The Age Quiz: Are You Old Enough for Leisure Suit Larry?

Before Larry gets anywhere near Lost Wages, the original 1987 game makes you prove you're an adult with a quiz about American pop culture. It was meant to keep kids out, and in 1987 it mostly did. Today it mostly keeps out anyone born after 1970. Think you'd pass?

Take the test

Every question below is taken from the original game. Click an answer or press A to D on your keyboard. Like the real thing, you get five random questions and can afford to miss one. Hard mode throws all 30 at you.

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How the real quiz works

• After you type your age, the game asks five multiple-choice questions picked at random. Get at least four right and you're in.
• The original 1987 version has well over a hundred questions. Most are about 1960s to 1980s American TV, music, movies and politics, and many are jokes with more than one "right" answer.
• Can't remember who Kookie was? Press Alt+X after entering your age to skip the quiz entirely. More on that in the Trivia and FAQ.

All 30 questions and answers

These are the 30 questions used in the quiz above. Al Lowe keeps the complete list of every question from the game on his own site.

Show the answers (spoilers!)

1. VCR stands for
   Answer: d. Video Cassette Recorder.
2. "Let It Be" was recorded by
   Answer: d. the Beatles.
3. Paul, John, Ringo and
   Answer: b. George.
4. Edsel is a
   Answer: c. car.
5. Thomas Eagleton was dropped from the 1972 Democratic National Ticket when knowledge of his previous _____ treatments became known.
   Answer: c. shock Eagleton had undergone electroshock therapy for depression.
6. Who was not Vice-President of the United States in 1973-74?
   Answer: c. Thomas Hayden Tom Hayden was one of the Chicago Seven, never Vice-President.
7. The 70's practice of running around naked was called
   Answer: b. streaking.
8. Kookie's address was
   Answer: a. 77 Sunset Strip. Kookie was the hip parking attendant on the TV show 77 Sunset Strip.
9. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
   Answer: b. The Shadow The famous opening line of the radio drama The Shadow.
10. Frank Sinatra is a
    Answer: c. saloon singer.
11. Ralph Boysen invented
    Answer: a. the boysenberry.
12. The first man on the moon was
    Answer: c. Neil Armstrong.
13. Which is not a mountain range?
    Answer: a. Cayman
14. In the movie "Paint Your Wagon," Clint Eastwood sang
    Answer: a. "I Talk to the Trees" Eastwood really does sing it in the 1969 musical.
15. The drink "Screwdriver" contains
    Answer: b. orange juice.
16. Ronald Reagan's co-star in "Bedtime for Bonzo" was
    Answer: a. a monkey.
17. James Brown is often referred to as
    Answer: d. the Godfather of Soul.
18. Who lost a daughter but gained a "meathead?"
    Answer: c. Archie Bunker Archie Bunker's son-in-law Mike in All in the Family.
19. Which U. S. Secretary of State was born in Germany?
    Answer: d. Henry Kissinger Kissinger was born in Fürth, Bavaria, in 1923.
20. Who was the inventive genius behind the Apple computer?
    Answer: b. Steve Wozniak Ken Williams, of course, ran Sierra.
21. Who was NOT in the movie "Easy Rider?"
    Answer: d. Karen Carpenter
22. Lucy, Ricky, Fred and
    Answer: d. Ethel.
23. It is customary to tip about
    Answer: c. 15 per cent.
24. When it's noon in California in August, in St. Louis it's
    Answer: b. 2:00 p.m. California is two hours behind St. Louis.
25. Who spends the most time in Las Vegas?
    Answer: b. Wayne Newton Mr. Las Vegas himself, with decades of shows on the Strip.
26. Which U. S. President was not elected to office?
    Answer: c. Ford Gerald Ford took office after Nixon resigned and lost the 1976 election.
27. Which is not a currency?
    Answer: c. fennel
28. G. Gordon Liddy was associated with
    Answer: d. the Plumbers. Liddy led the White House "Plumbers" behind the Watergate break-in.
29. A 747 is
    Answer: c. a large airplane.
30. Bonnie and
    Answer: b. Clyde

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