Q 01/05

Which 1989 Billy Joel album, produced by Foreigner's Mick Jones, carries We Didn't Start the Fire?

A) The Nylon Curtain

B) Storm Front

C) An Innocent Man

D) Glass Houses

Answer · why

B) Storm Front

Storm Front was Billy Joel's third album to reach No. 1 in the US, and Mick Jones was recommended to him as producer by Eddie Van Halen.

Q 02/05

Whose 21-year-old friend told Billy Joel it was a terrible time to be 21, sparking We Didn't Start the Fire?

A) Julian Lennon

B) Dweezil Zappa

C) Sean Lennon

D) Jakob Dylan

Answer · why

C) Sean Lennon

Sean Lennon's friend insisted nothing had happened in the fifties, and Joel, who had just turned 40, fired back with the Korean War and the Suez Crisi...

Q 03/05

Which everyday noise did Billy Joel compare the melody of We Didn't Start the Fire to in a 1993 interview?

A) A car alarm

B) A dentist drill

C) A fax machine

D) A smoke detector

Answer · why

B) A dentist drill

A dentist drill was Joel's own verdict on the tune, which he called a terrible piece of music, and it is the only song in his catalogue where he wrote...

Q 04/05

Which band's 2023 cover of We Didn't Start the Fire was panned for leaving out the COVID-19 pandemic?

A) Fall Out Boy

B) All Time Low

C) My Chemical Romance

D) Twenty One Pilots

Answer · why

A) Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy's version runs from 1989 to 2023 but drops the chronological order, and Pete Wentz said the pandemic lost its place to a rhyme for Bush v...

Q 05/05

Which Hitchcock thriller's screeching violins are quoted in We Didn't Start the Fire when it is name-checked?

A) Vertigo

B) The Birds

C) Psycho

D) Rear Window

Answer · why

C) Psycho

Psycho's shrieking strings come from Bernard Herrmann's all-string score, written for a string orchestra because the budget would not stretch to a ful...