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The Beatles · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: We are getting off the long and winding road today.
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  Speaker 1: It's a school holiday special for fans of the greatest
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  Speaker 1: band that ever graced the planet. I've had a stack
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  Speaker 1: of listeners request this show, so here comes the fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Beatles Quiz. Even if you know nothing about John, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: George and Ringo, well, I won't let you down. You've
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  Speaker 1: got a really good shot at getting at least a
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  Speaker 1: couple of them. Right. Let's do some shout outs. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: there's a dozen or more, sometimes there's just two. Today
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  Speaker 1: is such an occasion. Erica from Callista marks half a
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  Speaker 1: century and Lauren from Troubridge in England is twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: I am the Walrus. Let's get to the chorus. Question
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  Speaker 1: number one, how many band members were there in the Beatles?
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  Speaker 1: There were four, although the true disciples would argue that
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  Speaker 1: when they first became the Beatles in nineteen sixty there
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  Speaker 1: were actually five of them. But the answer we're looking
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  Speaker 1: for is four. Question two, who did Paul McCartney see
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  Speaker 1: standing there? In the hit song from nineteen sixty three,
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  Speaker 1: her I saw her standing there? Question three? Which unusual
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  Speaker 1: place did the Beatles have their last ever public performance
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  Speaker 1: on the thirtieth of January nineteen sixty nine on a rooftop.
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  Speaker 1: It was the rooftop of the Apple Core headquarters in London.
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  Speaker 1: Question four. Which was the first Beatles movie? Was it
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  Speaker 1: A Hard Day's Night? Was it Help? Or was it
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  Speaker 1: Magical Mystery Tour? It was A Hard Day's Night, released
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty four. Question five. Which volume of the
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  Speaker 1: Beatles anthology series was recently released after a gap of
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  Speaker 1: thirty years Anthology four. There's a brand new episode and
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  Speaker 1: an album that goes with it. Question number six. The
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  Speaker 1: Indian sitar player who taught George Harrison the instrument was
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  Speaker 1: Ravi Who Ravi Shanka? Question seven. The fictional character introduced
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  Speaker 1: after the title track on the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts
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  Speaker 1: Club Band album is the one and only Who Is
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  Speaker 1: it the one and only Billy Shears, the one and
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  Speaker 1: only Gary Bears or the one and only Britney Spears.
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  Speaker 1: So let me introduce to you the one and only
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  Speaker 1: Billy Shears. Question eight. Who is the first of the
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  Speaker 1: Beatles to cross Abbey Road in the famous album cover?
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  Speaker 1: That would be John Lennon. Question nine, which New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: film director painstakingly refined sixty hours of footage and over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty hours of audio to deliver the
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  Speaker 1: Get Back documentary in twenty twenty one. The man who
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  Speaker 1: brought us the Lord of the Rings trilogy? It was
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  Speaker 1: Peter Jackson. Question ten. With more than two two hundred
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  Speaker 1: versions by different artists, which beatles song holds the Guinness
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  Speaker 1: World Record for the most covered song in history? Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: written by Paul McCartney. Question eleven. In what country was
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  Speaker 1: John Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono born Japan? Question twelve? What
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  Speaker 1: was the name of the publishing company established by John
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  Speaker 1: and Paul to safeguard the copyrights of their songwriting contributions.
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  Speaker 1: Was it Handmade Publishing? Was it Blackbird Music or was
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  Speaker 1: it Northern Songs? It was Northern Songs. Question thirteen is
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  Speaker 1: a follow up question. Which Megapop Star purchased the Northern
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  Speaker 1: Songs catalog in nineteen eighty five for forty seven and
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  Speaker 1: a half million US dollars Michael Jackson outbidding Paul McCartney himself,
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  Speaker 1: who ironically advised Jacko to get into the music publishing
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  Speaker 1: business after they released the song Say Say Say. Question fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: According to the song, who died in the church and
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  Speaker 1: was buried along with her name, eleanor Rigby. Question fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: The Beatles' ninth album was officially titled The Beatles, However,
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  Speaker 1: it has always been known by what other name The
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  Speaker 1: White Album, due to its distinctive, minimalist, all white cover,
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  Speaker 1: which was designed to be in stark contrast to the
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  Speaker 1: psychedelic artwork of Sergeant Pepper's. Question sixteen, what is the
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  Speaker 1: formal term for someone from Liverpool, the birthplace of the Beatles?
