Smarter Than A 70 Year Old?

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 to        ___________________.’
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. 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 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 boy’s name? ________

Answers below the fold…

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 God Bless.’
11. Draft cards (Bras  were also burned. Not flags, as some have guessed)
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