Baby Boomer Quiz 😁
Jun 20, 2018 19:41:21 #
Jun 20, 2018 20:27:57 #
I must be old. Only one wrong. Cute quiz that highlight how much has changed, in a short time.
Jun 20, 2018 20:36:36 #
Stan Gould
Loc: La Crosse, Wisconsin
junglejim1949 wrote:
http://learn.howstuffworks.com/quiz/do-you-know-what-only-baby-boomers-remember?quiz-start=true
I must be getting old. I got 30 out of 35. Should have gotten several more; made stupid mistakes.
Jun 20, 2018 20:43:52 #
Jun 20, 2018 20:53:25 #
Jun 20, 2018 22:05:35 #
Jun 20, 2018 23:14:38 #
oh boy.we had no phone, no fridge, no car, no TV, no hot water laid on no washing machine ...I MUST be old.
Jun 21, 2018 02:02:35 #
Got em all; It was cute but not completely relevent.
Jun 21, 2018 06:53:49 #
junglejim1949 wrote:
http://learn.howstuffworks.com/quiz/do-you-know-what-only-baby-boomers-remember?quiz-start=true
Ok, being of the post depression era, (i was born in 1936) I guess i lived through it all. LOL, because i remember it all. So far, i have aced ALL these quizzes. I am a product of my time. OMG! what an ugly thought. LOL.
Even though i got all right, i have to admit to guessing the right answer on #34...how many baby
boomers are there. But i did guess right.
Anyway keep these quizzes coming. I love them.
Rich...
Jun 21, 2018 07:02:19 #
1) We had no phone. We had to walk to the nearest phone box down the road.
2) Being friends with your parents was unheard of.
3) May be a difference between US and UK, but TV ended at 10 pm.
4) Skimmed and semi-skimmed milk was only used because it was cheaper. Never as a healthier alternative.
5) Again a difference between US and UK. We didn't have drive-ins. We had to go into town to a cinema. And it was a yearly treat, except the year my parents discovered "The Sound of Music", when they dragged my sister and me to see it every evening during the summer break because it was cheaper than sitters. God, I hate that film.
6) I vaguely remember some news coverage at the time. I've heard more about it in the years since.
7) We had none of those.
8) Goes without saying.
9) None of them.
10) If I had wanted to learn to type, as a boy, I would have had the crap beaten out of me. In later years since learning to programme, it would have been an advantage.
I stopped there because I realised I had no idea what most of the questions were about.
2) Being friends with your parents was unheard of.
3) May be a difference between US and UK, but TV ended at 10 pm.
4) Skimmed and semi-skimmed milk was only used because it was cheaper. Never as a healthier alternative.
5) Again a difference between US and UK. We didn't have drive-ins. We had to go into town to a cinema. And it was a yearly treat, except the year my parents discovered "The Sound of Music", when they dragged my sister and me to see it every evening during the summer break because it was cheaper than sitters. God, I hate that film.
6) I vaguely remember some news coverage at the time. I've heard more about it in the years since.
7) We had none of those.
8) Goes without saying.
9) None of them.
10) If I had wanted to learn to type, as a boy, I would have had the crap beaten out of me. In later years since learning to programme, it would have been an advantage.
I stopped there because I realised I had no idea what most of the questions were about.
Jun 21, 2018 07:27:50 #
Something wrong with the quiz's totaling. I only missed one and it scored me 33 out of 35. Additionally, I quibble with the answer I missed. As a kid, I listened to music on my grandparents Victrola. I am definitely a boomer, born in late 1947. My brother got a transistor radio for his Bar Mitzvah. It was one of the first and that would have been in 1955. It had an enormous battery inside it and a cord wrapped around pins inside to plug in when he didn't want to use the battery. The battery was not rechargeable...it was an Eveready and the size of a small brick. So, for the first eight years of my life, the Victrola was the way to listen to music. Unless one had a regular radio. We had one of those as well, but wasn't a transistor radio.
Jun 21, 2018 10:01:36 #
I remember our first TV. Dad made really *good* money (about $50.00 a week) and we could afford one. It was equipped with a round screen, about 10" in diameter, and the whole "table-top" unit was just about the size of a "card" table (remember those?) - about 3 feet wide and a little less deep. We would sometimes have ten or more people over, any given night, glued to that fuzzy, blue-green screen, until both of the stations in town signed off around 9:00 pm. And even then, a lot of the "guests" would stay, watching the test pattern! Little did we know, but by the 50's we would have four (yup, f o u r) channels - and one of them was UHF!!
Jun 21, 2018 10:04:41 #
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