Quiz For The Oldsters on the Forum

[Big Brother Dunk]

Here's a test for the older members of the forum. The answers are printed below in case you get stuck. Have fun.




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 behind. 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 Goodwill" 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 song 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 ________________

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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
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy Holly
14. Sputnik
15. Hoola-hoop



By the way, I scored 14.5 out of 15. I guessed Clem Cadiddlehopper instead of Freddy the Freeloader in #10.

[montebianco]

I am pleased to report that I only knew 13. Some of them have an odd wording, though; for example, in #14, it is not necessary to remember Sputnik to know what it was called...

[tmosher]

14 1/2 right.

I forgot the name of Red Skelton's character.

So what? I'm almost 47 (conceived during Eisenhower administration).

[Gillianren]

I got most of them. What does that say? (I'm 28. By the time I was born, the Beatles had long since broken up--and, in fact, one of the earliest memories I can put a date to is John Lennon's death. A friend of my older sister's was born the day Nixon resigned.)

[LurchGS]

oh dear.. I feel special.. nailed them all

[farmerjumperdon]

Piece of toast. Challenge us.

[Big Brother Dunk]

Piece of toast. Challenge us.

Hey, at our age just that fact that we remember is good enough for me.;)

[Tensor]

Hey, at our age just that fact that we remember is good enough for me.;)

Remember what?;)

[Maksutov]

15/15

How about some hard ones?

I might be back with a few.

If I remember to...

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[Moose]

11.5, but a lot of this was well before my time, my aged friends. :p

[TheBlackCat]

I knew 11.5 (I must admit my mind went blank on #6, but I do know it).

I have a few:
1. During the mid 60's, a large number of bands from a particular country became very popular in the US. What was this phenomen called?
2. When Elvis appeared fot the third time on the Ed Sullivan show, they were very careful not to show something of his that was considered particularly risque. What was it?
3. Among all its problems Woodstock suffered particularly from the lack of what?
4. What was the catch phrase taught to children on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack?
5. Where were children taught to hide in the event of a nuclear attack when they were at school?
6. VW made another popular automobile besides the beetle at around the same time. What was it?
7. A now unusual car design became extremely popular with the surfer community in the 60's and 70's, so much that it is still seen as the archetypal surfer car. What was the distinguishing feature of this type of car?
8. What was the term for it?
9. What was the most major difference between telephone service up until the late 60's and today? This is not a question about phone technology, it is a question about the policies of the telephone companies.






































1. The British Invasion
2. His hips
3.Toilets
4. Duck and Cover
5. Under their desks
5. A van
7. It has a large amount of visible wooden bodywork
8. Woodie or Woody
9. You rented your phone from the phone company instead of buying it, most consumer telephone lines were shared by several households, long-distance connections were done by operator isntead of directly

Edit: original #6 was erroneous, so it has been deleted (it said origin of the peace symbol was an airplane). Additional answers to #9 added

[montebianco]

Wow, I really failed that one, 2/10. But I think there are other reasonable answers to #10.

[Moose]

6/10 on TBC's quiz. Again, a bit before my time.

[TheBlackCat]

Wow, I really failed that one, 2/10. But I think there are other reasonable answers to #10.
If you list them, I will add them.

[TheBlackCat]

6/10 on TBC's quiz. Again, a bit before my time.
A bit before my time, too.

[farmerjumperdon]

That was a little tougher. I missed #3; and I remember reading somewhere long ago that the peace symbol was derived from a slogan - "Ban the Bomb."

[Moose]

But I think there are other reasonable answers to #10.

Agreed. Some others: Party lines vs individual accounts. Operator-assisted long distance vs direct dial. Tone vs pulse dialing. Pre and post ma-bell. Pre and post Carrot-Top long distance reselling. Pre and post cell-phones. Pre and post answering machines. Pre and post 10c/minute long distance. Pre and post phone booths on every corner.

I'd add metered vs unlimited local calls, but that's a relatively recent concept in Europe, and if I understand right, still not happening in the UK.

[LurchGS]

ok, I forsee a game of Trivial Pursuit looming - again I got them all, though I should point out that the peace symbol thing is an urban myth - that particular design has been around for centuries in many cultures - just like the swastika.

However, it's recent design is attributed to Gerald Holtom in 1958, and he indicates it incorporates the semaphore letters N and D (for Nuclear Disarmament).

[TheBlackCat]

Agreed. Some others: Party lines vs individual accounts. Operator-assisted long distance vs direct dial. Tone vs pulse dialing. Pre and post ma-bell. Pre and post Carrot-Top long distance reselling. Pre and post cell-phones. Pre and post answering machines. Pre and post 10c/minute long distance. Pre and post phone booths on every corner.

I'd add metered vs unlimited local calls, but that's a relatively recent concept in Europe, and if I understand right, still not happening in the UK.
Most of those are either technological changes or occured much later than the late 60's. I will add Party Lines and Operator-assisted long distance. If you include technology, then phones that actually ring would also be a difference.

[TheBlackCat]

ok, I forsee a game of Trivial Pursuit looming - again I got them all, though I should point out that the peace symbol thing is an urban myth - that particular design has been around for centuries in many cultures - just like the swastika.

However, it's recent design is attributed to Gerald Holtom in 1958, and he indicates it incorporates the semaphore letters N and D (for Nuclear Disarmament).
Thanks, I've deleted that question.


While we're at it, in #12 in the original list Volkswagen is not synonymous with beetle, Volkswagen made other cars as well.

[Enzp]

We used to watch Red Skelton as a familty, but I couldn't recall Freddie the Freeloader's name. Otherwise I got all of them in both tests.

The You know you are old when... thread somewhere below contains a lot of old stuff like this.


1. Who was Gerald McBoingBoing, and what was different about him.

2. Many years ago, what was a more common name for Muslims? (Kareem is not the answer)

3. Felix the Cat was a wonderful cat, and he'd make you laugh so much that what would happen to you?

4. What color were STOP signs before they became red?

5. What was on the rear of a penny before they put the Lincoln Monument there?

6. Who was Kookie?

7. What did Smilin' Ed ask his friend Froggy to do?

8. When was the transistor invented?

9. What was the name of the Russian space dog?

10. What did Russian Premier Nikita Khruschev do to emphasize a point in a famous incident?

11. What did Nikita say about the relative longevity of COmmunism versus Capitalism?
















1. Gerald could not talk, but he could make any other sound with his vocal chords. Railroad train, symphony orchestra, you name it.

2. Mohammedans.

3. Your sides would ache and your heart would go "pitter pat."

4. Yellow.

5. Wheat.

6. Kookie was the parking attendant on a detective show 77 SUnset Strip. He was played by Edd Byrnes and was quite a phenomenon. Bonus points if you remember "Baby, you're the ginchiest."

7. "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy."

8. 1947.

9. Leika.

10. He took off his shoe and banged it on the podium.

11. "We will still be there at your burial."

[LurchGS]

good show - I missed #2 and #7 - though upon seeing it, wasn't it "twang your magic Twanger, Froggy"?

1) who played Claribel the Clown?

2) Who played Captain Kangaroo?

3) who invented the rotating light seen on police (and other) cars, and where did he make his money?

4) what TV role did Bobby Troup play?

5) who directed the Warner Brothers animnated classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"?

6) who narrated it?











1) Bob Keeshan
2) Bob keeshan
3) Frank Mars (why else are they called Mars Lights?) - made his money in Candy - particularly chocolate.
4) Dr Early, in the 1972 show "Emergency!" - he was married to Julie London, who portrayed Nurse Dixie McCall - a moderate love interest for Dr Bracket (Played by Bob Fuller)
5) Chuck Jones
6) Boris Karlof

[TheBlackCat]

I did not get a single one of the last two quizzes.

[montebianco]

4/11 and 1/6, respectively. Of course, I might have had an advantage on question 10 of Enzp's quiz, because my username at almost every forum except this one is Khrushchev's Other Shoe.

[Enzp]

I associate MArs Light with railroad locomotives - some of which sport them. I did not know police beacons were called Mars Lights too.

Black Cat, if you are in the UK, I don't doubt we can get some past you. i sure don't have a clue what is on any of your money, aside from, I am sure, the Queen. Nor have I seen your TV from the 1950s.

I never saw Emergency, so I missed that. By 1972, I was out of college and touring with rock and roll bands. Missed a lot of TV then. In fact I saw almost zero Star Trek until reruns later.

1. We all know Captain Kangaroo's sidekick was Mr.Greenjeans. Who were his two Indian pals as Clarabell the CLown?

2. Who were Terry and the Pirates?

3. Identify Nellie Bell.

4. How did Truth or Consequences, New Mexico get its name?

5. Adelai Stevenson was a presidential candidate. What symbol did he use in his campaign? Remember his slogan?

















1. Chief Thunderthud and the lovely Princess Summerfall WInterspring.

2. A newspaper comic strip.

3. Nellie Bell was a Jeep.

4. The town changed its name when the TV show by the same name agreed to broadcasting from there.

5. There was a famous photo of him with his feet up on a desk revealing a hole worn in the bottom of his shoe. Campaign signs featured a shoe sole with a hole in it and the slogan "All the way with Adelai." I think that was the 1952 election.

