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Beatles Trivia Quiz

1. Who was George Harrison’s Best Man at his wedding to Patty Boyd?

2. Who recorded the single “Ringo I Love You” and who produced it?

3. How many Beatles recordings have only 1 Beatle on the recording and what are they?

4. How many members of the Beatles are left handed?

5. What actress whose daughter worked with Steve Carell had sex with Paul McCartney?

6. Which Lennon-McCartney Beatles song was allegedly co-written by a Non-Beatle who was not credited and received a cash payment for his contribution but no royalties?

7. How many Lennon-McCartney songs written before the Beatles broke up, have the word love in their title or as part as a bigger word with love contained in the word?

8. Ringo Starr is totally absent on which 16 officially released Beatles recordings. Note if he so much as contributed a backing vocal or so, he’s not considered totally absent.

9. On what Beatles recordings, have the Beatles wives/ex-wives been on?

10. What is the only track on the Beatles White Album that John Lennon and Paul McCartney share lead vocals?


Answers below:





1. Who was George Harrison’s Best Man at his wedding to Patty Boyd?

John Lennon

2. Who recorded the single “Ringo I Love You” and who produced it?

Cher’s first solo recording was the novelty single “Ringo, I Love You”, which was released under the pseudonym “Bonnie-Jo Mason” and was produced by Phil Spector

3. How many Beatles recordings have only 1 Beatle on the recording and what are they?

7 Recordings with Just one Beatles as follows- Paul: Yesterday, Her Majesty, Blackbird, Mother Nature’s Son; John: Julia; Ringo:Good Night; George: The Inner Light

4. How many members of the Beatles of the Beatles are left handed?

Two Beatles are left handed: Paul MCartney and Ringo Starr even though Ringo plays right handed drums

5. What actress whose daughter worked with Steve Carell had sex with Paul McCartney?

Peggy Lipton of the Mod Squad whose daughter Rashida Jones was on The Office with Steve Carell.

6. Which Lennon-McCartney Beatles song was allegedly co-written by a Non-Beatle who was not credited and received a cash payment for his contribution but no royalties?

Fixing A Hole for which Beatles assistant Mal Evans allegedly contributed lyrics and received a payment for his contribution but not songwriting royalties. To quote IMDB in its listing of “Mal Evans Contributed some lyrics to Paul McCartney’s “Fixing A Hole”, for the Sgt. Pepper album; Paul gave him a cash payment instead of a songwriting credit.”

7. How many Lennon-McCartney songs written before the Beatles broke up, have the word love in somewhere their title?

All You Need is Love
It’s Only Love
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
She Loves You
Can’t Buy Me Love
Love Me Do
Lovely Rita
PS I Love You
Step Inside Love Covered by Cilia Black Not Recorded by the Beatles
And I Love Her

8. Ringo Starr is totally absent on which 16 officially released Beatles recordings. Note if he so much as contributed a backing vocal or so, he’s not considered totally absent.

I’ll Follow the Sun, Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby, Because,Her Majesty,She’s Leaving Home, Within You,Without You,Back in the USSR (Paul played drums),Dear Prudence(Paul played drums),Wild Honey Pie,Blackbird,Julia,Mother Nature’s Sun,Revolution #9,The Inner Light,Ballad of John and Yoko

9. On what Beatles recordings, have the Beatles wives/ex-wives been on?

Pattie Harrison who contributes backing vocals on Yellow Submarine & Birthday, Yoko Ono does backing vocals on Birthday and a line on The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill and Maureen Starr does backing vocals on birthday.

10. What is the only track on the Beatles White Album that John Lennon and Paul McCartney share lead vocals?

Birthday

4 comments:

Johnny Bacardi said...

So...no answer for #10?

Johnny Bacardi said...

Thanks! :)

Anonymous said...

Lol, it was Paul, not John, who was best man at George and Patty's wedding!

display said...

Answer #9 left out "Revolution #9," which includes Yoko.

Answer #3. "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" is just Paul (playing all the instruments).