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A Quiz About The Beatles

Can you answer these questions about The Beatles?
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Who were the four members of the band?
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
What was the band's nickname?
The Fab Four
Who was the original drummer?
Pete Best
What city were all four band members born in?
Liverpool
In what German city did the band frequently perform during their early years?
Hamburg
What hairstyle did the Beatles wear in their early years?
Moptop
On what TV show did the Beatles make their first U.S. appearance?
The Ed Sullivan Show
What knighted producer was sometimes called "The Fifth Beatle"?
George Martin
What is the profession of "Lovely Rita"?
Meter Maid
What Indian stringed instrument is featured in some Beatles songs?
Sitar
What song asks "All the lonely people. Where do they all come from?"
Eleanor Rigby
Fill the blank in the song lyrics. "I am the egg man / They are the egg men /
I am the ______ / Goo goo g'joob"
Walrus
What song's initials, LITSWD, did some people think were a reference to LSD?
Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds
What is the actual name of the White Album?
The Beatles
What murderous cult leader drew inspiration from the song "Helter Skelter"?
Charles Manson
Which album's cover featured a zebra crossing?
Abbey Road
What spouse was often blamed for breaking up the band?
Yoko Ono
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Level 76
Oct 27, 2015
Great quiz; a blast from the past.
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Level 77
Oct 29, 2015
Still remember it all. Except that I never knew that about Manson.
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Level 59
Dec 1, 2015
Same
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Level 56
Nov 8, 2015
Not really a big fan, but I knew them all except the White Album.
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Level 23
Jun 27, 2017
HOW CAN YOU NOT BE A BIG FAN???!!!?
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Level 77
Jan 30, 2022
I feel like there was maybe a Seinfeld episode where George gets neurotic about someone not liking the Beatles. "A hundred songs the world loves and I'm the freak." I can't quite remember the episode well enough to quote it properly or find it online. But that quote here.
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Level 89
Jul 10, 2022
They were my favorite band when I was a kid because my dad was a big fan. I listened to them less when I get older and got exposed to more music, but I still enjoy many of their songs every now and then.
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Level 45
Jul 10, 2022
Because different people have different tastes.
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Level 68
Jul 10, 2022
Easy.....lot of other great bands out there...Rolling Stones for one
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Level 54
Aug 15, 2022
Everyone always brings up the Rolling Stones as the comparison to the Beatles, I like some Stones songs, but they ain't got nothing on the Beatles.
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Level 78
Nov 28, 2015
John was the heart, Paul was the talent, George was the soul, and Ringo was the drummer.
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Level 88
Jul 7, 2018
The Smart one, the Cute one, the Quiet one, the Lucky one.
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Level 41
Aug 10, 2018
You understand that Ringo was a great drummer right? He could play many different styles, had perfect tempo, and could play odd time signatures. He is also very creative and distinct, in fact, he changed drumming due to his unique positioning and playing. Just listen to his drumming on "Rain", "The End", or "Come Together". He wasn't just lucky, he was amazing and the Beatles were actually lucky to have such an amazing drummer. By the way, he is an excellent singer as well! Just listen to the beauty of his voice in "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Good Night", "Yellow Submarine", and "Octopus's Garden" (An amazing song that HE WROTE). So don't write off Ringo, he was creative in his own way and deserves appreciation. (Edit: Grammar)
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Level 88
Feb 27, 2019
He's better than a lot of people make him out to be, but a lot of people could've been the drummer in a band with 3 super talented people setting the standard for a long time to come. Lucky bugger was he.
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Level 61
Apr 12, 2019
beauty...of...his...voice...….ringo?!?.... must...stop...laughing...in...order...to...breathe......
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Level 69
Apr 13, 2019
i met him once
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Level 63
Jul 11, 2022
Ringo was the Al Jardine of the Beatles.
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Level 52
Jan 15, 2023
we dont tolerate al jardine slander on this website
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Level 67
Apr 11, 2019
Ringo is a really good drummer. The drums are not designed for soloing. They should elevate the song, which Ringo always did. To suggest that the drummer in the most successful band in history is not good is to suggest that the drummers don't matter, which is dead wrong. Go listen to the recordings with Pete Best. They're really bad. Ringo changed everything for the Beatles. People just rip on him because he's less talented than three of the most talented pop musicians who ever lived. But in most bands, he'd be the most talented member.
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Level 78
Mar 10, 2021
Was Ringo the best drummer in the world? He wasn't even the best drummer in The Beatles. Who said that...?

Correct: Jasper Carrot.