[Enzp]

We award extra points for that Monte.

[montebianco]

I thought it was Madly for Adelai. If it was, I scored 0.5. If it wasn't, I've been shut out...

[montebianco]

We award extra points for that Monte.

OK, I'd like my extra points awarded to your last quiz, that's where I need them the most :)

[Gillianren]

Isn't "Leika" actually spelled "Laika"?

[LurchGS]

good set - I got 3 of 5 (grew up reading the Chicago Tribune)

Completely missed Clarabell's sidekicks and the Stevenson bit.

[Enzp]

Gillian, you are probably correct. I am probably confusing the spelling with the brand of camera. If I were speaking aloud, you'd never have cought me...

I studied Russian in college, but that was decades ago.

Clarabell's other friends were of course, Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob Smith, and the lesser known Mr.Bluster, Dilly Dally, and FLub-a dub. And a big hand for the "peanut gallery." The origin of that term, I think.

Do you recall that Clarabell had a powerful tool of persuasion?

[George]

I was doing good, but it is getting much tougher.

Thanks for the enjoyable trivia. :clap:

[Enzp]

Clarabell carried a seltzer bottle to squirt folks with.

[Big Brother Dunk]

In Blackcat's I got 7/9. In Enzp's I got 4/11 and 1/5. In Lurch's I got 1/6.
A lot of the early TV questons are tough. I never got Captain Kangaroo up here in Canada.

Anyway, how about some music trivia?

In the following quiz I got 11/15




What was the band name used by Creedence Clearwater Revival prior to December 1968?
Where is the total eclipse of the Sun in Carly Simon's "You're So Vain"?
Who made the musical plea to "be true to your school"?
Who sang the 1963 hit "It's My Party"?
What George Harrison song sounded so much like "He's So Fine" by the Chiffons that it got him into a legal mess?
Which 60's singing group felt glad all over?
Which song opened the movie "The Graduate"?
Who backed up Sam The Sham?
Which band was once known as John & The Quarrymen?
Which group was recording their first album at Abbey Road at the same time the Beatles were recording "Sgt Peppers"?
Which group had the hit "House of the Rising Sun"?
Who fired Jimi Hendrix from his band in 1965 for missing the bus?
Who wrote the song "Respect" for Aretha Franklin?
In October 1969, a rumor, caused by "clues" on Beatle album covers, spread across the world that Paul McCartney was dead. How did the rumor claim he had died?
Jim Morrison's idea for the name The Doors was inspired by the quote, "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear as it is, infinite." Who wrote this?






















1 - The Blue Velvets
2 - Nova Scotia
3 - The Beach Boys
4 - Leslie Gore
5 - My Sweet Lord
6 - Dave Clark Five
7 - Sound of Silence
8 - The Pharoahs
9 - The Beatles
10 - Pink Floyd
11 - The Animals
12 - Little Richard
13 - Otis Redding
14 - A Car Accident
15 - William Blake

[montebianco]

Well, I got 6/15.

[montebianco]

Isn't "Leika" actually spelled "Laika"?

Well, I suppose one could spell it either way, and claim it's a different transliteration...

[LurchGS]

12 of 15... but then, I have a few albums here and there...

[Enzp]

I got 10 of 15. I shoulda remembered the Hendrix, I said the Isleys.

And on #11. WHile the Animals had the big hit, some time later Frigid Pink also had a hit with it. A thoroughly forgetable one hit band, our band played along with them at some sort of campground in Leemington Ontario or someplace on the north shore of Lake Erie. 1972 give or take.

I think she's right Monte, those particular vowels transliterate pretty directly.

[montebianco]

I think she's right Monte, those particular vowels transliterate pretty directly.

A quick Google search, and I came up with at least three different ways to transliterate Лайка :) I also discovered that this wasn't the dog's original name...

[LurchGS]

yeah, original name was Fido 8-{)}

[Enzp]

"John Wayne" wasn't his original name either. We can grant them a little license.

I was pondering the past last night:

1. We used to take our polio vaccine by needle injection. What took the place of the needle? Bonus if you can name the inventor of either one.

2. What happened at Altamont?

3. What is a Gidget?

4. Who were Karen and CUbby?

5. Who portrayed the captain of the space ship in Forbidden Planet?

6. What were the two prominent behavior labels used in Romper Room?

7. What is the significance of the 38th parallel?

8. Who was Checkers?

9. What did DOn LArsen do in 1956?

10. What happened to the US flag in 1959?



















1. The Salk vaccine was delivered by needle, but the Sabin vaccine was delivered by eating a sugar cube.

2. The Rolling Stones hired the Hell's Angels as security for their Altamont concert. The Angels stabbed and killed someone there as the band played.

3. Gidget was a popular beach movie, and the girl of the titular name claimed her name was from girl and midget combined.

4. Karen and CUbby were the two youngest of the original Mouseketeers.

5. Leslie Nielsen, yes Luitenant Drebbin.

6. Always be a "Do Bee," never a "Don't Bee."

7. The 38th parallel was the treaty line separating North Korea and SOuth Korea.

8. Checkers was Richard Nixon's family dog.

9. Larsen pitched the only world series perfect game.

10. the 49th and 50th stars were added representing the addition of Alaska and Hawaii to the other 48 states.

[montebianco]

4/10, plus bonus points for being able to name Salk

[Gillianren]

It's so hard for people to remember that poor Leslie Neilsen used to be a serious actor. Back when the Disney Channel played old episodes of Wonderful World of Disney (I think this was even Wonderful World of Color--bonus points if a chorus is now singing "The world is a carousel of colour" in your head), they used to play "The Swamp Fox" occasionally. This was a miniseries they did on that show a long time ago about Revolutionary War general . . . I've just blanked on his name. But he fought in South Carolina, and they called him the Swamp Fox. ("Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail in his hat/Nobody knows where the Swamp Fox's at!")

The Swamp Fox is played by a very young, brown-haired Leslie Neilsen.

[George]

Does Chubby Checkers count? :)

[LurchGS]

8 of 10 - to think I forgot the mousketeers! - and before my time for baseball

[Enzp]

I liked Swamp Fox too. Francis Marion, I believe. It was to be a series, but didn't it wind up being only a few episodes? Like three?

Can't forget those Mouseketeers. I had a big crush on Annette, and I used to carry a picture of her around in my wallet. And who can forget Roy, the Mooseketeer? I spotted Jimmy Dodd in a movie not long ago, a real movie, not a DIsney exercise.

"Tall Paul, Tall Paul, Tall Paul, He's my all." They just don't write 'em like that anymore...

Yes, Chubby Checkers counts. He says "one, two, three, four," then the song starts.

Gidget was on AMC just this past morning.

[Gillianren]

I liked Swamp Fox too. Francis Marion, I believe. It was to be a series, but didn't it wind up being only a few episodes? Like three?

Half a dozen, I think. And, thank you--Francis Marion it was. All I could remember was the Marion part, and due to previous mention of John Wayne, I couldn't remember if it was his first or last name!

When I was a child, my mother had a tape full of old TV show themes. This means that I can, at the drop of a hat, start singing the themes to shows I've never seen, most of which went off the air long before I was born. You'd be amazed how strangely people look at me when I start singing, "Seventy-seven . . . Sunset Strip (is it an address)?"

[Van Rijn]

6 out of 10 plus bonus. I know about Forbidden Planed because I have a DVD, and I remember Checkers because of the "Checkers Speech" though I only saw it many years after it aired.

I remember getting a polio sugar cube. I'm not quite sure why I remember it, as I was quite young, but I vaguely remember my parents making a big deal about something, and going somewhere and standing in a long line to get a sugar cube.

I also remember my arm being a pin cushion for the smallpox vaccination. I know why I remember that: The pins hurt, and I still have a scar where they stuck me. I don't remember details about the days after the vaccination, just that I didn't like it.

[Big Brother Dunk]

5/10 plus the bonus. I knew Salk but didn't know Sabin.

[LurchGS]

why do some of us weirdos swear when the phone rings and proclaim "Don Ameche should never have invented it?"

who is 'Herbie'?

how many roles did Dick Van Dyke have in the movie "Mary Poppins"










1) ok, this is a bit lame and cheaty - but DA protrayed Dr Morse in a movie
2) The Love Bug
3) 2: Bert, the Chimney Sweep; Old Man Dawes,

[Enzp]

Gillian, so when you sing 77 Sunset Strip, do you add the finger snaps?

And: Hawaiian Eyyyeeee.

