Who's in the Band? II Trivia Quiz

Answer:

You may have been misled by Lady Madonna and The Walrus because they appear in their own songs which are not on "The White Album", but both appear in the self-referential album track "Glass Onion"; a mean-spirited mocking song written by John Lennon about fans who have fallen for in-jokes and rumours spread about the band and their songs. John wrote the lines "Lady Madonna trying to make ends meet" and "Well here's another clue for you all. The walrus was Paul". To further muddy the waters, "Lady Madonna" itself references "I Am the Walrus" with its inclusion of its line "see how they run" in its middle eight.

"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" tells the story of the meeting, courtship and eventual marriage of barrow boy Desmond and singer Molly that culminates with the happy ever after of "a couple of kids playing in the yard of Desmond and Molly Jones". Another Mr Jones, Dylan's Mr Jones, appears on the album's "Yer Blues", referring to the Bob Dylan track "Ballad of a Thin Man" from his "Highway 61 Revisited" album.

"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" introduces the eponymous character, an "all-American bullet-headed Saxon mother's son" and also features Captain Marvel. The song was inspired by an American visitor to the Beatles Ashram in Rishikesh, India in early 1968. The man named Bill took time out from the spiritual retreat to go and hunt tigers in the Indian jungle. The reference to Captain Marvel zapping elephants "right between the eyes" is intended to mock Bill as a self-styled American superhero.

The song "Rocky Raccoon", which originated from a jam session with Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Donovan when on their Indian retreat, tells the story of the boy named Rocky from "the black mountain hills of Dakota". The "girl of his fancy" Nancy McGill had left him for a man named Daniel. Rocky had come to town to seek revenge on Daniel, only to be gunned down himself.

Both the Duchess of Kirkcaldy and the King of Marigold appear in Lennon's "Cry Baby Cry", a song supposedly inspired by a TV advert for breakfast cereal. The king "cooking breakfast for the queen" harks back to the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence". The Duchess who was "always smiling and arriving late for tea" is named after a Scottish town, which does not have a duchy.

The Martha of "Martha, My Dear" is supposedly named for Paul McCartney's Old English sheepdog. However, in the song Martha has become a girl with whom he has had a love affair. McCartney was the only Beatle to appear on the recording with the only other participants being a brass band assembled by producer George Martin.

The song "Sexy Sadie" was originally written as "Maharishi" and was a barbed attack on the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of transcendental meditation, and the special attention he was giving to the female members of the Beatles Ashram that led to The Beatles abandoning the retreat in disgust at his actions. Re-written to avoid legal issues, it was eventually released as "Sexy Sadie" and told the story of Sadie, the lover that "the world was waiting for" who "made a fool of everyone".