BOOMER QUIZ, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO, ANSWERS

BOOMER QUIZ: AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...

Which movies were nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards for each year from 1955 to 1975?

Top movies are "Marty", "East of Eden", "Mister Roberts", and :"The Rose Tattoo". [1955]
Top movies are "Around the World in 80 Days", "Anastasia", "The King and I", and "Bus Stop". [1956]
Top movies are "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Peyton Place", "Sayonara", and "12 Angry Men". [1957]
Top movies are "Gigi", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "The Old Man and the Sea:, and "South Pacific". [1958]
Top movies are "Ben-Hur", "The Diary of Anne Frank", "Some Like It Hot", and "Pillow Talk". [1959]
Top movies of the year are "The Apartment", "Exodus", "Spartacus", "Psycho", and "Elmer Gantry". [1960]
Top movies are "West Side Story", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Splendor in the Grass", and "El Cid". [1961]
Top movies are "Lawrence of Arabia", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Miracle Worker", and "The Longest Day". [1962]
Top movies are "America America", "Cleopatra", "How the West Was Won", "Lilies of the Field", and "Tom Jones"
Top movies are My Fair Lady", "Mary Poppins", "Dr. Strangelove", and "Zorba the Greek". [1964]
Top movies are "The Sound of Music" "Dr. Zhivago", "Cat Ballou", and "A Thousand Clowns". [1965]
Top movies are "A Man for All Seasons", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "Alfie", "Hawaii", and "Blow-Up". [1966]
Top movies are "In the Heat of the Night", "The Graduate", "Cool Hand Luke", and "Bonnie and Clyde". [1967]
Top movies are "Oliver!", "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Funny Girl", and "Rosemary's Baby." [1968]
Top movies are "Midnight Cowboy", "True Grit", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", and "Easy Rider". [1969]
Top movies are "Patton", "Five Easy Pieces", "Love Story", "Airport", and "M*A*S*H". [1970]
Top movies are "The French Connection", "Klute", "The Last Picture Show", and "Fiddler on the Roof." [1971]
Top movies are "The Godfather", "Cabaret", "Deliverance", and "The Poseidon Adventure". [1972]
Top movies are "The Sting", "The Exorcist", "Last Tango in Paris", and "American Graffiti". [1973]
Top movies are "The Godfather, Part II", "The Towering Inferno", "Chinatown", and "Blazing Saddles". [1974]
Top movies are "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Jaws", "Nashville", "Funny Lady", and "Dog Day Afternoon". [1975]

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BOOMER QUIZ, ICONIC IMAGES, ANSWERS

The answers are provided in order of the images listed:

