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Friday, December 24, 2010

A TEST FOR OLD 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 'old kids'!  The answers are printed below, but don't 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 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. Hula-hoop

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

At 40 years old I was able to get 9. I really listened to my elders stories. They were great!

Anonymous said...

I only missed two!

Anonymous said...

15 is partially correct the write forgot Ritchie Valens & The Big Bobber.

Reconciled1 said...

Only missed #13...

Anonymous said...

my memory is still good at 66 I got all right except 13

Anonymous said...

10:47 AM

I thought so too.

Anonymous said...

OK I am 37 and I remember most of this stuff.....so anyone older should have gotten them all!!! LOL!

afterthegoldrush said...
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Anonymous said...

7:37 PM You are wrong again.

In his song "American Pie," Don McLean referred to the day that rockers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson died in an airplane crash as "the day the music died." The date was February 3, 1959.

Buddy Holly was already famous for his songs "That'll Be the Day" and "Peggy Sue." Richie Valens was a hit with "La Bamba." And the Big Bopper was a Texas disc jockey who had found fame with his hit "Chantilly Lace." The plane they had hired to take them from Clear Lake, IA, to the next stop on their winter tour went down in a snowstorm right out of the airport in Clear Lake, killing the three musicians and their pilot.

In 1988, Ken Paquette, a Wisconsin fan of the 1950s era, erected a stainless steel monument depicting a steel guitar and a set of three records bearing the names of each of the three performers.[12] The monument is located on private farmland, about one quarter of a mile west of the intersection of 315th Street and Gull Avenue, five miles (8 km) north of Clear Lake. There is a post-sign of horn-rimmed glasses[clarification needed] at the access point to the crash site. Paquette also created a similar stainless steel monument to the three musicians located outside the Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where Holly, the Big Bopper and Valens played on the night of February 1, 1959. This second memorial was unveiled on July 17, 2003.[13] In February 2009, a new memorial made by Paquette for pilot Roger Peterson was unveiled at the crash site.[14]


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