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2 Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

3 Click here for Final Jeopardy

4 1950s Women 50s-70s Counter- Culture/ Vietnam 1970s Leave It to Werner 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Civil Rights

5 Named after the beat and movement of the music itself

6 Rock N’ Roll

7 Elvis Presley was controversial for this in the 1950s

8 Shaking his hips to the beat

9 Provided college tuition and home loans for veterans of WWII returning from war

10 GI Bill What did 50 Cent say to his Grandma?

11 Some of the houses during this decade, especially in Levittown, NY, were nick-named this because of their shape

12 “cookie cutters”

13 Children who were not brought up in this time period that did not conform to society or had bad home lives usually became

14 Juvenile Delinquents

15 Women were stereotypically this during the 1950s instead of in the job force

16 Housewives

17 The idea that women should have political, social, sexual, intellectual and economic rights equal to those of men

18 Feminism

19 In 1972, the 27th this amendment was proposed to give women equal rights

20 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

21 Women fought for reproductive rights in the famous 1973 supreme court case

22 Roe v. Wade

23 This woman led the feminist movement with her creation of the National Organization of Women and the publication of The Feminine Mystique

24 Bettie Friedan

25 Leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s with his “Freedom Now,” SCLC,non-violent approach

26 Martin Luther King Jr.

27 This group of students integrated a High School in Arkansas in 1957

28 Little Rock Nine

29 A Chicago AA young boy who said, “Bye baby” to a white worker while in Mississippi and was lynched

30 Emit Till

31 Group of white and AA young people who rode to the US South (Alabama) to protest the segregation of the bus station terminals

32 Freedom Riders

33 First AA man to attend Mississippi who was shot and inspired the last great marches of the Civil Rights Movement-the March Against Fear

34 James Meredith

35 Early form of 1950s counterculture found in urban cities with the belief of “why conform?”

36 The Beat Movement

37 1960s-1970s counter- culture that believed in free love and wore alternative hairstyles and clothing lines

38 Hippies

39 Malcolm X led the organization of Black Muslims, also known as

40 The Nation of Islam

41 SNCC member who chanted “Black Power!” “Black Power!” during the March Against Fear

42 Stokeley Carmichael

43 Sometimes seen as militant for their actions with firearms, the Black Panthers operated out of this west coast city

44 Oakland, CA

45 Popular music of the “me” generation that featured a big ball, groovy moves, and John Travolta

46 DISCO!!!!

47 This scandal in political corruption and sabotage cost Americans a lot of faith in their governemnt

48 Watergate Scandal

49 The real name of “Deep Throat,” who fed FBI information to the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

50 W. Mark Felt

51 Vice-President of Richard M. Nixon who resigns, along with Nixon-allowing Gerald Ford to rise to the Presidency

52 Spiro Agnew

53 Students protesting about US troop involvement in Cambodia resulted in four deaths at this University

54 Kent State University

55 The big boom after WWII where a lot of families began having children

56 Baby Boom(ers)

57 Hippie Culture was best embodied by the new genre of psychedelic rock music and the artists who exemplified this era. Name 2 popular British bands that made “experimented” with this music.

58 The Beatles and The Rolling Stones

59 In D2: Team USA plays this team for the championship even though this country does not officially have an under-age Goodwill Games team

60 Iceland

61 What was Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver’s brother’s name in the 1950s sitcom: Leave It to Beaver

62 Wally!!!

63 Name one of the two actors that popularized the counter-culture hit Easy Rider

64 Dennis Hopper And Peter Fonda

65 Make your wager

66 The counter- culture began in the US as a reaction against what 3 things

67 1) Social Norms of the 1950s 2) Segregation in the Deep South 3) Vietnam War


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