The End - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) R.E.M.. The song did even worse, peaking at #87, during its first U.K. release, but rose to #39 after a second release in 1991.
• A2) My Chemical Romance. The album's most popular song, "Welcome to the Black Parade", topped the U.K. Singles chart and the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks, while reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• A3) The Doors. The song made Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004, ranking #328.
• A4) The Beatles. The three songs are tracks eight through ten on the 1969 album Abbey Road ("Her Majesty" was belatedly placed last after nearly being cut). Chris Bliss performs an impressive synchronized juggling act to this medley as his finale.
• A5) Moby. Richard Melville Hall, supposedly the great-great-great-grandnephew of Moby Dick author Herman Melville, also uses the name Schaumgummi and has been part of several bands.
• A6) Burt Reynolds. Dom DeLuise's insane character, Marlon Borunki, tries to help him die on his own terms, but something always goes wrong.
• A7) The End of Violence. Wim Wenders was nominated for a Golden Palm for directing the film, which also features Traci Lind as Cat and Rosalind Chao as Claire.
• A8) The End of the Affair. The remake, set in post-World War II London, earned Moore a Best Actress Oscar nomination and won a BAFTA award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
• A9) Isaac Asimov. The Russian-American former biochemist thought the picture of the geyser's eruption in a 1932 issue of Time magazine resembled a nuclear explosion, the first of which wouldn't occur until two decades later, a year before Asimov saw the image.
• A10) Naomi Wolf. The indictment compares the recent Bush administration to the rise of Fascism and some of the worst dictatorships of the last century.
• A11) Sam Harris. The 2004 book reach #4 on the New York Times Best Seller list and won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction.
• A12) A Series of Unfortunate Events. The final novel in the Lemony Snicket series was released, seven years after The Bad Beginning, in October 2006 on Friday the 13th (the subject of next week's random quiz).