiliation, I assure you that getting picked last was far better than not getting picked at all.

             

18. b) Soap.

Was this a regional thing?

Where I grew up, spanking was the generally preferred method for punishing any childhood misdemeanor.

We wouldn't have known a time out to save our lives.

           

19. a) Kill someone.

I cant 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, let’s 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.

        

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