Well, I knew Herbie, but the other two escaped me.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone, Morse invented the telegraph code names after him. What did DOn Ameche do again? I loved his work with Frances Langford as the Bickersons. You can actually find recordings of the Bickersons at your local Cracker Barrel restaurant - along with a ton of other weirdness.

I've only seen bits of Mary Poppins, but I know why kids like her.






They can look up her dress as she flies over....

[LurchGS]

Well, I knew Herbie, but the other two escaped me.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone, Morse invented the telegraph code names after him. What did DOn Ameche do again? I loved his work with Frances Langford as the Bickersons.

ouch ouch ouch - burned burned owie!

I meant Mr Bell, not Morse.. that's what I get for watching Mystery! while I work here - Got an Inspector Morse mystery on the DVD player.

[Gillianren]

Gillian, so when you sing 77 Sunset Strip, do you add the finger snaps?

Yup! Even when I'm just singing in my head. (It really scares people on the bus.)

I also find myself using Batman interjections--like, Adam West Batman. You know, "kaplowie" and like that. You'd think I was at least ten, and more likely twenty, years older than I really am.

[Big Brother Dunk]

How about some Casablanca trivia? It's my all-time favourite movie, so these questions were pretty easy for me. Nonetheless, I got one wrong, #7.


1 - What did Rick have that everyone was after?
2- Who said, "Play it again Sam"?
3 - What colour was Ilsa's dress in Paris?
4 - Why did Ilsa leave Rick waiting at the train station?
5 - What line was the basis for the title of a 1995 movie?
6 - Who was the first choice to play Rick Blaine?
7 - Sam was originally meant to be a female. Which African-America actress was considered for the part?
8 - Who owned the Blue Parrot Cafe?
9 - Casablanca takes place during what war?
10 - What is the final line of the movie?
















1 - Letters of transit.
2 - No one said it.
3 - Blue
4 - She was married and found out her husband was still alive.
5 - Round up the usual suspects.
6 - Ronald Reagan
7 - Lena Horne
8 - Senor Ferrari
9 - WWII
10 - Louis, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

[Enzp]

Well, I'll say I blew that one completely. I've seen the movie many times, but can't remember squat.

Holy flashback, Renaissence Girl!

[LurchGS]

blast, 7 of 10... 5, 7, 8 gah gah gah!

[George]

Got 6. The older I get, the better that movie gets.

[Enzp]

OK:

1. Another Pleasant Valley Sunday, here in ______ _______ land. FIll in the blanks and who sang it.

2. Who was Jack Paar?

3. Former president Johnson - LBJ - did something controversial to his dog, what? (I mean what LBJ did to his dog was controversial to the public, I don't mean LBJ did something his dog considered controversial.)

4. Why does NBC have a peacock?

5. Who were Spin and MArty?

6. Who was Mike Fink? What was his title if you didn't use it to identify him already? Bonus for New Yorkers, what does Fink mean?

7. Wonderbread does what in 12 ways?

8. What were green stamps?

9. When cigarette maker Lucky Strike "went to war," what changed?

10. Burma Shave had a unique marketing strategy, what was it?













1. status symbol, Monkees.
2. Early host of the Tonight Show
3. LBJ would lift the dog up by its ears. (Just to a standing position, not off the ground)
4. When color TV started, the Peacock represented the colors.
5. Spin and MArty were characters in a DIsney TV series within the Mickey Mouse CLub.
6. "I'm Mike Fink, King of the River." He was a bad guy in the Davy Crockett series from Disney. He owned a pole boat on the river.
7. It helped build strong bodies 12 ways.
8. Green Stamps were the 1950s equivalent of flyer miles. When you made a purchase at the grocery, they gave you stamps. The number was determined by the amount of your purchase. You pasted the stamps in a saving book, and could turn them in for merchandise.
9. Lucky Strike changed the package from green to white, because the chromium in the green inks were needed for the war effort.
10. The famous roadside poems. A four line poem plus the name Burma Shave,were put on five signs spaced along side highways. There were hundreds of different ones.

In this vale
Of toil and sin,
Your head grows bald
But not your chin
Burma Shave

[Enzp]

Oh yes, "Fink means good bread." (sign on the sides of the trucks from the Fink Bakery)

[Gillianren]

6 - Who was the first choice to play Rick Blaine?


The first, last, and only choice to play Rick Blaine was Humphrey Bogart. The studio claimed that Ronald Reagan was their choice, but it was a publicity stunt. The director had casting approval and had wanted Humphrey Bogart all along.

[ngc3314]

2. When Elvis appeared fot the third time on the Ed Sullivan show, they were very careful not to show something of his that was considered particularly risque. What was it?

2. His hips

My father, a reporter in Nashville at the time who had once gone fishing with Elvis, was on record as having been the first to use the phrase "Elvis the Pelvis" in print, something for which the King never much cared. And as my dad predicted, when he died, that's what his obituary from the AP said...

[Jim]

This seems appropriate to the OP.

http://images.chron.com/apps/comics/images/2005/11/26/Shoe.520.g.gif

[SeanF]

10. What happened to the US flag in 1959?
...
10. the 49th and 50th stars were added representing the addition of Alaska and Hawaii to the other 48 states.
This is not correct, although Alaska and Hawaii did both became states in 1959. Stars are always added to the flag on July 4.

Alaska became the 49th state on January 3, 1959, so the 49th star was added to the flag on July 4, 1959. Hawaii didn't become the 50th state until August 21, 1959, so the 50th star wasn't added to the flag until July 4, 1960.

I actually own a small US flag with 49 stars on it from that one year that it was official. :)

EDIT: My own little flag-related trivia. From 1795-1818, the US flag had fifteen stars. This was the type of flag flying over Ft. McHenry during the War of 1812 that inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star Spangled Banner. But when they added the two stars to make 15, they also changed something else about the flag - something that was changed back in 1818 when the flag went up to 20 stars. What was different about the 15-star flag?

[Jim]

Oh, pshaw! Fifteen stars, fifteen stripes.

At the time, when a new state was added, a new star and a new stripe were added. (Glad they went back to 13; the flag would look awfully busy today.)

[LurchGS]

Oh, pshaw! Fifteen stars, fifteen stripes.

At the time, when a new state was added, a new star and a new stripe were added. (Glad they went back to 13; the flag would look awfully busy today.)


LOL -yeah - can you imagine the size of the flagpole needed to fly it?

[Big Brother Dunk]

I got the first 5 correct, missed the last 5.

Gillianren, I remember now that Bogey was the first and only choice after reading your post.


This seems appropriate to the OP.

http://images.chron.com/apps/comics/images/2005/11/26/Shoe.520.g.gifExcellent!:D Ain't it the truth!

[Gillianren]

Gillianren, I remember now that Bogey was the first and only choice after reading your post.

You know me, fighting misinformation when I can, a little at a time. (Thanks also to those who've caught any of my own bits of misinformation.)

[Enzp]

I think if they kept adding stripes, they would simply make the flag from corduroy.

Sorry about the flag, I was really only going for the addition of the two states to the union, but I had forgotten about the timing of the flag itself. I used the flag as a short cut to the question, but missed the mark. Hey, it was decades ago. And I'm getting old.

I still recall the picture of the giant headlines on an Alaskan newspaper that read, "WE'RE IN." The 48 stars looked so nice and even in their rows, then all of a sudden the rows became uneven. it took a long time to get used to.

[George]

Oh yes, "Fink means good bread." (sign on the sides of the trucks from the Fink Bakery)

Does it also still describe a person who tattles; a rat? I haven't hear the word "fink" in a couple of coon ages.

[Enzp]

I am sure it does, but that has faded. I think the term rat is more common. I still say "far out" from time to time, but "outa sight" has slipped away, and no one has used "swell" in decades. I think fink has gone the same way.

And anyone who says "groovy" deserves a flower stuffed up their nose.

[Maksutov]

Does it also still describe a person who tattles; a rat? I haven't hear the word "fink" in a couple of coon ages.Both words are part of the title of one of the most outstanding movies of all time. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059637/) http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/4879/iconbiggrin1kg.gif

Still waiting for some hard questions. Like, "In the 1950s TV comedy Topper, what was the name of the Kerby's dog? What breed of dog was he? And what did he like to consume?" Googling/IMdBing not allowed.

[Enzp]

Oh, come on, that didn't hurt..George and MArian Kirby's Saint Bernard Neil was a Saint Bernard. He was usually drunk too, on martinis. I loved that show and have a few episodes on tape. The one I want to get may not be out there, but it was the Individual Oats one. Henrietta enters a jingle writing contest for a breakfast ceral, Individual Oats. And of course the ghosts conspire to have her win by blowing the rest of the entries out the window and such. At his droll best, Richard Deacon was the guy in charge at contest headquarters. henrietta's entry was, "Everyone loves Individual Oats. It's the cereal everyone votes...for." Leo G Carroll as the beset upon Cosmo Topper.

Nary a Google nor IMDB involved.


