Are you smarter than a 60 year
old?
THIS WAS
HARDER THAN I THOUGHT.....THE ANSWERS WERE ON THE
TIP OF MY
TONGUE....I REMEMBERED, BUT
............
DON'T LOOK
BELOW FOR
THE ANSWERS UNTIL YOU HAVE TRIED IT OUT A TEST FOR 'OLDER' KIDS.
I
was picky who I sent this to. It had to be those who might
actually
remember. So have some fun my sharp-witted friends. This is a test
for
us 'older kids'! The answers are printed below, (after the
questions)
but don't cheat! answer them first.....
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 to
___________________.'
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.
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 Skeleton'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 __ ______________.
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
God Bless.'
11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned.
Not
flags, as some have guessed.)
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy
Holly
14. Sputnik
15. Hoola-hoop
Send this to your 'older'
friends, (Better
known as Seniors.) It will drive them crazy! And keep them
busy and
let them forget their aches and pains for a few minutes
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