Q 01/05

'Hippie' is usually traced to which older slang word?

A) Beatnik

B) Hipster

C) Hepcat

D) Hobo

Answer · why

B) Hipster

Hipster, 1940s jive for someone in the know, is the usual answer: San Francisco's newcomers were derided as junior-grade hipsters, though both words g...

Q 02/05

Which San Francisco district became the centre of hippie culture?

A) Nob Hill

B) The Mission

C) North Beach

D) Haight-Ashbury

Answer · why

D) Haight-Ashbury

Haight-Ashbury offered big, run-down Victorian houses at low rents, so young bohemians drifted across town from North Beach and shared them communally...

Q 03/05

Which singer wrote the song 'Woodstock' despite missing the festival to appear on a television talk show?

A) Joan Baez

B) Carole King

C) Judy Collins

D) Joni Mitchell

Answer · why

D) Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell stayed in New York for The Dick Cavett Show on her manager's advice, watched the festival on a hotel television and wrote the song from ...

Q 04/05

Which earlier movement did the hippies inherit their tradition of cultural dissent from?

A) The Lost Generation

B) The Dadaists

C) The Beat Generation

D) The Bloomsbury Group

Answer · why

C) The Beat Generation

The Beat Generation handed on more than ideas: Neal Cassady, the model for the hero of On the Road, drove the Merry Pranksters' bus, and Allen Ginsber...

Q 05/05

Which gathering in Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967, drew 20,000 to 30,000 hippies?

A) The Love Pageant Rally

B) The Human Be-In

C) The Trips Festival

D) The Fantasy Fair

Answer · why

B) The Human Be-In

The Human Be-In, billed as 'A Gathering of the Tribes', put hippies on the national news as never before, and that coverage drew far bigger crowds to ...