Is This You

Branson, Missouri - Your "Boomer Getaway!"

Are you a Baby Boomer?

Take the "Baby Boomer" Test!

Scoring 38 to 51 correct answers means that Branson, Missouri is your kind of town full of your kind of fun because yes, you too are a "Baby Boomer", that is to say one of the 76 million Americans born during the post World War II "Baby Boom." (Scroll down for the answers).

20 Questions

(Circle the ones you got right.)

1. What are a "pedal pushers?"

2. What is Butch Wax?

3. What are culottes?

4. What is a dunce cap?

5. Name three "earth tones"

6. Describe a Nehru jacket.

7. Who are Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot, and Puff?

8. What does it mean to "walk a mile for a camel?"

9. What did typewriter keys used to get stuck on?

10. Where did "Burma Shave Advertise?"

11. Where did "Mail Pouch Tobacco" advertise?

12. Who was the "king of the wild frontier?"

13. When were you supposed to "duck and cover?"

14. Who was J. Fred Muggs?

15. Who says, "Love my good & plenty?"

16. What is madras?

17. What is a "brush arbor?"

18. What is a Horn & Hardardt's "automat"?

19. What is the "frug?"

20. What is a "mood ring?"

What You Like

(circle your likes)

1. Spending time with your kids.

2. Spending time with your grandkids.

3. Experiencing new things.

4. Routines.

5. Rules & guidelines.

6. Teamwork.

7. Long term goals.

8. Going with the flow.

9. Doing your own thing.

10. Having someone else do it for you.

Do You Remember?

(Circle what rings a bell.)

1. When "point and click" was something you did with an oil can.

2. When you first saw "Bonanza" in color.

3. When The Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show.

4. When JR got shot.

5. The smell of Jade East and English Leather.

6. Tiddly Winks.

7. Studebakers, Nash, Edsels.

8. Big hair.

9. When the "hi-fi" was a piece of furniture.

10. The family pulling their chairs in a circle around the radio.

11. The smell of Dad's pipe.

12. Going into a grocery store just for the air-conditioning.

13. Sayings such as "gag me with a spoon," or "as if", or "gross me out", or "far out", or "hip", or "hep", or "sockit to me" or "here come de judge!"

14. Clam diggers.

15. Wearing your roller skate key around your neck.

16. Playing jacks or marbles.

17. Pet rocks.

18. Rat Fink.

19. Hula Hoops.

20. Seeing your first mall.

Scoring: Each correct answer earns a point. Count up your points and score yourself. (51 points possible) Images: 20 Questions (20 pts.) What You Like 5 pts.( 5 answers are wrong , 1 pt. deducted for each wrong answer. ) Do You Remember? (20 pts.)

Answers to Baby Boomer Test: 20 Questions: 1. gal pants. 2. hair goop for fellas. 3. gal shorts. 4. "Conehead" hats for classroom disrupters 5. avacado, pumpkin, brown etc. 6. White tunics with "preacher" collars. 7. They taught "boomers" how to read. 8. Cigarette ad. 9. The ribbon. 10. On the roadside. 11. On barns. 12. Davy Crockett 13. In a nuclear attack. 14. A chimp on the "Today" show. 15. Charlie. 16. Checkered fabric from India. 17. An outdoor revival meeting. 18. Buffet meal choices in windows. 19. A dance. 20. A "seventies" thing. What You Like (answers 4 thru 8 are wrong!) Do You Remember: Score 1 pt. for each memory. You're Busted! Score of 35-50 right means you've passed...you're a "baby boomer!" So come to Branson! You'll love it!