1950s quiz #2
The answers to the clues given below all relate to events or people from the 1950s. How many can you answer correctly? One guess per clue. No use of reference material or the internet of course to ensure fair play. Good luck.
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to 5am tomorrow. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. What art movement was exemplefied by Jackson Pollock?
2. Name given to young people belonging to a sub-culture associated with the beat generation.
3. What country had an "economic miracle" under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer?
4. What were the four major record companies whose labels accounted for the vast majority of hits in the UK charts? One point for each.
5. What peninsula was divided between two countries at the 38th parallel?
6. In what (modern-day) country did The Mau Mau Uprising occur?
7. What international agreement was the Communist equivalent to NATO?
8. What was the world's largest corporation by revenue, according to the first edition of the US Fortune 500 in 1955?
9. American jazz singer who died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959, at age 44
10. What was discovered by Francis Crick and James Watson?
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to 5am tomorrow. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. What art movement was exemplefied by Jackson Pollock?
2. Name given to young people belonging to a sub-culture associated with the beat generation.
3. What country had an "economic miracle" under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer?
4. What were the four major record companies whose labels accounted for the vast majority of hits in the UK charts? One point for each.
5. What peninsula was divided between two countries at the 38th parallel?
6. In what (modern-day) country did The Mau Mau Uprising occur?
7. What international agreement was the Communist equivalent to NATO?
8. What was the world's largest corporation by revenue, according to the first edition of the US Fortune 500 in 1955?
9. American jazz singer who died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959, at age 44
10. What was discovered by Francis Crick and James Watson?
