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it was always burning
Quiz: How well do you know the lyrics to Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire?
Harry Truman, Doris Day…
IT’S 31 years since Billy Joel released his hit song We Didn’t Start The Fire.
The song mentions around 100 marquee people or events that had happened since his birth in May 1949.
It’s a fantastic tune, altogether, but you’ll have to dig into the recesses of your musical mind to remember all the words.
Best of luck!
The first line of the song goes: "Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, [BLANK]"
Kelly May
Hai Long Bay
Fay Wray
Johnnie Ray
"Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom / Brando, The King and I and [BLANK]"
The Bridge On The River Kwai
The Catcher In The Rye
Momma making apple pie
The Beatles learn to fly
"Eisenhower, vaccine, [BLANK] / Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye"
England's got a new queen
Brooklyn's got a winning team
Khruschev keeps his hands clean
America starts to dream
"[BLANK], Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev"
Busby Babes
NHS
Bardot
Bus protest
"Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, [BLANK] baseball"
Arizona
Alabama
California
Carolina
Which of the following come after the line which begins with U2?
Homicide, children of thalidomide
Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez
Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Who was "back again" in one of the verses?
Elvis Presley
Richard Nixon
Bob Dylan
Malcolm X
"Ayatollah's in Iran, [BLANK]"
Germans in a strange land
French pull out of Vietnam
JFK the Irish man
Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide / Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz / Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law / [BLANK]
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
For question 10, let's look at something a bit different. Believe it or not, there was an Irish version of the song made to commemorate the great and the good of Irish football. Can you finish this line: "Jackie Charlton, Eoin Hand / Johnny Giles, Ireland / Mick McCarthy, Stephen Staunton / [BLANK]"
Empics Sport
Ronnie Whelo
Houghton in the English net
Cascarino
Roberto Baggio
You scored out of !
Top Dog
You nailed it! Well done
You scored out of !
Clever cat
Almost purrfect
You scored out of !
Fintastic
A decent job there
You scored out of !
What are ewe doing?
Baaaaaad
You scored out of !
Turtely awful
A shell of a bad effort
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