Vintage Radio Quiz Show, Part Two

Here are the answers to last week’s questions taken from a vintage “Radio Guide” column. How many did you know? Would you have won the giant $88 jackpot?

From “True or False” (NBC)

#1 A person traveling on a railroad pass is known as a “deadhead.” True. (Take that, Grateful Dead!)

#2 A hoofer is a backstage errand-boy. False.  (A hoofer is a dancer.)

#3 When you buy a section in a Pullman car, you are entitled to a private room. False.

From “Dr. I.Q.” (NBC)

#4 Under what conditions may a man purchase his discharge from the U.S. Army? After serving one year, he may buy himself out by paying $120.00.

From “Information, Please” (NBC)

#5 Name the last three Presidents who wore mustaches in office. Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft.

From “Battle of the Sexes” (NBC)

#6 What is the difference between an octogenarian and a centurion? An octogenarian is one who is eighty years old, while a centurion was an old Roman captain of a company of one hundred men.

#7 When you eat the following, are you eating flower, bud or leaf?

a) Cabbage (Leaf)
b) Brussels sprouts (Bud)
c) Cauliflower. (Flower)

From “Name Three” (MBS)

#8 Name three works which have become famous but are defective or incomplete. (Unfinished Symphony, Venus de Milo, Leaning Tower of Pisa.)

#9 Name three things you should keep. (Keep your temper, keep your word, keep a secret.)

From “Kay Kyser’s College” (NBC)

#10 Who was lost in Spencer Tracy’s latest picture, “Stanley and Livingstone?” (Livingstone.)

#11 What was lost in the song, “A Tisket A Tasket?” (A letter.)

From “Ask-It-Basket” (CBS)

#12 Which of these men was the author of the following quotation: “These are the times that try men’s souls.”

a) Abraham Lincoln
b) Thomas Paine
c) Thomas Jefferson.

#13 What furnishes the motive power for ships passing through the Panama Canal? (Small electronic locomotives.)

How did you do?

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