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Trivia quiz questions about the year 1949.

 

Interesting Miscellaneous Trivia From The Year 1949

Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of what country?
A:  Puerto Rico.

President Truman unveils his what?
A:  Fair Deal program.

Los Angeles receives its first what?
A: Its first recorded snowfall.

President Truman is inaugurated for what?
A: His second term.

The first Emmy Awards are presented  where?
A: At the Hollywood Athletic Club.

In the first Israeli election, who becomes Prime Minister?
A: David Ben-Gurion.

Death of a Salesman opens where?
A: In the Morosco Theatre and runs for 742 performances.

 

Who is re-elected president of Portugal for lack of an opposing candidate?
A: António Óscar Carmona.

Chaim Weizmann began his term as what?
A: The first President of Israel.

Margaret Roberts, the future Margaret Thatcher, is adopted as what?
A: The Conservative candidate for Dartford.

What World heavyweight boxing champion retires?
A: Joe Louis.

What United States Secretary of Defense resigns suddenly?
A: James Forrestal.

English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins what term?
A: Big Bang during a BBC radio broadcast.

At the 21st Academy Awards ceremony what movie wins the Academy Award for Best Picture?
A: Hamlet.

 

The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., creating what?
A: The NATO defense alliance.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, opens on Broadway and goes on to become what?
A:  R&H's second longest-running musical.

Ireland leaves the British Commonwealth and becomes what?
A: The Republic of Ireland.

Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is what?
A: Assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband.

Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco, upon what?
A: The death of his maternal grandfather Louis II.

What country is admitted to the United Nations as its 59th member?
A: Israel.

The Soviet Union lifts what blockade
A: The Berlin blockade.

 

Transjordan becomes what?
A: The Kingdom of Jordan.

Thailand elects who the first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament?
A: Orapin Chaiyakan.

What George Orwell  dystopian novel is published in London?
A: Nineteen Eighty-Four.

What is the first television western to air on NBC?
A: Hopalong Cassidy.

Israel and what country sign a truce to end their 19-month war?
A: Syria.

The de Havilland Comet, world's first jet-powered airliner does what?
A: Makes its first flight.

Soviets detonate their first what?
A: Nuclear weapon.

 

The Federal Republic of Germany is officially what?
A: Founded. Konrad Adenauer is the first federal chancellor.

The Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership for what countries?
A: Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal.

In October, the People's Republic of China is what?
A: Founded.

Severe flooding hits what country?
A: Guatemala.

Who is executed for assassinating Mohandas Gandhi?
A: Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte.

Second trial of Alger Hiss begins in New York, again with who  as principal witness?
A: Whittaker Chambers.

The government of the Republic of China finishes its evacuation to where, and declares Taipei its temporary capital city?
A: Taiwan.

 

Who is elected prime minister of Australia?
A: Robert Menzies.

Traicho Kostov, ex-vice prime minister of Bulgaria, is sentenced to what?
A: Death.

Who  is elected president of the Republic of Indonesia?
A: Sukarno.

Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants Indonesia what?
A: Sovereignty.

1949 was the first year in which no African-American was reported what?
A: Lynched in the USA.

 
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