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Level 67
Jul 10, 2022
It doesn't matter that he wasn't the best drummer in the Beatles because very few pop musicians are as talented as Paul freaking McCartney. He was really good. He just wasn't as good as the other three, but the whole reason the Beatles are the Beatles is that they're all ridiculously talented. Paul is a 10. John is a 9.5. George is a 9. Ringo gets ripped on for being an 8.
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Level 44
Nov 29, 2020
Ringo was the heartbeat
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Level 22
Nov 28, 2015
ringo was the backbeat
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Level 66
Nov 28, 2015
I'm actually really surprised that more people didn't know what the so-called "White Album" is really called.
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Level 75
Dec 1, 2015
Many songs from the white album inspired Manson and I wouldn't say Helter Skelter necessarily inspired him more over others. He was inspired a lot by Revolution 9 and piggies as, even putting quotes from piggies on the wall in blood at some of the murder sites.
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Level ∞
Feb 27, 2019
I changed the question so that you have to guess Charles Manson instead of the song now.
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Level 71
Oct 4, 2016
If you enjoy Beatles quizzes try my 'Mal's Towns/Cities mentioned in BEATLES ALBUMS.'
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Level 88
Feb 27, 2019
Enough people have been called the 5th Beatle to fill a symphony.
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Level 45
Apr 11, 2019
Stuart Sutcliffe
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Level 34
Apr 11, 2019
Brian Epstein
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Level 63
Jul 10, 2022
Epstein is what I put, thought I must have spelt his name wrong so spent 2 minutes trying weird variations of his name!
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Level 90
Apr 11, 2019
Billy Preston, who is the only person to get a joint credit on a Beatles song. Although that was more due to contractural problems than the band's feelings about him and other artists.
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Level 90
Apr 11, 2019
And then there is the story maybe true maybe not that during George's disappearance during the Abbey Road recordings that John and Paul had numerous conversations about firing him and bringing in Clapton to at least finish the album and perhaps be a permanent replacement.Nonetheless he for sure played on one song on the "White" album and very likely played on one or more songs from Abbey Road.
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Level 67
Apr 11, 2019
According to George Harrison, the only people worthy of that title are Derek Taylor and Neil Aspinall, although everything I have read about the band (and it's a lot) suggests George Martin contributed a lot to the music, and much more than anyone besides the actual band members.
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Level 39
Jan 9, 2022
Eric Morecambe
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Level 63
Jul 11, 2022
Murray the K
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Level 26
Apr 11, 2019
I thought Stuart Sucliffe was the 5th beatle?? Who is the 5th beatle?? Because whenever I search it up it's a different person.
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Level 89
Apr 11, 2019
Well there’s Sutcliffe, who was the original bassist, Pete Best, who was the drummer before Ringo, George Martin, their producer, and Brian Epstein, their manager.
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Level 55
Apr 11, 2019
First live rock concert I ever went to---reluctantly, at the time---was when a woman who was friends of my folks asked me if I would please drive her and several teen girls to it because she didn't want to fight the traffic and asked me to "watch out" for the girls. Said she had a free ticket for me. The Beatles, Cow Palace, San Francisco, 1964.
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Level 67
Apr 11, 2019
That is a fantastic story.
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Level 67
Apr 11, 2019
More Eleanor Rigby trivia: it's the only song in the whole catalog on which none of the Beatles play an instrument (unless you count Paul's voice).
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Level 84
Sep 22, 2019
(And John and George's voices.)
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Level 48
May 24, 2022
just an amazing string octet
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Level 69
Apr 11, 2019
When asked by a journalist if Ringo is the best drummer in the world, Lennon replied Ringo isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.
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Level 37
Apr 12, 2019
^ Yes, John was very egotistical, wasn't he? Ringo is an excellent drummer (and singer), who was not appreciated (at least by John). It's no surprise that John became a house-husband; to me his greatest achievement (Imagine) was behind him.
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Level 67
Jul 19, 2019
I believe the "best drummer" John was referencing was Paul, who is indeed an excellent drummer (he played on several songs on the White Album while Ringo had temporarily quit, notably "Back in the USSR," which has very good drumming). I'm sure John could dabble in the drums, but I don't think he'd suggest he was better than Ringo. Also worth nothing that Taylor Hawkins is also one of the best rock drummers on the planet...and yet isn't the best drummer in his band either.
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Level 72
Jul 10, 2022
Ah, now I'm sad :( RIP Taylor.
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Level 52
May 22, 2020
But Lennon never said that. Mark Lewisohn went through all interviews John ever made, and then it was found it was said by Jasper Carrott in 1983.
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Level 19
Nov 26, 2020
actually john did not even said that
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Level 50
Apr 16, 2019
Can you accept Richard Starkey for the first question?
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Level 87
May 6, 2020
My English teacher in China was a Kiwi who was a huge Beatles fan. During our formative years we had little interest in famous foreigners, no matter how bad they were. Hitler, Mussolini, the entire Confederacy, we simply didn't care. But one person we were given a burning hatred for was Yoko Ono. I still have it, although I now know there is probably another side to the story.
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Level 78
Oct 27, 2021
Totally untrue. Yoko Ono is evil in every story. (Kidding, but much truth is said in jest)
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Level 77
Jan 30, 2022
Have you ever suffered through her music? If she's not evil, she's sure got a mean sense of humour.
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Level 66
Jun 22, 2023
if youve only if you really want to hear yoko's best stuff, listen to anything on Double Fantasy and Milk & Honey, dont just listen to the stuff she made in the sixties and assume that its all she's made, it's like if i were to say Paul's music sucks beacuse i've only heard Liverpool Sound Collage.
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Level 72
Jul 10, 2022
I mean, you can utterly despise Yoko if you want to, but it's a pretty far stretch to believe she was the primary cause of the band's dissolution.
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Level 43
May 10, 2020
Cool Quiz!
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Level 53
Aug 24, 2020
wasn't Rita a traffic warden?
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Level 65
May 3, 2021
Meter maid is a traffic warden and surprised a lot of people do not know about Manson and Helter Skelter
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Level 78
Oct 27, 2021
The song says 'meter maid'. It's not asking for synonyms.
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Level 56
Jan 30, 2022
Can never remember how to spell eleanor
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Level 79
Jul 10, 2022
'Rigby' on its own would have worked
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Level 45
Jul 10, 2022
Got Eleanor Rigby because it's one of my favorite songs.
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Level 64
Jan 28, 2024
Are we still saying that Yoko Ono was evil and meant the end of the Beatles?

A much less misogynistic question could be: "Who brought tons of inspiration to the Beatles—linked their work with the most relevant trends in contemporary culture, particularly Fluxus and conceptual art? Who pushed them to be more socially and politically active? Who gave so many ideas to break conventions?"

Yoko deserves much more than being the evil woman breaking up the Beatles. She was not.