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The unofficial title of Elvis Presley.
Who is the "King of Rock-N-Roll"?
100
Clerk of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa who discovered Soviet spies in Canada.
Who is Igor Gouzenko?
100
Prime Minister of Canada after Mackenzie King's last term.
Who is Louis St. Laurent?
100
Done to ensure that production levels were maintained, but veteran could have jobs.
What was companies forcing women quit their jobs to allow veterans to replace them?
100
Name of the post-war population increase.
What is the "Baby Boom"?
200
One of the two stars of "Rebel Without A Cause"
Who are James Dean and Natalie Wood?
200
The two ideologies fighting against each other during the Cold War.
What is American capitalism and Soviet Communism?
200
A body set up by the Federal Government to study the state of the Canadian Culture.
What is the Massey Commission?
200
The Minister of Reconstruction, Trade and Commerce.
Who is C.D. Howe?
200
The person who refused to give up their bus seat as a way of exercising their civil rights.
Who is Rosa Parks.
300
Two other popular genres of music during the 1950's.
What is pop, country, or rhythm and blues?
300
How Lester Pearson won a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Suez Crisis.
What is proposing that the UN form a multinational peacekeeping force to defuse hostilities and oversee the withdrawal of troops?
300
The number of new immigrants admitted into Canada between the end of WWII and 1960.
What is 2 million?
300
Reason more people were able to become homeowners during the 1950's.
What is housing developments were built on land further away from the city (suburbia), causing the price of houses to be cheaper?
300
The other countries that experienced huge post-war population increases.
What is the U.S and Australia?
400
Teams that played in the first televised hockey game.
Who are the Detroit Red Wings and the All-Stars?
400
The witch hunt for and fear of the threat from communists.
What is the "Red Menace"?
400
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission regulated this content.
What is the amount of foreign material broadcast in Canadian media?
400
Two inventions made in the 1950's
What are Ballpoint pens, Satellites, Television, Delta-winged interceptor, Turbojet engine, The Concorde supersonic jetliner, pacemakers, Transistor Radio, Vinyl, Microwave, Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Roller skate, Cobalt-60 Bomb, Electric Wheelchair, Poutine, Electronic Music Synthesizer, Instant Replay (Television)?
400
Things people decorated their cars with.
What is chrome, fins, and tail lights.
500
The Montreal Canadien's most famous player and the NHL commissioner who suspended him.
Who are Maurice Richard and Clarence Campbell?
500
Four of the countries that are members of the Warsaw Pact.
Who is the U.S.S.R., Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria?
500
The results of the report on the state of Canadian culture.
What is Canadian culture needed to be protected from American influence by strengthening Canadian media and increased funding towards the arts?
500
How the federal government convinced the provincial governments to give them power over taxation.
What is offering government grants for social services (E.g., health care and education)?
500
New terms within the Indian Act after it was amended in 1951.
What is the legalization of pot latches and the wearing of traditional regalia, and allowing Aboriginal women to vote in band elections?