Come On Baby, Light My Fire Trivia Quiz

Answer: Steve McQueen and Paul Newman

Fire as Entertainment? They do not get much bigger than a disaster movie (common in the 70s) about a skyscraper on fire.

Paul Newman (the building architect) and Steve McQueen (Fire Chief) shared top billing. Steve McQueen's name appeared first on the left hand side of the movie poster first, but Paul Newman's name was higher. All other movie stars listed as answer options appeared in the movie (Though Maureen McGovern's main contribution was that she sang the Academy Award-winning song "We May Never Love Like This Again" (1974) from the soundtrack.

The movie was an amalgamation of two books and was the first movie produced by two movie studios: Warner Brothers obtained the rights to "The Tower" for $400,000, Fox, $300,000 for the rights to "The Glass Inferno". Irwin Allen, producer believed that two films about a skyscraper on fire would cancel each other out. He persuaded executives at both studios to make a single movie on a common subject. The studios issued a joint press release in October, 1973 and the result was the top grossing movie of 1974.

Answer: Bruce Springsteen

John Mellencamp sang about social inequality in "Paper in fire" in 1987.
Pat Benatar sang "Fire and Ice" in 1981, a song about the extreme emotions felt within a relationship.
In 1980, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band sang about "Fire Lake", a song about Silver Lake in Michigan.
In 1982, Bruce Springsteen recorded "I'm on Fire" but didn't release it until 1985 as the third single (of seven) from 1984's "Born in the USA". This is one of the first Springsteen's songs which included a synthesizer. The "fire" component referred to sexual tension, in which the corresponding film clip exemplifies this theme. Mr Springsteen was a mechanic when a wealthy woman drives into the garage in a '55 Thunderbird, asked specifically for our protagonist to service the car and return it to her house. She hands over keys which include a house key. Our hero attended to the car and drove to her house, thought better of what could have been, smiled wistfully and left the keys in the mailbox. (sigh).

Answer: The sense of loss in a New York City firehouse post-9/11

"Rescue Me" attempted valiantly to demonstrate the overwhelming sense of loss and grief in a NYC firehouse intermediately after 9/11. The story focused on Firefighter Tommy Gavin (played by Denis Leary who also produced the series) who lost his firefighter cousin in the tragedy as well as 59 colleagues, and his personal struggle at home and at work, while his actions at work were seen as somewhat heroic.
The show attracted 4.1 million viewers on it debut in the US which was the eighth highest cable debut at the time and was critically acclaimed.

Answer: The words were written first

This song came about after a discussion between Mr Joel and Sean Lennon. The lyrics written first are a series of events, issued in the order they occurred that started in 1949, the year the singer was born. There is a focus on cold war events, an event inherited by Baby Boomers.

As Mr Joel wrote the words first, the song by his standards is musically simple with a four cord progression throughout each verse. Even the chorus which contained the closest reference to a melodic hook is based on the same four chords. Melodies are features of Mr Joel's music.

In an Interview with Rolling Stone, he said the song was "Essentially a novelty song."

Answer: Divine energy

Chariots of fire, at his heart was about two British young men who ran for the glory of God. Eric Liddell felt' "God's pleasure" when he ran, Whilst Harold Abraham ran to overcome anti-Jewish persecution. Both men had devout faiths and did not compromise on same: Mr Liddell refused to run on the Sabbath risking not qualifying for the Olympic 100 metres final. The two face off, eventually, in the Olympic final.

The title is a reference to "Bring me my chariot of fire," from a William Blake poem which is incorporated into, subsequently the hymn, "Jerusalem" (Parry, 1916). The original reference is from the Bible's 2 Kings 2:11 and 6:17, where the flaming chariot travels up to Heaven.

The movie is synonymous with the soundtrack by Vangelis. "Chariots of Fire" (1980) is one of the most recognisable pieces of music in the Western World. While it is a contemporary electronic instrumental piece, it is far from incongruous for the 1920's setting of the movie and its mating to a slow motion trailer contributed to the film's success.

Answer: Emergency!

The show had an ensemble cast, but focused on a paramedic program in LACoFD with particularly firefighters/paramedics John Gage (Randolph Mantooth) and Roy DeSoto (Kevin Tighe). The paramedics reported to the Emergency Room (ER) staff of Rampart General Hospital with head physician Dr. Kelly Brackett (Robert Fuller) and head nurse Dixie McCall (Julie London).
"Emergency!" was produced by Jack Webb and Robert Cinader, who also created the police dramas "Adam-12" and "Dragnet". The show was similar in format to these shows where in all three cases the action revolved around following the pair of protagonists though the episodes which were factually based on actual emergency cases. There were 129 episodes over six seasons 1972-1977.

"Medical Emergency" was an Australian reality show that ran for three seasons between 2008-2010.

Answer: Captain John Yossarian ("Catch-22")

Eliot Rosewater was a recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut novels. His main "occupation" appeared to be as an alcoholic and philanthropist, but he also claimed to be a volunteer fireman, though this was never clearly proven on the character's part. He appeared in 1965's "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" and the more well known "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969).
Elvis Cridlington was a recurring character in the children's "Fireman Sam" animated TV series and picture books.
Guy Montag was a fireman and was the protagonist in "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (1953). However in this context, a fireman ws a person who burned books in this dystopian novel.
This leaves Captain John Yossarian who was the protagonist of "Catch-22" and sequel "Closing Time", both Joseph Heller's satirical novels. In Catch-22 and its sequel, Yossarian was a B-25 bombardier in WWII.

Answer: Survivor

"Survivor" first aired in 2000 and it ran for at least 35 seasons. The object was to be the last man standing when 18-24 contestants were left on a remote location and eliminated each other until a sole survivor was left. The game relied on survival skills such as being able to start a fire from scratch ("In this game your life is synonymous with fire") After a contestant was eliminated, he/she would have their fire-lit torch snuffed out by the host (Jeff Probst) to the legendary and unflinching words "[name], the tribe has spoken. Time for you to go."

Answer: Yes

Frank Horrigan (Eastwood) was the last Secret Service agent to be in active service after the Kennedy assassination. Horrigan blames himself for the president being killed in 1963 (The movie cleverly splices in Horrigan in to actual Dallas motorcade footage). Mitch Leary (Malkovich) is obsessed with killing the US President.

He rang Horrigan periodically and taunted him for not "taking a bullet" for President Kennedy. Horrigan tracked him down to a fund raising dinner attended by the president. Horrigan threw himself in front of the president just as Leary shot his gun.

The bullet hit Horrigan but he did not die as he was wearing a bullet-proof vest. Horrigan retired a hero and felt atoned for what he considered the previous failure.

Answer: "Light My Fire" by the Animals

"Light My fire" was the signature song of The Doors. It was written by guitarist Robby Krieger whose songs were based around the four elements, Earth, Water, Air and Fire. Inspired by The Rolling Stones' 1965 song "Play With Fire, the song was about "leaving inhibitions behind in flames of passion". The song was on The Doors' eponymous album but was not released as a single. However, DJs stated playing a the album track which was over six minutes long. The record company cut a version down to 2:52 and it became a hit reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in July 1967. It was Electra's first number one record.

"Burning Down the House" (1983) was Talking Heads' only top ten single on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number nine. Shame, because their music was avant-garde and it has endured.
"The Flame" was a power ballad for Illinois' rock band Cheap Trick. In July 1988 it reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Honourable mention: The original "Just Like Fire Would" by the Brisbane rock band in 1976 and was a Australian national hit. The song was covered (and hence became better known) when Mr Springsteen used it to open an Australian tour.