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The Baby Boomers just knew how to have fun. From Super Balls to Pogo sticks to Barrel of Monkeys, the world was a playground. As they got older, TV dinners arrived as well as transistor radios and Polaroid cameras to make life more convenient. And the style of the decade was bell bottoms. Elvis as well as Sonny and Cher certainly deserve some of the credit for the popularity that bell bottoms enjoyed in the 1960s and 1970s. Take the quiz right now and recall it all.
If you were born between 1946 and 1964, you are a group identified as Baby Boomers. Due to the boom in births following World War II, this generation shared many life experiences, from Vietnam to Watergate to the first man on the moon. And they shared the common experiences of home life, like getting milk delivered daily and collecting Green Stamps to redeem merchandise. And the music was the best. Boomers listened to the Beatles, Ray Charles, the Rolling Stones and so many other greats. Whether you're a leading-edge boomer born between 1946 and 1955 or a trailing-edge boomer born between 1956 and 1964, you'll enjoy reminiscing about your youth with this quiz. Start now.
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Love beads
You didn't have to be a hippie to adorn your wrist or neck in a string of love beads - those colorful, easy-to-make items of jewelry were everywhere! Plus, you didn't have to wait for someone else to give you a string of love beads, they were the perfect way to show yourself a little love.
Ink blot test
Mood ring
TV dinner tray
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Mimeograph machine
Glass milk bottles
Liquid paper
Shag carpet
Shag carpeting has been around for centuries and is currently seeing a resurgence in its popularity. These super plush carpets hit the peak of their popularity, however, in the 1960s and 1970s when they were closely associated with hippie culture.
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TV dinner
C.A. Swanson & Sons brought out its first TV Brand Frozen Dinner in 1953 and everyone started craving mealtime convenience. Their original 98-cent offering was a Thanksgiving turkey meal complete with cornbread dressing, sweet potatoes and frozen peas.
Easy-Bake Oven
Icebox
Silly Putty
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Die-cast soldiers
Troll dolls
Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
The Marx toy company released the very first Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots in 1964. Red Rocker and Blue Bomber (the robots' names) provided an excellent way to work out your differences - just duke it out until somebody's head got knocked off!
Hungry Hungry Hippo
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Banana seat bicycle
Saddle-shaped (or banana) bicycle seats were invented in 1885 but it wasn't until the mid-1900s that they became really popular. The banana seat was more comfortable than others around at the time, plus it could easily accommodate a second rider due to its longer length.
Radio Flyer
Pinwheel
Gyroscope
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Wall phone
View-Master
Linoleum
The original linoleum material was a durable, attractive flooring option which has suffered the fate of being largely replaced by polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Linoleum was so commonplace, however, that most people call PVC or any similar flooring material linoleum just the same.
Church key
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Record cabinet
Chatty Cathy
45 RPM record adapter
Glass milk bottles
More amazing than the fact that the milk came in glass and not the now-ubiquitous plastic, is that it was delivered right to your door by the milkman. For baby boomers, fresh milk delivered to your doorstep each morning was the order of the day.
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Front tail fin
Fotomat lens
No-draft window
No-draft windows (a.k.a. breeze windows, wing vents and butterfly windows) were commonplace in vehicles before air-conditioning became mainstream. They were a smart design feature which allowed you to keep the bigger windows rolled up but still have adequate ventilation in your car.
Ashtray
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Typewriter ribbon
Green Stamps
Easy-Bake Oven
Pogo stick
In every generation (baby boomers or not), kids just love bouncing around. That's what made the pogo stick such a brilliant idea and why it became so hugely popular in the 1970s - grown people even got married on those things!
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Pet Rock
Pogo stick
Mood ring
Liquid crystal temperature strips were invented in 1970. While those convenient thermometers didn't hit "fad†status, mood rings, which were based on the same technology and released five years, later certainly did. No need to explain your feelings - the mood ring said it all!
The Game of Cootie
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Mary Jane shoes
No-draft window
Church key
45 RPM record adapter
7-inch vinyl records, known as singles or 45s, had a much bigger hole in the center than the wider LP records. That was OK, since 45s were originally meant to be played in a jukebox. For playing 45s on your home turntable, however, you needed a 45 RPM Record Adapter.
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Liquid paper
Bouffant hairdo
Jacqueline Kennedy was the epitome of style while her husband was leader of the free world. So, no matter how difficult her signature bouffant hairdo was to achieve or maintain, you can bet your bottom dollar every woman was teasing (and torturing) her hair into one.
Chatty Cathy
Icebox
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Typewriter
Typewriters enjoyed steady popular from the late 1800s into the 1980s. Even though they have been largely replaced by more efficient computers, we all still have typewriters to thank for the QWERTY keyboard we use each day.
Liquid Paper
Easy-Bake Oven
Pet Rock
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Coatdress
The 1960s marked the height of popularity for this particularly chic item of apparel. Princess Diana led its resurgence in the 1980s and baby boomers got to take a nostalgic walk down memory lane.
