Q 01/05

At which New York baseball stadium did the Beatles play an unprecedented rock concert in 1965?

A) Yankee Stadium

B) Shea Stadium

C) Ebbets Field

D) The Polo Grounds

Answer · why

B) Shea Stadium

Shea Stadium was booked by promoter Sid Bernstein after his first Beatles concerts in New York sold out amid huge demand for tickets.

Q 02/05

Which song did the Beatles open with on their first Ed Sullivan Show broadcast in February 1964?

A) I Want to Hold Your Hand

B) All My Loving

C) Please Please Me

D) Twist and Shout

Answer · why

B) All My Loving

All My Loving opened the set; during the next song, Till There Was You, a caption under one Beatle read 'Sorry girls, he's married'.

Q 03/05

Which series finale broke the US TV audience record set by the Beatles' Ed Sullivan debut three years earlier?

A) The Fugitive

B) Bonanza

C) The Andy Griffith Show

D) Perry Mason

Answer · why

A) The Fugitive

The Fugitive's two-part finale broke the record in August 1967, the night Dr. Richard Kimble was finally cleared.

Q 04/05

Two days after the Sullivan show, the Beatles played their first US concert at which venue?

A) Madison Square Garden

B) The Cow Palace

C) Washington Coliseum

D) Hollywood Bowl

Answer · why

C) Washington Coliseum

Washington Coliseum hosted the show, and decades later the old arena where the Beatles first played America reopened as an REI outdoor store.

Q 05/05

With which boxer, then training for his first title fight, did the Beatles pose in Miami Beach in 1964?

A) Cassius Clay

B) Sonny Liston

C) Floyd Patterson

D) Joe Frazier

Answer · why

A) Cassius Clay

Cassius Clay, an 8-1 underdog, upset Sonny Liston a week later and soon afterwards became known as Muhammad Ali.