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.