Q 01/05

From which older slang word did the term "hippie" derive?

A) Beatnik

B) Hipster

C) Hepcat

D) Hobo

Answer · why

B) Hipster

Both hip and hep were 1940s jive slang for 'sophisticated, currently fashionable'.

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

Around 15,000 hippies had moved into the Haight by June 1966, drawn by cheap Victorian apartments.

Q 03/05

Whose September 1965 San Francisco Examiner article was the first West Coast use of "hippie" in print?

A) Michael Fallon

B) Herb Caen

C) Ralph J. Gleason

D) Tom Wolfe

Answer · why

A) Michael Fallon

He was writing about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse and the beatniks who had moved from North Beach to the Haight.

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

Beats like Allen Ginsberg crossed over and became fixtures of the hippie and anti-war scenes.

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 Acid Test

Answer · why

B) The Human Be-In

Timothy Leary coined 'Turn on, tune in, drop out' while speaking there.