History Exam for Over 50 ONLY

Everyone over 50 should have a pretty easy time at this exam. If you are under 50 you can claim a handicap.

This is a History Exam for those who don't mind seeing how much they really remember about what went on in their life.


Get paper & pencil & number from 1 to 20.

Write the letter of each answer & score at the end.

Then before you pass this test on, put your score in the subject line. Send to friends so everyone can HAVE FUN!!!!Also send it back to me.



1. In the 1940s, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?
A. On the floor shift knob.
B. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch....
C. Next to the horn.

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it.. For what was it used?
A. Capture lightning bugs.
B. To sprinkle clothes before ironing.
C. Large salt shaker.

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
A. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce milk.
B. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled.
C... Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
A.. Blackjack
B. Gin
C. Craps

5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing during WW II.
A. Suntan
B. Leg painting
C. Wearing slacks

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was coming or going?
A. Studebaker
B. Nash Metro
C. Tucker

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
A . Strips of dried peanut butter.
B. Chocolate licorice bars.
C. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

8. How was Butch wax used?
A. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up.
B. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing..
C On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust.

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
A.With clamps, tightened by a skate key.
B. Woven straps that crossed the foot.
C. Long pieces of twine.

10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
A. Consider all the facts.
B. Ask Mom.
C. Eeny-meeny-miney-MO.

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940s and 1950s?
A. Smallpox
B. AIDS
C. Polio

12. 'I'll be down to get you in a________, Honey'
A. SUV
B. Taxi
C. Streetcar
13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pony?
A. Old Blue
B. Paint
C Macaroni
14. What was a Duck-an d-Cover Drill?
A. Part of the game of hide and seek.
B. What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores.
C. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15 . What was the name of the Indian Princess in the Howdy Doody Show?
A. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
B. Princess Sacajawea
C Princess Moonshadow

16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
A. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you high.
B. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window.
C. Wrote another pupil's name on the top, to avoid their failure.

17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
A. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum.
B. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items.
C. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos.

18. Praise the Lord , & pass the _________?
A. Meatballs
B. Dames
C. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song 'Cabdriver' a hit?
A.The Ink Spots
B.. The Supremes
C. The Esquires

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco ?
A. Tony Bennett
B. Xavier Cugat
C. George Gershwin
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ANSWERS

1. (b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe , took till the late '60's to catch on.

2. (b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing.. Who had a steam iron?

3 (c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping the bottle top...

4 . (a) Blackjack Gum.

5.. (b) Special makeup was applied, followed by drawing a seam down the back of the leg with eyebrow pencil

6. (a) 1946 Studebaker.

7. (c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water.

8. (a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.

9. (a) With clamps , tightened by a skate key, which you wore on a shoestring around your neck.
10. (c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

11. (c) Polio. In beginning of August, swimming pools were closed, movies and other public gathering places were closed to try to prevent spread of the disease.

12. (b) Taxi , Better be ready by half-past eight!

13. (c) Macaroni ..

14. (c) Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. (a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was another puppet.

16... (a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a high.

17. (b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for household items at the Green Stamp store.

18. (c) Ammunition, and we'll all be free.

19. (a) The widely famous 50's group: The Inkspots.

20. (a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today.

SCORING

17- 20 correct : You are older than dirt, and obviously gifted with mental abilities. Now if you could only find your glasses. Definitely someone who should share your wisdom!

12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but you're getting there.

0 -11 correct: You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your experiences.

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Raytheon secured a contract amounting to $31.3 million from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division to begin conceptualizing, engineering, and rigorously testing a duo of prototype HPM systems. 

These prototypes are scheduled for delivery to the US Navy & US Air Force in the years 2024 and 2026, respectively. The primary objective underlying these systems is to harness directed energy to neutralize aerial threats, thereby endowing the United States defense arsenal with a significant technological supremacy.   TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...

Sleeping Dogs

 

DeSantis OUT - Haley IN

What does that mean?

