Found in The Camp Followers’ Guide! (Niles Chignon. New York: Avon Books, 1965) this groovy quiz to ascertain how camp you are – aimed at men and women. Some tastes have changed, some clubs have vanished…a ‘Yes’ to over half means you are fairly serious about being camp.
Camp I.Q. Check List
Are you fanatical about egg creams?
Do you collect Wold War II ration books, old buttons, music boxes, stereoscopes and Ball jars?
Do you use banana soap?
Do you prefer Mexican paper flowers to real ones?
Do you have a Thirties Modern Vanity designed by Carl Hammerstrom in redwood burl with rounded corners and a big oval mirror?
Do you have a Bevelacqua chair with chrome flat bar steel arms?
Have you see Gunga Din five times? Goldiggers of 1933, ten? The Devil is a Woman, fifteen? The Creation of the Humanoids, twenty?
Do you have toys in your bathtub?
Do you play with a jump rope, a Whee-lo toy, or a giant Japanese Yo-yo?