A good test for The Over-the-Hill crowd! like me

[Walt. H.]

Subject: A good test for The Over-the-Hill crowd! The answers are below, but don't cheat. A good test for The Over-the-Hill crowd!


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 potatoes, 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 Skeltons hobo character was ________________________. and he 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. I n 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. 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 (the bra was also burned)
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy Holly
14. sputnik
15. hoola-hoop

If your over 50 I hope you got them all correct.
Who's under 50 and still got them all?

Walt :lookaroun

[Formula Jr]

Got them all, but I'm only 46. :)


What very popular children's toy required a vegetable to play with?

The first popular format for playing your own music in a car was called?

Captain Kangaroo, had an eariler, non-speaking role as a clown on what other children's show?

"I Dream of Jeannie" had a short lived spin off. What was it called?

Who was #6?

You meet the nicest people on a.........?

"You've come a long way baby," was an Ad for what?

The GTO was introduced in what year?

What was the name of Diver Dan's nemesis?

Richard Nixon was a member of what political party?


:jestera:

[Team Jefe]

Well I got them and I'm 36, but I'm kind of a history buff, and Close to NASA, and I like OLD TV....

.....Plus since I usually have the mentality of a Horny 15 year old.....I guess, that makes the rest of me 57, to average it out :rolleyes:

[Team Jefe]

Got them all, but I'm only 46. :)


What very popular children's toy required a vegetable to play with?

The first popular format for playing your own music in a car was called?

Captain Kangaroo, had an eariler, non-speaking role as a clown on what other children's show?

"I Dream of Jeannie" had a short lived spin off. What was it called?

Who was #6?

You meet the nicest people on a.........?

"You've come a long way baby," was an Ad for what?

The GTO was introduced in what year?

What was the name of Diver Dan's nemesis?

Richard Nixon was a member of what political party?


:jestera:


OK Now we get to see that I'm not really that good

Mr. Poato Head

8-track

No Idea...I'll guess BOZO

Nope...but it had to be about Maj. Healy

I'm sure I should know this, but I'm drawing a blank

Donzi?

Virginia Slims Cigs

1964

Not even the first clue

Republican....and the only Eagle Scout ever to have his award revoked by the BSA.

[mattyboy]

Capt Kangaroo was clarabell on howdy doody

#6 was agent maxwell smart on get smart.... the old trivia on the bulletin board trick

the nicest people are met on a beauty rest matress I think

diver dan's nemisis was flipper I think

[Walt. H.]

You meet the nicest people on a.........?
Honda :moped:

Us bad guys rode kick starting Harleys. :wrench: :biggrin.:

W.H

[Team Jefe]

Capt Kangaroo was clarabell on howdy doody

#6 was agent maxwell smart on get smart.... the old trivia on the bulletin board trick

the nicest people are met on a beauty rest matress I think

diver dan's nemisis was flipper I think


Clarabell....wasn't that a cow on Green Acres
Maxwell Smart was Agen 86...but I was more in to Agent 99 :smileybo:

Maybe it was a Beauty Rest Matress...in a Donzi

Flipper....LMAO.....See note in Poodle's Siganture

[Formula Jr]

What very popular children's toy required a vegetable to play with?

Correct.

The first popular format for playing your own music in a car was called?

Correct.

Captain Kangaroo, had an eariler, non-speaking role as a clown on what other children's show?

Hoody Doodie.

"I Dream of Jeannie" had a short lived spin off. What was it called?

"Its about time."

Who was #6?

The Prisoner.

You meet the nicest people on a.........?

Correct.

"You've come a long way baby," was an Ad for what?

Correct.

The GTO was introduced in what year?

1963.

What was the name of Diver Dan's nemesis?

Baron Barracuda.

Richard Nixon was a member of what political party?

Correct.

:wavey:

[Cuda]

Didn't four track players preceed the eight track? I remember seeing some four track tapes in my youth.

[Team Jefe]

Cool thanks Owen....and you too Walt for starting this trivial pursuit

[Cuda]

You get a lot to like in a__________________?

(Commerical)

[Cuda]

Who would rather fight than switch?

[Team Jefe]

You meet the nicest people on a.........?

Correct.


:wavey:


So it really was a Beauty Rest Matrress in a Donzi....I knew it....High Five Matty, great minds work alike :beer: .

[Cuda]

There's something about an _______________________

(Commerical)

[Formula Jr]

Oooops!

"Its About Time" was not an "I dream of Jeannie" spin off.
Sorry.........

