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Quiz for Baby Boomers

How many do you remember?  Start counting.....

1. Blackjack chewing gum

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

3. Candy cigarettes

4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles

5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

7. Party lines

8. Newsreels before the movie

9. P. F. Flyers

10. Butch wax

11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Plaza-9585)

12. Peashooters

13. Howdy Doody

14. 45 RPM records

15. S & H Green Stamps

16. Hi-fi's

17. Metal ice trays with levers

18. Mimeograph paper

19. Blue falshbulbs

20. Beanie and Cecil

21. Roller skate keys

22. Cork popguns

23. Drive-ins

24. Studebakers

25. Wash tub wringers

 

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young

If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older

If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age

If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt

Now take this quiz and have fun remembering:

1.  Name the Beatles

   ______________

   ______________

   ______________

   ______________

2.  Finish the line:   "Lions and Tigers and Bears, _______  ________!"

3.  "Hey kids, what time is it?"  _____  _____  _____  ______.

4.  What do M&M's do?  _____   _____  _____  _____, _____  _____  _____  _____

5.  What helps build strong bodies 12 ways?  _____  _____ 

6.  Long before he was Mohammed Ali, we knew him as _____  ______.

7.  You'll wonder where the yellow went,  "_____  _____  _____ _____ _____ _____  _____."

8.  Post-baby boomers know Bob Denver as the Skipper's "little Buddy."  But we know that Bob Denver is actually Dobie's closest friend,

        ________ G. ________.

9.  M-I-C: See ya' real soon; K-E-Y:   _____?  _____  _____  _____  _____!

10.  "Brylcream:  _____  _____  _____  _____  _____ _____."

11.  Bob Dylan advised us never to trust anyone _____  _____.

12.  From the early days of our music, real rock 'n roll, finish this line:  "I wonder, wonder, wonder....wonder who: ______  ______  ______

          ______  ______  ______?"

13.  And while we're remembering rock n' roll, try this one:  "War...uh-uh, huh...yea: what is it good for? _____  _____." 

14.  Meanwhile, back home in Metropolis, Superman fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and _____  ______  _____ .

15.  He came out of the University of Alabama, and became one the best quarterbacks in the history of the NFL.  He later went on to appear in

       a television commmercial wearing women's stockings.  He is Broadway  _____  ______.

16.  "I'm Popeye the sailor man:   I'm Popeye the sailor man.  I'm strong to the finish,  _____  _____  _____  _____ _____.  I'm Popeye the

        sailor man."

17.  Your children probably recall that Peter Pan was recently played by Robin Williams, but we will always remember when Peter was played

        by _____  ______.

18.  In a movie from the late sixties, Paul Newman played Luke, a ne'er do well who was sent to prison camp for cutting off the heads of parking

       meters with a pipe cutter.  When he was captured after an unsuccessful attempt to escape, the camp commander (played by Strother

       Martin) used this experience as a lesson for the other prisoners, and explained, "What we have here,  __  __  _____  __  _____."

19.  In 1962, a dejected politician chastised the press after losing a race for governor while announcing his retirement from politics.  "Just think,

       you won't have _____  ______to kick around anymore."

20.  "Every morning, at the mine, you could see him arrive:  He stood six foot, six, weighed 245.  Kinda' broad at the shoulder, and narrow at the

        hip.  And everybody knew you didn't give no lip, _____  _____ , _____  ______  _____."

21.  "I found my thrill, _____  _____  _____."

22.  _____  _____ said , "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, _____  _____  _____."

23.  "Good night, David."  "_____  _____  _____."

24.  "Liar, liar, _____  _____  _____."

25.  "When it's least expected, you're elected.  Your'e the star today _____!  _____ _____ _____  _____."

26.  It was Pogo, the comic strip character who said, "We have met the enemy, and _____  _____  _____."

 

Scroll down for the answers:

1. John, Paul, George, Ringo

2. Oh, my.

3.  It's Howdy Doody Time!

4.  melt in your mouth, not in your hand.

5.  Wonder Bread

6.  Cassius Clay

7.  when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent

8.  Maynard G. Krebbbs

9.  Why? Because we like you.

10.  A little dab will do ya

11.  over 30

12.  who wrote the book of love

13.  Absoultuely nothin'

14.  the American way

15.  Joe Namath

16.  "cause I eats me spinach"

17.  Mary Martin

18.  is a failure to communicate

19.  Richard Nixon

20.  Bib John, Big Bad John

21.  On Blueberry Hill

22.  Jimmy Durante:  wherever you are

23.  Good night, Chet

24.  pants on fire

25.  Smile! You're on Candid Camera

26.  he is us