1950's Music
This person was known as the "King of Rock and Roll"
Who is Elvis Presley
In "I love Lucy", who played Lucy's husband Ricky?
Desi Arnaz
This person was an R&B singer, who is famous for being blind.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This invention revolutionized consumer spending in the 1950s, letting users swipe now and pay later—often with rewards as sweet as cash back.
What is the Credit Card?
This event began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950.
What is the Korean War?
This popular 1950s bands most famous song is "Rock Around the Clock"
What is Bill Haley and His Comets
This was an American television sitcom that follows the misadventures of a suburban boy, his family and his friends.
This actor and comedian is best known for his trademark deadpan humor on television's Saturday Night Live and film roles son comedy classics such as Caddyshack (1980), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984) and Groundhog Day (1993).
This is an alternative to traditional pop, it shares the same fizz and flavor, minus the calories.
What is Diet Pop?
In 1954, this groundbreaking procedure involved transferring a kidney between identical twins, launching a new era in surgical innovation.
What is first organ transplant?
This song was Elvis Presley's first number 1 hit on the Billboard Charts.
What is "Heartbreak Hotel"
This Western television show first started as a radio program and then transitioned to TV in 1955. It features James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon, the man in charge of Dodge City.
What is Gunsmoke?
This person is a symbol of hope in Canadian history and a pivotal movement in the battle against cancer by embarking on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research.
Who is Terry Fox?
This appliance, born from radar experiments and patented in 1950, began as a bulky contraption used in restaurants before shrinking down to fit countertops and revolutionize home cooking.
What is the Microwave Oven?
Ascending the throne in 1952 and reigning for over 70 years, this monarch guided the UK and Commonwealth through wars, weddings, jubilees, and dramatic family headlines—becoming the longest-serving sovereign in British history.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on June 2,1953 at Westminster Abbey in London. It was the first coronation to be televised.
This artist’s 1955 hit “Blue Suede Shoes” helped define rockabilly—and though Elvis made it famous, he wrote and recorded it first.
Who is Carl Perkins?
This person was the first host of The Tonight Show.
Who is Steve Allen
This American Actor is known for his roles in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978).
Who is John Travolta?
These two people were the Prime Ministers of Canada during the 1950s?
Who is Louis St. Laurent and John Diefenbaker?
Louis St. Laurent was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada serving from from 1948 to 1957.
John Diefenbaker was the 13th Prime Minister of Canada serving from 1957 to 1963.
This singer's music career was launched when he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, earning him the nickname "The Velvet Fog."
Who is Nat King Cole?
What were the names of Dennis' parents on "Dennis the Menace"?
Who are Henry and Alice?
Born in 1955, this Microsoft co-founder helped usher in the personal computing era, became one of the world’s richest individuals, and later turned his focus to global philanthropy.
Who is Bill Gates?
Introduced by Volvo in 1959 and designed by Nils Bohlin, this life-saving device secures both the lap and shoulder—dramatically reducing injuries in car crashes and becoming standard worldwide.
What is Three-point Seatbelt?
Introduced in the 1950s, this life-saving breakthrough—first developed by Jonas Salk—helped eradicate a disease that once paralyzed thousands of children each year.
What is the Polio Vaccine?