OK, try these:

1. Chesterfields were outstanding and what?

2. Chesterfield had a unique "live" advertising gimmick, what was it?

3. What was Mail Pouch? (probably still is) How did it advertise and what was its slogan?

4. What was Krazy Kat's mouse friend's name?

5. Campaign slogan for the Nixon/Lodge ticket?

6. What was Chief Thunderthud's expression?

7. What was Flub-a-dub's favorite meal?

8. Who was Cleo?

9. Who was Daddy Long Legs?

10. Who played Hennesy?

11. What had one eye, one horn, and flew?

12. What has 18 legs and catches flies?

13. What were the "flying saucer" records of the 1950s?

14. A wayward wind is a what______? And who sang about it?

15. What should you do with a falling star?








1. "Outstanding, AND they are mild."

2. The dancing cigarette pack. A woman's legs stuck out the bottom of a large cigarette pack costume, and she would tap dance across teh stage of TV shows.

3. Mail Pouch chewing tobacco painted their billboards on the sides of barns telling us to "Treat yourself to the best."

4. Ignatz

5. Experience counts.

6. Cowabunga

7. Spaghetti. He'd sing:
Meatballs, meatballs, meatballs
and spaghetti
I'm always ready
for spaghetti

8. Cleo was a dog on TV whose droll thoughts we could hear. Sorta like Look WHo's Talking, but a dog.

9. Fred Astaire

10. Jackie Cooper

11. Purple People Eater

12. A baseball team. A joke of the times, well timeless really.

13. They were silly stories made up like a newscast from clips of popular music of the time. The "reporter" would ask a question and the answer would be a couple words clipped out of a hit song. It had us kids running around saying "Meanwhile, back in the jungle..." all the time.

14. Gogi Grant sang, "A wayward wind, is a restless wind."

15. Catch it and put it in your pocket.

[George]

I still say "far out" from time to time, but "outa sight" has slipped away, and no one has used "swell" in decades.
You're right. "Outa sight" is only useful as a pun (e.g. eye surgery patients; suddenly in darkness) :)

I think fink has gone the same way. After Maksutov's post, maybe not. [Also, is it "pfink"?]

And anyone who says "groovy" deserves a flower stuffed up their nose. You bet!

How about...."right on"? Or the improved version..."right arm!" :) I kinda miss those.

[George]

Tough one Enzp.

I got 4 :(. 11/12/14/15. I liked the Eddie Arnold version of Wayward Wind.

[jfribrg]

Here are a two off the top of my head. Not nearly as difficult as the others:

1) What was the Roach Motel's slogan:

2) What 3 TV sitcoms all had Mr Drucker's General Store in them?

[farmerjumperdon]

I still use groovy, and hip. I also still like Just the facts Jack and Gimme some skin Slim.

How about Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, and The Beverly Hillbillies. (Really guessing on the last one).

[farmerjumperdon]

Oh yeah, they check in and never check out.

[farmerjumperdon]

What show brought The Thinker into everyone's living room?

[jfribrg]

Oh yeah, they check in and never check out.


Correct of course. Anyone with an answer for question two?

[Gillianren]

The one I want to get may not be out there, but it was the Individual Oats one. Henrietta enters a jingle writing contest for a breakfast ceral, Individual Oats. And of course the ghosts conspire to have her win by blowing the rest of the entries out the window and such. At his droll best, Richard Deacon was the guy in charge at contest headquarters. henrietta's entry was, "Everyone loves Individual Oats. It's the cereal everyone votes...for." Leo G Carroll as the beset upon Cosmo Topper.

I want this one, too, as the episode was written by none other than Stephen Sondheim. (Best known for such Broadway shows as West Side Story--for which he wrote the words to Leonard Bernstein's score--A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Sweeney Todd, among many others.)

[ToSeek]

Correct of course. Anyone with an answer for question two?

Yes. (http://64.207.216.12/showpost.php?p=620851&postcount=76)

[Enzp]

Gillian, bless you, someone else who knows what I am talking about. At last. I was unaware the writing credit.

Right on, but I never liked right arm - too contrived.

My wife and I, ever the fun bunch, whenever we see a sign that says "Free" something, as in "Free Parking," We automatically look at each other, raise our right fists and say "Free Parking NOW" AS in "Free the Chicago Seven." And equally irreverently, when we see a sign like "Free Political Prisoners" we can't resist a quick, "Oh, I'll take two, please."

1. OK, the popular show Mod Squad features three people, one of whom was Linc, the black guy. He would raise his right fist and say something to indicate approval, what was it?

2. What is a milk box?

3. We used to get milk in glass bottles. Where did we get cream?

4. (This has been in the media lately) WHo was J. Fred Muggs, where did you see him, and who was he with?

5. Who was married to Ernie Kovaks?

6. The name Bosco associates with two things I can recall. Can you?

7. Who was the Kingfish?

8. Who was Hazel?

9. I like this one. Who was Schultzy and where do we more likely know the actor from?

10. Who was Gale Storm's "mom?" Bonus points for recalling who her father worked for.

11. Who was Darla?

12. Who was Huntz Hall? (Also seen as Hunz Hall)










1. Linc would always say, "Solid."

2. Back when instead of buying milk at the store, many of us had milk delivered to the house. A metal box sat on the porch and it was insulated, and the delivered milk was put in it to stay cold until you came out and got it. That way the dilivery guy needn't get you to the door and you needn't be at home at the time.

In some areas there was a milk door or milk chute built into the wall of the house. A hole through the house wall with a door on the inside and one on the outside left a chamber within the wall. Milk guy put milk in form outside and mom retrieved it from inside. I've seen the door here in Michigan but not back in MAryland/DC where I grew up.

3. Before homogenized milk was common, it would separate - the cream would rise to the top. (Hence that phrase) if you wanted whole milk you shook the bottle vigorously to mix in the cream. if you wanted cream,you poured it off the top into another container, leaving the skimmed milk behind. (Hence that term too)

4. When the NBC morning Today show appeared on TV, they livened it up with the regular appearances of a chimpanzee named J.Fred Muggs. Muggs' co-star was host Dave Garroway.

5. Edie Adams

6. Bosco was an early cartoon character star. A sort of Mickey Mouse without the ears I guess. I haven't seen him in decades, possibly because he appeared like a character in black face. Bosco was also a brand of chocolate syrup for making chocolate milk.

7. The Kingfish was a scheming friend of AMos 'n Andy, a popular radio sitcom series and later a TV show version.

8. Hazel was the title role in a sitcom about a housemaid. Played by Shirley Booth.

9. Schultzy was the assistant to Bob Cummings on his sitcom - aka Love That Bob - about a lady chasing photographer. She was played by ANn B Davis, the housekeeper on the Brady Bunch.

10. On the Gale Storm show, another sitcom, her mother had long before passed away, so when she needed advice, she talked to her father and asked him to be "mom." Usually it was her was of telling her father something without confronting him. "Mom, dad just doesn't understand..." Dad's boss was Mr. Honeywell.

11. A little girl character on the Our Gang Comedies - Li'l Rascals.

12. The "dummy" on the Dead End Kids shows aka the Bowery Boys. Maybe "comic relief" is more charitable. The guy who Rick Neilson of Cheap Trick seems to want to look like.

[Jim]

"Back when instead of buying milk at the store, many of us had milk delivered to the house. A metal box sat on the porch and it was insulated, and the delivered milk was put in it to stay cold until you came out and got it. That way the dilivery guy needn't get you to the door and you needn't be at home at the time."

We had home delivery when I was growing up. No milk box, though. We simply left the back door unlocked and the milkman put the milk in the fridge.

(Anyone wanna try that today?)

Edie Adams did some of the sexiest cigar commercials ever aired. (Ernie, of course, smoked cigars.)

Hazel started out as a comic strip.

Amos and Andy was a great show, and the first with an almost entirely non-white cast. It died an unseemly and untimely death because it was labelled "racist," primarily because of the Kingfish and his family (considered unflattering stereotypes... I simply found them hilarious, black or white). What was missed in all the accusations was Amos, perhaps the most gentle, compassionate, intelligent character on TV - then or now.

(BTW, the actors on the radio show were all white.)

[LurchGS]

I am sure it does, but that has faded. I think the term rat is more common. I still say "far out" from time to time, but "outa sight" has slipped away, and no one has used "swell" in decades. I think fink has gone the same way.

And anyone who says "groovy" deserves a flower stuffed up their nose.


Nobody who loves Army of Darkness can NOT say these things... well, except for 'swell'.

Me, I like to say 'groovy shoes'

[Enzp]

In his own way, Kingfish was a sort of Foghorn Leghorn of a character.

Well, Jim if you recall AMos 'n Andy from TV, do you recall Beulah? Another sitcom. Beulah was a black woman who was a maid for a white family, but the show was centered around her. She was often in the laundry area and people would come to the back door to drop in. The family were apparently helpless, and would not have survived without Beulah's help. I used to enjoy that one.

