What Did People Do Before These Inventions? Take the Multiple Choice Quiz!

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From ‘Fire’ to ‘Condoms’ – what do you think people did before Inventions / Discoveries we take for granted?

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Take this Multiple Choice Quiz where you decide what people did before these Inventions.  Remember, no wagering!

Before ANESTHESIA  (1844)

  • A BULLET BETWEEN THE TEETH
  • TICKLING
  • A HAMMER

Before FIRE (470 Million years ago)

  • FROZEN TV DINNERS
  • BUCKET OF CORN KERNALS AT THE MOVIES
  • ‘PUT ANOTHER BEEF JERKY ON THE BARBIE’

Before A SUNDIAL (1,500 BCE)

  • FORGOT UMBRELLA
  • SNOW AT BEACH
  • DAMN – WORE LOINCLOTH TO BLACK TIE EVENT

Before A MIRROR (1835)

  • USED A TOASTER
  • USED A PUDDLE
  • HIRED A COURTROOM ARTIST

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Before ‘COLOR MY GREY’ HAIR DYE (1907)

  • SHOE SHINE POLISH
  • A HAT
  • SUICIDE

Before DNA FINGERPRINTING (1984)

  • SILLY PUTTY
  • CHOCOLATE PUDDING
  • GOT AWAY WITH MURDER!

Before THE STAPLER (1841)

  • MARQUIS DE SADE PITCHED AN IDEA
  • WAITED FOR ‘THE PAPER CLIP’
  • THE CHATTERING TEETH PROTOTYPE WAS MADDENING!

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Before THE RUBBER BAND (1845)

  • SLINGSHOT
  • GRANDMA’S SPANX
  • LEFTOVER VERIZON CABLE WIRE

Before THE PAPER CLIP (1867)

  • They screamed: “SOMEBODY’S GONNA PUT AN EYE OUT WITH THAT RUBBER BAND”!
  • They said, WHO NEEDS IT!  ‘A MESSY DESK MEANS… yada, yada, yada’!
  • THEY’D DREAM OF SOME NOOKIE AFTER BRAGGING THEY INVENTED IT

Before THE SAFETY PIN (1849)

  • A LOT OF CLUTCHING
  • MOONING
  • ‘MY EYES ARE UP HERE’ STARTED

Before THE 1st MATCH (1660)

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  • STRIKE THAT TOOTHPICK, WILL YA!
  • RUB 2 BOY SCOUTS TOGETHER
  • WAIT FOR 2 SQUIRRELS TO HAVE SEX & WATCH OUT -FIREWORKS!

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I’m sorry – this is after!

Before THE LIGHT BULB (1879)

  • GOT A MATCH!
  • OPEN THE DRAPES, YOU DUMMY!
  • WHO NEEDS ANYTHING MORE – IT’S ROMANTIC!

And, before THE 1st CONDOM (The Date, who knows)

But, I heard there was a short lapse after ADAM’S Poison Ivy Leaf Debacle!  You decide!

  • ‘CONDOM HIEROGLYPHICS’ WERE DRAWN ON WALL TO TEST INTEREST.
  • JERSEY TOMATOES WERE THROWN AT WALL & SHECKY, WAS COMMISSIONED TO DRAW ‘THE PILL’!
  • NOBODY WON AT ‘PICTIONARY’, SO BEFORE CONDOMS – THEY USED ALUMINUM FOIL (okay, sparks – but very entertaining!)

Sorry, no pics!

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Marilyn Sands
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