Smoking jacket
Typewriter eraser
Corded TV remote
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Transistor radio
Church key
View-Master
The View-Master was released in 1939 but was at the height of its popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. Reels ranged from exotic vacation destinations to famous world landmarks and popular Disney characters.
Wall phone
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Barrel of Monkeys
Marketing of Barrel of Monkeys began in 1965 and many a Baby Boomer had hours of fun playing with these interlocking little critters. In 2011, Barrel of Monkey's earn 53rd place on Time Magazine's list of All-Time 100 Greatest Toys.
Carbon paper
Super Ball
Typewriter eraser
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Icebox
Fotomat booth
Mr. Potato Head
Mr. Potato Head, released by Hasbro in 1952, holds the distinction of being the very first toy advertised on TV. Baby Boomers might recall that the original Mr. Potato Head was just a bunch of pushpin body parts - you had to find your own potato (or other vegetable of your choice) to stick them into.
Rotary dial telephone
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Can you name this blast from the past?
Coatdress
Payphone
Mobile phones have made payphone and phone booths all but obsolete. While they were around, payphones were extremely convenient for placing calls while out and about or (if you were Clark Kent) for quickly changing into your superhero outfit in privacy.
Mary Jane Shoes
Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
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Which Baby Boomer object is shown in this picture?
No-draft window
Record cabinet
Chatty Cathy
Tang
Tang first hit the market in 1959, and by 1962 the powdered fruit-flavored drink mix was onboard with astronaut John Glenn on his Mercury mission flight. NASA kept using Tang aboard its missions which added to the drink being closely associated with the space program in pop culture.
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Love Beads
Typewriter eraser
Typewriters didn't come with an "Undo†button, so for fixing typing mistakes you needed your trusty typewriter eraser. Typewriter erasers were made either in pencil or disc shape.
Pet Rock
Linoleum flooring
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View-Master
Skate key
Wall-mounted bottle opener
Wall-mounted bottle openers were very similar to church key openers and the bottle openers installed in older versions of vending machines. Some wall-mounted bottle openers came complete with a cap catcher.
Polaroid camera
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Bellbottoms
Elvis and Sony and Cher certainly deserve some of the credit for the popularity that bellbottoms enjoyed in the 1960s and 1970s. The style may have been based on Navy uniforms, but many "landlubbers†definitely partied the night away in a pair of these rocking hot pants.
Mr. Potato Head
Kitten heel pumps
Rotary dial telephone
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Green Stamps
Mimeograph machine
View-Master
Transistor radio
The transistor radios of yesteryear were very much like the cellphones of today - colorful, stylish and affordable enough for everybody to have one. Teens got to have their music on the go with these lightweight, compact marvels.
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Gogo boots
Ever wondered which came first - the go go boot or the go go dancer? Well, as every Baby Boomer knows, the shoes which came out in the 1960s were actually named after the dancers who made them so popular.
Corded TV remote
Love beads
Barrel of Monkeys
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Which Baby Boomer object is shown in this image?
Pogo stick
Troll dolls
Troll dolls first came on the scene in 1959. Their scary but cute features won over the hearts of kids at the time and they have remained somewhat popular since then.
Chalkware
Fotomat booth
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Easy-Bake Oven
Skate key
Typewriter ribbon
Typewriter ribbon, also called ink ribbon, has become more or less obsolete. In the heydays of typewriters, however, the ribbon was known to be an indispensable part of every typewriter's functioning.
Rotary dial telephone
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The Game of Cootie
Glass milk bottles
Mimeograph machine
Long before the photocopier, there were machines like the mimeograph (called simply "mimeo†for short). The mimeograph was affordable enough for small business and some homes to have their own to take care of their duplicating needs.
Banana seat bicycle
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Polaroid camera
Thanks to the nostalgic effect they have on Baby Boomers, Polaroid or instant cameras are still around today. They may have been largely replaced by the far superior digital camera, but when they were first introduced in 1948, Polaroid cameras were a technological marvel!
Die-cast soldiers
Coatdress
Payphone
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Kitten heel pumps
Bouffant hairdo
Corded TV remote
Having to get up to change channels or adjust the volume was one of TV's biggest drawbacks and the TV remote became the natural solution. In the early days, however, the TV remote wasn't so "remote," since it was wired to the TV. Of course, cordless remotes were not far behind!
Tang
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Troll dolls
TV dinners
Chalkware
Liquid Paper
When it was introduced in the 1950s, correction paper seemed like a real godsend. You could leave your typewriter eraser tucked away in the back of your desk drawer and reach for this easier (albeit messier) alternative, instead.
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What is this object that Baby Boomers grew up with?
Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
Chatty Cathy
Toy manufacturer Mattel released Chatty Cathy in 1960 and she was an instant hit. Although her mouth didn't move, she "spoke†11 different phrases - all you had to do was pull on the ring in her back!
