Nostalgia Quiz: Let's do something different on this forum. Can you answer the following?

Question

1. What 60s group sang the hit song Nashville Cats?
2. Who was vice president to Ike Eisenhower?
3. What year did the first frozen TV dinner appear on the market?
4. What was a memorable event for you in 1957?

I know some will have "senior" moments but do your best!

Answer 1

1, The Lovin' Spoonful
2. Richard M.Nixon
3. "The term TV Dinner is a genericized trademark originally used for a brand of packaged meal developed in 1953 for C.A. Swanson & Sons (The name in full was TV Brand Frozen Dinner). In the United States the term is now synonymous with any prepackaged dinner purchased frozen in a supermarket and heated at home, even though Swanson stopped using the name "TV Dinner" in 1962."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_dinner
It also states 1952 .... abit confusing:
"TV dinner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Much has changed since the first TV Dinners were marketed. ... Later, in 1952, the first frozen dinners on oven-ready aluminum trays were ...

4. I was 8 years old. Marshal Matt Dillon♥had lassoed my heart permanently !!!!

Answer 2

1.) Nashville Cats- The Lovin' Spoonfull
2.) Eisenhower- Richard Nixon
3.) 1953 C. A. Swanson "TV Brand Frozen Dinner"
4.) In 1957 I was 8 years old, I wasn't paying a lot of attention to anything outside my world. The best I remember, my world was going good.

Answer 3

1. The Lovin' Spoonful
2. Richard M. Nixon
3. 1954: In 1945, Maxson Food Systems, Inc. manufactured the very first complete frozen meals in what were known as "Strato Plates." Military and civilian passengers consumed them on airlines and they only required reheating before serving (the plates, not the passengers). The meals consisted of three parts: meat, vegetable and potato, each given its own special, third class compartment on the plate. The concept never hit the retail market due to lack of funding and the death of Maxson. Some experts argue that Maxson’s creations do not qualify as true TV dinners because they were consumed on airplanes and not in homes while watching television. (A moot, if not frozen point.)

In 1952, the first frozen meals made their chilled appearance on the retail market. These meals were also divided into three sections like the Maxson predecessor, but they were packaged in aluminum oven-ready trays. Quaker State Foods were the first to feature these dinners and they sold them under the "One-Eye Eskimo Label." (One can only wonder how well such a product could do if more than one Eskimo with more than one eye wanted to buy it?) Frigi-dinner also began offering its own line of frozen dinners at about the same time.

The TV dinner actually grabbed the ears, nose, mouth, heart and stomach of the retail world in 1954 when Swanson frozen meals first displayed their icy faces in the frozen food sections of the supermarket. At the time, C. A. Swanson and Sons was a subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company. A well-established name that customers knew and trusted, the company capitalized on that, pushing their product even further through massive advertising campaigns. These meals were featured on television commercials by the top celebrities of the day, including Howdy Doody and even President Eisenhower. The term, TV dinner, turned an everyday meal into a cultural experience and revolutionized the idea of "preparing dinner."
4. The Frisbee and Elvis Presley's last appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show

Answer 4

Afraid I don't know the answer to the first 3, without looking them up, (still too honest for my own good!) but 1957 was the year I got the better of the school bullies and became a heroine. Taught me a very valuable lesson - and them!
Now I think I'll check the other answers and do a search, and my excuse for not knowing is that I'm from the UK.

Answer 5

1. I never heard of them.
2. Richard Nixon
3. Some time in the early 1950's. My mother couldn't cook and fed me these first horrid TV dinners. I had to finish everything on my plate. I remember stuffing those bullet peas in my pockets and later disposing of them in the toilet. As an adult I cook from scratch and never ever eat TV dinners. For years I couldn't eat peas, but was eventually able to overcome the associations.
4. There was a We Hate the Teacher's Pets club which all the other girls in the class belonged to. The teacher found out about it and after school one day she marched all of us over to the president of the club's house(Connie G, who was home with a cold that day) to confront her. Everyone was saying I didn't know what it was about or Connie made me. I didn't say anything (I didn't have the courage to speak the truth), but I felt bad for Connie as I knew everyone in the club was equally guilty and knew full well what it was about. It was first time in my life that I saw how people acted in difficult circumstances and I didn't like it.

Answer 6

1. Lovin Spponful
2. Richard Nixon
3. June 29,1936
4. My sister was born in January 1957

Answer 7

1. Don't know; never heard the song. 2. Tricky Dick Nixon. I met him once. 3. Guessing about 1952 or 1953 4. Graduated from high school; Alhambra, Ca. No senior moments for this gal unless I am very tired or stressed.

Answer 8

Lovin' Spoonful
Nixon
Swanson developed these nasty things, about 1952-53...showed up in our markets 1955 (small town usa
1957 has been deleted from my memory banks, except that I was Junior Class VP (oh, that was an exciting deal....) and I was Prom Chairman (another terrific exciting deal that translates to my doing most of the work, and everyone else taking credit)

Answer 9

answers already there for the first 3--1957, mom divorced my dad we moved to another town, I started to grow fineally and went from 56lbs to 85lbs and started to get curves. Had to make friends all over again, even tho the town was close it was a rival to where I was earlier. I was a cheerleader when we moved and made it again a year later so guess I did OK. I also started to really learn to drive that year. I did lots of babysitting and also had a job that was bordering on awful in a Chinese restaurant.
I still hate to look at a bean sprout.

Answer 10

1. Lovin Spoonful with John Sebastian
2. Tricky Dicky Nixon
3. 1948, I wasn't born yet but I think that's what I remember hearing.
4. Sputnik and space race, didn't Elvis get drafted around then? I was only 3, I was more concerned with the Mickey Mouse Club and Captain Kangaroo in 57.