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Answer: Eleanor ("Eleanor Rigby")

Other characters include Max ("Maxwell's Silver Hammer"), Sadie ("Sexy Sadie"), Prudence ("Dear Prudence"), Mr. Kite ("Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"), and Dr. Robert ("Doctor Robert").

Answer: The head cheerleader

This is the first time we learn of Prudence's sexuality. Her orientation is confirmed when she tells Lucy "I don't sleep with men anymore." when Lucy questions her living arrangements with Max and Jude.

Prudence also provides another reference to a Beatles song with her entrance to the apartment. Shortly after she climbs in through a window in the bathroom, Sadie asks Jude when she came from. Jude replies "She came in through the bathroom window." which just so happens to be the title of another Beatles tune.

Answer: Bowling alley

This sequence marks the first transition from "reality" to "fantasy" within the picture. The bowlers begin to dance and slide down the lanes as the lights inside the alley start flashing in different colors to the music.

The Cavern Club is the club where we see Molly and Jude dancing in Liverpool during "Hold Me Tight". Cafe Huh? is the club where Sadie and Jo-Jo play.

Answer: Let It Be

The first stanza is sung by the boy as a prayer while the riot rages on behind him. At the chorus, it transitions into a powerful gospel number, sung by a choir at the first of the funerals. The funerals are for the boy who first sings the song, who we discover is Jo-Jo's little brother (presumably a victim of the riot) and for Lucy's boyfriend, Daniel (who has died in Vietnam).

The song symbolizes the inability of the characters to understand the tragedies (the riot and the war) that have befallen their loved ones and the hope that in the end, "there will be an answer".

Along with incorporating Beatles songs into the storyline, the film also contains many allusions to people and events of the era, including the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps")and also Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters ("I Am the Walrus").

Answer: Statue of Liberty

This is another of the film's fantasy sequences, with the first line ("I want you...I want you so bad.") being sung by a very large Uncle Sam reaching out of the famous recruitment poster for poor Max. He and the other draftees are then put through several tests by robotic-looking soldiers. The scene described above happens when we first hear "She's so heavy."

The carrying of the statue represents not only the burden of combat the draftees are made to bear, but also the view held by many people of the time of the US clumsily pushing its way into where it doesn't belong (on the backs of unwilling young men).

The song ends on a more "realistic" note, with Sadie singing "I want you" to Jo-Jo and a forlorn Prudence singing the same thing to Sadie while watching them through a window.

Answer: Jo-Jo

Prudence locks herself in closet because of her unrequited feelings toward Sadie. Sadie tries to tempt her out by singing the first verse, and then leaves Max, Jude and Lucy to deal with her. Prudence eventually gives into their urgings and opens the door. The song ends with the foursome joining a peace march and Prudence finding new companionship with a group of oversized puppets.

Answer: Prudence

It turns out that Prudence's new friends from the march are actually part of Mr. Kite's circus. She is introduced during the act by Mr. Kite as "Henry, the Horse" (don't ask why) and dances around in a costume that is part horse and part ballerina. After the show, Prudence excitedly introduces them to her new "friend", Rita, a fellow performer and contortionist.

Answer: An apple

Although he eventually decides on strawberries ("Strawberry Fields Forever") he starts out drawing a green apple. Unhappy with his results, he cuts the apple in half and starts again. Thus, he has made the two images used for record labels by Apple Records, the company founded by the Beatles.

Also, Sadie's company is called "Strawberry Jamz" which alludes to Apple Corps, the umbrella corporation under which Apple Records was a division.

Answer: Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek played artist Frida Khalo in Taymor's Oscar nominated biopic "Frida", which earned Hayek Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and SAG Award nominations for Best Actress.

The other actresses have also worked with Taymor: Ashley Judd was also in "Frida" as Italian model and actress Tina Modotti. Jessica Lange played the evil and conniving Tamora, Queen of the Goths in Taymor's visual masterpiece "Titus". Heather Headley is a Tony winning Broadway actress who originated the role of Adult Nala in Julie's smash hit stage adaptation of Disney's "The Lion King".

Answer: Bono

Bono also plays acid guru Dr. Robert who proclaims "I Am the Walrus" at an acid party that Sadie's producer invites them to.

Eddie Izzard plays circus owner Mr. Kite, singing "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" and Joe Cocker plays several characters (Tramp, Pimp, and Hippie) while singing "Come Together".

Dana Fuchs is, of course, "Sexy" Sadie.

Thanks for joining me on this trip "Across the Universe"! I made this quiz "With a Little Help from My Friends", so I give them "All My Loving". And before you "Get Back" to your quizzing, just remember that "All You Need Is Love"!