ANSWERS

1) B. 1953

THE oxford English Dictionary says the word was first used by American writer Douglass Wallop in his novel Night Light. ‘Hippie’ is a shortened version of ‘hipster’ and means: ‘A person, usually exotically dressed, who is, or is taken to be, given to the use of hallucinogenic drugs.’ The term was not used in print in Britain until 1967, when the Daily Telegraph reported that ‘writers, musicians, psychedelic popsters and hippies’ see London as a ‘focal city for permissive experiments in art and life’.

2) TRUE

Many visitors to San Francisco that summer were coming for the monterey Pop Festival. Scott Mckenzie’s song San Francisco (with the chorus ‘If you’re going to San Francisco / Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair’) was released to promote the festival.

3) B.

SHAKESPEARE’S Globe. Its Summer of Love includes performances of much Ado About Nothing and romeo And Juliet.

4) D.

LET It Bleed, by the rolling Stones, came out in December 1969. Are you Experi- enced, the debut album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was released in may 1967, The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, in June and Pink Floyd’s The Piper At The Gates of Dawn, in August.

5) A.

A SELF-APPOINTED hippie council. The Council for the Summer of Love was set up to deal with the influx of youngsters to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.

6) FALSE

CRIME rates soared as the city’s overcrowded streets were beset with drugtaking and homelessness, after thousands of youngsters ran out of money and food.