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Statistics for Television by year, 1947-1965
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This quiz has been taken 36 times
(31 since last reset) - The average score is 12 of 19
Answer Stats
| Year | TV Event | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1951 | Americas wackiest housewife and her latin bandleader husband first took to the airwaves in this enormously popular and influential sitcom. | I Love Lucy | 93%
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| 1962 | He began his thirty-year reign as the king of late night television | Johnny Carson | 89%
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| 1953 | He becomes the first president in history to give a televised farewell address. | Harry Truman | 86%
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| 1960 | In the same year that he gave an Oscar nominated performance in "The Apartment", Fred MacMurray began his twelve year run on this sitcom. | My Three Sons | 86%
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| 1949 | This popular masked lawman rides over from radio to television. | The Lone Ranger | 86%
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| 1954 | Steve Allen becomes the first host of this long running late-night talk show | The Tonight Show | 86%
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| 1955 | A group of youngsters sporting mouse ears and T-shirts with their names stenciled on begin hosting this afternoon children's show. | The Mickey Mouse Club | 82%
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| 1964 | This gossip columnist/variety show host welcomed the Beatles to the United States | Ed Sullivan | 79%
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| 1965 | This show about a couple of city folk moving to a weird farming community called Hooterville premieres. | Green Acres | 79%
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| 1952 | Americans first started waking up to this long-running morning show. | The Today Show | 71%
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| 1959 | This Emmy and Peabody Award winning writer first took viewers into that strange place called (bum bum bum) THE TWILIGHT ZONE! | Rod Serling | 68%
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| 1947 | This children's show, co-hosted by a red-headed marionette, premieres. | Howdy Doody | 64%
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| 1963 | Americans watched in shock as he became the first person to be shot in cold blood on national television. | Lee Harvey Oswald | 64%
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| 1957 | This western series reached number one in the ratings for the first time. It would occupy that spot for the next four years. | Gunsmoke | 61%
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| 1958 | This Oscar winning actress settled for a life of domesticity on her self titled TV series. | Donna Reed | 39%
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| 1948 | This entertainer's "Texaco Star Theater" is the first to reach over a million viewers. | Milton Berle | 36%
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| 1950 | Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Niel Simon would all write for this legendary comedy/variety show that premiered in 1950. | Your Show of Shows | 29%
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| 1961 | He brought his anthology series over from ABC to NBC in order to take advantage of the laters new color broadcasting technology. | Walt Disney | 18%
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| 1956 | Elvis Presley made his network television debut on this variety show, co-hosted by Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. | Stage Show | 4%
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