Song by Song: "I Want to Hold Your Hand" Quiz

Answer: true

According to Rolling Stone magazine, the Beatles had told their manager they didn't want to go to tour America until they were "toppermost of the poppermost." It was a teenage girl, Marsha Albert, who first got a D.C. DJ to play an imported copy of the "I Want to Hold Your Hand" single, and it took off from there.

The official single was released in the U.S. on December 26, 1963, and it peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in February of 1964.

Answer: I Saw Her Standing There

"This Boy" was on the B-side of the single released in the U.K. on November 29, 1963, but in the U.S., it was "I Saw Her Standing There." This song, originally titled "Seventeen," begins:

"Well, she was just seventeen
You know what I mean..."

Answer: The Beatles' already had a number one song on the charts

When the Beatles released the single in the U.K., they were in competition with their own number one hit, "She Loves You," which was their first song to sell a million copies. "She Loves You" remained at the top of the charts for another two weeks after the release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," which eventually beat it out for top dog slot and held onto that position for the next five weeks.

Answer: understand

"Oh yeah, I'll tell you somethin'
I think you'll understand
When I say that somethin'
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand."

Rolling Stone magazine described this song as "an irresistibly erotic come-on framed as a chaste, bashful request." It was written by Lennon and McCartney at the home of the parents of Paul McCartney's girlfriend Jane Asher.

Answer: man

"Oh please, say to me
You'll let me be your man
And please, say to me
You'll let me hold your hand
Now, let me hold your hand
I want to hold your hand."

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" was the Beatles' best-selling single worldwide. In the U.K., it was second only to "She Loves You." In addition to the U.K. and the U.S., the song peaked at number one on singles charts in Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, and West Germany.

Answer: hide

For the song, John Lennon and Paul McCartney supplied vocals and rhythm and bass guitar, respectively, while George Harrison played lead guitar and Ringo Starr played drums. All four Beatles added handclaps to the song. In Anthony Scaduto's 1973 biography on Bob Dylan, Dylan was quoted as saying about this song that the Beatles' "chords were outrageous" and "their harmonies made it all valid." They were, Dylan said, "doing things nobody was doing."

Answer: Sailor Moon

The full name of the soundtrack album on which the cover was released is "Sailor Moon & The Scouts - Lunarock." The album was released on June 15, 1999 and contains songs, including "I Want to Hold Your Hand," that were recorded in 1992, 1993, and 1999. It was the second of three Sailor Moon soundtracks.

Answer: The Ed Sullivan Show

An estimated 73 million Americans watched the Beatles' debut performance on "The Ed Sullivan show" on February 9, 1964. They played "All My Loving," "Till There Was You," and "She Loves You" for their main set, but later in the show, they had an encore and played "I Saw Her Standing There" before closing out with "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

Answer: The Supremes

"A Bit of Liverpool," released on the Motown label, was The Supremes' third studio album and peaked at number 21 on the U.S. Billboard 200. Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson supplied the vocals for the album, which also included other songs by the Lennon-McCartney writing partnership: "Can't Buy Me Love," "A Hard Day's Night," "A World Without Love," and "You Can't Do That."

Answer: I Want to Choke Your Band

The band plays songs created from a combination of the songs from Metallica and the Beatles. "I Want to Choke Your Band" appeared on their "Masterful Mystery Tour" album, which was released in August of 2009. The song was originally recorded live in concert in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, along with the mash-up "Revol-ooh-tion."