I forget now the details, but the woman who played Beulah was apparently like a broadway star or something. That of course is something I learned fifty years later, but better late than never. I'll have to look her up.

I read the Hazel strip for years.

Muriel cigars, if I recall, right? "Why don't you light one up, and SMOKE it sometime?" Edie looked pretty good. ANd I was particularly fond of Kovaks. I am a sucker for a good sight gag to this day, possibly because of watching Ernie. Kovaks was all about sight gags.

It is interesting to me that in those very early days of television there were those shows featuring blacks as the central characters, and shown in an affectionate, sympathetic manner. Considering the racial tension about to bubble over at the time, I guess it was not a mystery the shows disappeared. We watched the shows are were not really thinking about the race of the characters. FUnny is funny.

Growing up in and around Washington DC, signs of racism were everywhere. I recall the dual water fountains. Big cooled one for "Whites Only" and the smaller plain old porcelain spiggot job for "Coloreds Only." Once as a kid I wanted a drink and started to get one from the wrong fountain - it was lower and easier for me to get to. I was quickly "corrected" that it was for "colored only" and I shouldn't use it. I didn't care, but it was an isssue to the adults. There were "Whites ONly" signs over entrances to businesses. Times have changed.

[LurchGS]

I forgot to congratulate Enzp - totally smoked me with his list; got only 7.

/me curls up in a little ball in the corner and cries himself to sleep. At least the Avs are winning

[Enzp]

Maksutov wanted hard ones, so I tried. it is tough to remember that far back. it is tough to remember last week for that matter. In fact I don't even remember what I don't remember.

[LurchGS]

heh, that's why I have photos and video tape. And I make my family wear their names taped to their foreheads.

what were we talking about?

[teri tait]

My dad used to yell "Heyooooh" and say 'Thatsa Raaaj" for yes (roger) he used to call us kids "the animals" or "crumbgrabbers" jeez nowadays CPS would be tazerin' him...

[Gillianren]

I forget now the details, but the woman who played Beulah was apparently like a broadway star or something. That of course is something I learned fifty years later, but better late than never. I'll have to look her up.

She was Hattie McDaniels, the first black person to win an Oscar. She won it for her portrayal of Mammie in Gone With the Wind, beating out her white costar, Olivia DeHavilland (Mellie) for the Best Supporting Actress award in 1940. In later years, she was given a lot of grief for playing so many maids, and she said she'd rather play a maid than be one.

[LurchGS]

My dad used to yell "Heyooooh" and say 'Thatsa Raaaj" for yes (roger) he used to call us kids "the animals" or "crumbgrabbers" jeez nowadays CPS would be tazerin' him...

heh, I should be on the lookout, then. I call the kids "The Monsters" (even had a website way back in the dark ages of the WEB devoted to them)

[Big Brother Dunk]

Oh man!
Enzp I got only 4/10 in your two latest offerings.. Those were pretty tough.

I recalled both the Roach Motel and Drucker's Store answers. Right on!!:D

[Enzp]

I'm trying to think of things from my youth that were not TV related.

1. Who was the Splendid Splinter?

2. WHo was Johnny Unitas?

3. Who was Cassius Clay? (OK, so it's a lob.)

4. Who was Lew Alcindor?

5. The First Edition had a big hit song. Name it and the lead singer.

6. What is the connection between Andrea Doria and Stockholm?

7. What happened on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior?

8. What naval milestone was reached in 1958?

9. "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" starts out a letter to home from where? Who "wrote" it?

10. Who was Gary Powers?

11. Who "invaded" the US in 1964.















1. Ted Williams. Baseball player.
2. Quarterback of the Baltimore Colts football team.
3. Changed his name to Mohammed Ali, yes the prize fighter.
4. Changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketballer.
5. Kenny Rogers first hit - Just Dropped In To See WHat COndition My Condition Was In.
6. They were ships that collided, the Adrea Doria was sunk.
7. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank mysteriously.
8. The atomic submarine Nautilus sailed under the north pole.
9. Alan Sherman had a hit with the novely record about "Camp Grenada."
10. GAry Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union in his U2 spyplane.
11. The British invasion was led by the Beatles. They were very popular, there were four of them.


Not much left in my memory closet.

[Jim]

The British invasion was led by the Beatles. They were very popular, there were four of them.

Oh, Lord, do we really have to explain that to people?

Enzp, I do remember Beulah.

And, yeah, Ernie Kovacs was the master of sight gags. My all-time favorite bit is still The Nairobi Trio (http://www.tvacres.com/simians_gorillas_nairobi.htm) (music (http://www.tvacres.com/images/solfeggio.wav)). Of course, I had a huge crush on Edie Adams (http://edieadams.org/IMAGES_FIN/MAIN-muriel.jpg).

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[Hutch]

Enzp, got 10 of 11 on the last one as I been catching up on this entertaining thread.

OK, a couple new ones, not too hard, I think:

1. What did YA Tittle do for a living?

2. What is Charlie Starkweather famous for?

3. A 'miracle" drug released in the 60's was withdrawn when it caused Birth Deformities (mostly withered arms and legs). What was it called?

4. A device used to help Polio patients in the latter stages of the disease was called an ______ _______.

5. The French Steamship Grandcamp did something in 1947. What was it and where did it do it?


















1. He was a Football Quarterback for the NY Giants

2. He and his girlfriend killed 11-15 people in 1958

3. Thalidomide

4. Iron Lung

5. It blew up in the port of Texas City, killing nearly 500 people.

[SeanF]

2. What is Charlie Starkweather famous for?
3. A 'miracle" drug released in the 60's was withdrawn when it caused Birth Deformities (mostly withered arms and legs). What was it called?
You been listening to Billy Joel? Those two are in consecutive lines! :D

[Hutch]

You been listening to Billy Joel? Those two are in consecutive lines! :D

Well, I didn't start the fire...but yeah, when i was thinking of topics for this thread, the song was in the back of my mind.

[LurchGS]

tsk - these last two were skaters, missed 1 between Hutch and ENZP (never heard of starkweather)


What was the name of the first US 'submarine'?

What was the name of the ironclad that fought the Monitor?

Who earned the nickname "Lincoln's Commando"?

What was 'Fatty' Arbuckle's real first name?















The Turtle

The Virginia (re-crhistened by the Confederacy, built by the north as the Merrimack)

Cmdr William B Cushing (his brother commanded the field battery that stopped Pickett's charge)

Roscoe

[Enzp]

I couldn't recall Starkweather but knew the name, and didn't know the ship. Thalidomide was a big deal. The birth defects were bizarre, commonly turned out as missing arms. Like hands extending from shoulders. I heard not long ago that Thalidomide was making a bit of a comeback, with appropriate warnings of course.

YA Tittle had even less hair than Terry Bradshaw as I recall.

Iron lungs were frightening things to us kids back when.

I missed the commando and couldn't recall fatty, though I had known it in the past. Gee, I seem to score better on the quizes I make up myself.

Jim, we used to joke about explaining the Beatles, but not long ago some 17 year old restaurant hostess told me, "Yeah, I think I have heard of them."

My favorite Kovaks bit is him as a burglar. He opens a living room window from outside. (we are viewing from inside) As he does so a ping pong ball falls out. He climbs in and starts looking around, Opens a box and a couple ping pong balls fall out. Looks behind a wall picture and a few balls fall out. Every place he looks and increasing number of ping pong balls come out and bounce around. Eventually he finds the wall safe behind a big picture. When he removes the picture a pile of balls falls around him.

Ernie cracks the combination on the safe and opens it, only to have a flood of ping pong balls come gushing out. (Like Captain Kirk and the tribbles.) The poor burglar is giving up now, so he crosses to the window and starts to step out, when a flash of lightning and a peal of thunder ring out. Outside the window it starts raining ping pong balls. Close up of his I can't win face and fade. I wish I could find it on video. I think the Nairobi Trio has become his signature piece. The music is clear in my head to this day.

I am not so young any more, but I wasn't around to remember the civil war, actually. I know those things from history.

OK, here are a couple more


1. WHo was Ross Bagdasarian?

2. "How much is that doggy in the window? "_____ _____"

3. Elvis' first records played at what speed?

4. Elvis sang a song on the Steve Allen show. What was unusual about the performance?

5. (This one is for Stevarino fans) On the Steve Allen show, they often did bits out in the street behind the studio. What was the name of the street?

6. What was the point of Cootie?

7. What was different about the Mr.Potato Head in the 1950s?

8. WHy might Richard Nixon hate the TV during the 1960 presidential election campaign?

9. WHo railed against the "nattering nabobs of negativism."

10. Where was the "Thrilla in Manilla" held?













1. The voice of David Seville and the Chipmunks.

2. Arf! Arf! (Also give credit for "the one with the waggly tail."

3. 78rpm

4. He sung "Hound Dog" to a live bassett hound sitting on a stool.

5. LA Mirada Street.

6. It was a game where you put legs, eyes, proboscis, on a plastic bug's body.

7. You used an actual potato, you didn't get a plastic body.

8. He refused to use makeup for a televised debate with Jack Kennedy, and he looked awful on the TV. SOme say it might have been enough to tip the election away.

