A TEST FOR "OLD KIDS"

The answers are printed below, but don't you cheat.

01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don't know, but he left this behi nd. What did he leave behind?________________.

02. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on The _______________ Show.

03. "Get your kicks, ___________________."

04. "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed___________________."

05. "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________."

06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we "danced" under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the "_____________."

07. "N_E_S_T_L_E_S", Nestle's makes the very best....... _______________."

08. Satchmo was America's "Ambassador of Goodwi ll." Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.

09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________.

10. Red Skelton's hobo character was named __________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, "Good Night, and "________ ________".

11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their_____ _________.

12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW . What other names did it go by? ____________ & _______________.

13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a son g about, "the day the music died."This was a tribute to ___________________.

14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called ___________________.

15. One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the ________________. !

































ANSWERS:

01. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
02. The Ed Sullivan Show
03. On Route 66
04. To protect the innocent.
05. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
06. The limbo
07. Chocolate
08. Louis Armstrong
09. The Timex watch
10. Freddy, The Freeloader,and "Good Night,and may God Bless."
11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned.)
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy Holly
14. Sputnik
15. Hoola-hoop
Send this to your "old" friends.
It'll keep them busy and let them forget their aches and pains for a few minutes.

 

i knew 'em all except #10. that was before me. damn i'm feeling old(& cranky).

 

Cranky is being a Model T!

BTW,
Another test question for US "OLDIES"!

What did Dodge And Ford's Edsel have in common? Hint, Drivetrain part, Dash vs. Steering Wheel.

 

i got #10 wrong also, kinda.
i answered it with another of Red's charectors, Clem Kadiddlehopper.

 

Missed 3 of them.. That make me older than mud, or older than mud with a bad memory..

 

I should have known all of them but got 7 right.
I thought it was Clem also.

Sure takes you back though.

 

both had pushbutton shifters on the dash

 

"the day the music died."

Wasn't that about the ill fated crash that also killed the Big Bopper and Richie Velenz?

Also, a very young (and not yet famous) Waylon Jennings was scheduled to fly on the plane, but gave up his seat to the Big Bopper.

 

Typewriter Drive aka Pushbutton Auto Transmission Buttons. Chrysler Products had them on the left side of the dash, 1958 Edsel's had them in the steering wheel center.

When Packard folded, many of the engineers and design staff went over to the new Edsel Division in summer 1956. One result was the pushbutton transmission technology first used by Packard in 1956. The front end and interior design of the 1958 Edsels is nearly identical to the design of the still born 1957 Packard.

An ironic note: Packards president James J. Nance became head of the Edsel Division in 1956. After the failure of Edsel sales in 1958, Nance was fired, and Edsel division was incorporated into the Lincoln/Mercury Division...forming the M-E-L Mercury Edsel Lincoln Division. As far as Nance was concerned, he was the only person to have been president of two makes of cars (Packard/Edsel) that failed.

 

well,i am not sure what you guys are considering "old",but I am 36 and got 8 of them right

 

i missed 3, but i am only 31 years old.

 

nailed them all!

 

Believe or not I knew them ALL .. no problem.

I could have written the questions from memory.

I was there and I have 2 original Red Skelton paintings myself.

http://www.lewisbond.com/skelton.html

Those were great times and I miss them

 

I guessed #10 as Clem too and thought the parting words were "...and goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are."

 

I missed 2, didn't know # 3 and my dad didn't like Red Skelton so we didn't watch it.