1.  Johnny Ray is mentioned in the first line of the song.  In
the late 40's and early 50's, Ray became one of the first post-
WWII teen idols using what gimmick:
     a. the ducktail hairstyle
     b. he broke into sobs in the middle of songs
     c. he started the bobby sox craze

2. For 1951, the song lists Panmunjom.  That was the place for
early talks aimed at ending the Korean War, a conflict that
before its end in 1953, would become one of the bloodiest and
costliest in human history.  Panmunjom was selected in part
because it was near the dividing line between North & South
Korea.  What was that dividing line?
     a. the 38th parallel
     b. the Han River
     c. the 17th parallel

3.  "Fire" lists several popular authors and books of recent
times. Match the following titles with their correct authors:

Catcher in the Rye            Allen Ginsberg
Peyton Place                  Richard Nixon
Doctor Zhivago                Alvin Moscow
Stranger in a Strange Land    Boris Pasternak
On the Road                   Jack Kerouac             
                              Robert Heinlein
                              Grace Metalious
                              J.D. Salinger
                              

4.  "Fire" refers to Malenkov, a prominent Soviet figure who
espoused reducing arms expenditures and increasing the
availability of consumer goods in the Soviet Union.  Malenkov
was:
     a. the first Soviet ballet star to defect to the West
     b. Stalin's successor as Prime Minister
     c. the head of the KGB in the '50's.


5. "Dien Bien Phu Falls" is part of 1954.  What is Joel referring
to?
     a. a popular natural wonder destroyed by bombing during the
Vietnam war
     b. the first president of South Korea who was force from
office by protest marchers
     c. the site of the French military defeat that ended the
first Indochina War and set the stage for US involvement in Vietnam

6. Joel lists Dacron in 1954.  It was one of many synthetic
fibers to appear after WWII.  Which of the following is NOT used
to make Dacron:
     a. cellulose
     b. petroleum
     c. coal

7. Leading the list of entries for 1957 is Little Rock, Arkansas;
a city that saw one of the first major confrontations over school
desegregation following the 1954 Supreme Court decision declaring
separate but equal educational facilities for blacks to be
unconstitutional.  The 1954 case was:
     a. Miranda v. Arizona
     b. Brown v Board of Education
     c. Roe v Wade

8.  For 1960, Joel sings about Belgians in the Congo.  Before the
year was over, Belgium would grant independence to its former
colony and a war would break out there.  By 1971, some measure of
peace would be restored and the name of the country was changed. 
What is the current name of the country once known as the Belgian
Congo:
     a. Zaire
     b. Benin
     c. The People's Republic of the Congo.

9. Roy Cohn, mentioned in 1954, was counsel to a Senate
Subcommittee headed by Joseph McCarthy who charges of Communist
infiltration resulted in the blacklisting and red-baiting in the
early 1950's known as McCarthyism.  Which of the following
Hollywood figures was NOT blacklisted during that era:
     a. Zero Mostel
     b. Elia Kazan
     c. Ronald Reagan
     d. Yip Harburge
     e. Lee J. Cobb
     f. Paul Robeson

10. The words "Santayana goodbye" in "Fire" refers to the death
of George Santayana in 1952.  This philosopher is perhaps best
known for which famous quote about history:
     a. "History. . .  is a nightmare from which I am trying to
	awake."
     b. "What experience and history teach us is this--that
	people and governments have never learnt anything from
	history or acted on principles deduced form it."
     c. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
	repeat it."