I am not a political expert, but I would say that the main reason that a candidate drops out of a Presidential race is that their large donor REFUSE to support him anymore.

However, does that hurt or help Trump who is the GOP frontrunner?

• Well...  it is a two person race...
• And...  people have said they do not want another Trump/Biden rematch.
• Also...  Trump has legal issues that could get worse as time progresses towards the election.
• Still...  while Haley beats Biden in many poles, people remember the good times under Trump.

While Haley had a strong, globally respected position at the UN and she bring YOUNG BLOOD to the Presidency, she DOES NOT have the presidential experience that Trump has.

At some point in time, a young president will be elected but is NOW THAT TIME, given the issues that are facing the USA?

1. Inflation
2. Immigration
3. War on fossil fuels
4. Push towards green energy
5. A sluggish economy
6. Our weakened military
7. China growing in power
8. Wars around the world
9. Our growing national debt
10. Anti-Israel sentiment
11. Our failing education
12. Our loss of global respect

A WILD CARD in all of this is ABORTION and the fact that Republicans have not done a very good job at explaining the misconceptions that the Democrats have been promoting.

Will abortion keep the Dems in power regardless of which GOP candidate is running for office?

The Haley/Trump issue could be a mute point.

Octopus

 

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First off, let's check we're all on the same page. Time passes at different rates for different observers, depending on their relative speeds, and their proximity to (and strength of) nearby gravitational fields. Time dilation is the difference between time elapsed on two clocks due to these causes, as described by special relativity and general relativity.

Gravity curves spacetime. The result is that the stronger gravity is near you, and the closer you are to the mass creating it, the slower time moves (from the standpoint of an observer, or whoever has the second clock. From your perspective, time ran at the usual speed). This is how your foot is younger than your old (relatively speaking) haggard head.  READ MORE...

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Sweet Little Sixteen

 

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“I admit it does feel different this time. General purpose cognition feels so close to what we all treasure about humanity that it does feel different,” conceded the CEO of the company behind ChatGPT, before venturing into a prediction.

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The Electric Car Con Explained

By William Levin in The American Thinker

Is electricity a source of energy? Most people will answer yes, which is incorrect. Electricity carries energy but it is not itself a source of energy, which in the U.S. is supplied 60% by natural gas and coal, 18% nuclear and 22% renewables (hydro, solar and wind).

The related question is whether cars are a major consumer of energy and hence a significant contributor of Co2 emissions? Again, most people believe both statements are self-evidently true, hence the importance of moving to electric cars.

In fact, cars (light-duty transportation) account for less than 5% of global energy demand, with U.S. cars accounting for 19% of the global car fleet, declining to under 15% by 2050 as car demand grows faster outside the U.S.

Putting these facts together, and they are indisputable facts, provides a stunning insight.

The U.S. car fleet accounts for a mere 1.0% of global energy demand (5% x 19%), declining to 0.8% by 2050. So even if the U.S. shifts 100% to electric-powered cars, the maximum climate impact in 2050 is a meaningless 0.2% (22% x 0.8%) reduction in global Co2 emissions from the current electric grid, up to a maximum of 0.5% assuming solar, wind, and hydro can, implausibly, power 60% of electric demand.

In other words, there is no factual basis to claim that the government mandate to switch to electric cars will have any material impact on global CO2 emissions.

This is not a debatable point -- it is easily verified, it is correct under any view of climate science, and it remains true even if solar and wind magically grow sixfold over the next 25 years, which is highly unlikely given the need to build a new transmission network, estimated at more than 200,000 miles of wires crisscrossing the country, and devise totally unknown, unproven, and likely impossible to achieve large-scale, economic battery storage.

Nor does the picture change materially if the entire world goes 100% electric for cars. In that case global Co2 emissions fall a mere 3.5% in 2050 versus a baseline of 24% electric adoption by 2035.

