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A Hippie Geography Lesson Trivia Quiz

This hippie narrator will guide you around the U.S. during the late 1960s and 70s. See if you can pick out the geographical reference points.

A multiple-choice quiz by DaedalusLex. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
DaedalusLex

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
284,981

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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14054

Awards
Top 10% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. It's 1967 and I've decided to go to the epicenter of the 'Summer of Love'. To which city do I need to go? Hint

Los Angeles

San Francisco

New York

Las Vegas

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Question 2 of 10

2. I'm on my way, hitchhiking through California, trying to get from Needles to Barstow before my facial skin bakes off from the dry desert sun. Which way am I going? Hint

East

North

South

West

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Question 3 of 10

3. I've arrived in the host city of the 'Summer of Love' and am eager to turn on, tune in, and relate with my fellow hippies, so I head over to which park? Hint

Golden Gate Park

Central Park

Audubon Park

Balboa Park

4. While in San Francisco, some hippies recommend we go to the Monterey Pop Festival, which will feature The Byrds, The Grateful Dead, The Who, Otis Redding, and a little-known guitarist who was only booked at Paul McCartney's insistence - Jimi Hendrix. Which way do we have to hitch a ride from our present location? Hint

North

South

East

West

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Question 5 of 10

5. I really liked Hendrix's song, "Purple Haze," and my girlfriend, Sunshine, said I should since I was on it yesterday. What was I on yesterday? Hint

A natural high

Bay Area Rapid Transit purple line

A San Francisco cable car

An LSD trip

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Question 6 of 10

6. It's now May 26, 1968, and I'm hitching my way back east. Yesterday I stopped to see Vice President Hubert Humphrey at the dedication of a brand new monument called The Gateway Arch. Where was I? Hint

St. Louis, Missouri

Fargo, North Dakota

Dallas, Texas

Memphis, Tennessee

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Question 7 of 10

7. A year or so has gone by and I'm off to another rock festival. Funny thing is I found it with about 400,000 other people even though it's about 50 miles southwest of where everybody said it was supposed to be. What town am I in? Hint

Bethel, NY

Woodstock, CT

Woodstock, NY

Bethel, CA

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Question 8 of 10

8. Almost another year has gone by and things are getting heavy. I was on a college campus yesterday where the National Guard killed four students at a rally protesting the American invasion of Cambodia. What state was I in? Hint

Ohio

California

New York

New Jersey

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Question 9 of 10

9. It's now August of 1974 and I'm hitchhiking with my friend, Breeze, to visit his uncle who moved to Montreal to avoid the draft. As we cross the border from upstate New York to Canada, Breeze and I hear big news on the radio of great importance to our hippie brothers and sisters. What's the news? Hint

The Beatles have broken up.

Robert Kennedy has been shot.

President Nixon has resigned.

Jimi Hendrix has died.

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Question 10 of 10

10. A few more years have passed and it's August 16, 1977. Fewer and fewer hippies are hitchhiking around, and I'm on my last trip, hitchhiking back home to New Orleans. A trucker picks me up in eastern Arkansas and someone comes on the CB radio to say that a musical icon had unexpectedly died just a few miles from where we were. Who died? Hint

John Lennon

Rutherford B. Hayes

Jim Morrison

Elvis Presley

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. It's 1967 and I've decided to go to the epicenter of the 'Summer of Love'. To which city do I need to go?

Answer: San Francisco

In the summer of 1967, up to 100,000 young people flocked to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in search of an alternative to the conventional lifestyle, politics, and morality of what they saw as a bankrupt establishment.

2. I'm on my way, hitchhiking through California, trying to get from Needles to Barstow before my facial skin bakes off from the dry desert sun. Which way am I going?

Answer: West

I really did this and the desert sun makes these tough places for a hitchhiker to be dropped. Both are in San Bernardino County, which has the largest area of any county in the U.S., larger in fact than nine existing U.S. states. Go to the northern tip of the county to enter Death Valley, the hottest, driest, and lowest point in the U.S.

3. I've arrived in the host city of the 'Summer of Love' and am eager to turn on, tune in, and relate with my fellow hippies, so I head over to which park?

Answer: Golden Gate Park

Golden Gate Park was a central gathering place for the Haight-Ashbury hippies and the site for many photographs and video clips that would keep the Summer of Love alive in the popular imagination.

Answer: South

Go south to get from San Francisco to Monterey. The festival, in which all artists performed for free and all proceeds went to charity, also included Janis Joplin, The Mamas and the Papas, Buffalo Springfield, and many others.

5. I really liked Hendrix's song, "Purple Haze," and my girlfriend, Sunshine, said I should since I was on it yesterday. What was I on yesterday?

Answer: An LSD trip

"Purple Haze" was one of the many forms of LSD available at the time. Hendrix released his song of that title during the Summer of Love (the single was released in the U.S. in June 1967). At Woodstock two years later, Hendrix would play "Purple Haze" just after his famous version of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Answer: St. Louis, Missouri

The arch had been in the works for decades but was finally dedicated on May 25, 1968. At 630 feet, it is the world's tallest monument.

Answer: Bethel, NY

Bethel is actually about 50 miles southwest of Woodstock, NY. Organizers were hoping for 180,000 but got about 400,000. Though ill-prepared for such a number, things came off well by most standards. There were two deaths (one an overdose and one an accident with a tractor) and two births, and peace and love prevailed.

Answer: Ohio

The event was at Kent State University in Ohio. In the aftermath, worldwide publicity and a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph by John Filo further inflamed anti-war sentiment. Within a few weeks, Neil Young immortalized the incident in the song, "Ohio."

Answer: President Nixon has resigned.

It was in 1970 that The Beatles broke up and Jimi Hendrix died. Robert Kennedy was shot in 1968. Watergate aside, many hippies would like to think that their countercultural "revolution" contributed in some small way to Nixon's political fall.

Answer: Elvis Presley

Elvis died at Graceland in Memphis, not far from the Arkansas border. He was not much associated with the psychedelic rock (or the politically radical folk rock) of the hippies, but his death certainly marked the end of an era (and hippies, like most people of the day, had diverse enough listening habits to pop the King onto the record player from time to time).

Source: Author DaedalusLex

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