Hello there, sad children of the sixties!
I’d like to cheer you up with another quiz in my series of Beatles quizzes. The answers will be published in another blog post in a few days’ time.
The questions all refer to albums, including “Sergeant Pepper” and those coming after that. If you want to look up the answers on Google and do it that way, then good for you, but you might enjoy the questions more if you tried to do them yourself without any help from the Internet. I have tried to make the questions doable, but clearly, one or two are meant to be difficult. Incidentally, the questions do not necessarily relate 100% to the illustrations, although the illustrations are meant to be a very large clue to the correct answers. On the other hand, the answer to Question 1 is not “A bald man with a tattooed head”
1 Who stands in front of me in my hour of darkness?
2 Who will never walk down Lime Street any more?
3 She came in through the bathroom window, but what was her protection?
4 She thought she was a cleaner, but what was she really? And what was her polite name?
5 Who did the “all American bullet-headed Saxon mother’s son” take with him when he went out tiger hunting with his elephant and gun?
6 With whom does he spend his days in conversation?
7 What is happiness ?
8 Now, a question about the girl of his fancy. What was her surname, what did she call herself and what did everyone know her as?
9 How many holes in Blackburn Lancashire?
10 Who made a fool of everyone ? And why did we give her everything we owned?
John Knifton 
Total failure – so I must have been there
I think that it’s quite surprising that when we try and look back, we invariably remember very little, or at least I do. I was at school thorough the sixties and even with that, I can’t remember things such as where was our form room, or who the form teacher was.
As for knowledge of the Beatles, all I can say is that I would have got exactly the same score in any quiz on the Rolling Stones.
I wouldn’t even have opened a quiz on them
Without searching and just the top of my head,..
3 ) Silver Spoon I believe.
9 ) 10,000 Holes I believe.
I do have the The Savage Young Beatles album, recorded in Hamburg 1961 with Pete Best on drums,….if that means anything…..
I’m very impressed that you have such an unusual album, although if Pete Best was in it, it must have been a lot earlier than the songs in this quiz.
10,000 holes is too many, but you’re quite right with a silver spoon. Well done!
Wow, umm, that is a tough quiz.
1. Mother Mary
after that I’d have to go google all the answers.
Mother Mary is quite correct. As for the rest of the answers, well, I’ve found that googling can be quite a learning process,especially with song lyrics.
How many songs have lyrics that I have mistaken, for example, although I was never as bad as…
“I can see Deirdre now, Lorraine has gone”, or the one about “the Devil has a sideboard” in “Bohemian Rhapsody”
7 ) Warm Gun ?
8 ) only because there is a photo of a raccoon,….Rocky Racoon..
Quite correct. It was a warm gun. Rocky Racoon was the song and Rocky Racoon, the man, was her boyfriend. She had three different names, revealed in the line, “Her name was ………….., she called herself ……… ‘though everyone knew her as …………………………”
I’m a Beatles fan but I was almost a total failure in tackling these questions. I only attempted #1 (Mother Mary) and #6 (Jude is a guess).
No 1 is correct but Jude is not the name you want. I have spent fifty years thinking that that name was a person, but apparently it wasn’t, according to a website I found during my researches.
Mother Marty (twice), Rosetta Martin, Rocky Raccoon, 10,00 holes, silver spoon.
Tough indeed, I was a s Stones man myself.
Mother Mary is correct for Question #1, but not #7 if you mean that one. And the silver spoon is correct, and Rosetta Martin. Well done!
I didn’t like the Stones a great deal at the time but I have come to like a lot of their 60s material, especially the ones about clouds and nervous breakdowns.
Got me. I came up with lady Madonna for Q1 but that’s about it ! I am ashamed!
I’m afraid that Lady Madonna is a different song, unless my tablets have taken me over again.
You should think of……….
“When I find myself in times of trouble
……………………comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom
……… ….. ……
Lady Madonna is the person with “a baby at her breast, wonder how you manage to feed the rest?”
