Are You Smarter than a 60 Year Old ??

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Cool Are You Smarter than a 60 Year Old ?? (Answers now posted)

See if you can fill in the blanks in the following statements:

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 __ ______________.

16. Remember LS/MFT_____ _____/_____ _____ _____?

17. Hey Kids! What time is it? It's _____ ______ _____!

18. Who knows what secrets lie in the hearts of men? The _____ Knows!

19. There was a song that came out in the 60's that was "a grave yard smash"
its name was the ______ ______!

20. Alka Seltzer used a "boy with a tablet on his head" as its Logo/Representative. What was the boys Name?

See how many you can answer.... (I'll post answers later )

Enjoy....

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I was able to answer WAY too many of them! ;^)
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Love trivia! I was able to answer 16. And I'm a few years shy of 60.
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I'm older than 60 but I think I know them all.


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Got them all....and enjoyed it.
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Cripes, I'm older than dirt....I know these....
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I met the man who did the voice of the character with the tablet on his head.(Don't want to give away the answer.) He was a member of our Rotary Club in Escondido CA. He was Dick Beals and he was small enough to be a jockey. Nice guy. Died last year.
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A lot of them. Not all though.
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Had to think hard on some of those!!

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Cripes, I'm older than dirt....
I'm not older than dirt.......but I signed for the first truckload!



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How many did you get ???

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.)

12. Beetle or Bug

13. Buddy Holly

14. Sputnik

15. Hoola-hoop

16. Lucky Strike/Means Fine Tobacco

17. Howdy Doody Time

18. Shadow

19. Monster Mash

20. Speedy

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6 = Limbo Rock

11. Believe bra burning was for Womens Lib not Vietnam protest.


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Alas, these were depressingly easy. (
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I got all but two. But then when I was born, the Dead Sea was just sick.
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