The 1920s to 1960s Slang Quiz

Welcome, baby, to our ultimate slang quiz! We’ll be taking you from the roaring 20s right the way up to the groovy 60s and it’ll be up to you to identify the major shifts in language that took place. The English language has been reformed to rather extreme degrees over these decades and perhaps even more so since. But how far back do you think your knowledge extends? Can you connect with the folks of the 40s and 50s? Time to see! Stay on fleek, friends.

Austin Powers loves to proclaim, “Groovy, baby!” Which, in turn, denotes the 1960s. But groovy actually came from the 1930s jazz scene. Someone was playing “in the groove” if they were performing particularly well.