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Trivia for Seniors
Take a joyful trip down memory lane with 150 trivia questions written for seniors! From radio serials and soda fountains to Ed Sullivan, Bing Crosby, the first TV dinners, and the day the Berlin Wall fell - these questions celebrate the decades you lived through.
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What was the first multipurpose charge card, introduced in 1950 after its founder forgot his wallet at a restaurant?
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What year did the Berlin Wall come down?
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Who was Nelson Eddy's singing partner in 1930s operetta films like 'Naughty Marietta'?
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What game show has asked contestants to 'Come on down!' since 1972?
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What is the name of the old-fashioned soda shop drink that mixes ice cream and soda water?
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What was the title of the 1952 film that introduced the three-projector widescreen Cinerama format?
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Which redheaded comedienne starred alongside Desi Arnaz in 'I Love Lucy'?
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What was the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
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Which country singer sang 'Stand by Your Man' in 1968?
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Which drive-in chain's carhops served root beer in frosty glass mugs starting in the 1920s?
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Which 'First Lady of Song' recorded the Cole Porter Songbook in 1956?
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What was the name of the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, launched in 1954?
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Which bandleader known as the 'King of Swing' brought jazz to Carnegie Hall in 1938?
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What format did Columbia Records introduce in 1948 that played at 33 1/3 rpm?
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Which actress played Laura Petrie on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'?
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Which brand introduced the first instant camera, the Model 95, in 1948?
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Which singer's hips were so controversial that Ed Sullivan filmed him from the waist up in 1957?
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Which candy company introduced M&M's in 1941, initially selling them to the U.S. military?
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Which car company introduced the Mustang at the 1964 World's Fair?
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What was the price of a Cape Cod house in Levittown, New York when sales began in 1949?
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Which Western series about the Cartwright family ran on NBC from 1959 to 1973?
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Which candy bar, introduced in 1930, was named after the Mars family's favorite horse?
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At which Las Vegas hotel did the Rat Pack famously perform together in 1960 while filming 'Ocean's 11'?
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Who became president upon Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in April 1945?
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What was the name of Johnny Carson's longtime 'Tonight Show' sidekick?
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In what year did Hawaii become the 50th state?
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What kind of telephone required you to spin a dial for each digit?
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Sears sold radios, televisions, and guitars under which house brand name?
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What was the name of the Lone Ranger's white horse?
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Which of Lawrence Welk's 'Champagne Ladies' was famously fired in 1959 for showing too much knee on camera?
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Who sang 'Que Sera, Sera' in the 1956 Hitchcock film 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'?
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Which singer's 1950 recording of 'Tennessee Waltz' sold more than 10 million copies?
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What board game, introduced in 1935, lets you buy Boardwalk and Park Place?
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Which Soviet satellite, launched October 4, 1957, kicked off the Space Race?
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Which president famously said, 'Ask not what your country can do for you'?
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At which Las Vegas hotel did Elvis Presley launch his 1969 comeback residency?
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Which dance craze did Chubby Checker popularize in 1960?
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In what year did 'Amos 'n' Andy' become the first radio serial broadcast nationally on NBC?
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Which 1939 Best Picture winner starred Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara?
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What product's catchy 1970s jingle went 'Plop, plop, fizz, fizz'?
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Which sitcom family lived at 565 North Clinton Drive in Milwaukee on 'Happy Days'?
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Which 1963 book by Betty Friedan is credited with sparking second-wave feminism?
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What popular 1950s hairstyle for men was named after a duck's tail feathers?
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Who hosted the tearjerker game show 'Queen for a Day' on radio and television from 1945 to 1964?
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What was the name of Dorothy's little dog in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
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Which Brooklyn ballpark did the Dodgers abandon after the 1957 season?
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Which crooner made 'White Christmas' the best-selling single of all time?
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Which 1957 car, named after Henry Ford's son, became one of the most famous flops in auto history?
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In what year did the last Packard-badged automobile roll off the assembly line?
