Play The 50s Trivia Online

1. 01Which 1950s singer, who got his start at Sun Records, became known as the King of Rock and Roll?
2. 02Which comedian starred as a scheming redheaded housewife in the 1950s TV smash I Love Lucy?
3. 03Jonas Salk became a 1950s hero for developing a vaccine against which disease?
4. 04Which Wham-O craze of 1958 had millions of Americans twirling plastic circles at the waist?
5. 05Which famous fashion doll did Mattel introduce in 1959?
6. 06Disneyland opened its gates in 1955 in which California city?
7. 07Which brooding young actor starred as a troubled teen in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause?
8. 08Whose arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955?
9. 09Which 1950s kitchen appliance, sold as a way to cook in minutes, was first marketed for homes as the Radarange?
10. 10Marilyn Monroe's white dress famously billowed over a subway grate in which 1955 film?
11. 11Which radio DJ is widely credited with popularizing the term rock and roll in the early 1950s?
12. 12Elvis Presley cut his first records at Sun Records, a small studio in which city?
13. 13The February 1959 plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and which performer?
14. 14Which guitarist, famous for Johnny B. Goode and Maybellene, wowed 1950s crowds with his duck walk?
15. 15Queen Elizabeth II's televised 1953 coronation took place in which London church?
16. 16Who reached the summit of Mount Everest alongside Tenzing Norgay in 1953?
17. 17In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick famously described the double helix structure of what?
18. 18Hollywood star Grace Kelly became a real princess in 1956 by marrying Prince Rainier III of which country?

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