The End of the Road Trivia Quiz

Answer: Metallica

The music video begins with the 1908 Tunguska event, and dust is found containing spores that the Soviets begin experimenting with. Eventually they create a zombie army to take over the world. As expected, humanity gets wiped out.

Answer: Bad Moon Rising

"Bad Moon Rising" was released as a single in 1969. In a interview, John Fogerty said a scene in "The Devil and Daniel Webster" showed a major storm destroying all the houses and crops except Daniel Webster's, and inspired the song's composition.

Answer: REM

The song is "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)". Although one of REM's better-known songs, it originally only reached number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Answer: 99 Luftballons

The original, in German and performed by Nena, peaked at number two, while a later version with English lyrics, "99 Red Balloons", was largely ignored in the US. There have been very few other German language songs that charted in the US, such as Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus", which reached number one in 1986.

Answer: Eve of Destruction

Written in 1964, and covered by many bands throughout the 60s and 70s, the version sung by Barry McGuire is probably the most well-known, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965.

Answer: 2 Minutes To Midnight

The song title refers to the "Doomsday Clock" maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. In 1953, the nuclear arms race between the US and USSR prompted the clock to be set at two minutes to midnight, with midnight itself being the start of a nuclear war.

After years of moving the time farther from midnight, in 2018 the clock was once again set to two minutes to midnight, the first time since 1953.

Answer: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

(In)appropriately enough, the song begins playing at the end of the movie, (Spoiler!) during the nuclear explosion montage. Vera Lynn was a popular singer with the British armed forces during World War II and into the 1950s. She also holds the distinction of being the oldest person to have an album reach number one in the United Kingdom, at age 92.

Answer: Gimme Shelter

In 1998, a music video for the song was released. The video is focused on the breakdown and end of society, and not on war. The premise is two children's escape from a horribly broken home only to be abused by society as a whole.

Answer: Queen

The song reveals a metaphoric end of the world for the twenty space travelers. They have only memories of many people who grew old and died while they were on their voyage and now have to live their lives without anybody they cared about.

Answer: Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway

The song was inspired by New York's financial troubles during the 1970s, nearly going bankrupt. The "Miami 2017" part refers to where and when the person in the song is retelling the story of how New York City was destroyed.