Put on your knitted thinking caps for this quiz about some unusual old ladies. (Answers on page 516.)
1. In 2002, 89-year-old Sylvia Mandell of Naples, Florida, spent a night in…
a) A sewage canal under New York City
b) Jail for punching a cop
c) An Anheuser-Busch brewery restroom
d) A coma after an Ex-lax overdose
2. What did 88-year-old Viola Meckel of Texas, win in 2001?
a) A death penalty reprieve
b) The lottery
c) A deer-hunting contest
d) A date with Clint Eastwood
3. In 2002, 94-year-old Ruby Barber of Duston, England, was ordered by police to take down what from outside her home?
a) Razor wire
b) Naked statues of the Royal Family
c) A billboard advertising her “vital statistics”
d) Her Christmas lights
4. In 2001 Amy Hulmes of Manchester, England, passed away at 114. To what did she attribute her long life?
a) Four beers a day
b) Four decades without a husband
c) Four cigars a week
d) Four decades as a vegetarian
5. At Miami International Airport in 2002, 81-year-old, wheelchair-bound Stella Michetti was…
a) Refused entry to the U.S. for allegedly being a mafia matriarch
b) Found with 10,000 Ecstasy tablets in her suitcase
c) Dragged 20 feet by a luggage rack that caught her coat.
d) Arrested for indecent exposure in a men’s room
Average age of a first-time U.S. bride in 1970: 20.8 years. In 2000: 25.1.