Trivia For The Elderly: Test Your Memory About 40s-70s Events

[@johnmurray3888]

Thank you for your hilarious pronunciations. Score 90. True.

[@quizclass4612]

We do our best John :)

[@nicklubrino2606]

Along with hilarious pronunciations, it’s hilarious how some of the answers are in the questions. Like the band that sparked Beatlemania..lol

[@jeanrinaldi1309]

Honestly, this quiz is too easy; and I’m 81!!

[@shizueleighhicks6174]

Agreed. I’m 72😉

[@lisamarlow8408]

I’m 66 and I agree

[@AFmedic]

WAY TOO EASY for this 74 yr old. Hard to fail when the the correct answer is painfully obvious. - "What significant political event began in 1950 in Korea, lasting until 1953?" Good thing she didn't do a quiz about foods ... "Some people like to put this Blue fruit in their cereal?" A) Apple B) Blueberry C) Orange Oh darn! Could have sworn the answer was Banana - well I'm stumped! ROFL

[@BarbaraHoward-qw1df]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@nicklubrino2606]

The answer is in the question. For example, what war happened on Yum Kippor?

[@donaldgrimes6403]

#70 is a bit confusing. Chamberlain declared war on Germany in Sep 1939 and was prime minister for the first 8 months of the war. He was replaced by Churchill in May 1940 who then made that statement. So it wasn’t exactly at the start.

[@quaver1239]

The first months of the war were the-war-that-wasn't-a war; nothing much visibly happened until about April/May 1940. Perhaps that was what the quiz means by "at the start"? A number of the questions are weird anyway, like the repeated ones in slightly different format, and those that have the answers within the questions!!

[@robertcook-e5s]

A quite easy quiz really but as often with these ,they are fairly USA biased. There is no need to read out the questions either, we can read lol I am 87 and these fall well within my range

[@HomesteadHippie]

If someone can't see, but listen to it, it would have to be read. Not everyone can watch.

[@dancahill8555]

True and 95.

[@quizclass4612]

Well done 😁

[@guitarhans]

89/100. Born 1950. Lucy in the sky with diamonds was released in 1967, not 1965.

[@HomesteadHippie]

And it was Yellow Submarine that was written in 1965 and started the drug controversy.

[@pauletteporter4878]

It's TRUE that Jimi Hendrix wrote "Purple Haze". The word is pronounced 'day-TAUNT' rather than 'day-TENTE. I am a 71 year old Jamaican, and I found the quiz to be neither easy nor challenging, but comfortable.

[@quizclass4612]

Thank you for participating 🙂 and thanks for telling us

[@thephilosophicalagnostic2177]

Lots of butchering of foreign names and words. :(

[@inxbyinxby7837]

You give us the dates in the questions which correspond with the answers!

[@sherri9827]

Number 65 None of them died in 1947, and Rudyard Kipling was the only British-Indian novelist.

[@dancahill8555]

Then I got 96!

[@thephilosophicalagnostic2177]

Right. Orwell had to have lived until 1949 when he submitted his manuscript of 1984 for publication.

[@darlenericotta]

Thank you it’s keeps my brain working!

[@salsingleton6175]

Harper Lee was white from Alabama not Afro American. She Won a Nobel.

[@kathleenmilligan5408]

Betty Friedan

[@tlarkin7197]

Yeah not Friedman!

[@user-yh8ik3xw8s]

Jimi Hendrix - true

[@gillh037per16]

Many of the answers are apparent from the manner in which the question is formed.

[@wz0hjd]

And some are just insulting. What group started Beatlemania? DUH!

[@cathyhaynes2700]

I think they asked the same question 3 times. At least they were worded a bit differently.

[@cathyhaynes2700]

But I did enjoy the brain exercise. At 66 yrs old, I need all the help I can get.

[@becotan-nm1nl]

33/50 correct.Thank u for the quiz.Very challenging I enjoyed it.

[@johnduncan4731]

Score 89 Bonus was true

[@quizclass4612]

Great 😊

[@cathyhaynes2700]

True ; 95/100

[@quizclass4612]

Well done!!! 😁😁😁

[@lornafraserwaterworth559]

Thank you Quiz Class. 👍👍 91/100 Bonus. True

[@quizclass4612]

Good work as always!

[@martchristy9981]

Well, in my estimation, I scored somewhere over 110!

[@maureenrhodes6118]

My score was 73. True

[@quizclass4612]

Well done! 😊

[@GuillardoL.MarajasSr.-vh9ws]

49, True, Answers for questions dated 1940s to 1970s were just guesses and I got 11 correct replies, what a chance! Tnx anyway.

[@lucillepassmore5417]

Got all right except. Six thank God

[@quizclass4612]

Great 😊

[@barbarat5729]

Not poss8ble because some of them are not correct.

[@wz0hjd]

IF you missed 6, you did not get them all right!

[@patriciaaturner289]

33:38 I stopped counting at 7, but there were at least that many duplicate questions. Given that I legit missed 8 questions, my net score is 99/100.

[@johnmurray3888]

Score 90. True.

