10/08/24 Grif.Net - Boomer Quiz
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[Someone said you could PROVE you were a “Baby Boomer” if you could remember at least 15 or 20 of these facts. Try it! I won’t tell you how long it took for me to type in my phone number on a credit card machine at the gas station today. I know so much OLD stuff like this that I’m not sure I have any room for the NEW stuff.]
1. "Kookie, Kookie, lend me ________________."
2. The "battle cry" of the hippies in the 60's was "Turn on; tune in; ___________."
3. Folk songs were played side by side with rock and roll. One of the most memorable folk songs included these lyrics: "When the rooster crows at the break of dawn, look out your window and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm traveling on, ______________________."
4. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on the _______________show.
5. We all learned to read using the same books. We read about the thrilling lives and adventures of Dick and Jane. Dick and Jane's dog was ___________ and cat was ___________.
6. A Broadway musical/movie gave us New York "gang names" of the _________ and the ________________.
7. In the seventies, we called the drop-out nonconformists "hippies." But in the fifties, they were known as _____________.
8. William Bendix played Chester A. Riley, who always seemed to get the short end of the stick in the television program, "The Life of Riley." At the end of each show, poor Chester would turn to the camera and exclaim, "What a _________________________________________."
9. Finish this slogan: "Get your kicks ________________."
10. "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed ________________________."
11. "In the jungle, the mighty jungle,_______________."
12. That "adult" book by Henry Miller (that contained all the "off-color" dialogue) was called ___________________.
13. Today, a math genius in school might walk around with a calculator. Back in the 60’s, members of the math club used a _____________.
14. Don Maclean sang a song about February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson) were all killed in tragic plane accident. He called it ________________.
15. A well-known television commercial featured a driver who was miraculously lifted through thin air and into the front seat of a convertible. The matching slogan was "Let Hertz ________________________________."
16. After the Twist, the Mash Potato, and the Watusi, we "danced" with a low stick called the _______________.
17. "N-E-S-T-L-E-S; Nestles makes the very best...________."
18. What was the dog's name who sang that Nestles theme songs? ________
19. In the 60’s, the "full figure" of Jane Russell or Marilyn Monroe gave way to the "trim" look, exemplified by British model ______________.
20. The Russians placed in orbit the first satellite called ______________.
21. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking?__________.
22. A big fad of the late fifties was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist called the ________________.
23. The "Age of Aquarius" was brought into the mainstream in the Broadway musical ________________.
24. On Jackie Gleason's variety show in the sixties, a popular segment was "Joe, the Bartender." Joe's regular visitor at the bar was that slightly off-center, but lovable character, _________. (The character's name, not the actor's.)
25. Red Skelton's hobo character (not the hayseed) was ________________.
[answers tomorrow]
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Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"
