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"We Didn't Start The Fire" Lyrics - Picture Quiz

Can you name the events, things and people mentioned in the song "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel from these pictures ?
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Last updated: May 2, 2023
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First submittedNovember 7, 2020
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Average score46.2%
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Red China
England's got a new Queen
Santayana Goodbye
Communist Bloc
Dien Bien Phu falls
Rock Around the Clock
Brooklyn's got a winning team
Princess Grace
Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez
Bridge on the River Kwai
California Baseball
Starkweather Homicide
Children of Thalidomide
Edsel is a no go
Belgians in the Congo
Stranger in a Strange Land
Bay of Pigs invasion
British Beatlemania
Ole Miss
Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul
British Politician Sex
JFK blown away
Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot
Punk Rock
Terror on the Airline
Ayatollah in Iran
Russians in Afghanistan
Heavy Metal Suicide
Foreign Debts
Homeless Vets
Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the Shore
China's under Martial Law
Rock and Roller Cola Wars
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13 Comments
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Level 81
Nov 7, 2020
I've added as many type-ins as I can think of, if you come across some that need adding please comment !
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Level 83
Jan 25, 2023
Wow, this is amazing work! Took me like 15 seconds to realize that homocide isn't a word, embarrassingly.
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Level 81
Jan 25, 2023
Thank you
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Level 25
Jan 25, 2023
Apparently, I need to learn how to spell Russian words
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Level 81
Jan 26, 2023
Keep practising ! mmm...seems I need to learn how to spell English words, I meant practicing. I think, I had to google it, apparently both are correct , with an S is the UK way, with a C is the US way
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Level 92
Feb 7, 2023
Please accept Khrushchev as it's the standard English spelling of the name.
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Level 81
Feb 8, 2023
Khrushchev has always been accepted.
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Level 56
May 1, 2023
could you please do kruschev? a lot of people where im from say it like that
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Level 81
May 2, 2023
Added that spelling as a type-in
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Level 62
May 7, 2026
65/119, I love this song. Great quiz and nominated.
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Level 81
May 8, 2026
It is a brilliant sone, although it is showing it's age now, many more disasters, and events have occurred since this was made.

I know there are a few updated versions by various artists, however it's time that Billy Joel did a Part 2.

And thanks for the compliments and nomination!

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Level 75
May 13, 2026
Love this quiz, toowise! Nominated!
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Level 81
May 14, 2026
Why thank you kind person!