How Baby Boomer Are You? Take Our Boomer Quiz & Find Out!
If you were born between 1946 and 1964, yep, you’re offically a Baby Boomer. But if someone didn’t know when you were born, would they still know that you’re a Boomer?
You can find out with our Boomer Quiz.
It’s inspired by the spirit of our new game Boom Again, a trivia game that celebrates the pop culture, music, movies and more of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s.
So, here we go. You are definitely a Baby Boomer if…
You can write in cursive
Who knew writing in cursive was going to go the way of typing on a manual typewriter or going though an operator to make a phone call? Many younger people these days can neither read nor write in cursive—though to be fair, they can bang out a text message at lightning speed.
You have photo albums
Sure, you might also have a file of digital photos, but you’re a Boomer if you also have actual photo albums. Even though digital photography has its merits, there is something to be said for the fun of shooting a roll of film, the anticipation of getting it developed, and then the satisfaction of sticking your favorites into an album.
Not to mention that back in the day photos were more for special occasions. Let’s face it, we didn’t take 10,000 photos of a plate of food.
Next up in our Boomer Quiz…
You remember fondly the days of kids playing outside
Back in the Baby Boom, there were no video games (okay, near the end we had Pong). Parents didn’t set up “play dates.” Rather, they chucked the kids outside in the morning and told them to be home before the streetlights came on.
Whether it was climbing on the swingset in the backyard, creating a makeshift fort in a tree, or getting together a rousing game of Red Light, Green Light with the neighboring kids, outdoors was the place to be.
You can sing a lot of advertising jingles
Advertising in the Baby Boom was all about the jingle. Perhaps because there was less of a media barrage than there is today, we knew them all. So let’s all sing along…
“Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce.”
“Everyone knows… it’s Slinky.”
“Oh I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner (that is what I truly want to be).”
“Plop, plop, fizz, fizz…”
You recycled and didn’t even realize you were recycling
Today’s disposable culture wasn’t around during the Baby Boom. Milk was delivered to your porch in glass jugs that were rinsed out and picked up to be reused.
Diapers weren’t tossed in the trash – they were washed and reused again and gain. Your phone didn’t have to be upgraded every few years—it attached to your wall or was tethered to a table for a good, long time.
In some families, even the bathwater was recycled — as kid after kid got their turn in the same tub.
How are you doing so far on our Boomer Quiz? Here’s another one…
You’re a Boomer if you can drive a stick shift
While not everybody was good at driving a stick shift, standard shift cars were still so prevalent that you probably had to try to give it a go at some point. Now they make up just a small percentage of cars sold, as automatic transmissions rule car sales.
You’re a firm believer that some sayings never go out of style
Even if you rolled your eyes when your parents said them, you might find yourself just trotting out these old classic lines from back in the day.
“Don’t make me turn this car around.” “Every day is kid’s day.” “If you make that face it’s going to freeze that way.” “Money doesn’t grow on trees.”
You might ask Siri now, but you used to ask a librarian
Back in the Baby Boom, if you wanted to know something, you couldn’t just ask Siri. Instead, you typically had to consult an actual person (versus a digital one) or a book, such as the Encylopedia Brittanica.
Sometimes, if you couldn’t dig up the answer, you had to just not know.
For the record: Librarians are still alive and well these days and ready to answer your questions!
And last but not least in our Boomer Quiz…
You remember when smoking was okay on TV, but not swearing
In fact, on some shows—including I Love Lucy for some episodes—smoking was required if they were sponsored by a cigarette company.
Swearing, however, was strictly forbidden. Even as late as the 1970s, when Richard Pryor hosted Saturday Night Live, studio censors are said to have established a 5-second time delay for fear of what the controversial comic might say.
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