BEATLE mania
Sir Peter Jackson’s documentary The Beatles: Get Back has reminded us just how amazing the band was. How much do you know about the Fab Four and their music?
1 According to the song, where does Eleanor Rigby keep her face?
2 Which Beatle spent two years in hospital as a child after contracting tuberculosis?
3 Which of these songs did Ringo Starr NOT sing lead vocals on?
A. Octopus’ Garden
B. Hello Goodbye
C. Yellow Submarine
D. With a Little Help From My Friends
4 Which Beatle was stabbed in the chest after a man broke into his home and attacked him?
5 How many years ago today did Sgt Pepper teach the band to play?
6 The song Strawberry Fields was named after a place in Liverpool called Strawberry Field – what was it?
A. A produce market
B. An indoor playground
C. A children’s home
D. A retirement village 7 Ed Sheeran suggests Hey Dude would be a better title than Hey Jude in which movie featuring Beatles music? 8
Which Beatle’s solo career included an album that featured the songs Beautiful Boy, Just Like Starting Over and Woman?
9 What was Paul McCartney talking about when he said, “It made me a better, more honest, more tolerant member of society?”
A. Leaving the Beatles B. Becoming a vegetarian
C. His marriage to Linda Eastman
D. Taking LSD
10 In Get Back, where was Jojo’s home?
11 After the Beatles, George Harrison joined with
Bob Dylan,
Roy Orbison,
Tom Petty and
Jeff Lynne to perform with which band?
12 What was notable about the concert the Beatles performed on June
22, 1964?
A. They set a record for the largest ever crowd – 55,000 people at Shea Stadium in
New York
B. They refused to play until a racially segregated US audience was integrated
C. It was their first ever show in New Zealand
D. The concert had to be stopped because so many girls fainted
13 What was Brian Epstein’s link to the Beatles?
14 What kind of writer features in the title of a Beatles song?
15 Which musician did model Pattie Boyd marry after divorcing George Harrison?
A. Rod Stewart
B. Ronnie Wood
C. Eric Clapton
D. James Taylor 16
In Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Desmond has a barrow in the market place, but what does Molly do for a living?
17 Actress Jane Asher was the longtime girlfriend of which Beatle?
18 The Beatles gave their last ever live performance on January 30, 1969, on the roof of a building in which famous London street?
A. King’s Road
B. Fleet Street
C. Baker Street
D. Savile Row
19 In their early days, the Beatles spent a lot of time playing in which German city?
20 Which Beatle married former Bond girl Barbara Bach in 1981?
21 John Lennon caused a furore when he said the
Beatles were more popular than who?
A. The Queen
B. Jesus
C. John F. Kennedy
D. Elvis Presley 22
Which Beatles song includes the lyrics, “There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done, Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung”?
23 Which Beatle played the bass guitar? 24
What TV show launched Beatlemania in the US after the group appeared on it three times in February 1964? A. The Johnny Carson Show B. The Jackie Gleason Show C. The Lawrence Welk Show D. The Ed Sullivan Show
25
When the Beatles travelled to India in 1968 to take part in a transcendental meditation course, which one of them took a suitcase full of tins of baked beans?