Baby Boomer Trivia

How Well Do You Know Your Baby Boomer Trivia? Take Our Quiz & Find Out

Just for fun, we’ve come up with some questions relating to pop culture of the ‘50s, ‘60s and‘70s. They’re inspired by the new Baby Boomer trivia game, Boom Again, which features the music, movies, fads and fun of the Baby Boom era.

Let’s see how you do on our Baby Boomer trivia quiz…

What was the most iconic music festival of the 1960s?

And the answer is… Woodstock.

Held in Woodstock, NY in 1969, the 3-day festival attracted more than 400,000 people. It featured artists including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, The Who… and even doo-wop group Sha Na Na.

What singer sang, “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’?”

It’s Nancy Sinatra—the daughter of crooner and Rat Packer Frank Sinatra. She sang this ode to GoGo boots that hit #1 in 1966. And, ladies, feel free to sing along. “These boots are made for walkin’, and that’s just what they’ll do. One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.”

 

To be fair, she was singing it to a man who was messin’ where he shouldn’t have been messin’, so her ire is understandable.

Next Baby Boomer trivia question…

Which popular female clothing item was introduced by Allen Gant in 1959?

Women everywhere can thank him (or blame him) for the invention of pantyhose.

He actually came up with the idea on an overnight train trip with his pregnant wife, who told him that would be her last trip for a while because her baby belly made it hard to fuss with thigh-high stockings, girdle and garter belts.

That’s how pantyhose came to be—and just in the nick of time. With the popularity of miniskirts that came along in the 1960s, those garter belts would have otherwise been on full display.

Fill in the blank: “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz _____________.”

Oh, what a relief it is!

The advertising jingle for the antacid Alka-Seltzer, the song brought back the brand’s iconic mascot, Speedy, an animated little boy with an Alka-Seltzer-shaped belly.

Now a Baby Boomer trivia food question…

What company was best known for its Salisbury Steak TV dinners?

Swanson is known for launching the TV dinner trend (though that is up for debate, according to some). Whether they were the first, or just  the most popular, chances are if you grew up in the Baby Boom, eating a dinner from a metal tray, set on a TV tray, in front of the TV!!, was an exciting treat.

What was the term to describe the rise of the Beatles in America?

It’s Beatlemania—and there were millions of Beatlemaniacs grooving to the these new beats when the Fab Four stormed onto the American music scene in the 1960s.

When the Beatles began touring, fans were in such hysterics to see them that police sometimes resorted to using fire hoses to hold them back.

The Beatles’ first televised performance in the U.S. was on the Ed Sullivan Show, on Feb. 9, 1964. A whopping 34% of Americans tuned in.

Can you imagine any music artist drawing that sort of crowd today?

What was Elvis’s favorite sandwich?

The King of Rock and Roll had some pretty peculiar food favorites, one of the most famous being his love for a fried Peanut Butter and Banana sandwich. As you might imagine, that’s peanut butter and sliced bananas on white bread, fried in butter until warm.

Is it time to bring the PB & B back?

Fill in the next line: “There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold.” 

“And she’s buuuuuuying a staaaaaaaairway to heaven.”

To this day, if you’re listening to the radio while driving and arrive at your destination just as the Stairway to Heaven segues into the guitar solo, chances are you stay in the car listening until it’s over.

Jimmy Page has said that his solo—which was ranked by Guitar World as the greatest solo of all time—was improvised.

It’s been recreated by air guitar enthusiasts ever since.

Who played the first James Bond?

Sean Connery was the first (and some will say best) actor to bring Agent 007 to the big screen in Dr. No in 1962. Tall and dashing, he embodied the novelist Ian Fleming’s suave secret agent in the first five Bond films—and seven over all.

Last question in our Baby Boomer trivia quiz…

Where did George Jetson work?

In the animated TV show The Jetsons, George Jetson clocked in every workday to Spacely Sprockets. Located in Orbit City, Spacely Sprockets manufactures, well, sprockets.

Even though we have yet to have flying vehicles, The Jetsons accurately depicted current-day technologies such as video calls, robotic vacuums, smart watches and tablets, among others.

 

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