Game Show Greats
Bob Barker famously reminded viewers to “help control the pet population” at the end of episodes of this game show.
Price is Right
Neil Diamond had everyone singing along to this 1969 song about a woman whose “good times never seemed so good.”
Sweet Caroline
Television or Microwave Oven
What is television?
Electronic television demonstrations occurred in the 1920s; the first commercial microwave oven arrived in 1947.
Shoppers collected these stamps at supermarkets and gas stations, pasted them into books, and redeemed the filled books for merchandise.
S&H Green Stamps
People often ask for this brand when they really mean any facial tissue.
Keenex
Gene Rayburn hosted this game show where celebrities tried to fill in the same missing word as contestants.
The Match Game
Dolly Parton begged this beautiful redheaded woman not to take her man in a 1973 country classic.
Jolene
Barbie doll or the first episode of The Flintstones?
Barbie
If you picked up your telephone and heard your neighbor already talking, your home probably shared one of these telephone arrangements.
A Party Line
Many people use this brand name for any petroleum jelly, although it has been a trademarked product since the 1800s.
Vaseline
Allen Ludden hosted this word-association game show, and his wife Betty White frequently appeared as a celebrity player.
Password
The Everly Brothers scored a 1958 hit with a song about this woman, whose name is repeated in the chorus along with “why, why, why.”
Claudette
The premiere of I Love Lucy or the first color television sets sold to the public in the United States?
I Love Lucy
Before photocopiers were everywhere, this blue or black sheet placed between two pieces of paper allowed a typist to make an instant duplicate.
Carbon Paper
Someone might say they'll put leftovers in this brand, even when the plastic storage container in their hand was made by another company.
Tupperware
This game show featured contestants choosing numbered briefcases, hoping to avoid low dollar amounts.
Deal or No Deal
Simon & Garfunkel included this woman’s name in the title of the song featured prominently in The Graduate.
Mrs. Robinson
The opening of McDonald’s first franchised restaurant or the opening of Disneyland?
McDonald’s first franchised restaurant
It opened in April 1955; Disneyland followed in July.
Television stations once displayed this stationary image, often featuring circles, lines, numbers, or color bars, when regular programming wasn't being broadcast.
Test Pattern
This brand, introduced in 1958, became so closely associated with instant breakfast drinks that its name may bring back memories of stirring chocolate powder into a glass of milk. Its famous mascot was eventually a rabbit.
Nesquik
Monty Hall became so closely associated with this game show that a famous probability puzzle was later named after him.
Let's Make a Deal
This Chuck Berry song about a guitar-playing country boy helped inspire the name of Marty McFly’s famous performance in Back to the Future.
Johnny B. Goode
Put these three American favorites in order from oldest to newest:
Kleenex — Band-Aid — Wonder Bread
What are Band-Aid (1920), Wonder Bread (1921), and Kleenex (1924)?
A telephone number might once have been written MUrray Hill 5-9975 instead of using seven digits. The first two letters represented this.
Telephone Exchange Name
This brand name for a vacuum-sealed glass jar became so widely used that people often used the name for any container designed to keep food hot or cold.
Thermos