Statistics for American Generations: The Baby Boomers

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
In what major U.S. military conflict did many baby boomers serve?	Vietnam War	100%
What U.S. president was assassinated as most baby boomers were coming of age?	John F. Kennedy	96%
What musical genre that borrowed heavily from the blues was performed by pioneers of the genre like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry, and becoming the dominating musical genre with the rise of the boomers?	rock and roll	94%
Baby Boomers were the first generation to grow up with what electronic device in their homes?	television	94%
Who was the leader of that movement until his assassination in 1968?	Martin Luther King Jr.	91%
What world event's ending is often cited as the reason for the baby boom?	World War II	91%
What were the boomers that became part of the peace and love counter culture called?	Hippies	85%
What psychedelic drug was often associated with that counter culture?	LSD	83%
What did young boomer women burn to show their solidarity with the above movement?	bras	81%
That counter culture reached its apex with what New York state rock concert?	Woodstock	77%
Who was the first baby boomer to become president?	Bill Clinton	68%
What movement was sparked by Rosa Parks (and others), that many boomers became part of?	The Civil Rights Movement	68%
What rate for couples spiked in the 1970s?	the divorce rate	53%
The beatles and Rolling Stones were part of what came to be known as what music invasion?	The British Invasion	49%
What movement did that book spark?	the feminist movement	49%
Who wrote the influential novel On the Road?	Jack Kerouac	36%
Many alternative religious and spiritual beliefs and practices and cult-like groups became popular among boomers in the seventies, and those beliefs are often encapsulated in what term?	New Age	28%
Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?	Betty Friedan	17%
What book, an example of "new journalism," followed Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, who travelled across the U.S. in a colorfully painted bus?	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test	6%
Who wrote the New York magazine essay that defined "the Me Decade?" (Hint: the same author wrote the above book.)	Tom Wolfe	6%