Fads and Trends
Which fashion trend, often associated with teenage girls in the 1950s, featured wide, colorful skirts decorated with appliqués such as dogs?
What are poodle skirts?
This child star, whose breakout adult role was in 1950's "Father of the Bride", eventually became the first actor—male or female—to be paid $1 million to star in a movie.
Who was Elizabeth Taylor?
This man served as Israel's first Prime Minister, leading the country through most of the 1950s.
Who is David Ben-Gurion?
In 1953, this married couple was executed in the United States after being convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
The number of times the Yankees won the World Series during the 1950s.
What is six?
Name the Bergen County town where Jennifer grew up.
What is Wyckoff?
This compact, coiled metal toy "walked" down stairs on its own and exploded in popularity through the 1950s.
What is a Slinky?
This 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film starring James Stewart and Kim Novak dealt a fear of heights.
What is "Vertigo"?
This 1950 Israeli law granted every Jewish person the right to immigrate to Israel and receive citizenship.
What is the Law of Return?
A 1st class stamp in 1950 cost this much.
What is 4 cents?
This is the year the Brooklyn Dodgers finally beat the Yankees to win the World Series.
What is 1955?
Name Jennifer's two children in age order–oldest first.
Who are Olivia and Gabe?
This type of jacket, originally worn by athletes, became a fashionable item for both men and women in the 1950s.
What is a Letterman/Varsity Jacket?
This actor played the fading matinee idol opposite Judy Garland in 1954's "A Star Is Born"?
Who was James Mason?
This Lt. General, who lost an eye in WWII, was the fourth Chief of Staff of the IDF from 1953 to 1958.
Who was Moshe Dayan?
This philosopher and rabbi published "Man Is Not Alone" and "God in Search of Man" during the 1950s, becoming one of the most influential Jewish theologians in America.
Who was Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel?
In 1951, this Giants player hit "the shot heard 'round the world," a pennant-winning home run against the Dodgers.
Who was Bobby Thomson?
What was Jennifer's major in college?
What is film (visual media)?
At the height of this 1950's fad, this hat made popular by Fess Parker, sold as many as 5,000 per day.
What is a Coonskin Cap?
The number of days it took David Niven to travel around the world.
What is eighty days?
This 1953 covert agency was established to consolidate Israel's foreign intelligence operations.
What is Mossad?
HaMossad leModi'in uleTafkidim Meyuhadim, which translates in English to the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations/המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים
This Jewish scientist and Manhattan Project veteran faced a highly publicized security hearing in 1954, in which his security clearance was revoked amid Cold War suspicions over his past left-wing associations.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
This Yankee won three American League MVP awards during the 1950s.
Who was Yogi Berra?
How many siblings does Jennifer have?
What is three? (2 sisters and 1 brother)
This classic, stereoscopic toy with 3D cardboard discs exploded in popularity in the 1950's after the company bought the licensing rights to Walt Disney Studios.
What is a View-Master?
Name the three-time Academy Award-winning character actor who was a scene stealer as "Stumpy," the cackling, shotgun-wielding jail guard, in John Wayne's classic Western, "Rio Bravo".
Who is Walter Brennan?
This economic policy of strict rationing on food and consumer goods was implemented to manage shortages caused by rapid population growth in the early 1950s.
What is tzena (austerity policy)?
This 1955 treaty formalized a political and military alliance among the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc nations in direct response to West Germany joining NATO.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
Name the two teams that left New York in the 1950's and the city and state they moved to.
What are the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles, CA and the New York Giants to San Francisco, California?
Name two of the three major U.S. cities Jennifer has lived in.
What are Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and New York?