20 Obscure Beatles Questions
1) Which Jacques Tati movie features The Beatles?
2) Which song by The Band does Paul McCartney sing on which Beatles hit record?
3) The USA is famous for having 5 Beatles songs in the top five singles, but which country had 6 Beatles songs in the top 6 singles…
4) …And which album track was number one that week?
5) What is The Beatles longest unbroken run at Number 1 in the charts?
6) The Beatles famous booming cavern sound was produced by which two members of the band?
7) Who were The Beatles favourite Merseybeat group and which song of theirs did they cover on the first album
8) Which British group did the Beatles write a tribute song to?
9) Brian Epstein allegedly hyped Love Me Do into the British charts by buying 10,000 copies for NEMS in Liverpool, but how many copies were actually sold in the U.K. before Please Please Me was released?
10) Which music publisher were the Beatles (McCartney and Lennon) signed to before Dick James set up Northern Songs?
11) Which Lennon-McCartney song did that publisher particularly like?
12) Who was the first session musician to play on a Beatles album track (given that Alan White played on Love Me Do)?
13) Which French Nobel Prize winner wrote “the Beatles were full of joy?”
14) Who spurted the highest when the boys masturbated over Brigitte Bardot?
15) Which Soviet city opened a Kavern Klub as a tribute to The Beatles in 1986? (How were Beatles records bootlegged in the USSR?)
16) Who first cut their hair into The Beatles haircut and in which city?
17) Where did The Beatles play their breakthrough performance in Liverpool when billed as “direct from Hamburg”…
18) Who was their favourite Rolling Stone?
19) What position was Love Me Do when Please Please Me entered the chart in 1963?
20) Which British teen sensation did The Beatles write a song for, only to have it turned down? Namely?
Bonus unused Questions for Superfans
Who said “John Lennon wasn’t middle class! We were middle class” and why?
Which traditional song was taught to Lennon by his Aunt Mini and his Mother Julia? On which album did he use it?
Who is Semolina Pilchard?
There is a B/W film of The Beatles singing I Saw Her Standing There in the cavern, but which song are they actually singing.
The Beatles were twice offered the chance to promote their latest and very recent album on television but decided to record new material instead for broadcast. Which two albums did they decline to promote?
The very first Top of The Pops on BBC Television in January 1964 featured 5 Beatles records in their first Top Twenty. Can you name all five records?
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