Typewriter ribbon
45 RPM record adapter
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Bellbottoms
Mood ring
Wall-mounted bottle opener
Pet Rock
When they came out in 1975, Pet Rocks took off in a really big way - if only for a short time. Pet Rocks were a simple idea: a rock in a box lined with straw, complete with breathing holes and a (tongue-in-cheek) instruction manual.
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Rickie Tickie Stickies
Barrel of Monkeys
Green Stamps
S&H Green Stamps were very popular with the families of Baby Boomers. Customers received the trading stamps at the checkout counter of select supermarkets and department stores, as well as at some gas stations. The stamps were redeemable for items in S&H's catalog or at their Green Stamps store.
Glass milk bottles
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Rotary dial telephone
To current generations, rotary dial telephones may seem like relics from a long-gone age but to Baby Boomers, they were standard fare. Rotary dial telephones utilized a technology called pulse dialing which has since been replaced by keypads and touch-tone dialing.
Polaroid camera
Tang
TV dinners
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Typewriter
Carbon paper
Before the introduction of carbonless paper for making duplicates, carbon paper was the go-to solution. Although originally made of coated paper, later versions of carbon paper were actually a kind of plastic film, not paper.
Rickie Tickie Stickies
Super Ball
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Which Baby Boomer object is shown in this picture?
Green Stamps
Wall-mounted bottle opener
Easy-Bake Oven
The Easy-Bake Oven was first released by Kenner (now part of Hasbro) in 1963. It looked like a conventional oven, but its heat source was actually two 100 watt bulbs!
Transistor radio
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Pet Rock
Die-cast soldiers
Children today are used to these little army men being made out of plastic. When they first came on the scene, however, these popular toy box additions were made from durable die-cast metal.
Troll dolls
Coatdress
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Super Ball
Bouffant hairdo
Record cabinet
Ranging from fairly simple to pretty formidable, record cabinets were a necessary piece of home furnishing in the age of vinyl records. They housed your turntable and were a great way to protect your music collection when you weren't grooving to some of your favorites.
Bellbottoms
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Silly Putty
Silly Putty "The Real Solid Liquid†has been around since the 1950s. It was even on the Apollo 8 mission which orbited the Moon. There, the Silly Putty was used for a very practical reason - to keep tools from floating all over the cabin!
Liquid Paper
Chalkware
Skate key
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Typewriter ribbon
Linoleum flooring
Kitten heel pumps
The Game of Cootie
The Game of Cootie let you build your own cute (plastic) infectious bug - no wonder it was so popular. Cooties may not have been real but the fun kids had playing the game ever since its launch in 1949 sure was!
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Mary Jane Shoes
Just as with kitten heel pumps, Mary Jane shoes were popular among both women and girls. While Mary Janes were must-haves for little girls earlier in the century, by the 1960s they became a more grown-up affair and were worn with work or casual attire, as well as more formal looks.
Silly Putty
Love beads
Carbon paper
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TV dial
Typewriter eraser
Etch-A-Sketch
Super Ball
1964 saw the invention of a crazy bouncing ball that became so popular, it was even handed out to White House staff. While the material that made it had a cool, space age-sounding name, Zectron, for baby boomers, "Super Ball†just seemed to say it all.
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Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
Barrel of Monkeys
Wall phone
In the age of mobile telephones, it might be hard for some persons to imagine having only one phone in your home - and it being fixed to the wall, at that! Just as wall-mounted TVs are the norm today, wall-mounted phones were simply commonplace to Baby Boomers back then.
Corded TV remote
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Shag carpet
Church key
Fotomat booth
Fotomat booths were located in almost every shopping center parking lot. They were a fast, convenient and affordable way to have your camera film developed. You simply dropped of the film (no need to get out of your car!) and picked up your pictures the next day.
Rickie Tickie Stickies
Frigidaire
Which Baby Boomer object is shown in this image?
Chatty Cathy
Frozen Freezer
Cold Wardrobe
Icebox
The icebox, and the iceman who delivered the block of ice used in it, are all but obsolete today. Iceboxes were, however, found in most home kitchens before refrigerators became common household appliances.
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Wall-mounted bottle opener
Church key
The church key had nothing to do with Sunday morning services. Its triangular, pointed end was used to punch holes in cans (such as those containing your favorite beer). Its rounded end was for lifting and pulling caps from glass bottles.
Shag carpet
Silly Putty
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Which Baby Boomer object is shown in this image?
Saddle shoes
Kitten-heel pumps
In the 1950s, kitten heel pumps became the go-to style in footwear for young girls and grown women, alike. The style had been around before but nowhere near as popular, and thanks to famous, fashionable ladies like Michelle Obama, they may never go back out of style!
Mary Jane shoes
Stiletto
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Chalkware
Nowadays, a rare chalkware figurine could be worth thousands of dollars. Back in their heyday of the 1940s to 1960s, however, these plaster of Paris figurines adorned most homes. Their popularity only began to wane (like so many other classic items) with the advent of plastics.
Dog toys
Precious Moments figurines
Barbie's Christmas set
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