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Trivia Questions on Pre-Rock Music of the 1950s
Calling all pop culture mavens! You good at pre rock era trivia? You a child of the fifties? Think you know 1950s music before rock and roll? If you're a student of popular musical tastes and Americana, you'll enjoy testing your knowledge with this short pop culture trivia quiz on the popular tunes of that decade just before rock 'n' roll took hold. If you came along later...in the sixties, seventies, eighties, or nineties...check out what your parents and grandparents were tapping their toes to way back when! Find the fun quiz and answers below. Three or fewer correct; you must be in your twenties. Four to six correct; you must've been dusting off your folks' record collection. Seven to nine correct, you must be a student of cultural trends of the 1950s! All ten correct, enjoy your retirement, oldtimer! And to enhance your listening pleasure be sure to check out the Bose QuietComfort 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphone, the very best way to enjoy any and all recorded music, below; a must for all amateur musicologists! Hope you enjoy my 1950s music trivia questions and answers! If you do, challenge other music buffs (and "oldtimers?") by clicking on the Facebook, Google+, Twitter or other buttons, or mail the URL to your friends. Thank you you for stopping by!
Did You Do Well On This 1950s Music Quiz? - Did You Get More Than Half Correct?
Congratulations on your outstanding achievement, you Musical Einstein, you!
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Eddie Fisher - Princess Leah's Dad
Eddie Fisher was a teen idol in the years before rock and rock and had 17 songs on the Top Ten pop music charts between 1950 and 1956. He married America's movie sweetheart Debbie Reynolds in 1955. Two years before he became Carrie Fisher's real-life papa, the popular crooner and ladies man had a major hit with the song, "Oh, My Papa," which even after all these years still has the power to choke one up. Listen to it on Father's Day to understand what I mean.
Fisher also had a son, Todd, with Reynolds whom he left in 1959 to marry Elizabeth Taylor following the death of Taylor's husband, movie producer Mike Todd. His marriage to Taylor lasted from '59 to '64.
Fisher fathered two more children, Joely Fisher andTricia Leigh Fisher with his third wife, actress Connie ("77 Sunset Strip") Stevens . He later married and divorced 5th wife, Terry Richard. His fifth marriage, to Betty Lin lasted until her death in 2001. Fisher died in 2010 due to complications from hip surgery.
Could a sentimental song like, "Oh, My Papa," ever make it into the Top Ten today? Eddie Fisher took it to Number 1 on Billboard's chart in December, 1953, where it remained for 19 weeks! The original song in German, written by Swiss composer Paul Burkhard in 1939, was entitled, "O Mein Papa." Speaking from personal experience, I was a little kid when this song was popular...and it used to bring me to the verge of tears. If you love your dad, it may have the same effect on you!
Two Songs From "Blackboard Jungle" Reached Number One on the Charts
Look for Bill Haley & the Comets' breakout hit, :"Rock Around The Clock" in the classic 1955 movie Blackboard Jungle, starring Glenn Ford, a young Sidney Poitier and Anne Francis. Another song featured in this movie which reached Number One on the charts was, "Let Me Go, Lover," sung by Joan Weber. This is a GREAT movie!
Did you take the 1950s Music Quiz? How did you do? Did you learn something fun about 1950s music? Would you like to see additional quizzes on the music of that decade?
Hope You Enjoyed That Trip Down 1950s Melody Lane! - How'd You Do?
9 out of 10...but my husband helped!
That was fun! I only got 60% but then I was born in '57 so you'll have to make a quiz on the music of the sixties for me!
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@groovyfind: Hi Sam! Thank you for being the first to take this quiz! Excellent score!
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@BitsOfWhimsy: Thanks for taking it, Meledie! Now that you've told me the year of your birth, I will be able to figure out how old you are. I will pick up a new battery for my calculator tomorrow...and the rest should be easy. :) Not a bad score.
I had fun taking the quiz and got 80%, which is not that bad. I must admit, I did ask my mom's help:D
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@maplesyrup59: Hi Maplesyrup! May have to make you an honorary senior citizen with a great score like that! :) Thanks for taking the test. I just went over to join your fan club and spotted a number of delicious lenses over there. Will be returning momentarily to look at them more closely.
