[net.games.trivia] Some answers to "100 50s Trivia Questions"

grm@link.UUCP (G.R. MAHLER) (05/24/84)

Here are answers to some of the questions. Ones that I'm not completely
sure of are marked (?).
  

3.	Who were the four Hit Parade singers?
   A: Dorothy Collins, Snooky Lansen, Giselle McKenzie, Russell Arms
7.	Who was SId Stone?
   A: the obnoxious pitchman on the Milton Berle Show
9.	Who sponsered John Cameron Swayze and the News?
   A: Camel Cigarettes
10.	Who played Officer Frank Smith?
   A: Ben Alexander (on Dragnet)
15.	What is a winky dink?
   A: Winky Dink was a cartoon character - when watching the show you taped
            a plastic overlay on the screen and traced with a crayon to
            figure out a secret picture (or something like that)
16.	Who sponsored "I Love Lucy", "The Lone Ranger", and "Andy's Gang""?
   A: "I Love Lucy" - Phillip Morris
      "The Lone Ranger" - Cheerios 
      "Andy's Gang" - Buster Brown Shoes (?)
19.	Who was Shultzie?
   A: Anne B. Davis played Bob Cummings assistant on "The Bob Cummings Show"
20.	Who were the Haircuts?
   A: Sid Ceasar, Carl Reiner and Howie Morris on "Your Show of Shows" - They
           did a spoof of the rock-n-roll groups.
21.	How many men of Texaco were there?
   A:(?) 4
22.	Who were the three Mavericks?
   A: Bret (James Garner), Bart (???) and ???
23.	Who played: "The Lawman", "Cheyenne", "Sugarfoot", "Richard
	Diamond", "The Rebel", "The Rifleman", and "The Lone Ranger"?
   A: "The Rebel" - Nick Adams
      "The Rifleman" - Chuck Connors
26.	What was Clorets magic ingredient?
   A: retsyn
27.	Who was the "Cisco Kid"?
   A: Duncan Renaldo 
30.	Who were the ghosts in "Topper"?
   A: Robert Serling and Ann Jeffries
34.	What was the first "Cinemascope" movie?
   A:(?) "The 10 Commandments"
35.	Who was the villain in "Blackboard Jungle"?
   A: Sidney Portier  (Jamie Farr (Klinger) was also in this movie using
              the name Jameel Farrar)
36.	Who went around the world with David Niven?
   A: Cantinflas played the part of Pasapoutart(sp?)
38	What do the following movies have in common?  "The Men", "Viva
	Zapata", "Julius Ceaser".
   A:(?) all starred Anthony Quinn
52.	What was Chico Carrassquel to Bobby Avila to Luke Easter?
   A: Double play combo for the Chicago White Sox
55.	Who was Tuffy Bressune?
   A: Roler Derby skater for the Jersey Jolters
57.	Who won the 1956 Gold Medal in the pole vault?
   A: Rev. Bob Richards
61.	What happened on October 4th, 1957?
   A: Sputnik I was launched
63.	Who sang "Sh-Boom"?
   A: The Crew Cuts
65.	Who sang "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania"?
   A: Theresa Brewer
70.	Who sang "Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer"?
   A: Gene Autry
71.	What was Elvis' first hit?
   A: "Blue Suede Shoes" (I'm pretty sure of this one, but it might have been 
          "Hound Dog")
73.	Who sang "Wheel of Fortune"?
   A: Frankie Laine
74.	Who were Adali Stevenson's running mates in 1952 and 1956?
   A:(?) 1952-???   1956-Estes Kefauver
75.	Who were the opposing chief consels in the Army-McCarthy hearings?
   A:  Estes Kefauver & ???
79.	Who headed the Mau-Maus?
   A:(?) Jomo Kenyata
83.	On what radio station was Alan Freed?
   A:(?) WPIX,NY
84.	What show did Bud Collier Host?
   A: "To Tell the Truth"
90.	Who was "Shane"?
   A: Alan Ladd
93.	What was the name of Ed Sullivan's show?
   A: "The Toast of the Town"
97.	Who hosted "See it Now"?
   A: Edward R. Murrow
 


                                    Glenn Mahler
                                    AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany, N.J.
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maggie2@iwpba.UUCP (maggie2) (05/24/84)

Isn't it Certs with the 'drop of retsin (sp?)'??  I thought
Clorets had Chlorophyll in it.

marc@bmcg.UUCP (05/25/84)

Yes, it was Certs that had Retsyn; Clorets had chlorophyll.
Also, Elvis' first hit was Hound Dog.  Carl Perkins came out with "Blue
Suede Shoes" about the same time -- I believe Elvis later did a version
of this, which may have caused the confusion.

jpg@sdchema.UUCP (Jerry Greenberg) (05/27/84)

>   34.	What was the first "Cinemascope" movie?
>      A:(?) "The 10 Commandments"

    
    "The Ten Commandments" was made in 1956 and was in Vistavision (Paramounts
answer to Twentieth Century Fox's Cinemascope). I think that the first
Cinemascope movie was "The Robe" (1953).