Beatles Quiz: Songs, Albums & Fab Four Trivia

This Beatles quiz goes from Liverpool's Cavern Club to the Abbey Road crossing, with questions on John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and the songs that made them the best-selling band in history. Ten questions, 90 seconds.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 90 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 90s

Origins
Which English city did the Beatles come from?
Members
Which Beatle became the band's drummer in 1962?
Albums
The famous zebra crossing photo is on the cover of which Beatles album?
Singles
Which song was the Beatles' first UK single, in 1962?
Beatlemania
On which U.S. TV show did the Beatles make their famous live debut in February 1964?
Business
What was the name of the record label the Beatles launched in 1968?
Songwriting
Which Beatle wrote Here Comes the Sun?
Early Years
In which German city did the Beatles play long club residencies before they were famous?
Members
Who became the Beatles' manager after seeing them at the Cavern Club in 1961?
Charts
Which Beatles single spent nine weeks at No. 1 in the U.S., the band's longest run?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which English city did the Beatles come from?
Answer: Liverpool
All four Beatles grew up in Liverpool, and the band played close to 300 shows at the city's Cavern Club between 1961 and 1963. Liverpool's airport is now named after John Lennon.
Q2: Which Beatle became the band's drummer in 1962?
Answer: Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr replaced Pete Best behind the drums in August 1962, just before the band recorded its first single. Born in July 1940, Ringo was also the oldest of the four.
Q3: The famous zebra crossing photo is on the cover of which Beatles album?
Answer: Abbey Road
The Abbey Road cover was shot in August 1969 outside EMI's studios in St John's Wood, London, in about ten minutes. The crossing is now a listed landmark that fans visit every day.
Q4: Which song was the Beatles' first UK single, in 1962?
Answer: Love Me Do
Love Me Do came out in October 1962 and reached number 17 on the UK chart. The next single, Please Please Me, gave the band its first big hit early in 1963.
Q5: On which U.S. TV show did the Beatles make their famous live debut in February 1964?
Answer: The Ed Sullivan Show
About 73 million Americans watched the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964, one of the largest TV audiences of its time. The broadcast set off Beatlemania in the United States.
Q6: What was the name of the record label the Beatles launched in 1968?
Answer: Apple Records
The band set up Apple Corps in 1968, and Apple Records released Hey Jude as its first single that August. Before that, the Beatles' UK records came out on EMI's Parlophone label.
Q7: Which Beatle wrote Here Comes the Sun?
Answer: George Harrison
George Harrison wrote Here Comes the Sun in Eric Clapton's garden in the spring of 1969, on a day he skipped a business meeting. It has become one of the band's most streamed songs.
Q8: In which German city did the Beatles play long club residencies before they were famous?
Answer: Hamburg
Between 1960 and 1962 the Beatles played hundreds of hours in Hamburg clubs such as the Indra, the Kaiserkeller and the Star-Club. Those long nights on stage turned them into a tight live band.
Q9: Who became the Beatles' manager after seeing them at the Cavern Club in 1961?
Answer: Brian Epstein
Brian Epstein ran a record shop in Liverpool and signed on as the band's manager early in 1962. George Martin was their producer at EMI, and Allen Klein managed their business affairs later.
Q10: Which Beatles single spent nine weeks at No. 1 in the U.S., the band's longest run?
Answer: Hey Jude
Hey Jude topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks in 1968, longer than any other Beatles single. Paul McCartney wrote it to comfort John Lennon's young son, Julian.

Beatles Quiz – The Story of the Fab Four

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr recorded together for less than eight years, from their first single in 1962 to the band's split in 1970. In that time they moved from matching suits and two-minute love songs to studio experiments such as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and they changed how albums were made, sold and listened to.

The Beatles remain the best-selling band in history, with estimated sales of more than 600 million units worldwide, and their songs are still among the most covered and most streamed music of the 1960s.

Most of their records were made at EMI's studios on Abbey Road in London with producer George Martin, who helped them add string sections, tape loops and sounds played backward. In 1966 they stopped touring for good, partly because screaming crowds drowned out the music, and from then on the studio became their main instrument.

What This Quiz Teaches

The quiz suits longtime fans and anyone who knows the hits but not the story behind them. It follows the band from Liverpool and Hamburg to London, New York and Abbey Road.

Where the Beatles started out and how years of club shows shaped their sound
Who joined the band when, and who helped them on the business side
The TV broadcast that launched Beatlemania in the United States
Which band member wrote some of the best-known songs
The stories behind famous album covers and chart records

Quick Facts About the Beatles

The Beatles hold the record for the most No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with 20.
Paul McCartney said the melody of Yesterday came to him in a dream, and he first sang it with the words "Scrambled eggs".
Their last public performance was an unannounced concert on the roof of Apple's London office on January 30, 1969.
Abbey Road was the last album the four recorded together, even though Let It Be was released after it in 1970.
The band was inducted
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band spent 27 weeks at No. 1 on the UK album chart in 1967.
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
Now and Then, a final Beatles song completed with the help of audio restoration technology, was released in 2023 and won a Grammy in 2025.