Classic Movies
The famous phrase, "There's no place like home!", comes from this movie?
What is the Wizard of Oz?
The Sharks and the Jets dance their battles on the streets in this modernized take on Romeo and Juliet.
What is the West Side Story?
What was the average price of gas?
What is 0.18 - 0.25 cents a gallon?
This comedy TV show about an interracial couple was ranked the top show of the decade.
What is I Love Lucy?
The average life expectancy for men in the 1940’s.
What is 60 years for American men?
The original "sweeping epic," this film is about this plucky Southern belle who romances a man against the backdrop of the Civil War.
What is Gone with the Wind?
This MGM musical starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds was emblematic of the grand productions of the 1950s, while also poking fun at the transition from silent to sound film.
What is Singing in the Rain?
This classic comic strip about a boy, his dog and his gang was introduced in the 1950s?
What is Peanuts?
On January 3, 1959, this state became the 49th state in the USA.
What is Alaska?
The first and only US President to serve a third term at the start of the forties; he also became the first and only one to serve a fourth term during the decade.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This WWII classic pairs a Scandinavian beauty with a tough guy for a story of lovers ripped apart by war and reunited in a far flung Moroccan piano bar.
What is Casablanca?
Marilyn Monroe had many memorable roles, but Billy Wilder’s cross-dressing comedy demonstrated her sharp comedic chops the best. Co-starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, who don drag in order to hide from mob assassins.
What is Some like it Hot?
This American classic book that was whimsical and about a cat, was released in 1957?
What is The Cat in the Hat?
On August 21, 1959, this state became our 50th?
What is Hawaii?
After nearly 15 years of work, the carving of this huge monument concluded in late 1941.
What is Mount Rushmore?
Blake Edwards’s comedy about a girl-about-town helped turn Audrey Hepburn into a fashion icon, thanks to her long black gown, elegant up-do, and signature black sunglasses.
What is Breakfast At Tiffany’s?
This film is a blend of film noir and family melodrama that a murder victim with whom the detective falls in love while investigating her death.
What is Laura?
The first version of this heat-and-serve frozen meal contained a Thanksgiving-inspired meal of turkey, cornbread stuffing, sweet potato, and peas.
What are TV Dinners?
This dog breed was favored in the 1950s.
What is the Beagle?
This was a wild fad of the era, particularly among soldiers during the second world war.
What are Pin Up Girls?
This movie stars Peter O’Toole in the sweeping film about T.E. Lawrence, the British archaeologist, military officer, and World War I liaison to the Ottoman Empire.
Who is Lawrence of Arabia?
Alfred Hitchcock’s experiment with exploitation cinema proved the Master of Suspense to be the Master of Marketing, and became his most notorious film in a career of classics.
What is Psycho?
The Baby Boomers peaked with 4.3 million babies born in this year.
What is in 1957?
The average cost of a new vehicle in the 1950s?
The average cost of a new car was $1,510 in 1950 (about $16,000 today) and $2,200 in 1959 (around $19,000 currently).
The age of eligibility to be drafted into US military service was lowered from 21 to this age.
What is from 21 to 18?