Are you Middle Aged?! QUIZ

If you are middle aged, you will probably remember when phones looked like this:

and when telephone numbers only had 6 digits (do you still remember yours?!)

You probably also remember wearing short dresses, bobbles in your hair, and knee high socks, like in these photos:

 

And Now for the Quiz …

If you grew up in Australia, you should also have no problems answering most – if not all – of these questions:

1. What could you buy at a shop called Arpel?
2. Commonly used in classrooms, what do the letters “OHP” stand for?
3. What were stores like Jack the Slasher and Mark-it famous for?
4. What sort of business was TAA in?
5. Complete this sentence: “Football, meat pies, kangaroos and … “
6. Royal Crown sold what flavour of soft drink?
7. What do the letters “PMG” stand for?
8. What colour icing would you find on an Arnott’s coffee scroll?
9. What would you buy from Golden Fleece?
10. A character called Norm starred in a series of TV ads. What was the four word slogan?

Ah, the joys of growing up in Australia in the 70’s. How did you go – did you find it difficult, or did this quick quiz bring back lots of memories for you?

Quiz Answers:

1. Arpel was a women’s fashion chain – like Katies or Sussan – back in the day. I remember browsing through it when I first became fashion conscious at the end of the 1970s.
2. Overhead projector.
3. They were warehouse style discount supermarkets, where customers had to use a Nikko pen to write prices on products themselves (hence the name Mark-it).
4. TAA was an airline – Trans Australian Airlines. It was re-branded as Australian Airlines in 1986, before being absorbed by Qantas in the early 1990s.
5. Holden cars – it was the jingle from a TV ad for Holden in the 70s. I remember it being the height of fashion for girls to wear short denim skirts with the words embroidered on them in colourful thread, in the mid 70’s.
6. Cola. Apparently the company still exists but I haven’t seen it in Australia for a very long time – we used to be able to get it from the school tuckshop in the early 70’s (clearly before the Smart Choices guidelines were introduced to Queensland tuckshops!)
7. Post Master General’s Department – in the days before Telecom, Telstra and Australia Post, it was known as the PMG. You can still find the occasional pit cover with “PMG” engraved in it.
8. Pink.
9. Petrol – Golden Fleece was a chain of service stations.
10. Life. Be in it.

If you got all ten quiz questions right – congratulations – you are definitely middle aged (or older)!

If you didn’t – you are just a spring chicken or before you get too excited, you clearly didn’t grow up in Australia 😉 .

What was your score – and are you willing to tell me how old you are?!