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What was Lucy's husband's name on I Love Lucy?

Lucille Ball And Desi Arnaz In 'I Love Lucy'

Archie Bunker
Ricky Ricardo
Jim Anderson
Ralph Kramden

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Who did Marilyn Monroe marry on January 14th, 1954?

Arthur Miller
Joe DiMaggio
John F. Kennedy
James Dougherty

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What famous author pictured below won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954?

J. D. Salinger
Ray Bradbury
Ernest Hemingway
Allen Ginsberg

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When was the Korean Armistice Agreement signed bringing an end to the Korean War?

1953
1957
1955
1951

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Where did the United States test the first hydrogen bomb in 1954?

Amchitka Island
Nevada Test Site
3-Mile Island
The Marshall Islands

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In 1954, UK Health Minister Iain Macleod announced in a press conference that a government study showed what important medical discovery?

A link between smoking and cancer
A vaccine for polio
A vaccine for yellow fever
A link between alcohol and liver damage

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What U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1954 ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional?

Gideon v. Wainwright
Brown v. Board of Education
Schenck v. United States
Miranda v. Arizona

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What is the current name of the former British colony known as the British Gold Coast that gained its independence from Britain on March 6, 1957?

Nigeria
Ghana
Uganda
Haiti

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Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister in 1955 due to declining health. Who replaced him?

Edward Heath
Harold Macmillian
Neville Chamberlain
Anthony Eden

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After Joseph Stalin died in 1953, Georgy Malenkov spent about a month as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Who replaced him in the role beginning on September 14th, 1953?

Leonid Brezhnev
Konstantin Chernenko
Nikita Khrushchev
Yuri Andropov

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What was the name of the first Earth-orbiting satellite that was launched, in the year 1957?

Spektr-R
Sputnik I
Mir
Koronas-Foton

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The Diner's Club began issuing what important new items in 1950?

Takeout menus
Cheques
ID Cards
Credit cards

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Who is widely credited with having invented the term "Rock N Roll" during the 1950s?

Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley
Alan Freed
Time-travelling Marty McFly

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What author wrote the first James Bond novel "Casino Royale" in 1953?

Kingsley Amis
Charlie Higson
John Gardner
Ian Fleming

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What was the name of Elvis Presley's first studio album released on March 23rd, 1956?

Elvis
Something for Everybody
Elvis Country
Elvis Presley

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