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Trivia quiz questions about the year 1953.

 

Trivia Questions and Answers From The Year 1953

What Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma?
A: The Asian Socialist Conference .

The United States President, Harry S. Truman, announces that the United States has developed a what?
A:  A hydrogen bomb.

Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of what country?
A: Yugoslavia.

Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for what?
A: Spying.

In the United States, 71.1% of all television sets are tuned into the I Love Lucy TV show to watch what happen?
A: To see Lucy give birth.

Dwight D. Eisenhower succeeds who as the 34th President of the United States?
A: Harry S. Truman.

What Arthur Miller drama opens on Broadway?
A: The Crucible.

 

What Walt Disney feature film premieres?
A: Peter Pan.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for whom?
A:  Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

James Watson and Francis Crick of the University of Cambridge announce what?
A: Their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.

Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia sign what?
A: The Balkan Pact.

Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke which renders him unconscious until his what on March 5?
A: Death.

Nikita Khrushchev is selected as what?
A: First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing how many people?
A: 250.

 

The 25th Academy Awards ceremony is held and it is the first one to be what?
A: Broadcast on television.

Jonas Salk announces what?
A: His polio vaccine.

Who gets elected  as the United Nations Secretary-General?
A: Dag Hammarskjöld.

Ian Fleming publishes his first what?
A: James Bond novel, Casino Royale in the United Kingdom.

Where did Mickey Mantle hit a 565 foot home?
A: At Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C.

Mantle's home run is believed to be the what?
A: The longest home run in baseball history by many historians.

What happened in Jordan?
A:  Hussein is crowned King.

 

Aldous Huxley first tries what?
A: The psychedelic hallucinogen mescaline.

An F5 tornado hits in the downtown section of what city in Texas, killing 114?
A: Waco, Texas.

At Rogers Dry Lake who becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier?
A: Jackie Cochran.

At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its only what?
A: Nuclear artillery test: Upshot-Knothole Grable.

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the summit of what mountain?
A: Mount Everest.

The first Chevrolet "what" is built at Flint, Michigan?
A: Corvette.

Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on what?
A: The Moncada Barracks.

 

The Korean War ends with the what?
A:  Korean Armistice Agreement.

Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that the Soviet Union has a what?
A: A hydrogen bomb.

Four million workers go on strike in France to protest against what?
A: Austerity measures.

The second Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, is what?
A: Published in the US.

The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran, and retain whom on the throne?
A: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries whom?
A: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.

 

The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use what kind of memory?
A: Random-access memory.

U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower appoints who as  Chief Justice of the United States?
A: Earl Warren.

Who resigned as prime minister of Israel?
A: David Ben-Gurion.

What civil war begins?
A:  The Laotian Civil War.

The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, becomes the first manned aircraft to do what?
A: Reach a speed of Mach 2.

Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of what?
A: Playboy magazine in the United States.

 
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