The Beatles Trivia Jeopardy

Liverpool clubs, Beatlemania, the albums and the solo years after: a Beatles board built for mixed-age music fans. Copy it free and buzz in by phone.

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John, Paul, George and Ringo

$200
This Beatle was the band's drummer.
Who is Ringo Starr?
$400
This Beatle was shot and killed outside the Dakota in New York City in 1980.
Who is John Lennon?
$600
Known as the quiet Beatle, he wrote 'Here Comes the Sun'.
Who is George Harrison?
$800
This Beatle played a violin-shaped bass guitar made by Hofner.
Who is Paul McCartney?
$1,000
Paul wrote 'Hey Jude' to comfort this son of John's during his parents' divorce.
Who is Julian Lennon?

The Albums

$200
This 1969 album's cover shows the four crossing a zebra crossing outside their studio.
What is Abbey Road?
$400
This 1967 album's cover puts the band in bright military-style uniforms in front of a crowd of cutout celebrities.
What is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
$600
The 1968 double album known as the White Album is officially titled this.
What is The Beatles?
$800
This 1966 album includes 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'Tomorrow Never Knows'.
What is Revolver?
$1,000
Their first UK album, released in 1963, shares its title with their second single.
What is Please Please Me?

Liverpool and Hamburg

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The Beatles played nearly 300 times at this cellar club on Mathew Street in Liverpool.
What is the Cavern Club?
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Paul McCartney joined this skiffle group, John's first band, in 1957.
What are the Quarrymen?
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The band's Hamburg clubs, like the Indra and the Kaiserkeller, were in this red-light district.
What is St. Pauli?
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This early bass player, an art-school friend of John's, stayed in Hamburg and died there in 1962.
Who is Stuart Sutcliffe?
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This manager of his family's NEMS record store signed on as the band's manager in early 1962.
Who is Brian Epstein?

Beatlemania

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In February 1964 the band made its famous live American TV debut on this variety show.
What is The Ed Sullivan Show?
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This song was the band's first number one hit in the United States.
What is I Want to Hold Your Hand?
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The Beatles' 1964 arrival in America kicked off this wave of UK acts on the US charts.
What is the British Invasion?
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In April 1964 the band held this many top spots on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time.
What is five?
$1,000
In 1966, a quote from John claiming the band was more popular than this figure set off record burnings in the US.
Who is Jesus?

Films and Performances

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Their 1964 debut film follows the band through a few hectic days.
What is A Hard Day's Night?
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This 1968 animated film pits the band against the Blue Meanies.
What is Yellow Submarine?
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In 1965 the band played to more than 55,000 fans at this New York baseball stadium.
What is Shea Stadium?
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Their 1967 TV film about a bus trip premiered on the BBC on Boxing Day.
What is Magical Mystery Tour?
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In 1967 the band debuted 'All You Need Is Love' on this first live worldwide satellite broadcast.
What is Our World?

After the Breakup

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Paul formed this band with his wife Linda in 1971.
What is Wings?
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This 1971 John Lennon song asks listeners to picture a world with no countries.
What is Imagine?
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George released this triple album in 1970.
What is All Things Must Pass?
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George organized this 1971 benefit show at Madison Square Garden.
What is the Concert for Bangladesh?
$1,000
George, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne formed this supergroup.
What are the Traveling Wilburys?

Final Jeopardy — Final Performance

The Beatles played their last public concert in January 1969 on the roof of their Apple Corps offices on this London street.

What is Savile Row?

How to run this board

The Beatles are one of the few bands most generations in a room can talk about. This board covers the four members, the albums, the early years in Liverpool and Hamburg, Beatlemania and the American tours, their films and famous performances, and what each of them did after the split.

Questions stick to the band's history, dates, and places rather than lyrics, which keeps things fair between the collector who owns the mono pressings and the guest who only knows the singles.

It plays especially well at a family gathering where older relatives lived through Beatlemania. Put one of them on each team and let the younger players lean on them for the early columns.

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