Q 01/05

Paul McCartney walks out of step with the other Beatles on the Abbey Road cover, and is also what?

A) Shirtless

B) Wearing gloves

C) Barefoot

D) Wearing a hat

Answer · why

C) Barefoot

Barefoot only in the later frames: McCartney wore sandals for the first of the six photographs and had slipped them off by the third.

Q 02/05

Which car parked on the Abbey Road cover later had its number plate repeatedly stolen?

A) Volkswagen Beetle

B) Rolls-Royce Phantom

C) Morris Minor

D) Mini Cooper

Answer · why

A) Volkswagen Beetle

The Volkswagen Beetle, registration LMW 281F, belonged to one of the residents of the block of flats opposite the recording studio.

Q 03/05

Abbey Road was the last album the Beatles recorded, but which album of theirs was released after it?

A) Yellow Submarine

B) Let It Be

C) Revolver

D) Rubber Soul

Answer · why

B) Let It Be

Let It Be was mostly taped before Abbey Road but reached the shops only on 8 May 1970, nearly a month after the break-up went public.

Q 04/05

Which McCartney fragment, cut from the Abbey Road medley, did an engineer rescue as a hidden track?

A) Sun King

B) Because

C) Come Together

D) Her Majesty

Answer · why

D) Her Majesty

Her Majesty, at 23 seconds the shortest song the Beatles released, was spliced on after a stretch of silence by John Kurlander, who had orders never t...

Q 05/05

George Harrison wrote Here Comes the Sun at whose country house while skipping a business meeting?

A) Bob Dylan

B) Ravi Shankar

C) Eric Clapton

D) Mick Jagger

Answer · why

C) Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton owned Hurtwood Edge in Surrey, where Harrison played truant from the band's tangled affairs one day in April 1969.