If you think you know all there is to know, from the Cavern Club in Liverpool to the infamous rooftop concert, you might pass this The Beatles quiz. This iconic band revolutionized the world by delivering some of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. Modern artists constantly cite The Beatles as an influence on their work, and it’s no surprise with smash albums like Abbey Road in their library.
If you’ve had a ‘Hard Day’s Night’ and you’ve been working like a dog, let’s take a stroll down Penny Lane and reminisce about the fun we had with Sergeant Pepper and his band. The Beatles trivia questions and answers aren’t for the casual fan who knows that Lucy’s in the Sky or how much fun you can have living in a Yellow Submarine. It’s a deep dive into the long and winding road that is The Beatles story.
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What was the name of the second Beatles film, released in 1965?
Please Please Me
Help!
Rubber Soul
From Me to You
What kind of hammer did Maxwell have on the Abbey Road album?
Gold
Copper
Platinum
Silver
Which of the Beatles albums was the first to have lyrics printed on the back?
Please Please Me
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Abbey Road
Help!
What song features the line, ‘You don’t need me to show the way love, why do I always have to say love’?
Please Please Me
I Saw Her Standing There
Ticket To Ride
Hello, Goodbye
On which Beatles album would you find the song Eleanor Rigby?
Rubber Soul
Abbey Road
Help!
Revolver
What was the name of the animated Beatles movie?
Yellow Submarine
Help!
Magical Mystery Tour
Revolver
What song features the line, ‘Little darling, it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter’?
Day Tripper
Here Comes The Sun
Hello, Goodbye
Eight Days A Week
Which 80s megastar bought the rights to 250 Beatles’ songs in 1985?
Michael Jackson
Rihanna
Madonna
Freddie Mercury
Stuart Sutcliffe was the original player of which instrument in the Beatles?
Keyboards
Violin
Drums
Bass
What was the name of the Beatles’ third, and last, film?
Abbey Road
Magical Mystery Tour
Sergeant Pepper
Eleanor Rigby
The Beatles sang about a ‘long and winding’ what on the ‘Let it Be’ album?
Street
Road
Highway
Terrace
What was the first name of Mr Epstein, the Beatles’ manager?
Brian
Benny
Bernie
Billy
What was the name of the group Paul McCartney formed after the Beatles?
Seagulls
Beaks
Feathers
Wings
What song features the line, ‘I’ll give you all I’ve got to give if you say you love me too’?
Let It Be
Revolution
A Hard Day’s Night
Can’t Buy Me Love
What health condition caused George Harrison’s death in 2001?
Heart Disease
Brain Tumour
Diabetes
Cancer
Although the Beatles split in 1970, it took until which year to legally dissolve the band?
1974
1990
1972
1980
What song has the line, ‘The way things are going, they’re going to crucify me’?
Wait
The Ballad Of John And Yoko
We Can Work It Out
Wild Honey Pie
What was the name given to the public hysteria around the Beatles?
Beatletonia
Beatlemania
Beatlecrazy
Beatlephonia
What song features the line, ‘We would be warm below the storm in our little hide-a-way beneath the waves’?
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Octopus’ Garden
I Am The Walrus
Strawberry Fields Forever
How many people are on the cover of the Sergeant Pepper album?
37
77
57
97
What nationality was John Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono?
Chinese
Korean
Indian
Japanese
In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named which Beatles album as the best ever?
Please Please Me
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Rubber Soul
Abbey Road
What song features the line, ‘I think I’m gonna be sad, I think it’s today, yeah!’?
Ticket To Ride
Hello, Goodbye
Day Tripper
Rain
What song features the line, ‘Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it’s good to be back home’?
I Am The Walrus
Back In The USSR
The Long And Winding Road
Ticket To Ride
In which year did the Beatles have their first US number 1 single?
1962
1960
1967
1964
What song features the line, ‘No one I think is in my tree, I mean, it must be high or low’?
Strawberry Fields Forever
I Am The Walrus
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Octopus’ Garden
What song features the line, ‘Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical science in the home’?
I Saw Her Standing There
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
Here Comes The Sun
Penny Lane
What was the Beatles’ first Number 1 single in the US?
Eleanor Rigby
Love Me Do
I Want to Hold Your Hand
From Me to You
What song features the line, ‘It’s a dirty story of a dirty man, and his clinging wife doesn’t understand’?
