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Test For Older Kids

6 Kamal 164 B.E. – August 6, 2007 at 8:03:24 PM PDT

Note: Posted on yahoo journal writing group; please pass it on.

TEST FOR OLDER KIDS

The answers are printed below, but don't you cheat.
1. 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? ____________ ____.

2. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on The _ ____________ __ Show.

3. "Get your kicks, ____________ _______."

4. "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed_____ _________ _____."

5. "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, _ ____________ ___."

6. 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 "___________ __."

7. "N_E_S_T_L_E_ S", Nestle's makes the very best......._ _________ _____."
8. Satchmo was America 's "Ambassador of Goodwill." Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was ____________ ____.

9. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? ____________ ___.

10. Red Skelton'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:
1. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
2. The Ed Sullivan Show
3. On Route 66
4. To protect the innocent.
5. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
6. The limbo
7. Chocolate
8. Louis Armstrong
9. The Timex watch
10. Freddy, The Freeloader, and "Good Night,and may God Bless."
11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned.)
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy Holly
14. Sputnik
15. Hula-hoop

Send this to your "old" friends. It will drive them crazy! And, keep them busy and let them forget their aches and pains for a few minutes.