Statistics for Movies by Year, 1950–1969

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Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
1965	Julie Andrews stars in this movie about a musical Austrian family	The Sound of Music	93%
1962	Dr. No becomes the first movie to feature this character	James Bond	91%
1955	This rebel without a cause dies in a car crash	James Dean	88%
1960	This director fights with censors to allow "Psycho" to be released	Alfred Hitchcock	87%
1956	This singer stars in his first film, "Love Me Tender"	Elvis Presley	84%
1968	Charlton Heston visits this planet, only to find out that it was Earth all along	Planet of the Apes	82%
1969	Followers of this madman murder actress Sharon Tate	Charles Manson	81%
1963	This desert epic, starring Peter O'Toole, wins an Oscar for Best Picture	Lawrence of Arabia	80%
1964	This actress marries Richard Burton for the first time	Elizabeth Taylor	79%
1952	"What a glorious feeling" sings Gene Kelly in this movie	Singin' in the Rain	79%
1959	Charlton Heston stars in this movie about a charioteer in the time of Jesus	Ben-Hur	78%
1967	This movie features a soundtrack by Simon & Garfunkel	The Graduate	74%
1957	This "Casablanca" actor dies of cancer	Humphrey Bogart	73%
1958	This actress is born to Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh (give her first name)	Jamie Lee Curtis	73%
1954	Marilyn Monroe marries and divorces this baseball player	Joe Dimaggio	73%
1953	This actress has her first starring role in "Roman Holiday"	Audrey Hepburn	69%
1951	This actor stars as Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire"	Marlon Brando	67%
1961	This film, based on a Leonard Bernstein musical, hits theaters	West Side Story	54%
1950	This comedian stars alongside Dean Martin in "At War with the Army"	Jerry Lewis	47%
1966	Clint Eastwood stars in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", by this Italian director	Sergio Leone	43%