Oh well, given the line,I can now see it is ‘mother Mary’ comes to me, and the song is let it be. An interesting challenge John!
Oh John. How to make an old bloke feel even older. Of course I got Rocky Racoon. You put that in for me. The girl in no ten wouldn’t be Long tall Sally – that would be too easy. And of course Mother Mary comes to me but at first I was confused by Leonard Cohen “Sisters of Mercy”. Knocked a few days of my allotted total.
You’re not that old! You’ve got years yet, especially if you keep finding more Australian poets to introduce to us.
Right, here goes – with no artificial aids:- 1) Mother Mary 2) Dirty Maggie May 3) memory fails me 4) Sweet Loretta Modern 5) Bungalow Bill 6) Martha 7) A warm gun. 8) McGill, Lil, Nancy 9) 4,000 10) Sexy Sadie.
I’m annoyed that I can’t recall the answer to No. 4.
Well, I think you’ve done very well, even if you don’t!!
This quiz has really proved to be a bit of a headache. It took me a very long time to work out that I had published the questions to Quiz #1 quite a long time ago, but that I had never got round to publishing the answers.
I therefore decided to just do Quiz #1 completely for a second time, which ought to satisfy everybody!
Addendum to No. 4 – ‘but she was another man’.
Well, you’ll see the correct answers on Tuesday, but you’ve done very well there, Chris,with at least seven marks. All those lovely evenings in the Granville were not completely wasted!
Thank you for sharing!!.. I am afraid the only way I would be able to answer the questions is “google it”… However, I do remember the “British Invasion” when the Beatles made landfall here in the USA… 🙂 🙂
Until we meet again..
May your troubles be less
Your blessings be more
And nothing but happiness
Come through your door
(Irish Saying)
That seems a very, very, long time ago, although it’s so very, very sad that a war raged back then, and a war is raging now.
Why does nobody want to say,”Stop!! Let’s save lives! Let’s talk!” ?
The questions were interesting 🙂 but I did not know the answers to any of them. I had heard of Beatles and read about them but I don’t think I listened to them.
Well, it’s a very long way from India to Liverpool! Having said that, three of the Beatles did display enormous interest in Indian spiritual beliefs and George Harrison became a genuine 100% convert.
Here goes, with no artificial aids or safety net!
1) Mother Mary
2) Dirty Maggie May
3) blank!
4) ‘But she was another man’, Loretta Modern.
5) His Mom
6) Martha
7) A Warm Gun
8) McGill, Lil, Nancy
9) 4,000
10) Sexy Sadie.
Very good, except for the “silver spoon” in No 3, which could slip anybody’s mind!
Since Chris Waller got them, I won’t repeat. From the list without cheating I could identify half of them. #3 is a silver spoon. Fun post.
I’m so glad you liked it!
The number of comments shows that this is not its first appearance, because I forgot to publish the answers when the time came! Silly me!!
Wouldn’t even try, John.
#3 Silver Spoon,
Was watching TV last night, they had a cover band of the Beatles, that sang their hits, even looked and their voices were similar ( having wigs, probably fake mustache on George and maybe Ringo? )
They all sang a song or two, except Ringo lookalike, as I did not see a mic near him. Possibly his voice did not sound like Ringo. The Group is called The Fab Four. Looked like era 1968+ time frame. Caught the show when they where almost finished.
John sang Imagine and Revolution, George sang Here Comes the Sun and Paul finished with Let It Be. Talented enough as Paul impersonator played the Bass Guitar left handed. John impersonator was dressed in Army fatigues shirt with his wire rim glasses and long hair and played Piano on Imagine and took the lead part on guitar on Revolution. He was wearing a all white dress suit when he was plying Imagine…
Aw! You’re no fun any more!
Incidentally, Simon Reeves programme #5 showed why Argentina is so unbelievably poor, despite having so many natural resources. It then goes on to Chile, and the environmental problems it is creating for itself. Last and certainly not least are my own particular favourites, the Mapuché.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche
I don’t know anything about the Beatles. Must listen to them. I am now listening to different genres of music 😊