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

Actually, Harper Lee was not African American

[@nicklubrino2606]

I was thinking about that. Is Harper Lee Black?

[@terestarr4598]

No she is white.​@@nicklubrino2606

[@manijehsasi3664]

​@@nicklubrino2606no she is white

[@opaljohnson222]

She was white ​@@nicklubrino2606

[@lourdesalbis1310]

@@nicklubrino2606 16:35

[@novallasuter5265]

Harper was not African American and none of the three authors died in 1947. Kipling was born in India, I believe but not Indian. 99 was my score. Purple haze was written in 1966, released in 1967.

[@dorothysimpson2804]

88/100 I don't consider the Beatles to be a rock band, they were a pop band. I wanted more earlier questions. True.

[@martinjb55]

The beatles were around before the classifications of rock and pop, it was either popular music or classical. Since they were influenced by 50s rock and roll and 60s R&B they could meet either criteria.😊

[@shadrach6299]

Thank you for this post. I’m so tired of people going on and on about the Beatles being “the best rock band”. They are truly a “pop” band with tons of silly songs!

[@thephilosophicalagnostic2177]

They were definitely a rock band. They had the requisite guitars, keyboard, and drums.

[@jennykeating4220]

A bit obvious with quite a few answers clearly set out in the clues.

[@arby163]

98/100 True

[@AndreDubbeling]

I'm 76 myself and only had 17 answers wrong, two of which due to lack of concentration...

[@jeannebeal4924]

83\100 plus the bonus!

[@quizclass4612]

Yes! Well done 🔥🔥🔥

[@patriciaaturner289]

It’s Betty FRIEDAN, not Friedman.

[@thephilosophicalagnostic2177]

And it was pronounced: FreeDAN.

[@PaulaFurnival]

Good quiz

[@martchristy9981]

Well, I'll take that as sarcasm.

[@davidrayl5428d]

Harper Lee was not African-American

[@wz0hjd]

Yeah, I caught that too. Some of these were border line as well.

[@RoySmith-nz2qk]

I didn't keep exact score but I think it was about 60 to 40.I am not very good at history but I did enjoy the game very much 😮

[@pvwarehouse]

I never keep scores, just enjoy the quizzes. What most people fail to understand, the beauty of trying them gets the grey cells working and reduces the likelihood of various brain diseases.

[@derekjohn178]

Lots of inaccuracies, the Beatles did not form in 1960 for example

[@greenapple4280]

81/100

[@quizclass4612]

Wauw!

[@bobair2]

I got 98/100 and the Jimi Hendrix song came out in 1967, so true.

[@quizclass4612]

Well done! You're amazing 🤩

[@arthurbronder5795]

93 true

[@sueingram5157]

True, 75 score.

[@peterwoods3623]

Good

[@inxbyinxby7837]

That is pronounced FreeDAHN, not FREEDman (Betty)

[@shalyn1920]

Several questions came up more than once, so not really 100

[@sittarramzan3867]

I got 15 wrong. I am 80 years old

[@judithmain688]

True

[@leerhode1021]

78 out of 100

[@quizclass4612]

Well done 😁

[@optitom9033]

79yo and scored 86 out of 100

[@thephilosophicalagnostic2177]

I got only 6 wrong. The questions were way too repetitive. For example, you asked 3 questions about Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird. BTW, Lee was white. Her main character was not the black man falsely accused, but his white lawyer's young daughter, Scout.

[@donnacarter7781]

True.

[@johngartland7387]

You had George Orwell dead a year before he wrote 1984

[@inxbyinxby7837]

A lot of repetitive questions.

[@peterrichardson5145]

Yes, 80

[@quizclass4612]

Well done 😁

[@karenhemker97]

Yes

[@gloriaattard1855]

You repeated some of the questilns and some were not to accuurate..

[@GaryH75-x9n]

Could not figure out how to leave an answer. Got 80% of them right.

[@quizclass4612]

Well done 😊 we do it like flash quizzes, you see the question, answer before the timer runs out and then the answer is flashed. We keep score and then post it in the comments. In other words you did it exactly right 😁🎉 hope you had loads of fun

[@lisamarlow8408]

I was wondering about that

[@emmogeneedge9415]

my score 80

[@HomesteadHippie]

It was Yellow Submarine that was written in 1965 and started the drug controversy.

[@thephilosophicalagnostic2177]

Lots of people thought Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was referring to LSD. I don't know if the Beatles were spoofing badly hidden secret messages there or not.

[@ybrynecho2368]

87 correct.

[@tomgardner8825]

95

[@whosaidwhat8704]

I don't think Harper Lee was African American.

[@annaminer2169]

I don’t consider myself elderly, but I got alll but 1 question correct it was about the 1968 Olympics were two white guys raise their arms. I didn’t remember that one.J

[@quizclass4612]

Well done 👍🏻

[@nevillemarsh255]

Two black runners wore one glove on their hands and bowed their heads.

[@doughartley3513]

It was two black guys, if it was white guys it wouldn’t become a famous incident

[@thephilosophicalagnostic2177]

Those two runners were definitely black. I saw the event live.

