1950′S TRIVIA QUESTIONS

11 05 2009

What was the first American credit card?
What radio personality began a 50+ year national broadcast career in 1950?
Which oft-married Hollywood actress married her first husband in 1950?
Which popular comic strip, featuring a boy and a dog,debuted in 1950?
Name the new heavyweight boxing champion as of August, 1950?
What still-used crime fighting innovation did the FBI institute in 1950?
What cowboy spawned the lunch box craze in 1950?
What Hollywood legend began his career in a 1950 television commercial?
What were “Cooties”?
Which war began in 1950?
What did a “stacked” woman have?
What was a “fla top”?
Describe a girl with a “fast” reputation.
On what was “butch wax” used?
What were “dibs”?
What was a “spaz”?
What was a “blast”?
What were you if you were endowed with a lot of “bread”?
If anyone were to “go ape” they would be…
What was a “pad”
Which singer’s first record was “That’s Alright”?
What were women’s skirts with large appliqués of dogs called?
What were “greaser” hairdos called?
What time did “Little Susie” finally wake up?
What were the common colors of saddle shoes?
What toy did children spin around their waist?
What pop singers died on “The Day the Music Died”?
What early TV sitcom portrayed a woman and her friend who were always getting into trouble?
What popular woman’s clothing piece was invented by Allen Gant Sr. in 1959?
What popular snack food was developed from a crop by Fred Mennen in 1959?
What product ad claimed, “writes the first time, every time.”
Who were Able and Baker?
What fast food franchise first opened in 1955?
Who was the first “Tonight” Show host?
Who was on the very first Playboy Magazine Cover?
What candy “ melts in your mouth, not in your hand”?
What was actor Robert Young’s TV family name?
The main sponsor of the early “Hit Parade” show was?
What character brought the term “cowabunga” into popular culture?
What type of organization was “The John Birch society”?
What price was a first class postage stamp in 1958?
Charles Van Doren finally lost his TV game show match in 1958. What was the show?
Who were Alvin, Simon and Theodore?
What singer received the very first Gold Record?
What musical received the first Gold Album?
Finish this famous TV commercial : “look Ma….”
The Rosenbergs were executed for what in 1953?
What was the name of Russia’s first man-made space satellite?
What was the “X-15”?
Tom and Jerry first appeared on “American Bandstand” in 1957. How were they later known?

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