Fun quiz. I got 70%. I probably should have done better since I was around back then, but I guess I was a little too young to remember.
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@PNWtravels: Hi, Vicky! I never would've guessed that you went back to the '50's, judging from your pic. You must've been a babe-in-arms. Good score! Thanks for taking the quiz! I'm off to take a look at your lenses.
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@Megal LM: Thanks for taking the test.
Enjoyed the quiz!! Thank you!
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@kateloving: You're welcome, Kate! And thanks for taking the quiz. Stop back anytime. There's a cupful of nickels for the virtual jukebox behind the bar. Help yourself. Did you take a listen to any of the numbers contained in the questions?
Hi,
9 out of 10 not bad for me. Who would of guess the the song wasn't in the movie of the same name. Sure make more quizzes they help expand your mind. :)
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@Sami4u LM: Thanks for taking the 1950s Music Quiz! No, I'd say 9 out of t0 is a great score...especially for a gal who is obviously in her early twenties! I'm always a bit concerned about expanding my mind...at least, until I can afford a new skull. A few more PayPal deposits from Squidoo...and maybe I will finally have socked away enough. :)
60%...but I had at least heard of them all! We love the 1950s Music! Fun - thanks!
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@JJNW: I've just returned from viewin your very informative lens on Good Bugs for Your Garden. I remember seeing ads in the back of Rodale Press' magazine "Organic Gardening" for these very beneficial insects. ONe thing in particular that I remember ladybugs being useful for is mosquitio control. The dine on the larvae as I recall. I appreciate lady bugs. In fact, I make it a point to hold the door open for them. Thanks for taking my 1950 Music Quiz!
This was fun. I did better than I expected: 9 out of 10.
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@resabi: Thanks for taking my 1950s Music Quiz! Excellent score! I've just returned from your outstanding lens entitled, "Is Talking to Yourself a Bad Thing?" Did you learn something? Yes, I think I did. Did you leave a comment? Yes...yes, I did. What did you say? Why don't you go there and see for yourself? Alright...be that way! Geez...bite my head off!
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@Swisstoons: Seriously, check out "Is Talking to Yourself a Bad Thing?" You'll be happy to learn that you aren't the only one!
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@ohcaroline: Thank you for taking my 1950s Music Quiz, Caroline. 70% is a respectable score! On this quiz, though, the older the timer, the better the score, generally. :) So, I'm guessing you must've been into an older sister's record collection. I enjoyed taking your super crunchy Aplle Quiz and would recommend it to all apple lovers.
Great quiz, I learned a lot about 50's music. Thanks!
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@Kiwisoutback: Thank you, Kiwi! The longer I live, the more I think the '50's might've been my favorite decade.
Just returned form your very timely Funny Halloween Cards lens. Good ones are hard to find and this one's got a bunch.
I did much better on 50's music, thanks for being here to let me redeem myself with and 80%. Just as I entered Al Pachino, I remembered it was George Clooney on # 10, so can I like get 50% on that one. Great fun, well done~
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@anonymous: 80% is a very good score! Did you get a chance to listen to the artists performing the numbers discussed? I wonder what the cave dwellers whose work is on display at your excellent "Neanderthal Art" lens (which I recommend) were listening to. Probably Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Hahaha.
thanks for the fun, a quiz I couldn't resist
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@John Dyhouse: Thanks for taking my 1950 Music Quiz! I just returned from perusing your color wheel lenses. Interesting and very informative. I'd recommend them to anyone interested in doing art.
Well, this was fun. I got 50% but thought I would do better.
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@kimmanleyort: Thanks for taking my quiz, Kim! 50% is a very respectable score for someone who could only have learned about the subject from history books. I'm guessing you would get 100% if this quiz was about music of the 1990s; the late late 1990s. I enjoyed your quiz on the Canadian language! :)
Was fun, but only got 50%. And I thought I knew more.
