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American Generations: The Baby Boomers

Answer these questions about the American generation born between 1946 and 1964.
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Last updated: June 6, 2023
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What world event's ending is often cited as the reason for the baby boom?
World War II
In what major U.S. military conflict did many baby boomers serve?
Vietnam War
Baby Boomers were the first generation to grow up with what electronic device in their homes?
television
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
What U.S. president was assassinated as most baby boomers were coming of age?
John F. Kennedy
Who wrote the influential novel On the Road?
Jack Kerouac
What movement was sparked by Rosa Parks (and others), that many boomers became part of?
The Civil Rights Movement
Who was the leader of that movement until his assassination in 1968?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?
Betty Friedan
What movement did that book spark?
the feminist movement
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What did young boomer women burn to show their solidarity with the above movement?
bras
The beatles and Rolling Stones were part of what came to be known as what music invasion?
The British Invasion
What were the boomers that became part of the peace and love counter culture called?
Hippies
That counter culture reached its apex with what New York state rock concert?
Woodstock
What psychedelic drug was often associated with that counter culture?
LSD
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
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
Who wrote the New York magazine essay that defined "the Me Decade?" (Hint: the same author wrote the above book.)
Tom Wolfe
What rate for couples spiked in the 1970s?
the divorce rate
Who was the first baby boomer to become president?
Bill Clinton
CoyKoi
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Level 28
Jun 6, 2023
Nice quiz, I suggest accepting "feminism" as an answer for "the feminist movement", and accepting "British" as an answer for "The British Invasion" (due to the way the question is worded "... what music invasion")
kinjapan
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Level 72
Jun 6, 2023
Good ideas for both. They should work now.
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