1950's History
This woman refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955
Rosa Parks
This famous song sung by Doris Day was introduced in the 1956 Hitchcock thriller "The Man Who Knew Too Much".
"Que Sera Sera"
This aspiring rock-and-roll singer appeared on the Ed Sullivan show in 1956 but could only be shown from the waist up.
Elvis Presley
The lead actress in the 1964 movie "My Fair Lady"
Audrey Hepburn
This tv game show first aired in 1956 and is still running.
The Price is Right
This royal family member became head of state in Great Britain in 1953.
Queen Elizabeth II
This smoky-voiced singer sang "Too Young" in 1951.
Nat King Cole
He was assassinated in November of 1963.
John F. Kennedy
He played Norman Bates in the 1960 horror movie Psycho.
Anthony Perkins
This young star of A Rebel Without a Cause died in an automobile accident in 1955.
James Dean
He was a famous explorer who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953.
Sir Edmund Hillary
This famous 60's song has the lyrics
"I've got so much honey
The bees envy me
I've got a sweeter song
Than the birds in the trees"
"My Girl" by the Temptations
This western debuted in 1955, lasted 20 seasons and was shown in B&W and color.
Gunsmoke
This high grossing movie starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton was made in 1963, but lost money due to it being so expensive to make.
Cleopatra
She is a former First Lady who got remarried to a Greek shipping tycoon in October of 1968.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
This was the year Disneyland first opened.
1955
This famous 60's song has the lyrics
"Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be?
"I Can't Help Falling in Love With You" by Elvis Presley
This deadly disease struck a convention in Philadelphia in July 1976 and is named after the convention it struck.
Legionnaires Disease
This famous African American actor starred in Lilies Of The Field and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.
Sidney Poitier
This fast food restaurant made it's debut in 1954.
McDonalds
This is the disease Dr. Jonas Salk successfully created a vaccine for in 1952.
Polio
Who sang these lyrics?
"Here we come, walking down the street"
We get the funniest looks from everyone we meet"
The Monkees
It's sometimes made with salty water and you pull it.
Taffy
This film won an Oscar for Best Picture in 1965 and also was nominated for it's music including the song 'Edelweiss'.
The Sound of Music.
In 1957 this became the mascot of the TV network NBC and encouraged viewers to buy color televisions as the true splendor of the mascot could not be appreciated in black and white.
Peacock