Baby Boomer Trivia - How Much Do You Remember?

The Tonight Show host before Johnny Carson was Jack Parr.

Groucho never hosted the tonight show. Before Carson, it was Jack Parr. Steve Allen was first.

Back then it was a time for hula-hoops, transister radios, flavored straws for your milk, (choc., strawberry, or vanilla), for us girls starched petticoats under Sunday dresses that played havoc on our legs, home perms for little girls, elderly women at church smelling like their favorite dusting powder, station wagons, (cars), Shrinky Dinks, paper dolls, tinker toys, slinkeys, and such. Friday nights was Twilight Zone, Dragnet etc. Saturday mornings with The Lone Ranger, Superman, etc. Saturday nights was Rawhide, Have gun will travel etc.Sunday night was Bonanza (a must). Caption Kangaroo every morning with Mr. Rabbit, Moose, and Mr. Green Jeans and usually Tom Terrific and his mighty dog Manfred. For me.....every afternoon was American Bandstand with Dick Clark...and then Dark Shadows. We grew up learning things like how to cook, sew or mend, quilting, crochet, gardening, and on camping trips...survival tips, what to eat in the woods and what not to eat, fishing, about animals and snakes and such. Our moms made their own jams and jellies, preserves, pickles, relishes, etc. In the woods we ate huckleberries, muskedines, post oak grapes, wild pears, and such. Hickory nuts (hicker nuts) we used in cookies, cake icings, home made candies and fudges and candied sweet potatoes. Popcorn balls, home made taffy, ribbon cane syrup, wild honey, polk salad, oh goodness...so much more. (even skinny dipping at the pond).

60/100. I am a 72 years-old Swiss and I didn't understand all questions about sport and TV shows in the USA. Thank you.

Vietnam war began in 1961 for the USA, French were fighting from 1946 to 1954 then came the accords. Then Russia started supporting the north Vietnamese and then we started in 1961.

I'm 70 and I had 24 wrong but was surprised on a few that I guessed correctly. ☺

Being a true boomer loved this

Before Carson it was Jack Paar but Groucho introduced Johnny as the new host. These are fun time killers lol.

Some are easy, some I don’t remember and didn’t care for sports then and I don’t know now!

Jack Paar was the host of The Tonight Show before Carson. Where did you come up with Groucho Marx? There was Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon in that order. Valley of the Dolls was not even in the top 20 best novels of the 60s, but To Kill a Mockingbird was one of the very best. My parents bought a home in 1955 for $8000, it sold in the late 90s for over $300,000. It overlooks Lake Superior. I missed maybe 10, but not all the correct answers you gave were correct. Marilyn Monroe never actually posed nude for Playboy though her picture was on the cover of the first issue.

Loved this !!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 more like this please …

Good one - 84, certainly a baby boomer.

I turned 70 this year and missed most of these.

I remember watching the walk on the moon on a black & white tv. I was pretty young. I remember watching Vietnam war news on tv & hippies. I was still too young to really understand much of it.

Number 71, I consider a trick question, but I got it right. I missed 37, though a few of the questions were only answerable by memory and at my age (nearly 68), what could be expected of me? ;-)

66/100 a poor showing for a 69 year old but was handicapped by the quiz being so USA biased with such a large number of questions being unlikely to be known outside USA.

I WAS BORN IN 1947 . S.F. if i do come back I wouldnt change the 50s and 60s for any other time.thx for the memories

94/100. I will turn71 in August!

Got 96 out of 100

Whether I know these things or not, I still grew up in the 50's and 60's.....hello.....