50s Pop Culture
Which television game show first aired in 1956 and is still running today?
The Price Is Right
Who was the first African-American named Supreme Court Justice in 1967?
Thurgood Marshall
Which actor won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird?
Gregory Peck
Which president resigned in 1974 over the Watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
Which famous song sung by Doris Day was introduced in the 1956 Hitchcock thriller, The Man Who Knew Too Much?
Que Sera Sera
Which rising young star from the movie Rebel Without a Cause died in an automobile accident in 1955?
James Dean
Who was assassinated in November 1963?
President John F. Kennedy
Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1960?
The Apartment
What newspaper heiress took part in a San Francisco bank robbery in April 1974?
Patricia Hearst
What singer had a country music chart hit with Sixteen Tons in 1955?
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Which aspiring rock 'n' roll singer appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956 but could only be shown from the waist up?
Elvis Presley
In 1964, Jack Ruby was convicted of murdering which other accused assassin?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Who played the role of Norman Bates in the 1960 horror movie, Psycho?
Anthony Perkins
Who replaced the Shah of Iran in 1979?
Ayatollah Khomeini
Which group had a hit with Twilight Time in 1958?
The Platters
What famous baseball player married Marilyn Monroe in 1954?
Joe DiMaggio
What was the name of the conflict in 1961 in which CIA-trained forces tried but failed to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro?
Bay of Pigs
Which film was the highest-grossing release of 1963, yet still lost money because it was one of the most expensive films ever made?
Cleopatra
Which Pennsylvania nuclear-generating plant suffered a partial meltdown in 1979?
Three Mile Island
Which smoky-voiced singer sang Too Young in 1951?
Nat King Cole
What piece of women's clothing — named after a dog — became popular in the 1950s?
What new type of telephone was invented in 1963?
Touch-tone
What was the name of Butch Cassidy's gang in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Hole in the Wall Gang
During which Apollo spaceflight did an oxygen tank explode, putting the crew in severe danger even though they managed to survive?
Apollo 13
What Cleveland disc jockey first used the term rock 'n' roll in 1951?
Alan Freed
What type of hat/cap did both Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone wear on TV in the 50s?
Coonskin
Israeli forces defeated Arab forces in this extremely short but decisive war that took place in June 1967. What is the name of that war?
Six Day War
Easy Rider starred Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper. Which one directed the movie?
Dennis Hopper
What is the name of the deadly disease that struck a convention in Philadelphia in July 1976 and was named for the convention where it struck?
Legionnaire’s Disease
Who recorded Rock Around the Clock in 1955?
Bill Haley and the Comets
What famous cowboy of the 1950s was really named Leonard Slye?
Roy Rogers
What iconic anti-war novel did Joseph Heller publish in 1961?
Catch-22
Who landed at 17 Cherry Tree Lane in a well-known Walt Disney movie from 1964?
Mary Poppins
In June 1971, the 26th Amendment passed, giving 18-year-olds what right?
The right to vote
Who originally sang That'll Be the Day in 1957?
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
What was the name of the circular plastic 1950s toy that was placed around the waist and operated by gyrating the hips?
Hula Hoop
What did the U.S. Postal Service add in 1963 that is part of every address today?
Zip codes
What 1968 movie co-starred a computer named H.A.L?
2001: A Space Odyssey
What war ended in April 1975 with the fall of Saigon?
Vietnam
B.J. Thomas sang I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love With You in 1967. Who first recorded it in 1951?
Hank Williams Sr.