1950S Trivia Question and Answers
1.
What event marked the beginning of the Cold War in the late 1940s and continued throughout the 1950s?
Answer:
The Iron Curtain.
2.
Who was the American president from 1953 to 1961?
Answer:
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
3.
What popular television show featured a character named Lucy Ricardo?
Answer:
I Love Lucy.
4.
Which music genre emerged prominently in the 1950s, characterized by its upbeat tempo and use of electric guitars?
Answer:
Rock and Roll.
5.
What landmark Supreme Court case in 1954 declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional?
Answer:
Brown v. Board of Education.
6.
Who was the famous heartthrob and actor known as “The King of Rock and Roll”?
Answer:
Elvis Presley.
7.
What candy bar was first introduced in the 1950s and became a famous treat?
Answer:
The Mars Bar.
8.
What Soviet leader led during the early years of the Cold War?
Answer:
Nikita Khrushchev.
9.
What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space in 1957?
Answer:
Sputnik.
10.
Which Disney animated film, featuring a young girl befriending woodland animals, was released in 1955?
Answer:
Lady and the Tramp.
11.
What popular style of dance became associated with rock and roll music in the 1950s?
Answer:
The Twist.
12.
What was the first suburb built outside Chicago, representing post-war urban expansion?
Answer:
Levittown.
13.
What famous television quiz show scandal involved the rigging of answers?
Answer:
TwentyOne.
14.
Which 1954 science fiction film featured giant mutated insects?
Answer:
Them!
15.
What was the name of the iconic American car brand that produced the Thunderbird beginning in 1955?
Answer:
Ford.
16.
Which fast-food chain introduced the first drive-in restaurant during this decade?
Answer:
McDonald's.
17.
Who was the author of "Fahrenheit 451," published in 1953?
Answer:
Ray Bradbury.
18.
What animated character made his first appearance in 1950 and became a staple of Warner Bros. cartoons?
Answer:
Bugs Bunny.
19.
In 1955, what groundbreaking toy was introduced that allowed children to create their own colorful designs using thin pieces of plastic?
Answer:
The Hula Hoop.
20.
What infamous incident in 1950 involved the Korean Peninsula as the North invaded the South?
Answer:
The Korean War.
21.
Who wrote the iconic American novel "On the Road," published in 1957?
Answer:
Jack Kerouac.
22.
What popular 1950s sitcom featured the characters Rob and Laura Petrie?
Answer:
The Dick Van Dyke Show.
23.
What was the name of the first microwave oven introduced in the 1950s?
Answer:
Radarange.
24.
What iconic pop artist of the 1950s is known for his work with Campbell's Soup cans and celebrity portraits?
Answer:
Andy Warhol.
25.
Who starred as the lead character in the 1955 film "Rebel Without a Cause"?
Answer:
James Dean.
26.
What rebellion in 1956 saw citizens rise against Soviet control in Hungary?
Answer:
The Hungarian Revolution.
27.
Which fashion trend was popularized by Christian Dior in the late 1940s and flourished in the 1950s?
Answer:
The New Look.
28.
What was the name of the famous 1959 award-winning film about a group of juvenile delinquents?
Answer:
The Wild One.
29.
What animated film featuring a fox and a hound was released by Disney in 1953?
Answer:
The Fox and the Hound
30.
What popular toy that became a symbol of the 1950s was marketed as a "magic" wand and could light up?
Answer:
The Light Bright
31.
Who was the antagonist in the 1956 movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"?
Answer:
Alien pod people.
32.
Which popular singer was known as "The Voice" and became a major influence in the 1950s?
Answer:
Frank Sinatra.
33.
What children's cartoon featuring a family of stone-age people became popular in the 1950s?
Answer:
The Flintstones.
34.
What landmark 1950s toy was known for its interlocking bricks?
Answer:
LEGO.
35.
Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award, doing so in 1954?
Answer:
Hattie McDaniel
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