Statistics for 1950s Decade Quiz

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What became the 50th U.S. state?	Hawaii	97%
What canal was seized by Egypt?	Suez Canal	94%
What was Sputnik?	a Satellite	85%
What was Norma Jeane Mortenson better known as?	Marilyn Monroe	83%
What peninsula was divided between two countries at the 38th parallel?	Korea	81%
For what disease did Jonas Salk create a vaccine?	Polio	81%
What "rebel without a cause" died in a car crash at age 24?	James Dean	80%
What pact was the Communist equivalent to NATO?	{Warsaw} Pact	77%
What region did China annex?	Tibet	74%
What singer was managed by Colonel Tom Parker?	Elvis Presley	73%
What was discovered by Francis Crick and James Watson?	Structure of {DNA}	65%
What was J. D. Salinger's most famous novel?	The Catcher in the Rye	65%
What were 78's, 45's, and 33's?	Records	59%
What country had an "economic miracle" under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer?	West Germany	59%
Who sang "Johnny B. Goode" and "Roll Over Beethoven"?	Chuck Berry	53%
What subculture wore turtlenecks, played bongos, and smoked marijuana?	Beatniks	51%
Who starred as Moses in "The Ten Commandments"?	Charlton Heston	49%
In what (modern-day) country did The Mau Mau Uprising occur?	Kenya	45%
What art movement was exemplefied by Jackson Pollock?	{Abstract} Expressionism	40%
What was the world's largest corporation by revenue, according to the first edition of the Fortune 500 in 1955?	General Motors	31%