2025 U.S. HISTORY
In January 2025, Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as which US presidential number for this term?
47th 44th 48th 50th
47TH
Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025.
What was the name of the first satellite launched into orbit by Russia in 1957?
Sputnik
was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program.
The famous song sung by Doris Day in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film, "The Man Who Knew Too Much,"
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"
The three verses of the song progress through the life of the narrator—from childhood, through young adulthood and falling in love, to parenthood—and each asks "What will I be?" or "What lies ahead?" The chorus repeats the answer: "What will be, will be."
Which rising young star from the movie Rebel Without a Cause died in an automobile accident in 1955?
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He became one of the most influential figures in Hollywood in the 1950s, despite a career that lasted only five years. His impact on cinema and popular culture was profound, even though he appeared in just three major films. Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he portrayed a disillusioned and rebellious teenager
What famous doll made her debut in 1959 and continued her popularity into the 1960s?
BARBIE Barbie is a fashion doll created by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel and introduced on March 9, 1959. The toy was based on the German Bild Lilli doll which Handler had purchased while in Europe.
On January 9, 2025, what major American political figure, who had reached the age of 100, was buried
Strom Thurmond Jimmy Carter
Nancy Pelosi Barbara Bush
On December 29, 2024, Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, the 76th governor of Georgia, and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his post-presidential work, died at his home in Plains, Georgia,
What is the name of the woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama ln 1955?
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement. She is best known for her refusal to move from her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, in defiance of Jim Crow laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".
What singer had a hit with Sixteen Tons in 1955?
Tennessee Ernie Ford recorded "Sixteen Tons" in 1955 as the B-side of his cover of the Moon Mullican standard "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry". With Ford's snapping fingers and a unique clarinet-driven pop arrangement, it quickly became a million seller
What famous baseball player married Marilyn Monroe in 1954?
Joseph Paul DiMaggio born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Italian: November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "the Yankee Clipper" and "Joe D.", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Born to Italian immigrants in California, he is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time and set the record for the longest hitting streak (56 games
Which band released the album ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ in 1967?
THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (often referred to simply as Sgt. Pepper) is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967,[nb 1] Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music.
In January 2025, on New Year's Day, a terrorist ran his car into a crowd and killed multiple people on Bourbon Street in what U.S. state
California Louisiana North Carolina Kentucky
LOUISIANA On January 1, 2025, at around 3:15 a.m. a 42-year-old American man, drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, then exited the truck and engaged in a shootout with police before being fatally shot. Fourteen victims were killed, plus the perpetrator, and at least fifty-seven others were injured, including two police officers who were shot. The attack occurred during New Year celebrations in the city, which was scheduled to host the 2025 Sugar Bowl later that day.
Who was president of the United States in 1950?
Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard Nixon
Thomas Dewey Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. Serving as the 34th vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Coasters recorded a song in 1959 with the line "You're gonna need an ocean of Calamine lotion." What is the name of the song?
"Poison Ivy" is a popular song by American songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally recorded by the Coasters in 1959.[1] It went to No.1 on the R&B chart, No.7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
What type of hat/cap did both Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone wear on TV in the 50s?
COONSKIN In the 20th century, the iconic association was in large part due to the first three Davy Crockett episodes starring Fess Parker, which aired from December 1954 to February 1955. In the episodes, which once again made Crockett into one of the most popular men in the country, the frontier hero was portrayed wearing a coonskin cap.
Which artist painted the iconic ‘Campbell’s Soup Cans’ in the 1960s?
Andy Warhol born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century
What record breaking major weather event hit northern Florida on January 20, 2025?Hint
The earliest hurricane on record
Highest lightning strikes in January history
The Mulhall tornado hit Tallahassee
Historic snowfall in Florida
Here’s What Caused the Rare, Record Florida Snow
A perfect confluence of an Arctic air outbreak and a low-pressure system that pulled in moisture from the Gulf of Mexico brought rare, record snow to the Gulf Coast
What famous explorer first climbed Mount Everest in 1953?
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Who recorded Rock Around the Clock in 1955?
BILL HALEY & THE COMETS NAT KING COLE
THE PLATTERS BUDDY HOLLY & THE CRICKETS
"Rock Around the Clock" is a rock and roll song in the 12-bar blues format written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter being under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight") in 1952. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1954 for American Decca
At 22, this Hollywood starlet announced her retirement from the film industry. Who was she?
Shirley Temple was an American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.
Who wrote the novel ‘In Cold Blood’ which was published in 1966?
He achieved widespread acclaim with Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)—a novella about a fictional New York café society girl named Holly Golightly, and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966)—a journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home. Capote spent six years writing the latter, aided by his lifelong friend Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).
What lover of a green leafy vegetable was inducted into public domain in January 2025
Booker T. Washington Sherlock Holmes
Popeye Willie Nelson
Popeye
Under the Copyright Term Exception Act, works and books that originated in 1929 became public domain in 2025 in the United States. This included the Buck Rogers comic strip, Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue", and Popeye the Sailor Man. Popeye is famous for his love of spinach and his girlfriend Olive Oyl.
Who became Premier of the Soviet Union in 1958?
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev 1894 – 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.
Tony and Maria were the lead characters in what Broadway musical that premiered in 1957?
West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood.
This movie star singing cowboy and his horse, Champion, had his own TV on CBS from 1950 to 1956. Name that cowboy.
Gene Autry Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American actor, musician, singer, composer, rodeo performer, and baseball team owner, who largely gained fame by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades, beginning in the early 1930s. During that time, he personified the straight-shooting hero — honest, brave, and true.
Which muscle cars, introduced in the late 1960s, featured a horse logo?
The Ford Mustang is a series of American automobiles manufactured by Ford. In continuous production since 1964, the Mustang is currently the longest-produced Ford car nameplate. Currently in its seventh generation, it is the fifth-best selling Ford car nameplate. The namesake of the "pony car" automobile segment, the Mustang was developed as a highly styled line of sporty coupes and convertibles derived from existing model lines, initially distinguished by "long hood, short deck" proportions