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The following images show toys, movies and television shows that define the baby boomer generation. But, how many do you think you can name? It's time to test your knowledge of the '60s and '70s with this quiz!
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Let's start with toys! Which '60s toy is shown in this image?
Chatty Cathy
Ragedy Ann
Barbie
Barbie was first made in 1959, and have since sold over a billion dolls that are still being made today. The '60s saw an explosion of Barbie and her accessories.
Little Miss Echo
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Which '60s toy is shown in this image?
Etch A Sketch
Etch A Sketch came out in 1960 as a hit. In 2003, The Toy Industry Association named it as one of the 100 most memorable and creative toys of the 20th century.
Monopoly
Sketch-O-Matic
Mr. Potato Head
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Which '60s toy is shown in this image?
Mr. Potato Head
Mr. Potato Head was designed as toy accessories to attach to real potatoes. But complaints about rotting potatoes forced the company to include a plastic potato in 1964. It was re-popularized in the "Toy Story" franchise.
G.I. Joe Figures
Chatty Cathy Doll
Casper the Ghost
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Which '60s toy is shown in this image?
Troll Dolls
1960s Popcorn Makers
Francie is Barbie's Trendy Cousin
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots
Red Rocker and Blue Bomber sock it out in a two-player action boxing game developed in 1964. Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots has a significant cult following, leading up to a new version that was released in 2000.
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Which '60s toy is shown in this image?
Viewmaster 3D Stero Viewer
Wham-O Super Ball
Lite-Brite
Fisher Price "Chatter" Telephone
Kids have always wanted to be like their parents, so it isn't surprising that in 1962 Fisher-Price invented a talk back telephone with a pull string. The chatter telephone was one of many dial telephone toys that came out in the '60s.
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Which '60s toy is shown in this image?
The Beatles Board Game
James Bond Board Game
James Bond was wildly popular in the 1960s, both in novels and movies. In 1964, the James Bond Board Game was produced so kids could become their own secret agent.
Candyland Board Game
Lego Construction Set
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Which '60s toy is shown in this image?
Etch A Sketch
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots
Viewmaster 3D Stero Viewer
View-masters were a fun toy for kids to view 3D images. While it was introduced in 1939, the real change came with Model G in 1962 which provided a lightweight, plastic view-master that lasted for the next couple decades.
Duncan Yo-Yo
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Which '60s toy is shown in this image?
Lego Construction Set
Lego blocks have been manufactured since 1949 and have been a hit ever since. The 1960s construction blocks were highly popular and featured sets with 151 to 565 pieces.
Milton Bradley Board Games
Wham-O Super Ball
Lite-Brite
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Which '60s toy is shown in this image?
Girls Easy Curl
Barbie's Dream House
Ken Doll
Talking Barbie
The 1960s were all about talking dolls - and Barbie was the most sold doll of the decade. By 1968, the two were combined with a string that kids pulled behind Barbie's neck so she could talk. This was also the first Barbie with separated fingers. Despite her popularity, later collectors would find that these dolls had a terrible time with limbs staying attached and most no longer talk.
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Which '60s toy is shown in this image?
Moon Scope Telescope
The Moon Scope Telescope became popular in the 1960s alongside science fiction novels, comics and graphic novels. The '60s were also the dawning of the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, allowing each kid to play their part in looking to the stars.
Vintage Electric Pitching Machine
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots
Transistorized Phonograph
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Movies are next! Which '60s movie is shown in this image?
Hombre
Paul Newman plays a stagecoach passenger who's snubbed by his fellow passengers because he was raised by Indians. Their opinion changes when he becomes their only hope, when the coach is beset by outlaws.
Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte
Psycho
The Manchurian Candidate
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Which '60s movie is shown in this image?
The Great Train Robbery
Dr. Zhivago
The Great Escape
People who think of James Garner as Jim Rockford would be well-advised to see this classic. He plays Hendley "The Scrounger," a member of a band of soldiers bent on escaping a prison camp.
Alcatraz
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Which '60s movie is shown in this image?
The Magnificent Seven
Unforgiven
For a Few Dollars More
This Sergio Leone classic western was elevated by having Clint Eastwood (so young!) and Lee Van Cleef heading the cast. There are many iconic shots from the movie, most notably the one of Eastwood in a dingy serape, hat askew with a cigarette dangling from his lip.
A Fistful of Dollars
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Which '60s movie is shown in this image?
For a Few Dollars More
The Dirty Dozen
You might get a hint of Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" here, and you wouldn't be too far off. In this case, a squad of a dozen hardened criminals (murderers) are trained to go on an assassination spree of the Nazi high command.
Kelly's Heroes
The Battle of the Bulge
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Which '60s movie is shown in this image?
My Fair Lady
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Even if you don't know the movie, it's likely you know the music. Henry Mancini's classic, "Moon River," written for the film, won the Oscar for best original song.
Funny Face
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Which '60s movie is shown in this image?
