A person born immediately or shortly after World War II
What is a baby boomer?
100
Small, portable radio popular among teenagers in the 1950s
What is a transistor radio?
100
A rock and roll concert produced to benefit a particular charity or bring attention to a specific cause
What is charity rock?
100
A short film used to accompany a popular music composition, usually filmed in the style of a performance
What is a music video?
200
A small residential community established outside of a city
What is a suburb?
200
A form of popular dance music that dominated the late-1970s
What is disco?
200
A significant shortage of oil, electricity, or other natural resources that affects energy prices
What is an energy crisis?
200
A street in New York City where the New York Stock Exchange is based
What is Wall Street?
200
Rights for a nation's citizens as defined by lay, often understood as freedoms or protections
What are civil rights?
300
An informal race between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could make the farthest advancements into space first
What is the Space Race?
300
Works of fiction, usually books, films, or comics, that use real or imaginary scientific discoveries or technology as part of their plot
What is science fiction?
300
Term used to describe a significant number of British rock and roll bands that gained popularity in the U.S. starting in the mid-1960s
What is the British Invasion?
300
The distinctive characteristics of the sound and organization of musical performances and compositions
What is musical style?
300
The discriminatory separation of people based on race and enforced by laws, institutional policies, and customs
What is racial segregation?
400
An African-American slang dating back to the early 20th Century; in the early 1950s, the term came to be used to describe a new form of music, steeped in the blues, rhythm & blues, country, and gospel
What is rock and roll?
400
Commonly used to refer to the style of soul music that developed in Detroit in the late 1950s
What is Motown?
400
An instrument's sound that is reshaped, usually with an electronic amplifier, to produce a crackly, buzzing sound
What is distortion?
400
Also known as an adolescent
What is a teenager?
400
Location of the US financial and investment world
What is Wall Street?
500
Rights included in the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, including those known as the Bill of Rights
What are civil rights?
500
Included groups such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who
What is the British Invasion?
500
Often used in surf rock to mimic the sound of ocean waves
What is distortion?
500
Record label began by Berry Gordy in 1959; Artists include Smokey Robinson, the Supremes, the Temptations, and the Jackson Five
What is Motown?
500
A place to live that is a compromise between an urban area and a rural area; became very popular after World War II