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.