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            ***Official Baby Boomers Qualifying Exam***

No peeking – the answers are below…….

1. Name the Beatles – both the first and last name of each, of course.

Consider this a warm-up.  (If you can’t answer this one without thinking, close up the test and move on to something else.  We have nothing further to discuss.)  ___________________

 QUESTION #2

Finish the line:  “Lions and tigers and bears, ____ ____!”  Admittedly, this came along before we boomers were born.  But we remember it from both the movies and the TV.

QUESTION #3:

“Hey kids, what time is it?”  ____ ________ _______ ____.

QUESTION #4:      

What do M & M’s do?   ______ _______ ________, ________ ________ ______ _____.

QUESTION #5:

What helps build strong bodies 12 ways?  ________ __________.

QUESTION #6:

Long before he was “Mohammed Ali,” before he was “The Greatest,” we knew him as ________ _______.

  QUESTION #7:

“You’ll wonder where the yellow went, ____________________________.”

  QUESTION #8:

Those post-baby boomers, or baby boomer wannabees, know Bob Denver as the Skipper’s little buddy.”  But true boomers know that Bob Denver is actually Dobie’s  closest friend; _________ _.___________.

QUESTION #9:

“M-I-C: See ya’ real soon; K-E-Y…_____?  _______ ___ _______ ____. 

___ ___ __ ___ __!”

QUESTION #10:

Definition:  A “streaker” is someone who might go running through the lobby of the girls’ dormitory, __________.

QUESTION #11:

“Brylcream…. _  _______ ____’__ ____ _____.”

Bob Dylan advised us never to trust anyone _________ ____.

QUESTION #13:

From the early days of our music, real rock ‘n roll, finish this line:  “I wonder, wonder, wonder…wonder who; ____ _____ ____ _____ __ ______?”

QUESTION #14:

And while we’re remembering rock ’n roll, try this one:  “War…. Uh huh…yea; what is it good for?  __________ __________.”

QUESTION #15:

This is from a kinder and gentler protest song, but the question is just as profound:  Where have all the flowers gone?

Perhaps you could use a little help here:

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?

Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?

Where have all the flowers gone? _____ _____ _____ _____ ______ _____ _____.”

QUESTION #16:

Meanwhile, back home in Metropolis, Superman fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and ____ ___________ _____.

QUESTION #17:

He came out of the University of Alabama, to become one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the NFL.  Later, he went on to appear in a TV commercial wearing women’s stockings.  He is Broadway _____ _______.

QUESTION #18:

I’m Popeye the sailor man; I’m Popeye the sailor man.  I’m strong to the finish, ______ _______ _______ ________.  I’m Popeye the sailor man.”

QUESTION #19:

Your children probably recall that Peter Pan was most recently played by Robin Williams, but we will always remember when Peter was played by _________ __________.

QUESTION #20:

In the movie, The Graduate, young Benjamin, played by Dustin Hoffman, was counseled about his future, and told to consider one thing:  ___________.

In another movie from the late sixties, Paul Newman played Luke, a ne’er-do-well who was sent to a prison camp for cutting off the ads of parking meters with a piper cutter.  When he was captured after an unsuccessful escape attempt, the camp commander (played by Strother Martin) used this experience as a lesson for the other prisoners, explaining, “What we have here is __ ________ ___ _________.”

QUESTION #22

In 1962 a dejected politician chastised the press after losing a race for governor while announcing his retirement from politics.  “Just think, you won’t have ______ _______ to kick around anymore.”

QUESTION #23:

“Every morning at the mine, you could see him arrive; H e stood six foot six, and weighed 245.  Kinda’ broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip.  Any everybody knew you didn’t give no lip, ___ _____ ______, ____ _____ _____.”

QUESTION #24:

“I found my thrill, ____ ___________ _______.”  You may remember Richie Cunningham saying this, but if you are a true boomer, you know it was ______ _______ who made this line famous.

QUESTION #25:

“Good night, Mrs. Calabash, __________ ____ ____.”  This originated long before even the first of us boomers was born.  But in order to be a true baby boomer, you have to have some breadth.

QUESTION #26:

“Good night, David.”  “_____ ______, ______.”

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Answers

1.         John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr

2.         Oh, My

3.         It’s Howdy Doody Time!

4.         Melt in your mouth, not in your hands

5.         Wonder Bread

6.         Cassius Clay

7.         When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.

8.          Maynard G. Krebs

9.         Why? Because we like you! M-O-U-S-E.

10.       Naked

11.       a little dab’ll do ya

12.       Over 30

13.       Who wrote the Book of Love

14.       Absolutely nothing

15.       Young girls picked them, every one.

16.       the American way

17.       Joe Namath

18.       ‘Cause I eats me spinach

19.       Mary Martin

20.       Plastics

21.       A failure to communicate

22.       Dick Nixon

23.       Big Bad John, Big Bad John

24.       On Blueberry Hill, Fats Domino

25.       Wherever you are

26.       Good night, Chet