Q 01/05

Paul McCartney used which breakfast dish as the working title of the Beatles ballad Yesterday?

A) Scrambled eggs

B) Buttered toast

C) Fried bread

D) Baked beans

Answer · why

A) Scrambled eggs

Scrambled eggs was the placeholder title Paul McCartney used after the whole melody came to him in a dream, before he had written the real words.

Q 02/05

Which singer-songwriter's 1971 epic American Pie mourns the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly?

A) James Taylor

B) Don McLean

C) Jim Croce

D) John Denver

Answer · why

B) Don McLean

Don McLean learned of the 1959 crash as a 13-year-old paperboy, from the bundle of newspapers he was about to deliver.

Q 03/05

Food, Glorious Food is the opening number, sung by hungry workhouse boys, of which stage and film musical?

A) Annie

B) Oklahoma!

C) Oliver!

D) Matilda

Answer · why

C) Oliver!

Oliver! opens with the boys dreaming of a feast before they are handed only gruel, and it was the first Dickens musical to become a stage hit.

Q 04/05

The Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever is named after a Salvation Army children's home in which city?

A) Hamburg

B) London

C) Manchester

D) Liverpool

Answer · why

D) Liverpool

Liverpool's Strawberry Field stood close to John Lennon's childhood home, and he based the song on memories of playing in its garden.

Q 05/05

Sugar, Sugar topped the US and UK charts in 1969 for which cartoon band from a comic book?

A) The Monkees

B) The Banana Splits

C) The Archies

D) The Partridge Family

Answer · why

C) The Archies

The Archies existed only in Archie Comics and on screen, so session singer Ron Dante supplied the lead vocal on the record.