Q 01/05

Which cold curried dish did flower arranger Constance Spry and chef Rosemary Hume create for a royal banquet in 1953?

A) Jubilee chicken

B) Coronation chicken

C) Chicken tikka masala

D) Country captain

Answer · why

B) Coronation chicken

Coronation chicken was Hume's recipe: cold chicken in a curry cream sauce. She and Spry ran the Cordon Bleu Cookery School in London, and the dish is ...

Q 02/05

Which men's magazine launched in Chicago in December 1953 with an undated first issue, in case no second one followed?

A) Playboy

B) Esquire

C) Penthouse

D) Hustler

Answer · why

A) Playboy

Playboy was put together by Hugh Hefner in the kitchen of his Hyde Park apartment. Its centerfold photograph had been taken for a calendar, not for th...

Q 03/05

Which American sports car debuted in 1953 with all 300 hand-built examples painted Polo White with red interiors?

A) Ford Thunderbird

B) Plymouth Barracuda

C) Chevrolet Corvette

D) Ford Mustang

Answer · why

C) Chevrolet Corvette

The Chevrolet Corvette was first assembled on a makeshift line in an old truck plant in Flint, Michigan. The prototype had been unveiled that January ...

Q 04/05

Which sitcom's January 1953 birth episode drew more viewers than President Eisenhower's inauguration the next day?

A) Our Miss Brooks

B) The Honeymooners

C) I Married Joan

D) I Love Lucy

Answer · why

D) I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy drew about 44 million viewers for the episode, against 29 million for the swearing-in. Lucille Ball had given birth to her real son, Desi ...

Q 05/05

Which peak did New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first to summit on 29 May 1953?

A) Mount Everest

B) Nanga Parbat

C) Kangchenjunga

D) Annapurna

Answer · why

A) Mount Everest

Mount Everest's first ascent was announced in London on the morning Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, four days after the climb. A Times reporter had se...