101 Dalmatians
The Jungle Book (I)
For most Boomers and Gen X'ers, this is "our" Jungle Book. The classic Disney touch makes the songs infectious, and what kid didn't dream at some point about running off to the jungle?
Peter Pan
Robin Hood
Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA) Arturo González Producciones Cinematográficas Constantin Film United Artists
Which '60s movie is shown in this image?
The Magnificent Seven
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Would there have been a Clint Eastwood without Sergio Leone? Here's another classic western with both names on it. This one concerns a race for gold thought to be buried in a cemetery.
Unforgiven
For a Few Dollars More
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Which '60s movie is shown in this image?
Cleopatra
In the annals of movie spectacles, few productions come close to touching "Cleopatra" for wretched excess. It won four Oscars, all in the production categories, because there simply wasn't another movie that garish on the slate.
Ben-Hur
The 10 Commandments
Lawrence of Arabia
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Which '60s movie is shown in this image?
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Rosemary's Baby
Psycho
What is it about the tale of Norman Bates that has so embedded itself in the American psyche? There have been dozens of remakes, re-imaginings, sequels and prequels since the original. Hitchcock's shower scene is still one of the classic jump-scares of all time.
Vertigo
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Which '60s movie is shown in this image?
The Searchers
True Grit
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
With Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne topping the list, there was surely no lack of gravitas on the cast. Lee Marvin plays the title character, a brutal outlaw who terrorizes a town in a territory seeking statehood.
Stagecoach
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
The Godfather
Sure, there had been Mob movies before, but none that assembled a cast with power and production values this high. Watch this, and you'll see men (not many women in the cast) who are now Hollywood legends, like Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall, led by Marlon Brando, who was already into the "weird old guy" phase of his career.
The Godfather II
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Star Wars
If you were a kid in the '70s, you remember seeing this movie. Personally, my friends and I camped out at our little two-screen theater and watched it six times over the course of the opening weekend. Amazingly, even with the original special effects, it still holds up today!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dark Star
Battle Beyond the Stars
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Animal House
What's your favorite scene from "Animal House"? Everybody who's seen it has one! For me, it's John Belushi in the cafeteria ... "I'm a zit!"
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles
American Graffiti II
Warner Bros., Pressman-Williams, Jill Jakes Production
Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Badlands
Martin Sheen plays a young tough who seduces a much-younger character, played by Sissy Spacek. When her father objects, Sheen's character shoots him dead, the two lovers try to fake their deaths and go on the run.
Dog Day Afternoon
Days of Heaven
The Outsiders
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Kelly's Heroes
Nashville
M*A*S*H
If you watched the show, the movie might be a bit of a shock. Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye, Elliott Gould as Trapper John and the sexy, sloe-eyed Sally Kellerman as Hot Lips Houlihan are a far more potent combo than the hilarious TV version.
Stripes
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Faraway Productions
Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Deliverance
A Passage to India
Ryan's Daughter
The '70s was a time of experimentation and boundary pushing, but this film is something of a holdover from the previous decades. The plot concerns a romance in a small Irish town, which is interrupted by Irish revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns.
The Thin Red Line
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Deliverance
Here's another movie that turned the world on its head. Whether it's the cartoonish alpha-male posturing of Burt Reynolds, the bizarro nature of the country folk or what happened to poor Ned Beatty, there's something here to disturb everyone.
The Deer Hunter
Westworld
The Warriors
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Among Python fans, the ability to quote large portions of this movie is a prerequisite for acceptance. Despite Graham Chapman's well-documented on-set drunkenness, the cast managed to turn out a comedy classic that holds up today.
The Life of Brian
Blazing Saddles
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Sleeper
Annie Hall
This is basically Woody Allen playing himself: a neurotic New York standup comic who's befuddled by women and relationships in general. Diane Keaton is at her comedic best as a Midwestern WASP trying to make it as a singer.
Manhattan
Love and Death
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Stalker
This trippy bit of Scandinavian sci-fi wasn't a big hit stateside, but influenced a lot of modern directors. In The Zone, aliens who can grant wishes are reputed to live. Of course, the area's been fenced off and isolated by the government, but that doesn't stop people from trying to get in.
Solaris
The Mirror
A Clockwork Orange
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Tim Burton's remake of this movie, while truer to Roald Dahl's original story, raised the hackles of older fans when he cast Johnny Depp in the title role. In the original, Gene Wilder exuded an air of daffy menace that Depp couldn't match.
The Bad News Bears
Grease
Pete's Dragon
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Raging Bull
Rocky
Something you might not know: Sylvester Stallone didn't just star, he also wrote the movie. He got an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay, but lost out. However, the movie won best picture!
Saturday Night Fever
Rocky II
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Halloween
The Exorcist
By today's garish standards, the "horrific" scenes in this movie are fairly tame. However, very few films since have matched the sheer terror conveyed by pretty Regan's transformation from vibrant child to Hellspawn.
