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Exploring the 1950s: A Quiz on Key Events and Figures

Test your knowledge of the 1950s with this quiz featuring key events, figures, and cultural milestones from the decade.

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1 President ________ (Yugoslavia)

2 French director Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge is now widely considered the first film of the ________.

3 The 1950s in the developed ________ are generally considered both socially conservative and highly materialistic in nature.

4 On 31 January 1953 the North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1,835 people in the southwestern ________ (especially Zeeland) and 307 in the United Kingdom.

5 ________ hosted by Brazil, won by Uruguay.

6 President ________ (United States)

7 On 27 June 1957, Hurricane Audrey demolishes ________, US, killing 400 people.

8 ________

9 The North Korean army collapsed, and within a few days, MacArthur's army retook ________ (South Korea's capital).

10 Prime Minister Lester Pearson (________)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency supported the Chushi Gangdruk guerilla fighters in their attempts to overthrow the Communist Party of China in Tibet in the 1950s.
  • the Cryolophosaurus is informally known as the Elvisaurus because the bizarre crest running across its head resembles Elvis Presley's 1950s pompadour haircut.
  • the Lagonda Straight-6 engine that vaulted Aston Martin to fame in the 1950s was designed by Walter Owen Bentley, who also created the Bentley automobile.
  • the original site of the Heide Museum of Modern Art was an "idyllic refuge of inspiration" for many Australian artists during the 1930s through 1950s.
  • the historian William Y. Thompson during the 1950s researched the origins of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, forerunner of the American Red Cross.
  • the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt has been the basis of at least six different films, as well as the successful 1950s Broadway and West End musical, Where's Charley.
  • Romany Marie's café was a bohemian hangout in Greenwich Village for artists, authors, explorers, scientists, visionaries, and other intellectuals from the 1910s through the 1950s.
  • The New 7th Storey Hotel, a budget hotel catering to backpackers in Singapore, is actually nine storeys high and was the tallest building in the Beach Road area in the 1950s.
  • in the 1950s and 1960s, some residents of mid-rise apartment buildings would sleep outside on their fire escapes during hot summers.
  • in the 1950s, the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine.
  • Oscar M. Laurel, a south Texas Mexican-American Democratic state representative known for his flamboyant oratory, opposed a late 1950s bill that would have declared cactus peyote an "unlawful dangerous substance".
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