[@johnwainwright820]

Prince was the last answer for purple haze

[@thephilosophicalagnostic2177]

No. Prince wrote and sang Purple Rain. He was a Minnesotan and a Vikings fan. That's where that song came from. Hendrix wrote and sang Purple Haze, finding the phrase in one of his favorite science fiction stories.

[@brennankingsland6596]

This quiz is insulting to the elderly, I'm 79, but maybe I'm a genius...I missed only one of the first 50 and couldn't take it anymore.

[@barbarat5729]

The use of the word "elderly" is insulting.

[@raemac44]

Too many questions and all pretty simple. 20 questions is enough

[@wordsofwisdom1923]

At my age the important memories are where was I working in those years ? How much money did I make was I even working or was I a stay at home mom could I afford to feed my family? Did I have a husband was I single? Who cares what song the Beatles were singing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the only thing that really matters is that we still remember who we are and who our family. Is❤❤❤❤❤now that is a quiz all in it's self!!!!!!!!! Take a memory pill then forget you took it!!!!!! Now thats a real challenge!!!!!!!!!

[@sharondavis6530]

Betty friedan not friedman

[@OldAgeAdvice]

What space mission was the first to land humans on the Moon in 1969

[@jeanettelang1746]

Yes and nit to many😮

[@carolgraham4537]

Too many repeated questions or already answered previously in this quiz. APOLLO, Margaret Thatcher plus many others. Won't be doing any more of these quizzes.

[@patriciaaturner289]

13:40 Such poorly written questions. Trivia questions should not include parts of the answers.

[@Harve955]

Rebadging the same question again and again makes it a bit farcical along with a bit too much Americana.

[@robertbatchelor908]

I got 82 right. If age maters I am 83.

[@DonnaSimpson-vv1fo]

73

[@quizclass4612]

Well done 😊

[@tmc6799]

Sort of demeaning, some questions were so simple minded that I was waiting for What year was the war of 1812? Some were incorrect, Harper Lee was white, Churchill was not PM at the beginning of WWII, George Orwell was a British citizen only and he died in 1950. The Numerous repeat questions were not enjoyable. Maybe cut back on the number of questions and do more research.

[@wz0hjd]

Little known fact, the War of 1812 was fought in 1932, lasted 12 days and was over a brothel built at 1812 Lexington Ave, Concord NJ. I know because me grandpa fought in it! He was Captain of the 13th Brigade.

[@tmc6799]

@@wz0hjd No, the War of 1812 went from 1812 to 1815. We declared war on Great Britain, the WH was burned and Washington,DC sacked by the British. The only war fought in 1832 was US against Black Hawk, 2 tribes against the US army. No brothels involved in either engagement.

[@wz0hjd]

@@tmc6799 Good lord, people are SOOOO DENSE!!!! I said 19 NINETEEN 32, not 1832! Besides it was a sarcastic joke...damn!

[@michaelchambers3368]

Didn't know Orwell was considered Indian. Missed 9 ): not good at history at all. I'm 71.

[@susantischer7250]

Prince

[@wz0hjd]

Nope... Purple HAZE.... not Purple RAIN!!

[@georgecourtney5878]

This triva is too easy do I like having a perfect score? Only when you have to earn it

[@dianepharand386]

72

[@quizclass4612]

Well done 🤩 we have new boomer quizzes, we'd love to hear if your score increases 🎉

[@LouisLepore]

75

[@francesmier867]

Trure

[@l.faraday8767]

I thought these were supposed to be hard? 🙄

[@lynellewilson9112]

Too many questions are virtual repeats of others.

[@susantischer7250]

Prine

[@wz0hjd]

Nope... Purple HAZE.... not Purple RAIN!!

[@peterwoods3623]

Score?

[@deezer-vj1ei]

So many ignorant people! It's not na palm, it's NAY Palm!

[@annammathomas7275]

I have 29 wrong answers

[@cherylforfang8671]

Your pronounciation could use some work.

[@susantescione8007]

Some of this was just plain foolish.

[@barbarat5729]

Good Lord. These are ridiculous and condescending.

[@Michele-uu5yj]

False

[@htmc2022]

You would have to be born in the 1930’s to remember events from the 1940’s - so today you would be in your ‘90’s = very small demographic for your Quiz!

[@suzyfarnham3165]

Rubbish....I am in my 60's and only missed 2 answers? I know more about the 20's, 30's and 40's than I do about this century? my interest lies there, my movie preference lie there? You are so wrong in your statement.

[@wz0hjd]

It isnt based on when you were born, but on your knowledge of those years. ! 20 something would not know many of these while a 60 something will. Excluding exceptions of course.

[@DianeYoung-z7j]

False/85

[@arby163]

98/100 True

[@quizclass4612]

You are on fire! 🔥💯

[@anitawright7169]

79/100

[@quizclass4612]

Well done 😊

[@jeanbaker2087]

75/100 true

[@LindaCulpepper-k4q]

Harper Lee was not African American

[@janetshirley5958]

False