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1951 Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

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1951 Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

In the Korean War, what city did the Chinese and North Korean forces capture?
A:  Seoul for the second time.

What did the Government of the United Kingdom announce?
A: Abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory.

A court in West Germany sentenced Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, to what?
A: Life imprisonment.

What happened in the Alps in Switzerland, Austria and Italy that killed 240 people?
A: Avalanches.

What Dutch author released the first volume of her novel Journey Through the Night (Reis door de nacht) set during World War II?
A: Anne de Vries.

Where did Nuclear testing begin?
A:  At the Nevada Test Site.

What was tested?
A: 1-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat, northwest of Las Vegas.

 

Surgeons remove an ovarian cyst from Gertrude Levandowski in an operation that lasted how long?
A: 96-hours.

Gertrude lost almost half of her what?
A: Weight.

A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing and injuring how many people?
A: Killing 85 people and injuring over 500, in one of the worst rail disasters in American history.

Jean Lee becomes the last woman in Australia to be what?
A: Hanged when Lee and her 2 pimps are hanged for the murder and torture of a 73-year-old bookmaker.

The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to what, is ratified?
A: Two terms.

The trial of Ethel and Julius who begins?
A: Rosenberg.

What were the Rosenbergs sentenced to?
A: They were sentenced to death.

 

Remington Rand delivers the first what?
A: UNIVAC I computer.

Where was the first NBA All-Star game played?
A: In the Boston Garden.

What Rodgers and Hammerstein show opens on Broadway and runs for three years?
A: The King and I.

At the 23rd Academy Awards ceremony what film wins the Best Picture award and four others?
A: All About Eve.

What begins in Greece?
A: Female suffrage.

U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieves of his Far Eastern commands?
A: General Douglas MacArthur.

Operation Greenhouse: The first "what" is tested on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, by the United States?
A: Thermonuclear weapon.

 

What famous actress opens the first of 14 concerts in Dublin, Ireland at the Theatre Royal?
A: Judy Garland.

William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain announce the invention of the what?
A: Junction transistor.

In Joplin, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument to do what?
A: Honor an African American.

What happened to King Abdullah I of Jordan?
A: He was assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.

What American soap opera debuts on CBS?
A: Search for Tomorrow.

In San Francisco, 48 nations sign a what?
A: A peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.

What Tennessee Williams play premieres becoming a critical and box-office smash?
A: A Streetcar Named Desire.

NATO accepts what two countries as members?
A: Greece and Turkey.

What sitcom makes its television debut on CBS?
A: I Love Lucy.

What type of service begins in the U.S.?
A: Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service.

 
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