Put simply, cars are not a meaningful source of global emissions and electric cars do not and cannot curtail the continued reliance on fossil fuels in electric generation. On top of this, counting all sources, the U.S. is responsible for only 14% of all global Co2 emissions, declining to 9% by 2050 due to rest of world economic growth.

But facts count for nothing in the Biden era. The EPA seeks to force conversion to electric cars through draconian limits on tailpipe emissions. American taxpayers foot the bill for billions in subsidies to electric cars. California leads the way in mandating conversion to electric cars. Perversely, the major auto companies have signed onto the electric agenda, the harbinger of future bailouts.

Perhaps most galling is the continuous misleading of the public.

By law every new car must affix a window sticker with the following statement: “Vehicle emissions are a significant cause of climate change and smog.“ Any private company marketing such demonstrably false claims would be subject to ruinous civil and criminal liability.

If going electric yields virtually no climate benefit, why bother buying a battery-powered car, with limited range, high purchase cost, and low resale value, the death knell to affordable leasing costs?

Consumers are smarter than the government in figuring out that battery-powered cars are a raw deal, resulting in widespread reports of missed sales forecasts, high unsold inventories, and cancellation of future projections by the major auto companies.

Here again the new car sticker hides economic reality by featuring in bold type a hypothetical five-year operating saving versus an average conventional car, based on the cost of gas and electricity.

By sticker math, savings rise as gasoline prices increase, hence the perverse and persistent administration incentive to force high gas costs on Americans, except in an election year. And the savings disappear as electric costs increase.

Already there is no operating benefit when charging stations routinely cost $.40/kwh-$.50/kwh, a fact conveniently not mentioned in the sticker calculation. Nor are consumers warned of the inevitable sharp increase in electric rates if the grid must absorb high-cost solar and wind, as in Germany where electric rates already are $.45/kwh, removing any incentive for electric cars. At current gas prices, a typical hybrid costs less to run on gas once electric prices exceed $.24/kwh.

Taking the broader view, fossils fuels currently account for 80% of global energy supply. Even if the world aggressively grows solar and wind, fossil fuels in 2050 continue to supply 68% of all energy.

The reason is quite straightforward. The major sources of energy, and hence global energy emissions, come from non-car sources that are extremely difficult or technologically infeasible to convert to renewables, namely industrial, commercial transportation (heavy-duty trucking, aviation, marine, and rail), and residential/commercial. The government focus on cars is political theater.

Nuclear energy can uniquely reduce emissions to zero in these sectors, but for reasons well-known, war has been successfully declared on nuclear energy in the U.S. and it is not growing globally at the exponential rates needed to solve global Co2 emissions permanently.

The continued dominance of fossil fuels explains what is otherwise inexplicable: Warren Buffet’s multi-billion-dollar investment in oil companies, especially Occidental Petroleum, and the recent surge in oil acquisitions, notably ExxonMobil paying $58 billion for Pioneer Natural Resources and Chevron’s purchase of Hess Corp. for $60 billion.

Those with the greatest knowledge, betting real money, know oil and gas are here to stay. Without skillful, continuous oil and gas investment in the billions and trillions in the U.S. and the world, global oil and gas production by 2050 would drop more than 70% from current levels, yielding economic Armageddon.

The Biden Administration response is astonishing. As reported by the Department of Energy in September 2023, the National Security Council has issued an edict banning government employees from attending any international conference that promotes fossil fuel production, with limited exceptions.

Yet even at 68% market share for fossil fuels, global emissions will be cut significantly. By a factor of three, the most important lever of global greenhouse gas reduction is not growth in solar and renewables, but continuous private sector innovation in energy efficiency, reducing energy content per unit of output.

Missing in climate change discussions is its inhumane logic. Global emission increases through 2050 are due to population growth and rising economic activity in China, India, and the rest of the developing world (i.e., non-U.S. and Europe). GDP growth raises living standards. Falling GDP and population reduction outside the developed nations are the true, but strategically hidden, moral epicenter of the climate change agenda.