Paperback Writer
Here Comes The Sun
Mean Mr. Mustard
Penny Lane
Paul McCartney has followed which sort of diet since 1975?
Halal
Vegetarian
Kosher
Vegan
What song features the line, ‘I say high, you say low, you say why, and I say I don’t know’?
Eight Days A Week
Drive My Car
Hello, Goodbye
Here Comes The Sun
In which year did Yellow Submarine hit UK cinemas?
1970
1968
1964
1960
Lennon and McCartney first perfomed together in which year?
1967
1957
1952
1962
What was the Beatles’ first big UK hit?
Help
Please Please Me
Eleanor Rigby
Hey Jude
What was the first name of the American who married Paul McCartney in 1969?
Carole
Linda
Diane
Susan
What song features the line, ‘We take a walk the sun is shining down, burns my feet as they touch the ground’?
Yesterday
Good Day Sunshine
We Can Work It Out
Day Tripper
Who is often referred to as the ‘Fifth Beatle’?
Bob Dylan
Quincy Jones
Pete Best
Jim West
What song was the only one sung by Paul without any help from his band mates?
Here Comes The Sun
Blackbird
When I’m Sixty Four
Julia
How many people were in the Beatles?
6
5
4
3
What was the name of the first Beatles’ movie?
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Ticket to Ride
A Hard Day’s Night
Yellow Submarine
In which US city did the Beatles play their last concert in August 1966?
Boston
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Who sang ‘A Hard Day’s Night’?
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
John Lennon
Which Beatles song is partly sung in French?
Eleanor Rigby
Norwegian Wood
Octopus’s Garden
Michelle
Who sang ‘Let It Be’?
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Ringo Starr
George Harrison
Who wrote the song ‘Don’t Bother Me’?
George Harrison
John Lennon
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
Known by his middle name, what is Paul McCartney’s real first name?
James
Peter
John
Michael
What label did the band sign with in 1962?
Scotti Bros.
Apple
Parlophone
Hollywood
What was a former name used by the Beatles?
Farmers
Quarrymen
Joiners
Carpenters
What singles is the band’s longest at over 7 minutes?
The Long And Winding Road
Let It Be
Yellow Submarine
Hey Jude
Which Beatles song spent the most number of weeks in the charts?
Please Please Me
Hey Jude
Let it Be
Yellow Submarine
Which Beatle has a fashion designing daughter called Stella?
Paul McCartney
Ringo Starr
George Harrison
John Lennon
What song features the line, ‘Well on the way, head in a cloud, the man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud’?
The Fool On The Hill
Here Comes The Sun
Hello, Goodbye
Penny Lane
What song features the line, ‘Working for peanuts is all very fine, but I can show you a better time’?
The Long And Winding Road
Revolution
Drive My Car
Day Tripper
What song features the line, ‘Jo Jo left his home in Tucson Arizona for some California grass’?
Let It Be
Yesterday
Get Back
Come Together
What song features the line, ‘We talked until two and then she said, ‘It’s time for bed”?
Norwegian Wood
Mean Mr. Mustard
We Can Work It Out
Penny Lane
What song features the line, ‘And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me’?
We Can Work It Out
Let It Be
I Saw Her Standing There
Here Comes The Sun
Which Beatle had to deny rumours of his own death in 1966?
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
John Lennon
Strawberry Fields’ was a double A side single with which other song?
Hey Jude
Penny Lane
Eleanor Rigby
A Day in the Life
What song features the line, ‘She’s a big teaser, she took me half the way there’?
Let It Be
We Can Work It Out
Ticket To Ride
Day Tripper
John Lennon went to a Liverpool College to study which subject in 1957?
Spanish
History
Art
Physics
What wa the Beatles’ nickname, referring to the number of people in the group?
Fantastic Four
Phenomenal Four
Fab Four
Feeling Four
The Beatles Story museum opened in which city in 1990?
Liverpool
London
New York
Paris
What was the first name of John Lennon’s first wife?
Cynthia
Constance
Catherine
Caroline
Who sang ‘Get Back’?
John Lennon
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
What genre of music did the band play before they hit it big?
Skiffle
Reggae
Ska
New Wave
How many UK number 1 albums did the Beatles have?
5
3
15
10
Abbey Road’ was released in which year?
1966
1963
1969
1960
What song features the line, ‘She’s well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane’?
