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Here's some fun and nostalgia to work on this weekend.
I'll post the answers Monday. No cheating or collusion, but gum
chewing is allowed, if you get my drift. You can even sleep on it.


> This is a "remember back then" game. Don't cheat now.  And, have fun!!
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>  1."Kookie; Kookie. Lend me your ________________."
>  2.  The "battle cry" of the hippies in the sixties was "Turn on; tune
> in;________________."
>  3.  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________________?
>  4.  Folk songs were played side by side with rock and roll.  One of the
>  most memorable folk songs included these lyrics: "When the rooster
>  crows at the break of dawn, look out your window and I'll be gone.
> You're
>  the! reason I'm travelling on_______________."
>   5.  A group of protesters arrested at the Democratic convention in
> Chicago
>  in 1968 achieved cult status, and were known as the________________.
>  6.  When the Beatles first came to the U.S.  in early 1964, we all
> watched
>  them on the ________________ Show.
>  7.  Some of us who protested the Vietnam war did so by burning
>  our________________.
>  8.  We all learned to read using the same books.  We read about the
>  thrilling lives and adventures of Dick and Jane.  What was the name of
>  Dick and Jane's dog?______
>  9.  The cute, little car with the engine in the back and the trunk (what
>  there was of it) in the front, was called the VW.  What other name(s)
>  did it go by?  ___________ & ________________
>  10.  A Broadway musical and movie gave us the gang names the
>  ___________and the ________________.
>  11.  In the seventies, we called the drop-out nonconformists "hippies."
>  But in the early sixties, they were known as ________________.
>  12.  William Bendix played Chester A.  Riley, who always seemed to get
>  the short end of the stick in the tele-vision program, "The Life of
> Riley."
>  At the end of each show, poor Chester would turn to the camera and
>  exclaim, "What a ________________."
>  13.  "Get your kicks, ________________."
>  14.  "The story you are about to see is true.  The names have been
>  changed ________________."
>  15.  The real James Bond, Sean Connery, mixed his martinis a special
>  way:  ________________.
>  16.  "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________."
>  1! 7.  That "adult" book by Henry Miller - the one that contained all the
>  "dirty" dialogue - was called _________.
>  18.  Today, the math geniuses in school might walk around with a
>  calculator strapped to their belt.  But back in the sixties, members of
>  the math club used a _________.
>  19.  In 1971, singer Don Maclean sang a song about "the day the music
>  died."  This was a reference and tribute to ________________.
>  20.  A well-known television commercial featured a driver who was
>  miraculously lifted through thin air and into the front seat of a
>  convertible.  The matching slogan was "Let Hertz ________________."
>  21.  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 ________________.
>  22.  "N-E! -S-T-L-E-S; Nestles makes the very best...  _________."
>  23.  In the late sixties, the "full figure" style of Jane Russell and
>  Marilyn Monroe gave way to the "trim" look, as first exemplified by
>  British model _______________.
>  24.  Sachmo was America's "ambassador of goodwill." Our parents shared
>  this great jazz trumpet player with us.  His name was ________________.
>  25.  On Jackie Gleason's variety show in the sixties, one of the most
>  popular segments was "Joe, the Bartender." Joe's regular visitor at the
>  bar was that slightly off- center, but lovable character,_____________.
>  (The character's name, not the actor's.)
>  26.  We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit.  The Russians
>  did it; it was called _______________.
>  27.  What takes a licking and keeps on ticking?____________.
 28.  One of the big fads of the late fifties and sixties was a large
>  plastic ring that we twirled around our waist; it was called the
>  ________________.
>  29.  The "Age of Aquarius" was brought into the mainstream in the
>  Broadway musical ________________.
>  30.  This is a two-parter: Red Skelton's hobo character (not the hayseed;
>  the hobo) was ________________.  Red ended his television show by
>  saying, "Good night, and ________________."
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