China, India, Asia, and Africa are not buying what world elites are selling as they self-righteously jet to exhilarating climate confabs. No one should. Demanding that 80% of the world, or some six billion humans, sacrifice their well-being, and their children, is an immorality never before articulated and rationalized.

The hard truth is that no set of actions can remotely meet the arbitrary IPCC requirement for a 70% reduction in global CO2 by 2050, certainly not the puny contribution from electrified cars and indeed nothing short of a horrific determination to strangle the world whole.

By all means purchase a battery-powered vehicle if it pleases you. But do not imagine for a moment that it saves money or is doing anything that matters for climate change.

We are ruled by liars, fools and demons, too often all three in one.

 

Be Prepared

We had more snow earlier this week than we have had in East TN for the last five years, including temperatures that were at or below ZERO.

What does this mean?

Does it mean that global warming is bullshit, or does it mean that this year is just an anomaly?

Or does it mean something else altogether?

I would say that it means something else...  so, what is that something else?

Well...  for me, it means BE PREPARED...  Hope for the best but expect the worst.

• This is another example of why individuals and/or couples should be debt free.
• This is another example of why one's pantry should always be stocked with canned and dried foods.
• This is another example of why you should have good tires on your vehicle and make sure your vehicle has been properly maintained.

And I completely understand that you cannot be prepared for everything, so you have to pick and choose which events you want to be prepared for.

There are lots of people around me who have invested in generators in case the power goes out.  That investment can be $5-$10,000 and you have to make sure what you buy is quality and is capable of providing all the power you need.

We do not have a generator because the power has only been out for a day or two in our area.  If power is gone in the summer, we have ways of staying cool (cold showers is one of them).  In the winter, it is putting on more clothes.

If we had a medical issue, then that would change our plans.

Wherever you live, you need to plan for unexpected events to happen.  It is easy to buy a couple extra cans of food each week, rather than purchase items all at once.

 

Somewhat Political

 

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Selling EVs

 

In The NEWS

The fallout from the ongoing Israel-Hamas war continued to roil the Middle East over the weekend. Israeli airstrikes near a Lebanese army checkpoint in south Lebanon killed a Hezbollah member Sunday, while five senior members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps were killed Saturday in Syria. Iran vowed to retaliate against Israel, which it claims was behind the attack in Syria; Israel hasn't confirmed or denied involvement. In western Iraq, US and Iraqi troops were wounded after Iranian-backed militants known as the Islamic Resistance fired at an air base.


Over 80 people died amid a nationwide cold snap over the past week as arctic air pushed south as far as Texas and Florida. Frigid temperatures and ice storms are expected in much of the eastern two-thirds of the country today before a rapid rise in temperatures later in the week, a weather seesaw likely to prompt flooding.


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Hundreds of thousands protest across Germany in response to reports members of far-right party Alternative for Germany participated in event where mass deportation plans were discussed (More) | Germans debate ban of Alternative for Germany (More)


Indian officials to inaugurate Hindu Ram Mandir temple today in northern city of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh; 5-acre, $217M "Hindu Vatican" built on contested holy site significant to both Muslims and Hindus (More) | See photos (More)

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Humiliation

 

Russia's Elite Paratroopers Refusing Orders

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Nataliya Humenyuk, a press secretary for the Armed Forces of Ukraine's Joint Command South, said that the soldiers considered "themselves 'elite troops'" and did not "want to go into frontal assaults" that former felons and reservists typically carry out, the outlet reported.

Throughout the Russian invasion, Russia has become increasingly reliant on high-risk frontal assaults involving waves of attacks that probe Ukrainian positions and seize small portions of territory at the cost of substantial casualties.

The leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash last August after leading a failed mutiny in June, described the tactic as a "meat grinder."  READ MORE...

Girl on BIke

 

Liberal Global Elitists

Who are these people?

They are the LEADERS and the BILLIONAIRES and the social media outlets that support them.

What do they want?

Besides CONTROL, they want all the residents of the world to NEED the government more than the government NEEDS them...

