This event caused by the crash in the stock market happened right before the baby boom and forced families to put off having children.
What is the Great Depression?
100
This famous baby boomer is known for her roles in "The Blind Side", "Miss Congeniality" and "The Proposal"
What (or who) is Sandra Bullock?
100
This furry animal that has a long tail and whiskers meant a hip or cool person in the 1950s.
What is a "cat"?
100
This controversial artist was known as “The King”. He was popular among teenagers in the 1950s.
What (or who) is Elvis Presley?
100
This was what they defined dating as in the mid-1920s.
What is calling?
200
This era occurred right after the baby boom.
What is the baby bust?
200
Born in 1958, this man was known as the “King Of Pop” and had songs entitled: Man In The Mirror, Human Nature & Ben.
What (or who) is Michael Jackson?
200
This royal title for the ruler of a kingdom was another name for a popular girl.
What is a "queen"?
200
This popular musical was set in the 1950s and showed what teenagers looked like and how they acted back then.
What is "Grease"?
200
This amount of money was expected of a typical boy to pay for his dates.
What is $7???
300
This was one factor that led to the end of the baby boom and decreased the number of babies being born.
What is birth control?
300
This comedian has her own show where she said, “I was coming home from kindergarten-well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.”
What (or who) is Ellen DeGeneres?
300
The slang word “mush” means this in the following phrase: “I have to go home and do my mush!”
What is homework?
300
This kind of skirt was worn by teenage girls in the 1950s.
What is the poodle skirt?
300
This piece of technology was used in 1950s schools instead of computers to type something up.
What is the typewriter?
400
This was the year that the baby boom started. It was right after the end of World War II.
What is 1946?
400
Best known for hosting the popular television series Deal Or No Deal, this man is also known for being an extreme germophobic.
What (or who) is Howie Mandel?
400
“Are you writing a book?” was a common thing to say to someone who did this.
What is talking too much/asking too many questions?
400
This loop shaped toy was popular among teenagers in the 1950s.
What is the hula hoop?
400
Ice cream parlors, pizza parlors, drive-ins, bowling alleys, coffee houses and record shops are all examples of this.
What are the most popular date venues in the 1950s?
500
This was the number of babies born in the US during the baby boom.
What is 77 million?
500
This American entrepreneur said, “Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so”
What (or who) is Steve Jobs?
500
Commonly referring to a Disney character in this day and age, but back in the 1950s you didn’t want to be called a Mickey Mouse because it meant you were this.
What is dumb/stupid?
500
This amount of money was spent each year by teenagers in the 1950s.
What is $100 million?
500
Dating one another exclusively and have a feeling that the other "belongs" to him or her was called this.