Can you name the things that satisfy each category for the period from 1950-1959?

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"Best selling novel" asks for the name of a novel that was #1 on the Publisher's Weekly lists of best-selling books of the year.
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Category	1950s answer
Olympic host city [5]
NFL Championship winning team [5]
World Series winning team [4]
NBA Championship winning team [6]
World Cup (soccer) winning nation [3]
U.S. Presidents [2]
British Prime Minister [4]
Mercury astronaut [7]
New U.S. State [2]
Oscar Best Picture [10]
Oscar Best Actor [10]
Oscar Best Actress [10]
New U.N. member from Europe [10]
General Secretary of the U.S.S.R. [2]

Category	1950s answer
Roman Catholic Pope [2]
#1 Elvis Presley songs (Hot 100) [9]
Tony Best Musical [10]
English football champion [6]
Disney animated features [5]
Warsaw Pact member [8]
Emmy Best Comedy Winner [4]
Emmy Best Drama Winner [8]
Discoverers of DNA structure [4]
World heavyweight boxing champ [6]
#1 Ranked U.S. boys name [3]
#1 Ranked U.S. girls name [2]
Best selling novel (U.S.) [10]
Artist with 10+ million selling album [2]

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1950s Blitz Quiz

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	deugea:	Jun 1st, 2012 at 19:41 GMT		4 points
	Need to add Boston Celtics to NBA Champions answers. They won in both 1956-57 & 1958-59.

	deugea:	Jun 1st, 2012 at 19:44 GMT		1 point
	Actually, you also need to add the Syracuse Nationals (1954-55) and Philadelphia Warriors (1955-56) to the NBA Champions answers as well. The other three from the decade work. I suppose you should also change the number of answers in the brackets to [6], not [4].

	Hejman:	Jun 1st, 2012 at 20:18 GMT		3 points
	And for some reason I had the Pistons in there when they didn't win it. Should be fixed now. Thanks for catching that.

	RonB:	Jun 1st, 2012 at 21:51 GMT		1 point
	Please accept johnxxiii.

	dutchesNclutches:	Jun 1st, 2012 at 23:08 GMT		3 points
	When you get the answers for the first 9 on the column on the line, it forms an arrow. Haha crazy

	phantom4ptplay:	Jun 2nd, 2012 at 01:46 GMT		1 point
	Jimmy Stewart did not win an Oscar in the 1950's?

	Hejman:	Jun 2nd, 2012 at 02:16 GMT		2 points
	Jimmy Stewart won only one Oscar, for Best Actor in the Philadelphia Story (1940). He was given an honorary Oscar in 1985.

	jaho:	Jun 2nd, 2012 at 02:35 GMT		5 points
	Very surprised that Elvis Presley was not one of the artists with 10 million singles, especially with 9 #1s and a host of other top 10 songs. Bill Haley & The Comets were nowhere near as prolific on the charts.

	Pogues:	Jun 2nd, 2012 at 03:47 GMT		4 points
	Paul Anka is a music god!

	Hejman:	Jun 2nd, 2012 at 13:38 GMT		3 points
	@jaho- The wording on the question got changed from the time I submitted it. It originally asked which artists had a single album that sold 10 million records. In the 1950s only 'Rock Around the Clock' and 'Diana' made it to that level. Elvis' best was 'Hound Dog' at 9 million. I'll change the wording back to its original form.

	Slinkyfarm:	Jun 2nd, 2012 at 15:21 GMT		1 point
	@Hejman - Those were singles, not albums.

	jaho:	Jun 2nd, 2012 at 19:35 GMT		3 points
	@Hejman: Thank you for the explanation. That clears it up.

	Westley:	Jun 4th, 2012 at 10:16 GMT		2 points
	@Hejman -- good quiz, but the question about best selling "albums" is still problematic, imo. A single is not an album, so I was trying to think of albums, such as cast albums from Broadway shows that sold well, instead of singles.

	david6k:	Jun 4th, 2012 at 18:05 GMT		5 points
	Was sure Peyton Place would be a top seller. But I guess it was released late in 1956 -- it's #3 on the 1956 list and #2 on the 1957 list. Gotta think if there was a single combined list for all the 1950s it would be on there.