Come Together
Day Tripper
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Hello, Goodbye
What kind of sea creature’s garden was featured on the Abbey Road album?
Shark
Seahorse
Octopus
Whale
What song features the line, ‘The minute you let her under your skin, then you begin to make it better’?
Day Tripper
Get Back
Let It Be
Hey Jude
In which English city did the four Beatles meet and form the band?
Liverpool
Manchester
London
Leeds
What song has the line, ‘But if you want money for people with minds that hate all I can tell you is brother you have to wait’?
Revolution
Day Tripper
The Long And Winding Road
Get Back
What song features the line, ‘All the lonely people, where do they all come from?’
Eleanor Rigby
Come Together
The Long And Winding Road
We Can Work It Out
The Beatles’ first UK single, Love Me Do, reached which position in the charts?
27
37
17
7
What song features the line, ‘But when I get home to you, I find the things that you do will make me feel alright’?
She Said She Said
A Hard Day’s Night
Yesterday
Ticket To Ride
What name was given to the music scene in Liverpool in the early 1960s?
Liverbirds
Poolbeat
Merseybeat
Livvibeat
What was the name of the Liverpool club most closely associated with the Beatles?
Cavern
Dungeon
Attic
Cellar
What was the first name of Sutcliffe, the so-called Fifth Beatle?
Simon
Scott
Steven
Stuart
In which year did the Beatles launch their record label Apple?
1963
1971
1968
1960
In which German city did the Beatles perform many gigs between 1960 and 1962?
Munich
Berlin
Hamburg
Cologne
What song features the line, ‘Love you ev’ry day, girl, always on my mind. One thing I can say, girl, love you all the time’?
Eight Days A Week
Ticket To Ride
Day Tripper
Come Together
What song features the line, ‘You think you lost your love, well I saw her yesterday’?
Day Tripper
Hello, Goodbye
She Loves You
I Saw Her Standing There
What song features the line, ‘Well, she was just seventeen, you know what I mean and the way she looked was way beyond compare’?
Strawberry Fields Forever
I Saw Her Standing There
Day Tripper
Hello, Goodbye
What song features the line, ‘Who finds the money when you pay the rent? Did you think that money was heaven sent?’
Good Day Sunshine
Lady Madonna
We Can Work It Out
Here Comes The Sun
What Beatles song was also the title of their famous film?
Come Together
Get Back
A Hard Day’s Night
Here Comes The Sun
What song features the line, ‘Doesn’t have a point of view, knows not where he’s going to, isn’t he a bit like you and me?’
Strawberry Fields Forever
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Nowhere Man
Mean Mr. Mustard
The double album called The Beatles is more commonly known as which album?
Clear
White
Black
Simple
What song features the line, ‘Sleeps in a hole in the road, saving up to buy some clothes’?
Good Day Sunshine
Penny Lane
Mean Mr. Mustard
Long Tall Sally
In 1965, the Beatles held a record-breaking concert in what US stadium?
Shea Stadium
Soldier Field
Candlestick Park
Louisiana Superdome
How old was John Lennon when he was shot dead?
50
60
40
30
What song has the line, ‘The wild and windy night that the rain washed away, has left a pool of tears crying for the day’?
The End
The Night Before
The Fool On The Hill
The Long And Winding Road
In which year did the Beatles record their first album, Please Please Me?
1963
1966
1969
1969
What song was banned by the BBC for lines like ‘pornographic priestesses’ and ‘let your knickers down’?
The Long And Winding Road
Strawberry Fields Forever
I Am The Walrus
Yellow Submarine
What song features the line, ‘On the corner is a banker with a motorcar, the little children laugh at him behind his back’?
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Hello, Goodbye
Day Tripper
Penny Lane
How many days did it take to record the songs on the Please Please Me album?
1
3
9
6
Beatles manager Brian Epstein died in which year?
1960
1967
1963
1970
The Beatles got into a legal dispute with iTunes over the use of which word?
Download
Stream
iPod
Apple
What song features the line, ‘They have taken her away and she’ll never walk down Lime Street anymore’?
Maggie Mae
We Can Work It Out
Penny Lane
Long Tall Sally
Which Asian instrument did George Harrison teach himself to play?
Flute
Sitar
Tabla
Shenhai
Who sang ‘Octopus’ Garden’?
Ringo Starr
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Which Sergeant had a lonely hearts club band?
Salt
Mustard
Vinegar
Pepper
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