9. Vice President Spiro Agnew.

10. Manilla, of course.

[Maksutov]

Maksutov wanted hard ones, so I tried. it is tough to remember that far back. it is tough to remember last week for that matter. In fact I don't even remember what I don't remember.Thanks, Enzp! Some of those were real doozies. But, I keep forgetting that the answers are listed in the same post right after the questions.

I was thinking something where the answers are posted later might be even more challenging and suspenseful.

Therefore:

1. Who called his opponents an "effete corps of impudent snobs"?

2. Whose wife had a "respectable Republican cloth coat"?

3. Who played Miklos Molnar?

4. Who played Percy Dovetonsils?

5. Who founded the Early Eyeball Fraternal & Marching Society?

6. Who promised every American $1000 if he were elected?

7. Who did Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minnesota become?

8. What did Barry McGuire sing about 40 years ago?

9. Who was Mary Vecchio?

10. What music festival was held at Woodstock, NY in August, 1969?

Answers to follow.

[Enzp]

Well then I'll let you know how I did later, but I think I got seven. We left a space... I gotta close up and go home soon anyway.

#1 should be fresh in our minds. A very small man in my humble estimation, after all was said and done. Summed up by from where you were you stooped to THAT?

I keep thinking of good ones, but I am driving around or something so they evaporate.


Here are a couple not so hard:

1. CHild movie star SHirley Temple had a different job as an adult. What?

2. Name the early TV show where three women competed to see who could tell the saddest sob story. Winner got prizes.

3. By what other name was SImon Templar known?

4. What was behind the Green Door?

5. Ed Ames was a singer and movie actor, but one guest appearance on Johnny Carson will be immortalized forever. What happened? Carson fans wil know this easily.

6. Loaded with delicious, mapled flavor... "I WANT MY ______!"

7. On the TV series The Untouchables with Robert STack, who was the famous narrator?




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1. SHirley Temple Black became the US ambassador to the UN.
2. "Queen for a day" and what a maudlin exercise it was.
3. The Saint.
4. Green Door was a popular song in the mid 1950s. I'll take any lyric you know, but I'm going for "There's an old piano and they play it hot behind the green door. When I said Joe sent me someone laughed out loud behind the gren door.
5. Ed was to demonstrate hatchet throwing. They put up a large wooden panel with a cowboy outline painted on it. Ed threw the hatchet and it landed right square on the poor cowboy's privates. This is always on CArson all time reels.
6. Maypo. ( a maple flavored hot cereal.)
7. Walter Winchell.

[Maksutov]

Re:


1. CHild movie star SHirley Temple had a different job as an adult. What?

2. Name the early TV show where three women competed to see who could tell the saddest sob story. Winner got prizes.

3. By what other name was SImon Templar known?

4. What was behind the Green Door?

5. Ed Ames was a singer and movie actor, but one guest appearance on Johnny Carson will be immortalized forever. What happened? Carson fans wil know this easily.

6. Loaded with delicious, mapled flavor... "I WANT MY ______!"

7. On the TV series The Untouchables with Robert STack, who was the famous narrator?without looking...

1. United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

2. Queen for a Day. Lawd, what a wretched show!

3. The Saint, played by Roger Moore.

4. I'm not sure, but it was a song back in the 50s.

5. IIRC, Ames was playing an Indian on the Daniel Boone TV show, and Carson asked him to show off his hatchet-throwing prowess by trying to hit a target. The target was a sketch of a man. Ames' hatchet toss got the poor guy right in the crotch.

6. Maypo. Yum!

7. Famous newspaper columnist Walter Winchell.

Now to see how I did.

[Enzp]

Very well.

"When I was young, there were not many stars on TV."

"When you were young, there were not many stars on the flag." - Eve Arden as Our Miss Brooks


These aren't so hard:

1. What about the newspaper headline, "DEWEY WINS"?

2. Who thought a clambake was worth singing about?

3. What "improvement" was made to the hula hoop?

4. What kitchen appliance was based upon a light bulb?

5. Who were identical cousins? And bonus points if you can actually explain how "identical cousins" actually works. Well, without someone being a darn good sport.

6. Who was sister Bertrille?

7. Who were the two Darrens?

8. Where was Oliver Wendell Douglas' phone located?

9. We know Bea Benederet from Petticoat Junction and Bea Arthur from Maude, but who was known as "BB"?

10. Who was Mr. Peepers? Character and actor both, and what was there about his locker?

11. Why should we remember the Pueblo?






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1. He didn't, Truman did.

2. Elvis

3. They stuck a marble in the tube and called it the "shoop shoop" hula hoop after the noise it made.

4. The Easy Bake Oven. They still make them and there are still competitions for best Easy Bake recipes and creations.

5. Patty Duke played both Patty and Cathy. It is a mystery to me, and Dad ain't talking.

6. SAlly Field played the Flying Nun.

7. Dick York and Dick Sargeant.

8. He had to climb the phone pole and connect to the wires up there whenever he wanted to make a call. (Green Acres)

9. Brigitte Bardot

10. Wally Cox played Peepers, a Jr. High science teacher. His locker stuck, but as a scientist he knew that if he went to the end of the row and measured up a precise distance from the floor (He wept a yardstick nearby for this) and whacked the end, his locker in the center would pop open. I always enjoyed that detail.

11. Our US ship Pueblo was attacked and captured by the North Koreans. Our crew was released about a year later. "Remember the Pueblo" was supposed to rally the country like "Remember the Maine" a couple generations earlier.

[Gillianren]

9. WHo railed against the "nattering nabobs of negativism."

9. Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Technically, William Safire, as he tells us every time there's the slightest reason to mention that quote. (I'm not sure I'd be that proud of it.)

And I always wondered about those identical cousins myself . . . .

[Big Brother Dunk]

I've been falling behind here. I'll have to add some questions.

Enzp in your quizzes I got:

9/11 (I seem to recall the Beatles)
4/10
4/7
5/10

Hutch I only got 2/5 in yours. The picture of Y.A. Tittle on his knees in the endzone is a classic sports photo.

Makutsov I score only 3/10 in yours. As a big Dylan fan, I knew that one, and as a spinoff I knew the Barry MaGuire song. And who doesn't remember Woodstock.

[Big Brother Dunk]

OK, time for some general history questions

1 - What British colonial officer founded the Boy Scouts in 1907?
2 - What year was the Berlin Wall erected?
3 - What war was waged by 57 countries?
4 - What two Asian countries went to war on July 7, 1937?
5 - What 11th century London fortress has been a palace, prison, mint and observatory?
6 - Who was Israel's first prime minister?
7 - In what war did Florence Nightengale tend to the troops?
8 - How many Johns have been pope?
9 - What Russian leader said, "We will. in my lifetime, rule the world by invitation?
10 - Who commanded the German forces in North Africa in WWII?
























Answers:

1 - Robert Baden-Powell
2 - 1961
3 - World War II
4 - China and Japan
5 - The tower of London
6 - David Ben-Gurion
7 - The Crimean War
8 - 23
9 - Nikita Krushchev
10 - Erwin Rommel

[LurchGS]

argh. missed 3.. I could have SWORN Florence was spanish american.

[Gillianren]

The British didn't fight in the Spanish-American War, you know. Just the Spanish, and, um, the Americans. (And it's Nightingale, with an "i.")

[Enzp]

I got 6 of them. I forgot the year in Berlin and was off by one.

I'm doing these from memory, not looking them up, so did Safire write it for SPiro? Or did Spiro just lift it? I don't recall it going around otherwise. We suffered along in MAryland with Agnew as our governor before he joined the Nixon ticket. In any case Agnew spread it around well.


A few more:
1. Where were Karnak's answers kept?

2. Who was Commander Whitehead? NAme the refreshing characteristic of what he talked about.

3. In the cigarette ads, the bellhop went through the hotel lobby/restaurant/whatever shouring out "Call for ______ ______."

4. Did you know that before 1957 the word "gullible" was not in the dictionary?

5. Who was Topo Gigio?

6. Identify Quemoy and Matsu.

7. Identify Attu and Kiska.

8. State the previous name for these nations: Myanmar, Iran, Thailand, Burkina Faso.

9. What came to be in Brazil in 1960? What did it change?

10. Where are the Islets of Langerhans located?



ANSWERS

















1. In a maynaise jar on the porch at Funk and Wagenals.

2. The spokesfigure for Schweppes. Schweppes had "Scheweppervescence."

3. Call... for... Phillip... Morris.

4. Of course that is not correct, it is a joke to see if you are.

5. The Italian talking mouse as seen on Ed Sullivan.

6. Two islands off China near Formosa. COntentions there high in the late 1940s and early 50s.

7. Far western islands at the end of the Aleutian chain off Alaska. Japanese landed troops there during WW2.

8. Burma, Persia, Siam, Upper Volta.

9. Planned for a long time, and built in the late 1950s, the city of Brasilia was inaugurated. It then became the Capital of Brazil, taking that function from Rio de Janiero.

