"OLDER THAN DIRT" TRIVIA QUIZ

[Crewleader]

SUDDENLY SENIOR'S ANNUAL "OLDER THAN DIRT" TRIVIA QUIZ

Yet Another Chance to Prove
That Your Memory's (Somewhat) Intact


By Frank Kaiser

http://www.suddenlysenior.com/FULLSTORY.HTML

[NMDemDist2]

1. i only missed the cigar guy

yup, I'm old

[gateley]

2. I missed the life expectancy

and the Studebaker - got all the others. Damn.

[Divernan]

7. Same here. Now follow the bouncing ball:

Bryl Cream, a little dab'll do ya.
Bryl Cream, you'll look so debonair,
Bryl Cream, the gals'll pursue ya,
They'll love to run their fingers through your hair!"

Old commercial jingles - I gotta million of em.
Good night, Mrs. Calabash - wherever you are.

[Sal Minella]

11. Halo, everybody, Halo....

Halo is the SHAMpoo
That glorifies your hair
So Halo everybody Halo.....

[Divernan]

14. J - E - L - L - OooooOOOoooo

RO - YAL PUDDING
Rich, rich, rich in flavor
Smooth, smooth, smooth as silk
More good quality than pure fresh milk!

Halo to you too, Idealist Hippie.

[orleans]

15. loved those commercials! and the ones for love baby soft

playing donovan's "wear your love like heaven" song.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xl8k3wbFxgI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5i0zq91Ocz0&feature=related

[Sal Minella]

17. Do you remember "Mairzy doats and dozey doats and little lambsy divey,

a kiddley divey too, wouldn't you -- think that was the first song I ever learned and I loved the play on words (without knowing what to call it) and grew up to be an English major.

Another one just popped up --

chickery chick cha la cha la
checka la romey in a banana
kabollika wollika can't you see
chickery chick is me.

holy shit that came from deep down and WAY back.
heesh.

[k8conant]

3. I got the life expectancy wrong--that's all

and I'm only 58 :-)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. I got them all, and I'm only 38

but I did grow up in the mid-west where they were at least 20 years behind the rest of the country. :shrug:

[Speck Tater]

5. 100% Yup, I'm old as dirt.

I even remember when the ice man came with his big block of ice slung over his shoulder. He used to chip off chunks of crystal-clear ice for us kids. We wrapped them in paper napkins and sucked on them like popsicles.

[AlienGirl]

9. You are possibly older than dirt!

I got all except the cigar guy and the Studebaker. I remember having a party line. And I'm only 35 (contiguous ;-) )...

:hi:

Tucker

[Lerkfish]

6. OMG! I got all of them.

I AM older than dirt.

[enlightenment]

10. Join the crowd . . .

can I say it's because I'm an historian?

Please??

[Lerkfish]

12. sure, if you let me say its because I'm a trivia expert.

deal?

[enlightenment]

20. DEAL! *phew!*

Sent the link to my 85 year old father - he missed two and asked me if he could blame senility . . .

None of want to be older than dirt, I guess! :)

[femmocrat]

8. 100%

Sad to report. (but I guessed on a couple of them) ;)

[nickinSTL]

13. You are...older than dirt

I only missed one...


10 - 12 correct: You are not only older than dirt, but smart as a buggy whip. Now if you could only remember yesterday.

I'm only 35 - I just have a good memory for useless facts. The only one I missed was about the guy who died recently at 113. I didn't read the stories about him, so I didn't know what he attributed his longevity to.

[PDJane]

16. 100% too.

I'm 58. However, I grew up on a farm in rural Ontario that was always at least 20 years behind the rest of the world. I walked to a one-room schoolhouse and used a privy. You can't get there from here, eh?

[murielm99]

18. I missed the Studebaker one.

But that's because I read a lot. I'm not old. :evilgrin:

My husband and I lived on one of the family farms the first year we were married. The phone company was locally owned, and they still had party lines until about 1980.

[Adsos Letter]

19. YAY!!!...I only missed the '51 Studebaker...!

...oh, wait... :scared:

[Panchojackson]

21. kick n/t

[Summer93]

22. Then those 5" tvs black and whites

Came The Lone Ranger and Tonto. Some of the radio shows tried to move over but didn't quite make it.
I know about the privy - that's where the Sears catalog was kept and the hornets liked it fine.
We had jalopies which for us were model t cars we used on the farm and back and forth to the lake but were unregistered and uninsured but, we could sit directly on the seats in our wet bathing suits. My uncle made one of the model T's into a tractor with a different transmission and small tires in front and big tires in the back and no body or floor boards.