How Well Do You Remember These 50s Headlines?

How Well Do You Remember These 50s Headlines?

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How Well Do You Remember These 50s Headlines?

IntelliQuiz Staff - Published: September 29, 2015

What’s buzzin’, cuzzin? Think you’re the coolest cat on the block? Then step to this quiz and rumble with a few questions to find out how much you know about the 50s!

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Question 1/9

An event that helped galvanize the early Civil Rights movement, on December 1, 1955, this African-American woman refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

Claudette Colvin
Ella Baker
Angela Davis
Rosa Parks

Question 2/9

On November 3, 1954, this classic film monster rampaged through Tokyo for the first time.

Godzilla
Mothra
Gamarra
Gamera

Question 3/9

On February 16, 1959, this Communist rebel leader was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba.

Simon Bolivar
Fidel Castro
Marshal Tito
Benito Juarez

Question 4/9

In a speech given on February 9, 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy kicked off a second "Red Scare" when he accused the State Department of being overrun with what?

Nazis
Communists
Anarchists
Angry Wombats

Question 5/9

On February 6, 1952, she became Queen of England.

Anne II
Victoria
Mary I
Elizabeth II

Question 6/9

In September 1951, "Ol' Blue Eyes" made his Las Vegas debut at the Sands Hotel.

Joey Bishop
Sammy Davis Jr.
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin

Question 7/9

Written as an allegory of McCarthyism, Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" - about this historical event - debuted on Broadway on January 22, 1953.

The Spanish Inquisition
Nuremberg
The Lincoln assassination
The Salem witch trials

Question 8/9

In Liverpool on July 12, 1958, The Quarrymen had their first recording session and played Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day.” What group would they become?

The Rolling Stones
The Who

The Beatles
The Kinks

Question 9/9

On September 5, 1957, this Jack Kerouac book that would help define the Beat Generation was published by Viking Press to mixed reviews.

“On The Road”
“Naked Lunch”
"Old Man and the Sea"
“East of Eden"

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