10. They are cells in the human pancreas. I threw that in for the Firesign Theater fans.

[Gillianren]

I'm doing these from memory, not looking them up, so did Safire write it for SPiro? Or did Spiro just lift it? I don't recall it going around otherwise. We suffered along in MAryland with Agnew as our governor before he joined the Nixon ticket. In any case Agnew spread it around well.

Safire wrote it for Agnew. Remember, he was (along with Ben Stein, who can be seen crying in the background during Nixon's resignation speech) a speechwriter for the Nixon administration.

What do you guys think? Holding my own for someone under thirty? (Naturally, I don't trust any of you.)

[Enzp]

You're doing darn good for some kid in the great northwest. I assume you have grandma there as a crib sheet. You got me when you knew Hattie McDaniel. All I could remember was that she had some sort of cred I couldn't recall. "How does she know that...?"

I know some of Safire, but aside from being a promoter of gooder English, I don't know much. He never appeared in our local papers, and I am more inclined to read technical stuff than literary.

[Jim]

3. Call... for... Phillip... Morris.

Shouldn't that be "Phillip Moooow-reeees"?

What do you guys think? Holding my own for someone under thirty? (Naturally, I don't trust any of you.)

That's okay, I don't trust any of us either. (Old habits die hard.)

[Gillianren]

You're doing darn good for some kid in the great northwest. I assume you have grandma there as a crib sheet. You got me when you knew Hattie McDaniel. All I could remember was that she had some sort of cred I couldn't recall. "How does she know that...?"

Both grandmas are dead. I just don't find my own generation's pop culture terribly interesting. And as for Hattie McDaniel, well, my birthday present from my mom last year was the special edition 4-disc set of Gone with the Wind, which I managed to work into my final presentation every quarter for a full year of college.

I know some of Safire, but aside from being a promoter of gooder English, I don't know much. He never appeared in our local papers, and I am more inclined to read technical stuff than literary.

The English teacher who failed me sophomore year in high school (for never doing the work) gave me the first book of his columns. Our paper has Fitzgerald's column, which isn't as funny, so I collect the books. And, in fact, they do get very technical at times.

[Enzp]

Grandma was only a metaphor, I didn't think you were cheating.

I am sorry, I meant technical as in technology. I actually find the technical aspects of English more interesting at times than the stuff we create with the language. But I don't read about it much. Now and then, though, as with the Truss book. I was darn good at parsing sentences and such many decades ago, but these days I have forgotten much, like the difference between a gerund and a participle. One needn't recall what it is called to use it, I guess, that is something anyway. I am often more interested in the process of something than in the something itself. Perhaps that is why I am a problem solver for a living.

Jim, I thought of Mooooow-reeeiiiissss, but figured someone who didn't know what it was would think I was insane. They might anyway, but why push it. Have you ever been in a restaurant and actually seen a cigarette girl in action? I did many years ago.

[LurchGS]

yay! Firesign Theater!
(There's a goat upon the battlements!)
(More Sugar!)

questions 2, 6, 8 and 9 don't count. I missed them.


1) from what movie is the song "White Christmas"

2) in what military service was Popeye originally enlisted?

3) what railroad line ran the 'zephyr' trains?

4) what was special about the zephyrs?













1) Holiday Inn

2) U.S Coast Guard

3) Burlington Line (and Burlington Northern)

4) Stainless Steel body, and the train was a single consist - that is, you couldn't take it apart without a shop - it was all one unit.

(there, I came back from the previous two centuries)

[Maksutov]

I was thinking something where the answers are posted later might be even more challenging and suspenseful.

Therefore:

1. Who called his opponents an "effete corps of impudent snobs"?

2. Whose wife had a "respectable Republican cloth coat"?

3. Who played Miklos Molnar?

4. Who played Percy Dovetonsils?

5. Who founded the Early Eyeball Fraternal & Marching Society?

6. Who promised every American $1000 if he were elected?

7. Who did Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minnesota become?

8. What did Barry McGuire sing about 40 years ago?

9. Who was Mary Vecchio?

10. What music festival was held at Woodstock, NY in August, 1969?

Answers to follow.

Answers:

1. Spiro Agnew, using words written by William Safire.

2. Richard Nixon (mentioned in the infamous "Checkers" speech).

3. Ernie Kovacs

4. Ernie Kovacs

5. Ernie Kovacs

6. George McGovern, Democrat presidential candidate, 1972.

7. Bob Dylan

8. The Eve of Destruction

9. The 14-year-old runaway who was photographed kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller, a student at Kent State University, Ohio, who had been shot by National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970. The photo was taken by John Filo, a senior at Kent State, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the shot (by camera, not rifle).

10. There was no music festival held at Woodstock, NY in August, 1969. The festival organizers originally planned to have the concert in Woodstock, but there was no location available in the town suitable for the planned 50,000 (!) attendee concert. The organizers then leased land in an industrial park in nearby Wallkill, NY. On July 15, 1969, despite a verbal OK earlier, the Wallkill Zoning Board of Appeals officially banned the festival from being held in their town. The festival, which kept the name "Woodstock", was eventually held on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, NY.

Two Woodstock footnotes:

1. The Woodstock "dove" featured in the poster is actually a catbird.
2. William Roscoe Mercer ("Rosko"), the WNEW-FM DJ who did a fine job of promoting the concert, was a friend back then.

[Enzp]

#9. Now THAT is esoteric.

[Big Brother Dunk]

Answers:
10. There was no music festival held at Woodstock, NY in August, 1969. The festival organizers originally planned to have the concert in Woodstock, but there was no location available in the town suitable for the planned 50,000 (!) attendee concert. The organizers then leased land in an industrial park in nearby Wallkill, NY. On July 15, 1969, despite a verbal OK earlier, the Wallkill Zoning Board of Appeals officially banned the festival from being held in their town. The festival, which kept the name "Woodstock", was eventually held on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, NY.

Two Woodstock footnotes:

1. The Woodstock "dove" featured in the poster is actually a catbird.
2. William Roscoe Mercer ("Rosko"), the WNEW-FM DJ who did a fine job of promoting the concert, was a friend back then.

Yikes!! I got that one wrong! :whistle:

Oh well, it was all a haze back then.:D

[George]

I4. Did you know that before 1957 the word "gullible" was not in the dictionary?:razz:

Since Christmas is upon us...What were your favorite toys in the 50's?

Bike with banana seat (or was that seat in the early 60's?), light and home-made drag chute. [We have big hills.]
Army men
Cork gun
BB gun
Squirt gun
Cowboy boots [ok, pair of guns (& holster) too, but I am starting to feel self-conscience about it, suddenly.]
Train set
A transistor radio

[Enzp]

50s toys? I loved my Lionel. Never had guns. And the crystal radio kit from 1952 or whenever started a lifelong interest in electronics, so it was a fave. I still have the tuning cap from it.

I loved army men. In fact to this day, I still buy the occasional bag of them. Mostly from the dollar store or the toy factory outlet store. All we had back then were the basic green ones. Now in the stores they have US, German, Japanese, and British ones. We also had cowboys and indians ones, but I never got into those.

One toy I really liked was a Big Bang carbide cannon.

Went through both Tinker Toy and later Erector Set phases. And even liked Lincoln Logs for a time. I always liked making things or building things. it would probably be Legos today.

[George]

Never had guns. And the crystal radio kit from 1952 or whenever started a lifelong interest in electronics, so it was a fave. I still have the tuning cap from it.Yes. I had forgotten how we made our own radios.

I loved army men. In fact to this day, I still buy the occasional bag of them. Mostly from the dollar store or the toy factory outlet store. All we had back then were the basic green ones. Now in the stores they have US, German, Japanese, and British ones. We also had cowboys and indians ones, but I never got into those.
We had a hobby shop that had the best. The more we had, the better. My father gave up my mother's stamp collection for my neighbor's entire army. Thankfully, they are still both alive, but she has yet to forgive him, though I came out way ahead. :)

One toy I really liked was a Big Bang carbide cannon. I don't recall this one.

Went through both Tinker Toy and later Erector Set phases. And even liked Lincoln Logs for a time. I always liked making things or building things. it would probably be Legos today. The logs are still available and a good prerequisite for Legos, I suppose.

