Braingle: 'Song: "We Didn't Start the Fire"' Trivia Quiz

#1 Which of these people are the first named in the song?

Joe McCarthy
Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Rosenbergs

#2 "Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, Brando, 'The King and I', and _________." In the above line, what book title follows "The King and I"?

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#3 The following lyrics are correct: "Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Red."

#4 "Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, 'Peter Pan', _____________, Disneyland." What famous singer is mentioned in between these two Disney names?

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#5 In the line, "Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Princess Grace, 'Peyton Place', trouble in the Suez," to whom does "Princess Grace" refer?

Diana Frances, of Wales
Buttercup, of Florin
Margaret Rose, of Snowdon
Grace Kelly, of Monaco

#6 In the line "Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide," to what is 'thalidomide' referring?

A mass killing of unwanted children
A morning sickness medication
A region in India
A political act reforming education

#7 Provide the missing lyric: "U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, _________, Belgians in the Congo."

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#8 Eichmann is known as the Architect of the Holocaust, responsible for facilitating the mass deportation of the Jews. Why does his name appear in the line, "Hemingway, Eichmann, 'Stranger in a Strange Land', Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion"?

He began murdering Jews again in 1960.
His role in a plot to murder Hitler was discovered and he was hailed as a war hero.
He toured the world, apologising for the atrocities he committed during WW2.
His trial was in 1961, resulting in his 1962 hanging.

#9 Who is the only person to be fully named twice in the song?

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Song: "We Didn't Start the Fire"

#1 Which of these people are the first named in the song?

#2 "Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, Brando, 'The King and I', and _________." In the above line, what book title follows "The King and I"?

#3 The following lyrics are correct: "Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Red."

#4 "Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, 'Peter Pan', _____________, Disneyland." What famous singer is mentioned in between these two Disney names?

#5 In the line, "Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Princess Grace, 'Peyton Place', trouble in the Suez," to whom does "Princess Grace" refer?

#6 In the line "Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide," to what is 'thalidomide' referring?

#7 Provide the missing lyric: "U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, _________, Belgians in the Congo."

#8 Eichmann is known as the Architect of the Holocaust, responsible for facilitating the mass deportation of the Jews. Why does his name appear in the line, "Hemingway, Eichmann, 'Stranger in a Strange Land', Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion"?

#9 Who is the only person to be fully named twice in the song?

#10 The "Rock and Roller Cola Wars" were a series of "battles" between Pepsi and Coke to determine which was the best.

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