1. What group was Ringo with before he became the permanent drummer of the Beatles? (answer)
2. Who was the youngest member of the Beatles? (answer)
3. Who was the oldest member of the Beatles? (answer)
4. What is Paul's middle name? (answer)
5. Which two Beatles were left-handed? (answer)
6. What is the shortest Beatles song? (answer)
7. What is the longest Beatles song? (answer)
8. Which Lennon/McCartney song became the Rolling Stones' first Top 20 hit? (answer)
9. Who came up with the title "A Hard Day's Night"? (answer)
10. How many pictures of each Beatle are on the cover of the album A Hard Day's Night? (answer)
11. What kind of candy did the fans sometimes throw at the Beatles during concerts? (answer)
12. What Beatles album was not produced by George Martin? (answer)
13. Who has gone down in history as "the man who turned down the Beatles"? (answer)
14. Which Beatles song was inspired by a drawing John's son, Julian, did? (answer)
15. Which Beatles song was used on a commercial for Schweppes on Spanish TV in 1985? (answer)
16. What is George's middle name? (answer)
17. Back in the early days, John, Paul, and George gave themselves stage names. What were they? (answer)
18. Which place in Germany did George say the Beatles' sound really stemmed from? (answer)
19. How did George meet Patti Boyd, his first wife? (answer)
1. Rory Storm and the Hurricanes
2. George, born February 25, 1943
3. Ringo, born July 7, 1940
4. Paul; his full name is James Paul McCartney
5. Paul and Ringo (Ringo learned to play the drums right-handed, though)
6. "Her Majesty," clocking in at 0:23
7. "Revolution 9," at 8:22
8. "I Wanna Be Your Man"
9. Ringo
10. 5
11. Jelly beans, or jelly babies, as they called them, because it was their favorite candy (well, at least until fans started throwing them at shows!)
12. Let It Be, produced by Phil Spector
13. Dick Rowe, the head of "Pop" A&R at Decca Records. The Beatles auditioned for a record deal with Decca, but Rowe turned them down, telling their manager, "Guitar groups are on the way out. You really should stick to selling records in Liverpool." He later signed the Rolling Stones to Decca on George's advice to make up for it.
14. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Many people thought it was a drug song because its initials spelled out LSD. John explained later he'd gotten the idea for the song from a picture Julian made of his friend, Lucy, from school.
15. "She Loves You"
16. Trick question - he doesn't have a middle name. His full legal name is George Harrison.
17. John chose the name Long John Silver, Paul was Paul Ramon, and George was Carl Harrison (after Carl Perkins).
18. Hamburg, Germany. George said, "That's where we learned to work for hours and hours on end, working at full peak even though we reckoned our legs and arms were about ready to drop off."
19. On the set of the Beatles' first movie, A Hard Day's Night. Patti played one of the schoolgirls on the train and only had one line in the whole film ("Prisoners?!").
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