Category

1950s 127 questions.
1950-1959
Pub quiz question 7240 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which anti-trade union US President was a former head of the Screen Actors Guild?
  2. Answer: A: Ronald Reagan
  3. Notes: *: 1947 to 1952 and in 1959
  4. Categories: Politics (3) Entertainment (3) 1940s (3) 1950s (3)
Pub quiz question 2957 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Character
  2. Image: i:
  3. Answer: A: Tinkerbell
  4. Notes: *: Peter Pan, 1953, unvoiced/uncredited
  5. Categories: Children (2) Cartoons (2) Disney (2) 1950s (2)
Pub quiz question 4613 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which city's name was included in the tile of The Guardian until 1959?
  2. Answer: A: Manchester
  3. Categories: Geography (3) Media (3) 1950s (3)
Pub quiz question 3092 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 with Tenzing Norgay?
  2. Answer: A: Edmund Hillary
  3. Categories: History (2) 1950s (2) Geography (2)
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Pub quiz question 8268 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Dai Rees won the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year in which year?
  2. Answer: A: 1957
  3. Categories: Golf (7) Sports (8) 1950s (5)
Pub quiz question 4967 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Brussels landmark boasting nine huge balls was created for the 1958 World Fair?
  2. Answer: A: The Atomium
  3. Categories: Geography (5) Science (5) 1950s (5)
Pub quiz question 3019 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Character
  2. Image: i:
  3. Answer: A: Drizella Tremaine
  4. Notes: *: Ugly sister in Cinderella, 1950, voiced by Rhoda Williams
  5. Categories: Children (7) 1950s (7) Cartoons (7) Disney (7)
Pub quiz question 4808 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which 1955 musical movie was filmed in Arizona because its title state was so heavily developed?
  2. Answer: A: Oklahoma!
  3. Categories: Art (4) 1950s (5) Entertainment (5) Geography (5) Film/Movies (5)
Pub quiz question 6529 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Waylon Jennings gave up his plane seat to whom in 1959?
  2. Answer: A: JP Richardson (The Big Bopper)
  3. Notes: *: The plane crashed - 'The Day the Music Died'
  4. Categories: Entertainment (7) Music (7) 1950s (7)
Pub quiz question 3097 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who was the leader of the successful 1953 ascent of Mount Everest?
  2. Answer: A: John Hunt
  3. Categories: Geography (7) History (7) 1950s (7)