Q 01/05

Which friend of George Harrison played the guest lead solo on the Beatles' While My Guitar Gently Weeps?

A) Jeff Beck

B) Jimi Hendrix

C) Eric Clapton

D) Pete Townshend

Answer · why

C) Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton overdubbed the solo without a formal credit, on a Les Paul he had given Harrison. Harrison said having a guest in the room put his bandma...

Q 02/05

Which cult leader is said to have heard coded prophecies of an apocalyptic war in the Beatles' White Album?

A) Charles Manson

B) Jim Jones

C) Anton LaVey

D) Bhagwan Rajneesh

Answer · why

A) Charles Manson

Charles Manson heard the record within weeks of its release and played it to his followers over and over. Prosecutors later argued that his reading of...

Q 03/05

Paul McCartney named Martha My Dear, recorded for the White Album with no other Beatle, after whom?

A) His childhood nanny

B) His pet cat

C) His favourite aunt

D) His pet sheepdog

Answer · why

D) His pet sheepdog

Martha was his pet sheepdog, an Old English Sheepdog, though the rest of the words have nothing to do with her. A brass and string arrangement backs M...

Q 04/05

In which country did the Beatles write most of the White Album while studying Transcendental Meditation in early 1968?

A) Nepal

B) India

C) Morocco

D) Greece

Answer · why

B) India

India left them with nothing to play but acoustic guitars for weeks, which is why so much of the record is unplugged. They came home with around forty...

Q 05/05

Dear Prudence, from the Beatles' White Album, was written for the reclusive sister of which Hollywood actress?

A) Mia Farrow

B) Jane Fonda

C) Faye Dunaway

D) Julie Christie

Answer · why

A) Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow was on the same meditation course, where her sister Prudence shut herself in her room for so long that John Lennon was asked to coax her ou...