Q 01/05

What kind of ceremony fills the church in My Chemical Romance's video for "Helena", complete with a dance routine?

A) A wedding

B) A funeral

C) A baptism

D) An exorcism

Answer · why

B) A funeral

A funeral for a young woman is the setting, and fans of the band were invited to the shoot to play the mourners. Later the dead woman rises from her c...

Q 02/05

"Helena" by My Chemical Romance mourns which relative of Gerard and Mikey Way, who died as a tour ended?

A) Their aunt

B) Their older sister

C) Their grandmother

D) Their mother

Answer · why

C) Their grandmother

Their grandmother, Elena, died just as the band came off tour in late 2003, and Gerard Way poured his guilt at missing her final year into the song.

Q 03/05

Which war film, along with Memphis Belle, inspired the D-Day scenes in My Chemical Romance's "The Ghost of You" video?

A) Saving Private Ryan

B) The Bridge on the River Kwai

C) The Longest Day

D) The Thin Red Line

Answer · why

A) Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan gave Gerard Way the template for the invasion scenes, in which his brother's character is shot dead. The director filmed it like a...

Q 04/05

What covers the couple in Gerard Way's sketch on the cover of Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge?

A) Petals

B) Snow

C) Ashes

D) Blood

Answer · why

D) Blood

Blood covers the pair in a drawing made only as a reference for a photographer, until the label saw it and asked to use the sketch itself.

Q 05/05

Which 2006 concept album was My Chemical Romance's follow-up to Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge?

A) The Black Parade

B) Danger Days

C) Conventional Weapons

D) Like Phantoms, Forever

Answer · why

A) The Black Parade

The Black Parade took the arena-rock hints of "The Ghost of You" much further, and it debuted at number two in both the United States and the United K...