Friday, January 18, 2008

BOOMER QUIZ: WHYDYA THINK THEY CALL IT DOPE?

("Lapino Blanco" painted by Grace Slick -- yeah, that Grace Slick)

Here's part six of my nine-part series of quizzes about the Baby Boomer era, right after the fold.

There will be no grading system for these quizzes, I created them just for the fun of it. Play it with your friends. The answers will be immediately available in case you're not so good with delayed gratification (as they claim about us).

Feel free to share, but give me credit, dammit. Copyright 2008 Maggie Jochild.

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.)

Dexys
Rush
Dope
Smack
Maui Wowee
Aries
Acapulco Gold
Roach
Black beauties
Toke
Bogart
Horse
Silly putty
Brick
Doobie
Electric Kool Aid
Footballs
Mojo
Reefer
Purple Hearts
Rainy Day Woman
Weed
Dooley
Alice B. Toklas
Acid
Bong
California sunshine
Blow
Paper-dot hit
Mellow yellow
Texas tea
Orange barrels
Truck drivers
Strawberry fields
Locker room
Aunt Mary
Superman
Window pane
Sinsemilla
Skag
Speedball
Amies
Peyote
Ganja
Shrooms
Cube
Simple Simon
Lady
Bennies
Poppers
Homegrown

Answers are here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Each quiz is more fascinating and clever than the last. I hope you will eventually collect these into a little gift book. As the present slang goes, "your work is dope!"
Sue

Maggie Jochild said...

THX, Sue. I just spent five hours on the "finale" of the quizzes -- you'll see why, when I post it. The next two are not quite ready yet.

As for the book idea, from your mouth to g*d's ear...