The 1920 Survival Game

Would you have survived just after WWI?
(one point each and we won't tell anyone!)

NO CHEATING! NO INTERNET IN 1920

1) grown your own fruit and vegetables
2) played a woodwind or string instrument w/o an amp or keyboard
3) received bottled milk on your doorstep most mornings
4) ridden a horse for chores and/or work
5) kept chickens at your home for eggs and meat
6) gathered sea life from the shore to eat
7) used a cast iron coal/wood burning stove for cooking and baking
8) used and maintained a kerosene lantern for light
9) plucked and prepared a chicken or turkey for dinner
10) ridden a diesel train more than 500 miles
11) had an x-ray before surgery (no MRI, Cat scan, ultrasound, etc.)
12) treated any infection w/o antibiotics
13) sewn your own clothes using a treadle sewing machine
14) taken a horse drawn ambulance to a hospital
15) walked a mile or more to and from school each day
16) made sourdough bread without buying starter
17) drank water from a stream or lake unfiltered
18) built and used an AM crystal radio for news and entertainment
19) used a black and white roll film camera and kept images in an album
20) knitted or embroidered something as a gift
21) bought a house for less than a $1000
22) been to a five and dime store for essentials
23) been with someone when they died
24) sent postcards or airmail letters
25) survived fighting in WWI and/or the Spanish Flu
26) built anything from wood using only hand tools
27) ever sent or received a telegram
28) ever used a kerosene lamp on a regular basis
29) driven a stick shift car with spark advance (Model T)
30) used a phone with no dial and only operator assistance
31) can read and write in full handwritten cursive script
32) kept accounts in a ledger book by hand
33) had polio, tuberculosis, mumps, measles, or chickenpox
34) had a good paying job without a high school diploma
35) depended on a hand wound pocket watch to tell time
36) used an ink dip pen to do assignments for school

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0-12 Stick to the 21st century PLEASE 13-24 Just might have survived in the 20th century 25-36 Might survive in the early 20th century, w/ help . . .

We complain that others don't know how to do anything from our time period. This could be said of all of us if we went back to early 20th century California.

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