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How many episodes of 'Gunsmoke' aired on television between 1955 and 1975?
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Which Soviet leader toured Roswell Garst's Iowa corn farm during his 1959 U.S. visit?
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Which company manufactured the first commercial push-button telephone, introduced in 1963?
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In what year did Mr. Potato Head become the first toy advertised on television?
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Who wrote the scandalous 1956 bestseller 'Peyton Place'?
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What collie starred with Timmy on a farm in a TV series that ran from 1954 to 1973?
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Glenn Miller's 1940 hit 'Pennsylvania 6-5000' was the telephone number of which New York hotel?
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What tobacco-company cowboy became one of the most famous ad characters of the 1950s and 60s?
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What children's host asked viewers to be his neighbor for 33 years on PBS?
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What was inside the first commercial aerosol 'bug bomb' cans used by U.S. troops in World War II?
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Which British prime minister led the country through most of World War II?
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Who voiced Lamont Cranston on radio's 'The Shadow' from 1937 to 1938?
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Which Wham-O toy sold 25 million units in just four months after its 1958 launch?
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Which scientist's polio vaccine was declared 'safe, effective, and potent' on April 12, 1955?
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In what year did Ray Kroc open his first McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois?
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What was the original and only flavor of Life Savers when they debuted in 1912?
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Which soft drink was marketed as 'The Uncola' starting in 1967?
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Which comedian closed his radio and TV shows by telling his wife, 'Say goodnight, Gracie'?
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Which Hollywood couple starred together in 'Adam's Rib' (1949) and 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' (1967)?
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Who hosted 'American Bandstand' for more than 30 years?
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What was the name of the Alka-Seltzer mascot, a boy with a tablet for a hat, introduced in 1951?
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Which 1957 Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein reimagined Romeo and Juliet among New York street gangs?
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What was the full name of the one-toothed dragon puppet on 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie'?
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Which 'Queen of Soul' spelled out R-E-S-P-E-C-T in 1967?
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Which department store's Thanksgiving parade has featured giant balloons since 1927?
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Which movie character said 'Here's looking at you, kid' in 1942?
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Which coffee brand's commercials featured 'Mrs. Olson' recommending its 'mountain grown' beans?
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Which toy company released the talking Chatty Cathy doll in 1960?
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Which singer topped the charts with 'That'll Be the Day' in 1957 before dying in a 1959 plane crash?
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Who was the 'Chairman of the Board' who recorded 'My Way' in 1969?
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Which CBS anchorman ended his newscasts with 'And that's the way it is'?
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Which 1954 Supreme Court decision declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional?
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What Sunday-night variety host introduced The Beatles to America in February 1964?
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What was the name of the Lone Ranger's nephew, who often rode alongside him?
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Who appeared on the cover of the first national issue of TV Guide on April 3, 1953?
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Which actor won an Oscar for playing Atticus Finch in the 1962 film 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
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Which frozen concentrated orange juice brand launched in 1946 and was later pitched by Bing Crosby?
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What was the first name of the Beaver's older brother on 'Leave It to Beaver'?
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Who wrote 'Sing, Sing, Sing,' the drum-driven anthem Benny Goodman recorded in 1937?
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What 1965 musical starring Julie Andrews is set in Austria and features 'Do-Re-Mi'?
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In which 1953 film did Marilyn Monroe sing 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend'?
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Which 1969 music festival in Bethel, New York drew roughly 400,000 people?
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Who was the cowboy-costumed host of 'Howdy Doody' from 1947 to 1960?
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Which Bill Haley & His Comets song became the first rock and roll record to top the Billboard chart in 1955?
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How many consecutive Sunday appearances did The Beatles make on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' in February 1964?
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What was the name of the Italian mouse puppet who regularly appeared on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'?
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What did Swanson call its 1953 frozen meal of turkey, peas, and sweet potatoes served in an aluminum tray?
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Which 'man of steel' first flew onto TV screens in 1952 played by George Reeves?
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What were the S&H trading stamps called that shoppers pasted into books to redeem for merchandise?
