BEST BEATLE TRIVIA QUIZ

>> Thursday, November 13, 2008

Dear Readers,

Let's have a little BEATLE fun. Test your fab four knowledge in this challenging quiz and I've Got A Feeling you'll enjoy yourself. At first, I had to do the quiz With A Little Help From My Friends, but that's OK, Because - All Together Now - we can always use some Help when we can't remember Something we ought to know. I'm sure together, We Can Work It Out. So pencils at the ready and Why Don't We Do It In The Road, Eleanor Rigby!

1. What famous singer-songwriter wrote the group's first number one single, Last Train To Clarksville? (A) Ludwig Van Beethoven (B) Rudy Vallee (C) Neil Diamond (D) Neil Armstrong

2. Which member of the group was a child actor and starred in his own TV series about a Circus Boy? (A) Mike Nesmith (B) Mickey Dolenz (C) Davy Jones (D) Peter Tork

3. One member of the group, Mike Nesmith, always wore a wool hat - it became his trademark. Why? (A) He was bald (B) He was always cold (C) He was hiding a third eye (D) It prevented him from hearing the voices in his head

4. What famous film director got their start directing the group's first feature-length film, Head, which has become a cult classic? (A) Cecil B. DeMille (B) Thomas Edison (C) Ed Wood (D) Leni Riefenstahl

5. The group did not play musical instruments on their first three albums. Who was the real drummer on those records? (A) Ringo Starr (B) Zippy The Chimp (C) Pete Best (D) The Salvation Army

6. When their TV series made it's debut on NBC in 1966, what show did it replace? (A) The Vietnam War (B) The Huntley-Brinkley Report (C) Dr. Bloch, Vivisectionist (D) The test pattern

7. If you play I'm A Believer backwards, what can you hear Peter Tork saying? (A) 'Davy Jones is a no-talent bum' (B) 'Mike Nesmith is a stuck-up creep' (C) 'Mickey Dolenz is a cross-dressing nudist' (D) 'Why on earth did I sign this contract?'

8. Speaking of contracts, the group became famous for the spectacularly unfair deal forced on them by NBC. What was it's most outrageous clause? (A) All their first-born children became property of Red Skelton (B) NBC could donate their bodies to science while they were still alive (C) The group could be used on executive hunting trips for target practice (D) They had to forfeit their studio parking places to extras from Star Trek

9. On their last album, the group were finally allowed to play one instrument. What did they choose? (A) Air Guitar (B) Radio (C) Jackie Gleason's Stomach (D) Whoopie Cushion

10. When their TV show was cancelled in 1968, what program replaced it? (A) The Vietnam War (B) The Huntley-Brinkley Report (C) Dr. Bloch, Vivisectionist (D) The test pattern

Well, that's it, Beatlemaniacks! Did you get them all right? Well This Boy won't make you Wait any longer - I'll put you out of your Misery. The correct answer to all questions is...ooh, I Want To Tell You...but, no. Just call me Mean Mr. Mustard.

3 comments:

Anonymous November 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM  

This has been the silliest blog! My GOODness. And, when I read the questions from this trivia quiz and some of the jokes in the political blog further on to my friends....you could hear a mouse pissing on cotton. Suffice to say: I have no friends anymore. But I feel oddly elated. More blog, please.
Constipated in Cincinnati

Anonymous November 14, 2008 at 9:17 PM  

P.s.:
You DO know Mike Nesbit's mom invented "White Out" (hint-hint!), hence his absolute financial independence from that knit hat forevermore!
Busted in Baltimore

Anonymous November 14, 2008 at 9:36 PM  

P.S.
It seems to me Ringo has been going off his nut of late. Back with his schnozz in the sauce, no doubt. But that is neither here nor there (Barbara Bach is quite the looker though, wouldn't you agree? No doubt a goer, if you know what I mean). Excellent blog, wot?!
Great quiz on the Bee-Gees...I got every one wrong!
Cheesed in Chichester.