How are they going to do this?

By creating GLOBAL SOCIALISM...

The problem with SOCIALISM is that the government cannot collect enough taxes from the people in order to pay for all their social programs needed to keep the people dependent upon the government.

What stands in their way?

Conservative Government because it allows the people to take care of themselves rather than depending upon the government.  This means that people will have to work rather than get handouts from the government.

Another issue is CAPITALISM which is intended to grow a strong economy.  Right now, our free market enterprise system is providing the financial resources necessary to allow socialism to grow and flourish.  At some point in time, capitalism will no longer be able to provide these resources and socialism will implode.  

Another issue is our NATIONAL DEBT.  Right now the government is borrowing money to pay for all our social programs because they do not collect enough in taxes.  If we cannot service the debt or pay down the debt, it limits our ability to offer programs and limits our ability to borrow money.

One way to eliminate the debt is for the billionaires to collectively pay off our debt...  but, it is doubtful that they will be willing to do that, even though Bill Gates has suggested a wealth tax be imposed on the billionaires.

A wealth tax is not the same as paying off the National Debt and Gates knows this...  so, he is just playing games with a general public that does not realize he is playing games.

A final issue are the COMMUNIST COUNTRIES like Russia, China, and India as well as the dictatorships of North Korea and the Middle East.

Why are they a problem?

Because they do not care about socialism because they know that socialism leads to communism...  Also, if the USA focuses on socialism they will not focus on the military which means, other countries will soon be able to over-power us....  their strategy is to accomplish the over-powering economically so there is no military conflict necessary. 

Clever

 

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Stunned by Ignorance

 

Fats Domino

 

Saudi Arabia Wants to be AI Hub in Middle East

DAVOS, Switzerland — For years, the United Arab Emirates has been the Middle East’s go-to tech hub, thanks partly to its lack of personal income tax, flexible visa policies, and competitive incentives for international businesses and workers.

But Saudi Arabia is keen to capture some of the limelight, and talent, from its neighbor on the Arabian Peninsula — an ambition laid bare on the Davos Promenade this year.

The Saudi delegation staged a splashy presence on the city’s main street, including an expansive storefront dedicated to promoting Neom, a new urban development in northwestern Saudi Arabia; a space dedicated to the AlUla project, an initiative that’s part of the kingdom’s push to make the heritage city a global destination for tourists; a pop-up for the Saudi crown prince’s Foundation, MiSK, and its youth ambassadors called “majlis” — as well as two more Saudi chalets. It’s all part of the country’s Vision 2030 strategy of economic diversification.     READ MORE...

Displacement

World Economic Forum 2024: REBUILDING TRUST

 The World Economic Forum (WEF) convened its 54th Annual Meeting in Davos - Klosters, Switzerland, from January 15-19, 2024, on the theme ‘Rebuilding Trust,’ emphasizing the need for global cooperation and shared solutions in a world undergoing critical challenges like climate change, geopolitical issues, and more.

The Forum provided a crucial space to step back and focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency, and accountability at three fundamental levels: into the future, within societies, and among nations.

TO THIS I SAY BULLSHIT...

• TRUST
• TRANSPARANCY
• CONSISTENCY
• ACCOUNTABILITY

Anybody who does not have their heads up their asses knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that countries like:

1. The United States of America
2. China
3. Russia
4. The United Kingdom
5. The European Union
6. OPEC and
7. The Middle East will never be TRANSPARENT to their own citizens much less other countries in the world.  

There is also a problem with TRUST in that the Democrats and the Republicans or the whites and blacks or management and labor are not about to drop their guard and believe TRUST is possible.

Further, we all know from past experience that if you have power and/or wealth there is NO ACCOUNTABILITY.

For the WEF to have that as their theme must mean the leaders of the WEF and those attending are high on drugs or smoked a little opium before coming up with this idea.

Can you imagine all the pollution that was created from private jets for all to ASSHOLES to fly over to Davos to discuss something they know will never take place.

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