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@poutine: Thanks for taking my quiz, Poutine! I think that by the time you came along, the 1950s were ancient history. So, I think you did pretty well, considering! I just came from reading your lens on the Zenn Electric Car. Wow...I'd never even heard of it before reading your lens!
Fun quiz! Is 6/10 okay?
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@Joyfulmusic90: Thanks for taking it, Joyful! Yes, for a youngstress such as yourself, 60% is very respectable.
:) Enjoyed your Santana lens!
I only got 6 right, but it was a fun quiz!
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@KimGiancaterino: Thanks for taking it, Kim! And speaking of the 1950s, I enjoyed perusing your lens on one of that decade's top sitcoms, "Topper."
I only got 5 right. Not so good, but fun! I need to watch more old movies in my spare time.
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@dustytoes: Only 50%? Uh oh. I am afraid you have going to have to go back and relive the 1950s. Actually, I don't think that would be so bad! Hey, I've just come from your starfish lens. That is a very cool video you've posted of a starfish righting itself. I bet most people think that starfish are as stiff as the ones which beachcombers retrieve from beaches. The one in the vid seems pretty limber!
I did ok 4/10 Good fun!
Dang, my kids are right, I AM getting OLD!!!
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@maxnic11: Thanks for plunging into the 1950s Music Quiz, Max! Hey, I almost busted a lobe on your Car Quiz! Managed to get 50%...but have no idea how. It's tough! I challenge anyone who thinks he (or she) knows card to take your quiz!
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@Cheryl57 LM: Hi, Cheryl! Older...but wiser! Thanks for taking my quiz. I just paid a visit to your Military Action Figures lens. While they are substantially different (more realistic) than the toy soldiers I played with as a kid, your lens did trigger happy memories of my own childhood. Thanks!
very fun! I'm partial to Louis Prima's version of That's Amore :)
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@verymary: Thank for taking my 50's Music Quiz, Kat! I have a vague memory of watching the "Louis Prima and Keely Smith Show." I'm pretty sure that Dean Martin sang it first, but I can see (in my mind's eye) Prima singing it to Keely Smith, as well. I'm headed into the kitchen to make one of those quick and easy brownies I read about on your "5-Minute Brownie in a Mug" lens! I can almost taste it now! :P~~~
I'm not sure 4 is a phenomenal performance (especially when 2 of those were lucky guesses), but it was fun!
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@KDimmick: Thank you, KD! I enjoyed the heck out of your very-well-put-together Beatles' Lyrics Quiz lens. And I'd urge any music lover to head over and try his or her hand...or should I say, "ear"...?
Just got half of them right, but I always enjoy a stoll down memory lane. How times have changed!
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@jolou: Thanks for taking my 1950s Music Quiz, Joanne. For another enjoyable "trip back in time," I'd suggest a visit to your fine lens on beautiful historic Mackinaw Island!
I was 7 of 10 and should have answered another correctly. The quiz was fun. Thanks
Fared poorly. Need to study. :) Thanks for the fun. Good day!
Boy i didn't do very well the first time around. But like the one question i knew it had to be Doris Day but didn't go with it because of the t at the end of her last name thinking it could be someone else. Is that a typo or just to mess with your mind?
Second time around i only missed one and i knew better but oh well it was fun.
I did do one of the others on your list about Hompothic meds. and did't even score.... so sad, but fun.
I like your lens and will be back to check out more and do the quizzes i really do like stuff like this.
Great job.
Wow! I did pretty well, I have to admit, I'm surprised! :)
i scored 70% which normally I wouldn't be happy with but some of the movie questions got me. I'm not up with the movies that much. Fun though!
I have to get a quiz like this on my Squidoo! :-)
Thanks for this! Fun!
Great fun
Fun quiz, enjoyed it because I've learned a lot from it! :)
Thanks for the trip
That was fun - thank you
Christine
Perfect score! Fun lens, too!
Fun lens, I got 90%.
I would've done better if I hadn't second guessed myself. Drat.
That was fun, but I only got 6 right. Thank you.
Nice quiz, hard foe me I was born in the 1980s.
fun quiz!
