Texas Proud
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For me.... spot on....
The quiz got my exact birth year. I'm impressed.
Slight tweaks resulted in answers from 1948 to 1962, which pretty much covers the entire Boomer gen...
I'm, right in your range, and I am sports agnostic, so I thought that would trip me up. Wasn't Cassius Clay world known, even to sports agnostics? That was who I clicked, I'm pretty sure the others were earlier/later than that. But my Dad was a boxing fan, so I might have picked up a bit by osmosis. I could see an English boy not getting Sandy Koufax, or Mickey Mantle, but Cassius Clay?
A middle-eastern friend of mine (maybe 10 years younger than me) told me that he knew of him growing up. But I guess nobody uses 'Mohamed' as a first name, so they always thought he changed his name to "Ali Mohamed". Which sounded strange to my ears.
-ERD50
PS - 2nd time around, differfent options and answers and it got me at 1954, so the average of 1955 is exactly right
Some of the questions were like that. When it asked what was the new technology when I was a teenager, there was nothing in between the calculator (early 1970s) and the World Wide Web (about 1990ish) that I can see -- but those were at least 15 years apart and maybe closer to 20. Since the Web didn't exist when I was a teenager, I had to pick the calculator, even though we had calculators before I was 10.Wasn't sure which fashion item to pick; denim and tees, no selections for miniskirts, bell bottoms, etc. Evert or Mantle? Star Trek or Flintstones? Simon and Garfunkle fit my teens, no one else did. The pill and the space race were both 1960s.
Mid-boomer (1954)
Wasn't sure which fashion item to pick; denim and tees, no selections for miniskirts, bell bottoms, etc. Evert or Mantle? Star Trek or Flintstones? Simon and Garfunkle fit my teens, no one else did. The pill and the space race were both 1960s.
Slight tweaks resulted in answers from 1948 to 1962, which pretty much covers the entire Boomer gen...
Probably the closest thing for me would have been a personal computer (late 1970s/early 1980s) but I didn't see that one unless it was my oversight.
Hmm... Lots of immigrants here!I struggled through the quiz since I wasn't born or raised here, but I think I guessed correctly! It missed my age by just one year!
Getting away from the quiz for a post or two, what big-spending Boomers are we talking about? Are these the Boomers who've said they'll work until they die because they love their jobs, or are these the Boomers who've said they'll work until they die because they haven't saved anything for retirement?We need to watch our pocketbooks even more diligently -- the "Marketers" have discovered us.
Big-spending Boomers bend rules of marketing