In July 1954 the Memphis producer Sam Phillips recorded a young truck driver at Sun Records singing an upbeat version of Arthur Crudup's blues "That's All Right." The single became a regional hit. Which singer made that recording?

A filmed CBS comedy that premiered in October 1951 starred a redheaded housewife and her Cuban bandleader husband, and it was the most watched program in the country in four of its six seasons. Which program was it?

On August 5, 1957 an afternoon show broadcast from Philadelphia went out over ABC to the whole country. Hosted by Dick Clark, it showed local teenagers dancing to hit records and brought guest performers on to plug new releases. Name the show.

The 1955 film Blackboard Jungle, about a rough city high school, opened with a Bill Haley and His Comets record over its credits. The record then went to number one on the Billboard chart that July. Which record was it?

In July 1955 Chess Records of Chicago released "Maybellene," a record built on a hot-rod chase between a Ford and a Cadillac. It was its writer's first hit and made him a leading rock and roll songwriter. Who recorded it?

Little Richard recorded "Tutti Frutti" in 1955, but many pop stations would not play it. A white singer's cover version reached number 12 on the pop chart in 1956 and outsold the original. Who recorded that cover?

"Hound Dog" is remembered today for Elvis Presley's 1956 version, but it was recorded first in 1952 by a Houston-based blues singer whose release spent weeks at number one on the rhythm and blues chart. Who made that first recording?

After complaints about a performer's hip movements on his first two appearances, CBS cameras showed him only from the waist up when he returned to The Ed Sullivan Show on January 6, 1957. Which performer was filmed that way?

David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd (1950) argued that the older American character, steered by an inner gyroscope of fixed personal standards, was giving way to a character steered by social radar. What was Riesman describing?

William H. Whyte's The Organization Man (1956) studied middle managers in large corporations and reported that the well-rounded man who fit himself to the group was the type the company rewarded. What was Whyte objecting to?

Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders (1957) described advertising agencies hiring psychologists to study what buyers wanted without knowing it, then building campaigns around those findings. What did the book object to?

John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society (1958) coined a phrase for a country of clean houses and filthy streets, expensive televisions and poor schools. What imbalance was he attacking?

Michael Harrington's The Other America (1962) reported that forty to fifty million Americans were poor. What was his charge about postwar prosperity?

Betty Friedan surveyed her Smith College classmates and found women who were outwardly successful and privately miserable. Her 1963 book called their unhappiness "the problem that has no name." What was the book arguing?

The share of American households owning a television set rose from about 9 percent in 1950 to about 87 percent in 1960. What happened to moviegoing over the same decade?

The Regency TR-1, sold from November 1954, was the first pocket-sized radio built on transistors and ran on a battery. What did radios like it change about how teenagers heard music?

American drive-in movie theaters numbered under a thousand in 1948 and peaked at about 4,000 in 1958. What broader change in daily life does that growth reflect?

Ray Kroc opened his first franchised McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois in April 1955, advertising a short menu, 15-cent hamburgers, fast service and plenty of free parking. What kind of business did that model spread across the country?

In 1958 Bank of America began mailing the BankAmericard to Californians. Unlike earlier charge cards such as Diners Club, what did it let households do?

The share of married women in the paid labor force rose from about 22 percent in 1950 to about 31 percent in 1960, while television comedies presented the full-time homemaker as the normal wife. What does that gap show?

Jack Kerouac's On the Road, published by Viking in 1957, follows characters crossing and recrossing the country with no fixed job or address. What were the Beat writers rejecting?

In 1957 San Francisco police arrested a City Lights bookstore manager for selling Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems, and the publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti was prosecuted for obscenity. How did the case end in October 1957?

Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956) opens: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." Whom was Ginsberg writing about?

A 1955 novel by Sloan Wilson followed a World War II veteran commuting from a Connecticut suburb to a Manhattan office job he found hollow, and its title became shorthand for the conforming corporate employee. Which novel was it?

Alan Freed's ABC television dance show was dropped in 1957 after a Black singer was seen dancing with a white girl, and Citizens' Councils across the South denounced rock and roll. What drew their opposition?