Montana, Can You Handle These Burning Trivia Questions?

While we are persevering through another smoky wildfire season, property owners are devastated to lose everything they worked hard to acquire.  Please give responsibly to the relief efforts in your area that will help these landowners rebuild.  Watch out for the scammers.

In the meantime, can you answer these trivia questions with fire as the theme?  You can scroll down for the answers.

1. According to legend, who fiddled while Rome burned?

2. Although the reporter admitted making it up for a colorful story, what city’s great fire was said to have started when a cow kicked over a lantern?

3. What prefix comes from the Greek word for fire, and fits before the words “maniac” and “technics”?

4. What 1974 disaster film starred Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and an all-star cast, and centered on a fire in a high-rise building?

5. In what national park did 793,000 acres burn in the dry summer of 1988?

6. What is the name of the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy, written by Suzanne Collins?

7. According to the book title by Ray Bradbury, what is the auto-ignition temperature for paper?

8. On June 8, 1917, a fire in the mines claimed the lives of 168, due to lack of oxygen and smoke inhalation, the greatest loss in the hard rock mining industry. In what Montana town did this occur?

9. What current reality TV show uses the 1974 soul and disco hit “Fire” by the Ohio Players as the theme song?

10. With a reference to fire, what hit single by Taylor Swift in 2008 was inspired by her high school classmate and ex-boyfriend Jordon Alford, who ironically became a firefighter?

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The Answers

1.  Nero

2.  Chicago

3.  Pyro

4.  The Towering Inferno

5.  Not far away at all.  Yellowstone National Park

6.  Catching Fire

7.  Fahrenheit 451 

8.  Butte.  There is a memorial to the disaster victims, acknowledging their ethnic diversity, near the Berkley Pit.

9.  Hell's Kitchen.  One team who played at my GrandStand trivia game is named "Yes Chef" and they missed this.  I was stunned.  They explained that their team's name is from a different pop culture reference.

10.  This is from her country music days.  The answer is "Picture to Burn".