50+ Lifestyles

PUBLISHER’S CORNER

By Eloise Graham

Let’s Have Some Summer Fun

Test your knowledge on this bit of trivia.

1. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the citizens would ask, “Who was that masked man?” Invariably, someone didn’t know. But he always left something behind. What was it that he left?
   _ ______ ______.
2. When the Beatles first came to the USA in early 1964, they appeared on national television. What was the show? ___ __ ________ ____.
3. “Get your kicks __ _____ __.”
4. “The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to _______ ___ ________.”
5. “In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ___ ____ ______ _______.”
6. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi we danced with a stick that was lowered as low as we could go. What was this dance called? ___ _____.
7. “Nestle makes the very best _________.”
8. Satchmo was America’s “Ambassador of Goodwill.” He was a great jazz trumpet player. His name was
   _____ _________.
9. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking?
   ___ _____ _____.
10. Red Skeleton’s hobo character was named _______, ___ __________.
11. Red always ended his show by saying “Good Night and ___ _____.
12. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about “the day the music died.” It was a tribute to _____ _____. In the song, where did he drive his Chevy? __ ___ _____.
13. Do you remember the first satellite successfully placed into orbit? It was called ________. What was the year? ____.
14. “You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth ____ _________.”
15. Dinah Shore would say, “See the U.S.A. in your _________.”
16. One of the big fads of the late ’50s and early ’60s was a large plastic circle twirled around the waist. It was called the _____-____.

Some other things to remember:

• Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group-learning experience. It was merely a GAME.
• Playing in the sprinkler on a hot day. If you got thirsty, you just drank out of the hose.
• Buying stuff from the store that didn’t have safety caps or hermetic seals. Nobody had yet thought of trying to poison a perfect stranger.
• Watching Saturday morning westerns like Roy and Dale with Trigger and Buttermilk, The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, The Shadow Knows, Gene Autry.
• Reading mysteries about teenage sleuths like The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.
• Eating Kool-Aid powder to see what color your tongue would turn.
• Catching fireflies in a jar to use as a night light.

Didn’t that feel good, just to go back and say, “Yeah, I remember that!”

And was that really that long ago?

Publishers Corner Trivia Answers:

1. A silver bullet
2. The Ed Sullivan Show
3. on Route 66
4. protect the innocent
5. the lion sleeps tonight
6. The Limbo
7. chocolate
8. Louis Armstrong
9. The Timex watch
10. Freddy, the freeloader
11. God bless
12. Buddy Holly – – to the levee
13. Sputnik – – 1957
14. with Pepsodent
15. Chevrolet
16. Hula-hoop