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101 The Beatles Trivia Questions That Only A Paperback Writer Can Answer

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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