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  Speaker 1: If you're from Liverpool, you're a liver Puddlian. Question seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: Which Beatles song penned by George Harrison did Frank Sinatra
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  Speaker 1: describe as the greatest love song ever written? Something from
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  Speaker 1: the Abbey Road album? Question eighteen. When was the last
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  Speaker 1: time that all four Beatles were photographed together? Was it
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  Speaker 1: August nineteen sixty nine, Christmas Day nineteen seventy three, or
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  Speaker 1: was it the Grammys in February nineteen seventy seven. It
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  Speaker 1: was August nineteen sixty nine, to be precise, the twenty
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  Speaker 1: second of August nineteen sixty nine, at John's home, Tittenhurst Park,
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  Speaker 1: just two days after their last studio session for Abbey Road.
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  Speaker 1: Question nineteen. It's a follow up question another one, How
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  Speaker 1: good is this? Which Beatle purchased Tittenhurst Park from John
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  Speaker 1: Lennon on the eighth tenth of September nineteen seventy three,
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  Speaker 1: Ringo star He loved the joint say much he had
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  Speaker 1: to have it to himself. Question number twenty. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can
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  Speaker 1: sing that can't be sung is a lyric taken from
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  Speaker 1: which song All You Need Is Love from nineteen sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven Don't go anywhere, We'll get back in just a
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  Speaker 1: moment here at coutrip Trivia. For our young listeners out there,
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't enjoyed the magic of the Beatles, I
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  Speaker 1: highly recommend you dig deep, because it's as good as
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  Speaker 1: it gets question twenty one. In this Beatles quiz here
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  Speaker 1: at Cartrip Trivia, the band's manager, who was often referred
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  Speaker 1: to as the fifth Beatle was Brian who Brian Epstein
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  Speaker 1: Question twenty two. As early as nineteen sixty six, which
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  Speaker 1: of the Beatles was rumored to have died and been
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  Speaker 1: replaced by a doppelganger? The word doppelganger used in reference
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  Speaker 1: or tribute to their days in Hamburg. It was Paul McCartney.
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  Speaker 1: Question twenty three, which alliterative nickname was given to the
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  Speaker 1: Beatles after it first appeared in the sleeve notes for
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  Speaker 1: their second album with the Beatles, The Fab Four. Question
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  Speaker 1: twenty four shelved for nearly thirty years but released in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. What was the name of the last
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  Speaker 1: ever Beatles single featuring all four members? Was it Free
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  Speaker 1: as a Bird, Real Love? Or Now? And then Now
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  Speaker 1: and Then? They used AI technology to isolate an old
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  Speaker 1: John Lennon vocal, They used the George Harrison guitar bits
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  Speaker 1: from when they worked on the song in the nineties,
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  Speaker 1: and then Paul and Ringo, the only surviving members, added
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  Speaker 1: the remaining vocals, bass, piano and drums. Question twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: with Daniel Craig starring as Benoir Blanc, which detective thriller
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  Speaker 1: was named after a Beatles song, Glass Onion, A knives
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  Speaker 1: Out mystery. There's a new one out at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, and it's very, very good, and there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing like a little bit of fan service for all
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  Speaker 1: those Beatles aficionados who have been waiting more than sixty
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  Speaker 1: years for the definitive Beatles trivia quiz. Hope you enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: today's show. We're going to come back on Wednesday of
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  Speaker 1: this week and we're going to do something now a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different. We're going to do the shortest ever
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  Speaker 1: I Can't trivia quiz. If you'd like to know what
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  Speaker 1: it is, well, I'm not going to tell you. You're
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  Speaker 1: just going to have to wait until then. May your
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  Speaker 1: slumber remain golden.