Thursday, March 9, 2006

Trivia Tuesday: Billy Joel Poll

Here is the results of my Billy Joel question. Collectivly we found 56 movie titles mentioned in Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire."


The List I Found: (* Kim also found this one) (** Both Kim and Mick also found these)

*Beatlemania (1981)

**Ben-Hur (1959)

**Blown Away (1994)

**Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The Catcher (2000)

*Congo (1995)

Crack (Italy, 1991)

*Davy Crockett (1910)

Fortune (2006)

*Grace (2005)

Heavy Metal (Canada, 1981)

*Invasion (United Kingdom, 1966)

**JFK (1991)

**The King and I (1956)

**Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

**Malcolm X (1992)

*Martial Law (1990)

**Nixon (1995)

**Peter Pan (1953)

**Peyton Place (1957)

Princess (Belgium, 1969)

**Psycho (1960)

*Rock (Malaysia, 2005)

**Rock Around The Clock (1956)

Sex (1920)

**South Pacific (1958)

Stalin (India, 2006)

Starkweather (2004) (I noticed that the website I gave with the lyrics misspelled this)

*Woodstock (1970)

*X (1963)

The Extra Ones Kim Found:

Alabama (1984)

Always (1989)

Buddy (1997)

California (1946)

China (1943)

Control (2004)

Elvis (1997)

Goodbye (1918)

Homicide (1991)

Hula (1927)

Joe (1970)

Johnny (1999)

Light (1915)

Marilyn (1955)

Mickey (2004)

Miss (1986)

Ray (2004) (I can’t believe I missed this)

Roy (1990)

Space (1965)

Stranger (2000)

Sugar (2004)

Terror (1978)

The Clock (1945)

The King (2005)

The River (1984)

Trouble (2005)

Sputnik (1958) (I disqualified this one, because Sputnik was not the full title of the movie, only the alternate American title, the full title was À pied, à cheval et en sputnik [A Dog, A Mouse, And A Sputnik])

Which gives us a total of 56. Wow! and I thought I was doing good with 30. Kim got 26 Bonus movies. Whoo Hoo for Kim! She rocks!

2 comments:

beckn32 said...

I told y'all I have way too much time on my hands.

Will said...

You need to volunteer, or go on day trips or something. Get this, my sister is complaining about having too much time on her hands while she is in Italy. We should all be so lucky.