An entertaining quiz on the fantastic fifties!
Question 1 of 10
Which screen idol died in 1955, having only starred in three films?
Question 2 of 10
Which President married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in 1953?
Question 3 of 10
In 1954 Marilyn Monroe married which famous athlete?
Question 4 of 10
What was the name of the Soviet satellite launched on October 4, 1957?
Question 5 of 10
Which British Prime Minister during the 1950s was in office during World War II?
Question 6 of 10
In, 1956, Horace Logan first used what phrase, to get rid of a waiting audience at KWKH's "Louisiana Hayride" in Shreveport, Louisiana?
Question 7 of 10
Robert Doisneau is famous for an image of two people, doing what on a crowded Paris street in 1950?
Question 8 of 10
What agency replaced the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1958?
Question 9 of 10
When I got sick of the bus, I chartered a plane in Clear Lake, Iowa, for Fargo, near a coming gig in Moorhead, Minnesota. On February 3, 1959, that plane crashed in a corn field, killing me. Who am I?
Question 10 of 10
In February 1952, who went up Kenya's Treetops Hotel a princess, but came down a queen?
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Who sang these songs from the 20s?
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