Friday the 13th
Rosemary's Baby
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
The Deer Hunter
This is one of the best examinations of what Vietnam did to those who served there ever made. The lives of three young recruits who are captured and tortured by the Viet Cong, then rescued and returned home to "normal" life, are put under the microscope.
Apocalypse Now
Mad Max
Raging Bull
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Which '70s movie corresponds with this image?
Mad Max
Solaris
Eraserhead
If you've seen David Lynch's more modern works and think he might be a bit weird, you haven't seen anything yet. Jack Nance, Lynch's favorite actor, stars as Henry, who works in a bizarre factory, has a mutant child and an angry girlfriend, and generally lives in a world that makes you think you've taken the bad acid.
The Omen
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TV Shows! Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
The Flying Nun
We really, really liked Sally Field as Sister Bertrille, who was able to fly thanks to her huge starched cornette and slight build. The show ran for three seasons, but never cracked the top 30 in the Nielsen ratings.
My Mother the Car
The Brady Bunch
Father Knows Best
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
Good Times
Good Times broke new TV ground by showing a working-class black family dealing with everyday trials and tribulations. It wasn't a "black" show, but rather a family sitcom where the cast happened to be mostly African-American.
The Jeffersons
The Flip Wilson Show
Sanford and Son
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
Captain Kangaroo
Bob Keeshan's "Captain Kangaroo" was the king of live-action kid's TV for nearly three decades. Keeshan put on the Captain's suit more than 9,000 times over the show's run!
Buffalo Bob
Sesame Street
Howdy Doody
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
Laugh-In
Hee Haw
"Hee Haw" was a variety show for the burgeoning population of country-music fans. With an in-house cast including the legendary Roy Clark, recurring humor bits that got quoted the next day and everyone who was anyone in country music guest-starring, it was like "Saturday Night Live" with banjos.
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Grand Old Opry
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
Get Smart
The spy genre was huge in the '60s and '70s, with Cold War tensions fueling the story fires. It was ripe for parody, and Don Adams' Maxwell Smart was just the laugh generator needed.
Mission: Impossible
The Fugitive
The Avengers
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
Green Acres
For six seasons, Eddy Albert, Eva Gabor and Arnold the Pig milked the "fish out of water" school of comedy for country-flavored laughs. It was still drawing good ratings when it was canceled, but CBS was under a lot of pressure to have more "urban" programs, so a lot of country-themed programs were canceled.
Bonanza
The Rifleman
Father Knows Best
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
Have Gun, Will Travel
Gunsmoke
For an astonishing 20 years, from 1955 to 1975, "Gunsmoke" ruled the TV Western roost. It won a boatload of Emmys, and is still played very frequently in syndication.
Wagon Train
The Rifleman
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
My Three Sons
Premiering in 1960, "My Three Sons" was still steeped in the "wholesome" values of '50s TV. Over a 12-year run, it evolved considerably, dealing with shifting social issues as the three sons grew up.
Family Affair
Leave it to Beaver
Green Acres
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
M*A*S*H
McHale's Navy
F Troop
Hogan's Heroes
"Hogan's Heroes" made Nazis funny over its multi-season run. Endless escape attempts and a clueless camp commandant made for a rich comic landscape.
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
Laverne and Shirley
"Laverne and Shirley" spun off from "Happy Days" and went on to years of success. Penny Marshall (Laverne) is now one of the most highly regarded directors in Hollywood.
Happy Days
Mork and Mindy
Three's Company
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
Emergency!
Dragnet
"Dragnet" creator, Jack Webb, was also responsible for this cop show, which followed the two officers assigned to the titular police unit. It was pretty much a straight-ahead police drama, without much personal drama or outside plots.
Mannix
Adam-12
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
The Flintstones
Futurama
Great Grape Ape
The Jetsons
Given its impact on pop culture, it might be hard to imagine that the original run of this show was only two seasons. Fun fact: Renowned voice actor and voice of Bugs Bunny, Mel Blanc, voiced Cosmo Spacely, George's boss.
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
Happy Days
Before it became the show that gave us "jumped the shark" as a metaphor for sitcom failure, this show ruled the '70s. A simple tale of a high school boy with a super-cool housemate and goofy friends who hung out at the local burger joint won Emmys and made stars of a lot of its young cast.
The Andy Griffith Show
Laverne and Shirley
All in the Family
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
F Troop
Hogan's Heroes
M*A*S*H
Setting a comedy in a military field hospital might seem like a silly idea, but it worked first for a movie, then for the long-running series. The series finale is still the highest-rated non-sports show of all time.
McHale's Navy
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Which '60s or '70s TV show is shown in this image?
The Jeffersons
Laverne and Shirley
All in the Family
This Emmy-hoarding comedy broke boundaries, tweaked stereotypes and infuriated bigots of all stripes. Carroll O'Connor made us love and hate Archie Bunker all at the same time, and made us look at our own prejudices.
Maude
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