1950s Decade Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
In 1959, it became the 50th U.S. state	Hawaii	97%
Canal that was seized by Egypt	Suez Canal	94%
The first satellite to orbit the Earth	Sputnik	84%
What Norma Jeane Mortenson was better known as	Marilyn Monroe	81%
Peninsula that was divided between two countries at the 38th parallel	Korea	80%
Disease that Jonas Salk created a vaccine for	Polio	80%
"Rebel without a cause" who died in a car crash at age 24	James Dean	78%
Treaty that was the Communist equivalent of NATO	{Warsaw} Pact	76%
Region annexed by China	Tibet	73%
Singer who was managed by Colonel Tom Parker	Elvis Presley	72%
J. D. Salinger's most famous novel	The Catcher in the Rye	64%
Major discovery of Watson, Crick, Franklin, Wilkins, Gosling, and others	Structure of {DNA}	63%
Country that had an "economic miracle" under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer	West Germany	57%
What were 78's, 45's, and 33's?	Records	55%
Singer of "Johnny B. Goode" and "Roll Over Beethoven"	Chuck Berry	52%
Subculture who wore turtlenecks, played bongos, and smoked marijuana	Beatniks	48%
Actor who starred as Moses in "The Ten Commandments"	Charlton Heston	45%
Modern-day country in which the The Mau Mau Uprising occurred	Kenya	41%
Art movement exemplified by Jackson Pollock	{Abstract} Expressionism	38%
The world's largest corporation by revenue	General Motors	27%

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