[Enzp]

They still make Big Bang Cannons. You took a tiny scoop of carbide and dumped it into the chamber where some water waited. CLose the breech, and the carbide made something like acetylene gas in there. You pushed a plunger which sparked a flint and BOOOM. Mine was relatively small, but they made them up to pretty large.

http://www.bigbangcannons.com

[Maksutov]

They still make Big Bang Cannons. You took a tiny scoop of carbide and dumped it into the chamber where some water waited. CLose the breech, and the carbide made something like acetylene gas in there. You pushed a plunger which sparked a flint and BOOOM. Mine was relatively small, but they made them up to pretty large.

http://www.bigbangcannons.comYou have to wonder, when you set off a Big Bang cannon, does space-time start expanding around it? :think:

[Enzp]

No, but if you get in front of it, it leaves a black hole.

[Maksutov]

No, but if you get in front of it, it leaves a black hole.LOL!

And here I thought you'd be preserved in carbonite, a la Han Solo!

[Enzp]

Is that dark matter?

[Maksutov]

Is that dark matter?I dunno. I'm kind of tired and worn out, so figuring the answer to that may take some time. Just feeling out of dark energy right now.

[Enzp]

Use your fork, Luke.

[LurchGS]

I prefer a blaster

[teri tait]

My youngest bratgirl once said, When I see a man eat his own head...then I will have seen everything....I didn't have the heart to tell that was done on film in a movie, the Xxx type, called 'sodom and gomorrah'
You'll never guess what they did in, Captain Lust, I think it may have been the same screenplaywrights....

[MagEtheCat]

wow....you really gave my memory and brain a workout! I'm afraid I scored quite highly on all of the quizes, though! But I wanted to say....instead of "van" didn't we refer to the "other" Volkswagen as a VW bus?

[bob7708]

Who was the kid in the 1950's Quiz Shows [The $64,000 Question, in believe]
who answered questions in the Astronomy catagory? I think his first name was Robert but am not certain. He couldn't have been much over 10 years of age and answered every question correctly.

[Homo bibiens]

I got 12.

[Nick Theodorakis]

I missed only the Red Skelton question in the OP.

Here are some of my own:

(1) Which direction do you turn a rotary dial phone?

(2) What happens when a manual typewriter gets to the end of the line? What do you do next?

(3) What is this thing (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/45rpminsert.jpg) used for?

(4) What TV show popularized the phrases "Sock it to me" and "You bet your sweet bippy"?

(5) Which household product promised an end to the the public shame of "ring around the collar"?

(5) "ATDT" is in the command set for what?

(6) What does a DOS file with the extension ".bat" do?

Nick

[Homo bibiens]

I missed only the Red Skelton question in the OP.

Here are some of my own:

(1) Which direction do you turn a rotary dial phone?

(2) What happens when a manual typewriter gets to the end of the line? What do you do next?

(3) What is this thing (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/45rpminsert.jpg) used for?

(4) What TV show popularized the phrases "Sock it to me" and "You bet your sweet bippy"?

(5) Which household product promised an end to the the public shame of "ring around the collar"?

(5) "ATDT" is in the command set for what?

(6) What does a DOS file with the extension ".bat" do?

Nick

I think I know them all, but you don't provide answers :)

[Gandalf223]

I got all except Freddie the Freeloader. Odd, because my family watched Red Skelton almost obsessively. Brain freeze.

I forget how many points that makes.

[mike alexander]

(1) Which direction do you turn a rotary dial phone?

You don't turn a rotary dial phone. The dial turns clockwise

(2) What happens when a manual typewriter gets to the end of the line? What do you do next?

You can't type any more. Hit the carriage return lever

(3) What is this thing used for?

Playing 45's on a 78 spindle.

(4) What TV show popularized the phrases "Sock it to me" and "You bet your sweet bippy"?

Laugh In

(5) Which household product promised an end to the the public shame of "ring around the collar"?

Wisk. Wisk puts its strength where the dirt is.

(5) "ATDT" is in the command set for what?

Something about making your modem work. I rfemember that much.

(6) What does a DOS file with the extension ".bat" do?

Calls Batman? Always vaguely wondered what all those things after the dot stood for.

[Homo bibiens]

(6) What does a DOS file with the extension ".bat" do?

Calls Batman? Always vaguely wondered what all those things after the dot stood for.

When Windows 95 came out, Apple ran a full page add in some newspapers with

C:\ONGRATS.W95

or something like that in big print.

[Robinson]

This quiz isn't fair because of teh Internets.

[Homo bibiens]

Not supposed to look up the answers.

[mike alexander]

Who's looking up answers?
(Also somewhat depressing to realize an Oldster seems to be younger than I am)



What did the numbers 640 and 1240 signify?

[Robinson]

"Civil Defense is common sense. This is Howard Duff with this reminder ..."

[George]

Calls Batman? Always vaguely wondered what all those things after the dot stood for. :) It is a "batch" file that is an executable DOS program.

[mike alexander]

Life's a batch.

Who had headquarters high on a mountaintop over a large city?

[DonM435]

:) It is a "batch" file that is an executable DOS program.

The DOS mode (now known as "Command Prompt") is still useful for some things. If you type

dir MyCollection /S > catalog.txt

into a text file and save it as a .bat file, you can execute it via double-click and it will cause all the directory structure of the folder MyCollection to be written to the file catalog.txt. I haven't found any comparable way to do that with Windows.

If you play with .bat files, don't try to execute
del *.* /S

[Nick Theodorakis]

I use a .bat file on XP to backup up data from my thumb drive using the DOS xcopy command:

backup.bat
xcopy g:\data\*.* /s /m /y > logfile.txt

This copies files from the "data" folder on my thumb drive (which is always "G:" on my main computer) that have the archive bit set and resets the archive bit (so only new or newly modified files get copied) and writes the ouput to a file so I can check it to make sure it did what is was supposed to do. I put a copy of backup.bat in the directory where I want files to go and just double click it.

The reason I made this is because there are at least three computers around here that I get data from, and it became convenient to save the data on those computers to my thumb drive, and bring the thumb back to my main desktop to consolidate all my data.

Nick

[Nick Theodorakis]

Speaking of "oldsters," it occurred to me that BigDon hasn't posted in about a month (I would have expected to see him in this thread). Anybody know if he's ok?

Nick

[matthewota]

I kind of miss DOS. seems like I had more control over the computer with it.

[Nick Theodorakis]

I kind of miss DOS. seems like I had more control over the computer with it.

Freedos (http://www.freedos.org/) is still available.

Nick

[matthewota]

ATDT = ATtention Dial Tone

[jfribrg]

I kind of miss DOS. seems like I had more control over the computer with it.

I remember my first boss made the same complaint about DOS. He said that when he was starting out and something was wrong with the program, you walked into the CPU and looked at the registers.

[George]

We got hooked on the simplicity of dBase III (DOS) and still program with it today. It seems to run a little faster these days. ;)

[geonuc]

Who had headquarters high on a mountaintop over a large city?
Castro?

[mike alexander]

Jeez, that works. Just about the right time, too.

Did Castro fly a plane?

[mike alexander]

Although I was thinking of this guy...

On a mountaintop, high above a large city, stands the headquarters of a man devoted to the cause of freedom and justice... a war hero who has never stopped fighting against his country's enemies... a private citizen who is dedicating his life to the struggle against evil men everywhere.....

[geonuc]

Although I was thinking of this guy...
Oh, that's different. Unless my mother had the TV on in the hospital room when I was born, I don't think I saw it.

[jfribrg]

We got hooked on the simplicity of dBase III (DOS) and still program with it today. It seems to run a little faster these days. ;)

dBASE II worked well too. As primitive as it was ( even back then we knew it was primitive), it, along with VisiCalc, still allowed us to save $5000 / month (in 1983 dollars!) on the timesharing costs relating to our payroll system.

[George]

dBASE II worked well too. As primitive as it was ( even back then we knew it was primitive), it, along with VisiCalc, still allowed us to save $5000 / month (in 1983 dollars!) on the timesharing costs relating to our payroll system.
Yes, VisiCalc was a "must have", too. I assume it was the Grandfather of spreadsheets, though I've forgotten who bought it.

We did most of our programing, perhaps all, with dBASE III +. We could not find any of the major dealership software suppliers who could offer matrix price indexing. I knew the auto industry was using this system and it was too important to not incorporate into our pricing structure. That was the final straw that convinced me to just write the software myself. [I soon had an employee who picked-up how programing worked and he liked to try and out-do me with dynamic graphical menu screens. It added to the fun. :) )

Later, a company called eSoft offered a dBASE compiler that would integrate with their multiplexing on-line interface (or whatever you call it). We were starving for business and knew that many customers wanted to sell used equipment, and many customers wanted to buy used equipment. After writing about 20k lines of dBASE code, we went on-line and put buyers and sellers together, and they loved it. Unfortunately, most customers were not computer literate enough to jump in. Soon, Windows was introduced and I went back to doing our traditional work. [I knew this was such a big deal that it would soon draw the big sharks into the waters. eBay was no big surprise when it arrived a few years later.]