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Flower Power Daze (American) Trivia Quiz

How much do you recall of the people, places and things of America's Love Generation...the Hippies?

A multiple-choice quiz by harleyrose. Estimated time: 2 mins.

Author
harleyrose

Time
2 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
265,735

Updated
Aug 13 24

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
9 / 10

Plays
7231

Awards
Top 10% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. What were the famous San Francisco cross-streets that drew the 'Flower Children'? Hint

Rainbows-Lollipops

Hollywood-Vine

Haight-Ashbury

Sak's-Fifth Avenue

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which 'underground' cartoonist created Mr. Natural, Angelfood McSpade, and the Janis Joplin "Cheap Thrills" album cover? Hint

R. Crumb

E. Hemingway

T.S. Eliot

e.e. cummings

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Question 3 of 10

3. How did the Hippies travel? Hint

Hitch-hiking

Protester paddy wagon

Psychedelic VW microbus

All of these are possible

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who popularised the phrase "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out?" Hint

Dalai Lama

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Patty Hearst

Timothy Leary

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who provided security at the Rolling Stones' 1969 Altamont concert? Hint

Rent-A-Cop

Hells Angels

Vienna Boy's Choir

Royal Canadian Mounties

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Question 6 of 10

6. What name was given to the colorful, swirling designs used to decorate posters, clothing, and converted schoolbuses? Hint

Rainbows & Lollipops

Polyester

Psychedelic

Tweed

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Question 7 of 10

7. The "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" consisted of Phineas Phreak, Fat Freddy, and... Hint

Faraway Phil

Farout Farmer

Fantastic Fanny

Freewheelin' Franklin

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which was the symbol most widely and closely associated with the Hippies? Hint

Sign of the cross

Sign of the times

Peace sign

Stop sign

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Question 9 of 10

9. What 1969 upstate New York music festival reshaped music and society? Hint

Rolling Thunder

Boston Tea Party

Woodstock

Weekend at Bernie's

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Question 10 of 10

10. What does the initialism 'LSD' stand for? Hint

Long, strange days

Lysergic acid diethylamide

Large, swirling designs

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What were the famous San Francisco cross-streets that drew the 'Flower Children'?

Answer: Haight-Ashbury

Back in the mid 1960s, Haight-Ashbury was perhaps the most famous intersection in America, a place where young people came from all over the world in search of love and peace.

2. Which 'underground' cartoonist created Mr. Natural, Angelfood McSpade, and the Janis Joplin "Cheap Thrills" album cover?

Answer: R. Crumb

Alternative cartoons may never have come about without the influence of Robert Crumb, the acknowledged "father" of underground comics.

3. How did the Hippies travel?

Answer: All of these are possible

My favorite was the microbus!

4. Who popularised the phrase "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out?"

Answer: Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary, Ph.D., was an American writer, psychologist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use.
According to Leary, the phrase was given to him by Marshall McLuhan. Leary popularized it, but McLuhan coined it.

5. Who provided security at the Rolling Stones' 1969 Altamont concert?

Answer: Hells Angels

Accounts vary as to whether the Hells Angels were hired by the concert promoters or the Rolling Stones, or if they just showed up and took matters into their own hands.

6. What name was given to the colorful, swirling designs used to decorate posters, clothing, and converted schoolbuses?

Answer: Psychedelic

Psychedelic generally refers to visual arts or hallucinogenic drugs characterized by distortions of perception and altered states of awareness.

7. The "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" consisted of Phineas Phreak, Fat Freddy, and...

Answer: Freewheelin' Franklin

"Underground Comix" legend Gilbert Shelton created 'The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers' in 1968.

8. Which was the symbol most widely and closely associated with the Hippies?

Answer: Peace sign

One view of the origin of the peace sign names Gerald Holten as the 1958 designer of the peace symbol, as the logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

9. What 1969 upstate New York music festival reshaped music and society?

Answer: Woodstock

The Woodstock Music & Art Festival was held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm near Bethel, NY, from August 15-18.

10. What does the initialism 'LSD' stand for?

Answer: Lysergic acid diethylamide

On April 19, 1943, chemist Albert Hofmann, of Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, intentionally ingested a compound which included lysergic acid synthesized from ergot.
During his bicycle ride home that day, he began to notice strange sensations and watched the world fantastically reconstruct itself around him.
April 19th is still celebrated as 'Bicycle Day'.
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Hope you enjoyed the quiz, all you groovy people!

Source: Author harleyrose

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