I Dream of Jeannie, NBC, 18 Sep 1965-1 Sep 1970
I Dream of Jeannie (http://members.aol.com/BrianMay/jeannie.htm)
listed here because it has astronauts (SF) and Jeannie (Fantasy)
Jeannie -- Barbara Eden
Capt. Tony Nelson -- Larry Hagman
Capt. Roger Healey -- Bill Daily
Dr. Alfred Bellows -- Hayden Rorke
Gen Wingard Stone (1965-66) -- Philip Ober
Melissa Stone (1965-66) -- Karen Sharpe
Gen. Martin Peterson (1966-70) -- Barton MacLane
Amanda Bellows (1966-70) -- Emmaline Henry
Gen. Winfield Schaeffer (1969-70) -- Vinton Hayworth
It's About Time, CBS, 1966
Stupefyingly unfunny sci-fi comedy about astronauts hanging out with
cavemen. The kids in my school had a little rhyme, which my son today
still learned by oral schoolyard transmission: "it's about time, it's
about space, it's a bout getting a punch in the face."
Astronaut -- Frank Alefter
other astronaut -- Jack Mullaney
Cave Family -- Imogene Coca, Joe E. Ross, Mike Mazurki, Anne Meara
Creator -- Sherwood Schwartz ("Gilligan's Island")
Director (pilot only) -- Richard Donner (later drerected feature
films "The Omen", "Superman")

[txtaz]

Clarabell....wasn't that a cow on Green Acres
Who can answer this:
Who made the tractor used on Green Acres?

That was a plege question when I was in a fraturnity.
Wes

[Formula Jr]

Hoyt Clagwell.:hyper:

Though it was really a Fordson.

[Bigbroadjumper]

46 but feeling old.

[gold-n-rod]

I'm 49 and I got them all but one! (the 1st part of the Red Skelton one)

another Randy

[mattyboy]

86 6 what's the difference ,
I had the cone of silence on and the batteries are dieing on my shoe phone ;)

[Walt. H.]

Good one Matty. :jestera: :rlol: :rlol: :rlol: :jestera:

[Fish boy]

sub 40, got 10 of 15.

[Brad Lyon]

Correction. The Pontiac GTO came out in 1964. It was designed by Anthony Balthasar, father to my high school girlfriend and almost wife Judy Lea Balthasar. He was the chief designer of all GTO’s up and untill the 1974 model year. In 1974 they were going to change it to the “Formula X” but he fought GM to keep the GTO badge for a tenth year.

I still have all of the “Formula X” stickers and badges somewhere. He is also the designer responsible for the early Trans Am’s until he went over to Cadillac in 1976. I still love his design of the Firebird on the hood of the Trans Am, he made me a small version of it that is about 1/3 smaller than the one on the hood of the cars.

Brad

[Team Jefe]

86 6 what's the difference ,
I had the cone of silence on and the batteries are dieing on my shoe phone ;)


Matty - As always, you fail to disappoint.....LMAO

Thank you Brad....I knew I was right....I just didn't want to make Owen feel bad.....you know me trying to make the whole world feel better, One Donzi Girl at a time :wink:

[Last Tango]

ACTUALLY, the 1964 Pontiac did come out in 1963. The GTO debuted as optional package on the Le Mans rather than as a separate model. It was introduced for the 1964 model year, and the first deliveries to dealers ordering the Le Mans Sport with GTO package were in October of 1963.
Just a note: I tote the boat to float with the Goat.
I'm old enough to have test DRIVEN the original Goat when it was first brought to my local dealer, and I have been a member of the GTOAA since it was born.
Lets see. GTO's and Donzi's were born at the same time. Too bad Don was a FORD man in the beginning (Holman-Moody).

[Formula Jr]

Thanks Last Tango,

I had just read a very extensive article which said the same. And you just saved me a great deal of typing to explain the finer points of that trivia question.

:smile:

[Walt. H.]

Brad,
I always heard and read that John Deloran was behind the GTO and the FireBird. I never heard anything about the name Anthony Balthasar but you sound like you have some inside info based on your post. Or did he take over after John D. left to start his doomed auto venture in Ireland to build the Deloran sports car.

Walt

[Last Tango]

Walt,
Don't confuse "product designer" or "chief engineer" with John Z.'s position as Vice-President of Product Management. John Z. was the "concept man" behind the GTO and not the actual designer or engineer. He came from an automotive engineering background, but was well up the executive scale when he proposed the GTO concept and set the wheels in motion for one of the most exciting decades in 20th Century automotive history. He also fought the major corporate battles with the GM executives who felt he was playing way outside their rules. However, it wasn't long before his corporate bretheren were copying his ideas throughout all the GM lines. He remained at Pontiac and then General Motors through most of the 1960's. The automobile named after him, Delorean, was done when his ego and his finances reached a point where he decided it was time to do things HIS way rather than through a large corporate structure. The Delorean was not built until long after the EPA, DOT, and Insurance industry had killed the GTO and its wild stablemates. The Delorean car was built in the very late '70's and the early '80's as a sports touring car, not as a ground burning musclecar. The car featured a body designed in Italy, an engine and drive train from Peugeot, and assembly in England. You can see the ground work for automotive disaster all through these descisions. Bought any French cars lately, or British cars, or Italian-designed cars for that matter? Remember that in the real word, all British car-builders are owned by someone else like Ford. GM, BMW and VW. Lamborghini's are designed and engineered by the German company Audi. Ferrari's are the last bastion of pure Italian left. How many have YOU bought?
Before the Delorean was truly accepted, John Z. ran out of money before he ran out of ego. Things don't always go better with coke.