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What singing cowboy rode a horse named Trigger?
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Which 'Golden Girls' actress played the sweet, naive Rose Nylund?
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What was Elvis Presley's first movie, released in November 1956?
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Which quiz show's 1958 scandal revealed that contestant Charles Van Doren had been fed the answers?
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Which fruit-flavored gelatin dessert was famously molded into salads at 1950s potlucks?
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Which 1938 radio drama, narrated by Orson Welles, caused panic with its realistic 'Martian invasion' news bulletins?
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Which Western starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon ran for 20 seasons on CBS?
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Which comic-strip heroine, created by Chic Young in 1930, married Dagwood Bumstead in 1933?
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Which general was relieved of command by President Truman in April 1951 during the Korean War?
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In which city did Studebaker close its main automobile plant in December 1963?
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Which General Motors designer introduced tailfins on the 1948 Cadillac?
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Who was the original host of 'The Tonight Show' when it premiered in 1954?
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In what year did President Lyndon Johnson sign Medicare into law?
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Which singer nicknamed 'The Velvet Fog' co-wrote 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)'?
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In what year did the first episode of 'I Love Lucy' air on CBS?
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How many 'Road' pictures did Bob Hope and Bing Crosby make together between 1940 and 1962?
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Which composer wrote 'Moon River' with lyricist Johnny Mercer for 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'?
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Which newspaper columnist narrated 'The Untouchables' TV series from 1959 to 1963?
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Which soup brand's jingle promised 'Mmm Mmm Good' for decades?
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Which Chevrolet compact did Ralph Nader attack in his 1965 book 'Unsafe at Any Speed'?
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Which comedy duo performed the famous 'Who's on First?' routine?
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Which toy, first sold in 1959, was named after the inventor's daughter Barbara?
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What was the name of Jackie Gleason's bus-driver character on 'The Honeymooners'?
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In what year did the first rhyming Burma-Shave roadside signs appear in Minnesota?
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What did a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost after the 1958 rate increase?
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What breakfast cereal's mascot is a rooster named Cornelius?
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Who was the first athlete pictured on the front of a Wheaties box in 1934?
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Which gasoline brand introduced the 'Put a Tiger in Your Tank' slogan in 1964?
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Which 1946 Frank Capra film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, rescued by an angel named Clarence?
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Which U.S. Surgeon General issued the landmark 1964 report linking smoking to lung cancer?
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Which comedian built his act on being a stingy violin player who claimed to be perpetually 39 years old?
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What was the name of General Motors' 1939 World's Fair exhibit that showed the highways of 1960?
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What was the first name of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson's younger son, who became a teen idol?
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Who wrote the 1946 bestseller 'The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care'?
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Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
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Which cartoon rabbit first asked 'What's up, Doc?' in 1940?
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Who co-hosted 'The Arthur Murray Party' dance show alongside her husband from 1950 to 1960?
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Who played the Caped Crusader in the campy 1966 'Batman' TV series?
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What kitchen container line did Earl Tupper sell through home parties starting in 1948?
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Which soap opera began on radio in 1937 and ran until 2009, making it the longest-running drama in broadcast history?
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Who played Dorothy in the 1939 film 'The Wizard of Oz'?
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Which singer had a 1949 number-one hit with 'Mule Train,' complete with whip cracks?
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Which fast-food chain began as a Kentucky gas station cafe run by Harland Sanders?
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Which ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912?
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On what date did Japan formally sign its surrender aboard the USS Missouri?
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Which federal agency issued the ration books with stamps for sugar, coffee, and meat during World War II?
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What was the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States in 1960?
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What was the name of Walt Disney's first theme park, opened in 1955?
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What did the 'ZIP' in ZIP code stand for when the system launched in 1963?
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Which baby food company has featured the same sketch of a baby's face on its jars since 1928?
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What was the first name of the Beatles drummer famous for his big rings?
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What TV detective wore a rumpled raincoat and always had 'just one more thing'?
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