1 -- John Jr. saying goodbye (John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting the passing casket of his father after JFK was assassinated in November 1963)
2 -- Tranquility Base (name given to first moon landing site of Apollo 11 in July 1969 by first human on the moon, Neil Armstrong)
3 -- Premiered on Ed Sullivan 1964 (Beatles)
4 -- Montgomery (Rosa Parks on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, after refusing to give up her seat to a white man after a long working day)
5 -- Shirley (Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman from New York for seven terms, first African-American woman elected to Congress)
6 -- Hamburger Hill (infamous Vietnam battle)
7 -- Bella (Abzug, Congresswoman from New York and major figure in the women's movement)
8 -- Bob and Ray (Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, radio and TV comedians who originated use of deadpan satire)
9 -- An illegal act under 50 U.S.C. § 462(b)(3) (Burning Draft card, Central Park, NYC 1969, photo by Richard Blair)
10 -- Ernestine (character by Lily Tomlin, power-mad telephone operator that played a role in the forced break-up of Bell Telephone monopoly)
11 -- Attica (prison riots of 1971)
12 -- Twiggy (one of the two most famous models of the 60s, the other being Jean Shrimpton -- introduced the emaciated "boy" look to fashion)
13 -- Premiered on Ed Sullivan 1956 (Elvis Presley -- after first set of hip gyrations, camera only filmed him from the waist up)
14 -- Diahann (Diahann Carroll, star of "Julia", first African-American female star of own TV show)
15 -- Sister George (Beryl Reid and Susannah York in "The Killing of Sister George")
16 -- I am not a crook (words uttered by Nixon during a speech as Watergate was heating up)
17 -- Alcatraz (1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island by Native Americans of Many Tribes to force national attention on U.S. abandonment of treaties, lasted 18 months)
18 -- An event that never actually occurred (bra burning by feminists -- press created this notion)
19 -- Bob and John (H.R. "Bob" Haldeman and John Erlichman, the most infamous of Nixon's staff)
20 -- Refused Academy Award in 1970 (George C. Scott refused his Oscar for "Patton", saying he wanted no part of competition with other actors)
21 -- Woodstock (The Great American Tribal Rock Music Festival in 1969, Redmond Stage shown, which drew half a million people to Yasgur's farm near Woodstock, New York)
22 -- Little Rock (forced school integration 1957)
23 -- Refused Academy Award in 1973 (Sacheen Littlefeather spoke on behalf of Marlon Brando in refusing the Oscar for "The Godfather", to draw attention to the ongoing siege at Wounded Knee and in solidarity the Native American rights
24 -- Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (In South Vietnam, 1968, Lt. Colonel Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Saigon Chief of Police, publicly executing a Vietcong prisoner Nguyễn Văn Lém, causing an international outcry and beginning change of American perception of the war)
25 -- Free breakfast program (Black-Panthers founders Bobby Seale and Huey Newton 1967, started very successful free breakfast program for Oakland children)
26 -- Dealey (Dealey Plaza, the location of the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963)
27 -- Phan Thị Kim Phúc (Nine-year-old girl named Phan Thị Kim Phúc fleeing near Trang Bang, Vietnam in 1972 after napalm was dropped on her village; she had to pull off her clothes because they were on fire from the napalm; photo by Huỳnh Công Út)
28 -- Shrimpton (Jean Shrimpton, one of the two most famous models from the 1960s, the other being Twiggy -- introduced the miniskirt)
29 -- Beautymist (Broadway Joe Namath, all-American-male football star who shocked the nation by wearing Beautymist Pantyhose for a 1974 TV ad)
30 -- Geraldine (Flip Wilson, first African-American variety show host)
31 -- Georgy (Lynn Redgrave as "Georgy Girl")
32 -- Mertz and Arnaz (Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance playing characters Lucy Arnaz and Ethel Mertz in "I Love Lucy")
33 -- Pentagon (Flower power at March to Pentagon 21 October 1967)
34 -- Four dead (Kent State Massacre of May 1970)
35 -- Butch and Sundance (Robert Redford and Paul Newman in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid")
36 -- John III coming back (John McCain III being greeted by Nixon after being imprisoned and tortured as a P.O.W. in Vietnam for 5.5 years, released in 1973)
37 -- 18 minutes (Rosemary Woods, secretary to President Nixon, trying to demonstrate how she "accidentally" erased 18 minutes of a crucial tape recording in the Oval Office whose contents would likely have indicted Nixon in the Watergate conspiracy)
38 -- Alix (Alix Dobkin, on top, with Kay Gardner and Patches Attom, on cover of "Lavender Jane Loves Women", first independently produced women's music album ever)
39 -- Betty (Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique")
40 -- Selma (Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King marching in Selma, Alabama as part of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, the political and emotional peak of the Civil Rights Movement)
41 -- Playgirl (Burt Reynolds becomes famous in December 1974 issue of "Playgirl")
42 -- Free food distribution as ransom (Patty Hearst as "Tania" participating in the SLA robbery of a Hibernia Bank after being kidnapped in February 1974; part of the SLA's ransom demands was for William Hearst to distribute $400 million in free food to people in California)
43 -- Altamont (Free music festival near Altamont, California in 1969, headlining the Rolling Stones, that was marred by violence when the Hells Angels were given a role as security)
44 -- Meg (Meg Christian, on cover of first Olivia Records album "I Know You Know")

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BOOMER QUIZ, WHYDYA THINK THEY CALL IT DOPE, ANSWERS

("Trust" painted by Grace Slick)

DRUGS

Boomers are the drug generation. Below is a list of drug nicknames used primarily during the 1960s and 1970s. Match each of them to one of the six main drugs of choice used during that era: Marijuana, amphetamines, LSD, psilocybin, heroin, or amyl nitrate. (Cocaine and crack became easily available somewhat later.)

MARIJUANA
Dope
Maui Wowee
Acapulco Gold
Roach
Toke
Bogart
Brick
Bong
Doobie
Aunt Mary
Ganja
Homegrown
Reefer
Rainy Day Woman
Sinsemilla
Texas tea
Weed
Alice B. Toklas (brownie)

LSD (LYSERGIC ACID DIETHYLAMIDE)
Acid
California sunshine
Cube
Paper-dot hit
Electric Kool Aid
Mellow yellow
Orange barrels
Strawberry fields
Superman
Window pane
Speedball

PSILOCYBIN/PEYOTE
Peyote
Shrooms
Silly putty
Simple Simon

AMPHETAMINES
Bennies
Black beauties
Truck drivers
Footballs
(DRINAMYL) AMPHETAMINES
Dexys
Purple Hearts

AMYL NITRATE
Poppers
Amies
Locker room

HEROIN
Aries
Horse
Blow
Smack
Dooley
Lady
Mojo
Skag

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