[gcarter]

John Z. wrote a book called "On a Clear Day You Can See Detroit", about his forays and fights on the 14th floor of the old GM building. I may still have it around somewhere.
He wanted to do what Bob Lutz was asked to do by the
Chairman just a few years ago.
:wavey:

[Walt. H.]

Guys i'm not confused nor does it matter and I remembered when the Delorean was announced to the public way before it went into production and that it originally was to have a large V-8 before all the gov, agencies and Ralph Nadder types put the clamps on it and why it went belly up. It was built over in Ireland not England and it was never my cup of tea anyway. It reminded me of the Bricklin that was sold through the AMC dealers.(A heavy slow slug). :embarasse I also knew it was a sports touring car, not a ground burning musclecar with a V-6. I was working for one of Bklyn's largest speedshops building engines, muscle cars and pro drag cars 6-days a week at that time back in the very late 60's untill 1974. I even personally knew most of professional top drag racers from northern PA, to eastern LI, NY and NJ in between, that was my era and a great way to get slightly used parts not available to the public. O" yeah and we all we're still pinning rod bearings and using Clevite #77 bearings back then. :D All I was saying is that I never heard of Anthony Balthasar as the man behind the GTO. It was alway understood that it was John Delorean at that time. So now I know different, thanks for the inside up date. Remember i've been a working grunt out in the field all my life, not a corporate stuffed whiteshirt sitting in some leather chair thinking about committee speaches and who he can screw over for the title report. :rlol:

W.H :wavey:

[Team Jefe]

Thanks Last Tango,

I had just read a very extensive article which said the same. And you just saved me a great deal of typing to explain the finer points of that trivia question.

:smile:

Oh, well see I thought you meant the YEAR MODEL.....Obvioulsy the '64 models came out in late '63, that goes without saying.....yeah, that's it , that's the ticket

[goatee]

on the original test, i only missed #8 and the first half of #10
i think,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, lots of reading in between....


and im only 29,..................................(for 5 years now)

[Last Tango]

Brad,
Sorry, nothing like beating a really dead horse. But I just finished reading an article in the Jan/Feb 2005 issue of Pontiac Enthusiast magazine. The issue arrived just yesterday in my mail. On page 8 is an article written by Jim Wangers on who the REAL GTO Heroes are that we probably have never heard of. He of course mentions John Delorean as Chief Engineer and Pete Estes as the Pontiac General manager who risked (and lost) his career by sneaking this car past the GM board, and Jim himself as the sales specialist. However, he also mentions about 30 other folks:
He credits Bill Collins (chassis developement) and Russ Gee (engine developement) as the originators of the original GTO idea. Mac McKellar (developement), Skip McCully (engineer), Herb, Kadau (styling coordinator), Jack Humbert (Chief Stylist), Bill Porter (second generation GTO developement and creator of the Endura bumber), Ben Harrison (primarily the Grand Prix coordinator - but a motivator for the GTO), John Malone (ad manager), Charlie Copeland (sales promotion), Frank Bridge (pontiac general sales manager), Bill Knafel (Akron-based Pontiac dealer), Royal Pontiac's Ace Wilson and Dick Jesse) and and a slew of art directors and ad campaign folks too numerous to mention here. He goes so far as to mention Ron Hill... creator of the hood tach.
Sorry that your girlfriends dad didn't get a mention from Jim.

[BUIZILLA]

Mark, I got my issue and just read the same article. I'm sure glad I didn't take delivery of my '04 GTO last February...
JH

[Last Tango]

You can get an '04 GTO for about $7,500 OFF the sticker price right now (vs the $5-10k OVER sticker the dealers were trying to get a year ago). The word about the huge improvements to the '05 model have totally killed sales even further of the '04's. My 3 local dealers have about 30 GTO's they can't sell. All of them are automatics. They would make an excellent tow car/daily driver for anyone with a 16 or 18 Classic. And now they are cheaper than ever. It'll be 2006 before I buy another GTO again. I have already seen the body work changes and the motor options Pontiac is going to incorportate in the 2006. They displayed the car at the SEMA show. I couldn't take my eyes off it. I spent more time with that car than any other thing I did at the SEMA show. Not that the 2005's will be bad. The '05 has an even 400hp in the LS2 motor (350hp LS1 engine in the 2004), and the hood scoops and dual exhausts everybody complained the 2004 should have had. 2006 will have Ram Air VI and lots more scoops and even more HP.
Red. Gotta be red. But the new Tangerine Metallic is pretty cool, too.