Great lens! One big squid thumbs up vote left!
Enjoyed your lens and the quiz. Good work!
Enjoyed the quiz. Good lense
Enjoyable quiz from good old days!
Fun quiz, terrific lens.
great lens!
Surprised by how muh I remembered and it was a trip down melody lane. Thanks for the memories. Hugs
Ha ... que sera sera ... what ever will be will be ... the future's not ours to see ... que sera .... sera.
Great Quiz, a lot of fun... Does aceing it give away your age? I guess I won't say how I did.
good lens
not bad thanks! lets have more.
Surprised myself with a 70%, I had a few lucky guesses!
I still wasn't really listening to music like this in the 50s. I need a 60s quiz.
Wow, wasn't around in the 50s but with a little reasoned guessing I was able to score 70%. That was a tough quiz.
I messed up on one question.
6/10 ... but it was before "my time" ;)
7 out of 10 - not bad for someone born in 1961! Fun lens, more quizzes would be great.
This was a lot of fun - not my era, but a classic era nevertheless.
Didn't do so very well as I should have done seeing how I love 50's stuff.
Before my time, but happy with 7
Nice lens!
Thanks for sharing with the quiz and info! :)P
Thanks for providing such useful information. I really appreciate your professional approach.
Very nicely done, sorry I bombed the quiz though, old age I guess!
More, more!
Good history lesson..
I didn't do too well but it's OK I would love to do more such quizzes
gimmie some 70's please
I guessed half of the right :)
It gets a tad scary when you know most of the answers because you heard them first hand....Blessed.
I was born in the late 1960s, but I'm a music buff. Got 9/10 on the quiz, Daddy-O! :)
Fabulous lens. Love the questions. Thanks
Fun! Thanks. I needed a break and this was great. Blessed.
Fun! Got all of them right except for "Love Is Many Splendored Thing." Missed the name of the group, but their voices are singing loud and clear in full harmony - in my head. Thanks for the fun quiz!
I flunked badly
Didn't do to well, but it was fun taking it. Hope you have a wonderful Holiday and a Happy New Year!
I did okay but I guess I'm not a Rock and Roll Diva. Good quiz. I enjoyed it.
nice quiz
I just forgot 2... Oh well.. :) Great fun quiz. :)
8/10, very pleased with that! love 50's music
Fun quiz, thanks for the trip down memory lane. I'm now humming some of the tunes
Like the music
Great quiz!
thanks for the trip down memory lane
One of the best decades for music for sure!
nice quiz something went wrong and could not fill in all the answers, thanks for sharing
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@marktplaatsshop: Thanks for taking my quiz. Not sure what could've gone wrong. I just took the quiz and was able to answer all questions with no problem. If you're still up for it, try clearing your cache and taking it again.
Pat Boone is related to Daniel Boone? That I did not know!
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@amosvee: At least that's what he claimed when he appeared on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour and Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.
Great memories!
Very fun! I did pretty well, considering I didn't come around until 1961. Such great music in the 50's.
I got 3 out of 10... How embarrassing.
I did fine. Those songs always remind me of my youth -- when i was a little, little girl. My dad used to sing along.
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@Lynn Klobuchar: Most were featured at one time or another on Your Hit Parade with Giselle McKenzie, Snooky Lanson, Russell Arms (?) and Dorothy Collins.
I enjoyed it even though i haven't got a lot correct. it was an opportunity for me to learn.
Good quiz.
Interesting Quiz, only got 50% even though I'm a 1940s child.
Late 1950s was busy years for me, teens and married in 1959, so music wasn't high on my list as the guy I married was a farmer and we spent more time out shooting rabbits and fishing. In the evenings playing cards, never went to the movies. Thanks for waking up my memories, Eddie Fisher was my favorite in 1950s
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Sounds like you got a bit of a headstart on me, Elsie! :) There were some great mellow tunes in the fifties, for sure! Thanks for stopping by!
I loved it Thomas since I was born at the end of the 50's but listened to the music all of the time. I thought that I would do well but I did poorly on the quiz. I voted this up, shared and pinned it.
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