Published: Saturday 26th January 2019A free history quiz about people and events in the 1950s.
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Who was selected as First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party following the death of Stalin in 1953?
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What was established by the 1951 Treaty of Paris?
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Which team beat Bolton Wanderers 4-3 in the first ever televised FA Cup final in 1953?
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Which country in 1956 became the first Islamic Republic?
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Which two nations united in 1958 to form the United Arab Republic?
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What was the title of Walt Disney's 12th animated movie first released in February 1950?
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Which country hosted the Winter Olympics in 1952?
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Which record, released by Bill Haley in April 1954, effectively started the Rock 'n' Roll craze?
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Which astronomy programme was first broadcast by the BBC in 1957?
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Which club did Chilean George Robledo play for in the 1952 FA Cup when he became the first foreign player to score in the final?
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What scourge of motorists was introduced in the UK in July 1958?
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Ray Kroc opened his first restaurant in Illinois in 1954, what was it named?
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Who said in 1957 that "..most of our people have never had it so good"?
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What record label was founded by Berry Gordy Jnr. in 1959?
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What area became the first National Park of England and Wales in April 1951?
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What instrument was jazzman Charlie Parker, who died in 1955, famous for playing?
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Dying in 1950, which author won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize?
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From which New York venue was the first boxing match televised in colour in 1954?
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Opening on Broadway in November 1959, what was the last musical to be written by Rodgers and Hammerstein?
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Who did Eisenhower defeat in both the 1952 and 1956 US Presidential elections?
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