50's Trivia
Which rock and roll singer was known as "The King"
Elvis Presley
This legendary rock guitarist set his Fender Stratocaster ablaze at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
Who is Jimmie Hendrix?
This 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jaws featured a great white shark terrorizing this fictional New England beach town.
What is Amity Island?
In 1983, this colorful plastic 3D puzzle invented by Ernő Rubik became a massive global craze.
What is a Rubik's Cube?
This 1997 James Cameron blockbuster became the highest-grossing film in history up to that point.
What is Titanic?
What tv show features the Cleaver family?
Leave it to Beaver
This Motown group saw Diana Ross leave for a solo career in 1970, but scored 60s hits like "Baby Love" and "Stop! In the Name of Love."
Who are The Supremes?
This 1973 horror film featured Linda Blair as a young girl possessed by a demon.
What is The Exorcist?
This 1987 romantic drama features the iconic movie line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner".
What is Dirty Dancing?
Before starring in Hollywood blockbusters, Ryan Gosling and Keri Russell appeared together on this children's variety show.
What is The All-New Mickey Mouse Club?
Released in 1950, this animated Disney film features the iconic song "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" and a glass slipper.
What is Cinderella?
In October 1962, a tense 13-day confrontation unfolded between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in this Caribbean country.
What is Cuba (the Cuban Missile Crisis)?
This iconic Pink Floyd album from 1973 spent over 900 weeks on the Billboard 200.
What is The Dark Side of the Moon?
This legendary pop artist starred in both the title role and the soundtrack for the 1984 film Purple Rain.
Who is Prince?
This famous space telescope was successfully launched into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery in April 1990.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Swanson introduced this convenient kitchen innovation in 1954, featuring turkey, gravy, cornbread stuffing, and peas on an aluminum tray.
What is the TV dinner?
Released in 1963 and starring Elizabeth Taylor, this historical epic became the most expensive film ever made up to that point.
What is Cleopatra?
President Richard Nixon resigned from office in August 1974 as a direct result of this political scandal.
What is the Watergate scandal?
On January 28, 1986, this NASA space shuttle broke apart just 73 seconds into its flight, shocking the nation.
What is the Challenger?
On July 5, 1994, an entrepreneur named Jeff Bezos founded this massive company initially operating out of his garage as an online bookstore.
What is Amazon?
This classic wool skirt featuring a felt applique of a canine or record player became a massive teenage fashion fad in the 1950s.
What is a Poodle Skirt?
Ratified in 1964, this Constitutional Amendment officially banned poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
Released in 1974, this classic mechanical drawing toy allowed users to create line drawings and shake the screen to erase them
What is an Etch A Sketch?
This 1980s NBA rivalry was defined by the legendary matchups between Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics and this star player for the LA Lakers.
Who is Magic Johnson (Earvin Johnson)?
In 1997, at just 21 years old, this golfer became the youngest player ever to win the Masters Tournament.
Who is Tiger Woods?