The Beatles 5 Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

Paul was once looking through a music book that his sister owned, when he came across a poem by Thomas Dekker. It was called "Cradle Song". Unable to read music, Paul came up with his own melody, but still used some of the lyrics from the poem to make "Golden Slumbers".

Answer: True

The male voice that is saying: "Number 9", in "Revolution 9", in a continuous loop, is actually an unknown voice, but John Lennon liked the way he said: "Number 9", so he made a track loop of it and put it in the song.

Answer: B Minor

The slow piano intro of "Revolution 9" is in the key of B Minor. The piano piece and the words: "Number 9", are repeatedly heard during the eight minute long, avant-garde song.

Answer: 10th

"The Beatles (White Album)" was ranked tenth on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003, while "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was first, "Revolver" was third, "Rubber Soul" was fifth, "Abbey Road was fourteenth, "Please Please Me" was thirty-ninth, "Meet the Beatles" was fifty-ninth, "Let It Be" was eighty-sixth, "Help" was three hundred thirty-second, "A Hard Day's Night" was three hundred eighty-eighth, and "With the Beatles" was four hundred twentieth.

Answer: True

"Good Night", found on the album "The Beatles (The White Album)" was written by John Lennon for his son, Julian Lennon, while he was five years old. Ringo Starr sings lead, George Martin plays the celesta, The Mike Sammes Singers sing backing vocals, and twelve violins, three violas, three cellos, three flutes, a clarinet, a horn, a vibraphone, a double bass, and a harp were all played by uncredited musicians.

Answer: Mango

At the end of the B-Side of "Penny Lane", "Strawberry Fields Forever", John says: "Cranberry Sauce, Cranberry Sauce... Alright, calm down there Mango, calm down!" He says this because Ringo (Mango) has been playing very intense drumming for a long time.

Answer: Shminking

In this version of "Rocky Raccoon", instead of saying: "The doctor came in, stinking of gin..." Paul says: "The doctor came in, shminking of gin. Haha! Shminking? And proceeded to lie on the table, he was really shminking of gin."

Answer: True

"A Hard Day's Night" is The Beatle's third studio album, released on July 10, 1964. In 2000, "Q" Magazine placed "A Hard Day's Night" at number five in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number three hundred eighty-eight on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Answer: John Lennon

John Lennon became the first Beatle to be wed, when he married Cynthia Powell on August 23, 1962. On April 8, 1963, Cynthia gave birth to Julian Lennon with John Lennon. Later, they were legally divorced on November 8, 1968. John then married Yoko Ono on March 20, 1969.

Answer: Sean

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, was born on John Lennon's 35th birthday, October 9, 1975.

Answer: Saturday

The lyrics that mention the other six days are:

"Friday night arrives without a suitcase.
Sunday morning creeping like a nun.
Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlace, see how they run...
Tuesday afternoon is never ending.
Wednesday morning papers didn't come.
Thursday night your stockings needed mending, see how they run..."

Answer: Cry For A Shadow

"Cry for a Shadow" is the only Beatles song to be credited to John Lennon and George Harrison alone. It's an instrumental that was written by John and George as a parody of The Shadows style. "Cry for a Shadow" was recorded on June 22, 1961 in Hamburg, Germany, while The Beatles were backing up Tony Sheridan in the recording studio. The original title of the track was "Beatle Bop".

Answer: What Goes On

The first Beatles song to give Ringo Starr co-writing credit was "What Goes On", though Ringo jokingly claimed he contributed "about five words, and I haven't done a thing since." The writing credit is attributed to Lennon/McCartney/Starkey, with Ringo using his real name of Richard Starkey.

The credits in the first pressing of the single accidentally omitted "Starkey". The origins of "What Goes On" actually date back years earlier to the Quarrymen days when John Lennon started the original version of the song.

It was later resurrected in 1965 and completed with the help of Paul McCartney and Starr.

Answer: True

The "Helter Skelter" that appeared on the album "The Beatles (The White Album)" was take 21, and was four minutes and thirty seconds long. Takes 1-3 were recorded on July 18, 1968. Take 1 was ten minutes and forty seconds, take 2 was twelve minutes and thirty-five seconds, and take 3 was twenty-seven minutes, eleven seconds long. An edited mix of take two was released on "Anthology 3," in 1996.

Answer: False

George Harrison actually didn't have a middle name at all, though his full name is sometimes given as George Harold Harrison.

Answer: Condom

In Hamburg, Pete Best and Paul McCartney got arrested for sticking a condom to a wall and setting it on fire.

Answer: 2

During the guitar solo of "Can't Buy Me Love", there is actually a second guitar solo being played quietly in the background. It is a recording from a live version of the song, performed in Paris, France.

Answer: Roger Lord

Roger Lord plays the oboe in the orchestral parts of "A Day In The Life". These orchestral sections of the song were orchestrated by George Martin, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney. They were conducted by George Martin and Paul McCartney.

The other options for the answer of the question were also players in "A Day In The Life". Tristan Fry played the timpani, Michael Barnes played the tuba, and John Marston played the harp.

Answer: Trumpet

McCartney's father was a trumpet player and pianist who had led Jim Mac's Jazz Band in the 1920s and encouraged his two sons to be musical. Jim had an upright piano in the front room that he had bought from Brian Epstein's store. McCartney's grandfather, Joe McCartney, played an E-flat tuba. Jim McCartney used to point out the different instruments in songs on the radio, and often took McCartney to local brass band concerts. McCartney's father gave him a nickel-plated trumpet, but when skiffle music became popular, McCartney swapped the trumpet for a £15 Framus Zenith (model 17) acoustic guitar.

Answer: Bass Clarinet

This song from the album, "Yellow Submarine", has a bass clarinet played in it. The bass clarinet player is Paul Harvey. The bass clarinet was also used in "When I'm Sixty-Four", but in that song, it is played by Robert Burns.

Answer: 0

Very surprisingly, none of the Beatles knew how to read music. They just memorized their songs.

Answer: Minnesota

The "Rocky Raccoon" from the compilation album, "Anthology 3" has a lot of different lyrics than the version that appeared on the "The Beatles (White Album)". One of the differences is instead of Paul saying: "Now somewhere in the black mountain hills of Dakota there lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon", Paul says: "Mind you coming from a little town in Minnesota".

Answer: A false start

The "I'm Looking Through You" that most people know and have heard is the version from the UK "Rubber Soul". In the US "Rubber Soul", "I'm Looking Through You" starts differently. Paul plays the first few chords several times, then the song starts.

Answer: 117

This song from the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", is at the speed, 117. The time signature alternates between 5/4, 4/4, and 3/4, and during the last verse, it is 12/8.

Answer: George Martin

The opening riff to "Getting Better", from the album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", was actually played by George Martin. It sounds like a guitar, but it is really him banging the strings on a pianet with a mallet.