ok, going to try it again, what year was it?

Question

General Foods Corp. introduces TANG breakfast beverage crystals

Greyhound inaugurates the "It's such a comfort to take the bus & leave the driving to us" ad campaign

Velcro is patented

Eveready produces "AA" size alkaline batteries for use in "personal transistor radios

Jackie Robinson announced his retirement from baseball

Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas

The Frisbee is renamed and nationally marketed

One thousand computers are sold. And not one of them had a Windows operating system

Wagon Train debuts on TV

American Bandstand goes national with Dick Clark as host

At a Miami radio station, new employee Lawrence Harvey Zeiger abruptly adopts a stage name - Larry King - and begins broadcasting

Cat in The Hat makes his debut

Better Homes & Gardens prints its first microwave-cooking article

Jim Brown is NFL outstanding rookie

Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field

Elizabeth Taylor gets her 2nd & 3rd divorce

Velco was invented and patented this year.

Call it seniors Trivia I guess, I thought it would be a fun thing to see how sharp your memories were and one thing would leap out at someone to trip your memory. :-)

At the Oscars this year"
Best Picture BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI

Best Actor Alec Guinness

Best Actress Joanne Woodward for THE THREE FACES OF EVE

Best Song "ALL THE WAY" from The Joker Is Wild

ooops sorry it was late when I did this, Elizabeth Taylors second divorce and third marriage :-(

Answer 1

Three Faces of Eve was 1957
Wagon Train was 1957-1962

Answer 2

'What year was it' implies all these events occured the same year which is incorrect. The patent submission date for Velcro was early 50's while Tang was late 50's.

If you want to know "What was the year" for these events, it overloads my memory circuit and that's a lot of research for 2 points.

Good questions though to stir the gray matter.

The Velcro Technology was recognized by Swiss inventor, George de Mestral in 1948 it was patented in 1955. http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa091297.htm

Wagon Train debuted in 1957. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050073/

Tang was first formulated in 1957 but only marketed in 1959. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_(drink)

Jim Brown began his NFL career in 1957. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Brown

Jackie Robinson's last game was 1956 but he announced his retirement in January of 1957 when the Dodgers traded him to the Yankees.

Si I guess, averaging these out, the year you're looking for is 1957.

Good question and it does bring back memories.

Answer 3

I'm a great westerns fan and I only know about Wagon Train. I think it was 1957. It starred Ward Bond and Robert Horton. Horton was the scout called Flint McCullough. As a kid I thought he was my hero but then he tried a singing career and I thought he was awful. How could my hero do that to me!

Answer 4

1956

Answer 5

That would be 1957

Answer 6

It was 1957.....Robinson's last season was 56 but didn't actually retire til the next yeaafter he was traded to the Giants.

Answer 7

1955?

Answer 8

Does close count , I'm thinking 60.

Answer 9

The same year I had my tonsils removed. Ouch...!!!!!!

Answer 10

Why ask these????
You can get them ALL on Google or any search engine.
You are just wasting your points and everyone's time.

Give me as much thumbs down as you wish but you know it's true.
Now there's a thing......Let's see how much thumbs down we can get for an answer. What's the record???

See what I mean....no-one is answering you and I am going to get the 10 points hee hee.