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Zam's Beatle Trivia Cache Mystery Cache

Hidden : 4/17/2018
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The cache is not located at these coordinates. Answer all 40 questions below correctly to find the actual coordinates to the cache. 

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1.) What was the name of the first Beatles album released in America?
A. Meet The Beatles
B. Introducing The Beatles 
C. With The Beatles
D. The Early Beatles
 
2.) Released on the “Let it Be” album, what song was actually one of the very first Lennon-McCartney compositions ever penned?
A. One After 909 
B. Maggie Mae
C. Two of Us
D. I Dig a Pony
 
3.) Who were the only 2 Beatles that played on the song "The Ballad Of John And Yoko"?
A. John and Paul 
B. John and Ringo
C. George and John
D. Paul and Ringo 
 
4.) What was the Beatles' last recorded album?
A. Let it Be
B. Yellow Submarine
C. Abbey Road 
D. Beatles 67-70
 
5.) Elmore James, known as "The King of the Slide Guitar", was mentioned in which Beatles song?
A. For You Blue  
B. Don’t Bother Me
C. Fool on the Hill
D. Flying
 
6.) Which of these songs is from the 1969 "Get Back" sessions?
A. Child Of Nature
B. A Picture Of You
C. The Way You Look Tonight
D. Watching Rainbows  
 
7.) Which of the following songs was not written by George Harrison?
A. Taxman
B. Something
C. Only a Northern Song
D. I'm Happy Just to Dance With You  
 
8.) Let's travel through the British country in a "Magical Mystery Bus". By the way, what is the licence plate of this bus?
A. URO 913E  
B. BEATLES
C. MAGIC
D. KND-1967
 
9.) Which of the following songs was neither written nor co-written by Ringo Starr?
A. Don't Pass Me By
B. Octopus's Garden
C. What Goes On
D. With a Little Help From My Friends  
 
10.) The album "A Hard Day's Night" features the only Beatles song (English-speaking) that was not recorded in the UK. Which song was this?
A. I’ll Cry Instead
B. Can't Buy Me Love  
C. I’m Happy Just to Dance with you
D. And I Love Her
 
11.) What was the first song that gave Ringo sole credit as a writer?
A. Act Naturally
B. Don't Pass Me By  
C. Yellow Submarine
D. Octopus’s Garden
 
12.) The Beatles played which song the most times in their appearances on the "Ed Sullivan Show"?
A. I Want To Hold Your Hand  
B. She Loves You
C. Till There Was You
D. All My Loving
 
13.) Name the predominant manufacturers of guitars, basses, and amps that the Beatles used from 1958 until 1967.
A. Fender, Hofner, and Gibson
B. Epiphone, Gretsch, Gibson, and Ampeg
C. Hagstrom, Gibson, Hofner, and Vox
D. Hofner, Rickenbacker, Gretsch, and Vox  
 
14.) Who hosted the 'Tonight Show' on the night Lennon and McCartney appeared to promote the launch of Apple?
A. Joan Rivers
B. Johnny Carson
C. Joe Garagiola   
D. Don Rickles
 
15.) How many Beatles don't go by their real first names?
A. 1
B. 2  
C. 3
D. 4 
 
16.) Which single was a No. 1 in at least fourteen countries, including the US.
A. Norwegian Wood
B. I Want to Hold Your Hand
C. All You Need is Love
D. Get Back  
 
17.) What was the first Beatles song to feature a woman playing an instrument?
A. She's Leaving Home   
B. For No One
C. Penny Lane
D. Let It Be
 
18.) Which single Beatles album features the most George Harrison compositions? 
A. Rubber Soul
B. Revolver  
C. Abbey Road
D. The Beatles “White Album”
 
19.) What was the first album issued in America that corresponded exactly to its British counterpart?
A. Revolver
B. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band   
C. Magical Mystery Tour
D. Help!
 
20.) Many people think that the cover art for the album "Help!", released in the UK on August 6, 1965, is the spelling of the word "help" in flag semaphore. In fact, that is not true. Which letters are indicated, in semaphore, on the album's cover?
A. KEXO
B. LWNR
C. UXPQ
D. NUJV  
 
21.) How many "new" songs were featured on the "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack album? (excluding Side 2)
A. Four    
B. Three
C. Five
D. six
 
22.) These two Beatles were left handed, one of them just musically left-handed.
A. Paul & John
B. John & George
C. Paul & Ringo  
D. George & Ringo
 
 
23.) Which of the following songs is not mentioned in the song “Glass Onion” from the “White Album”
A. Fool on the Hill
B. Blue Jay Way  
C. Strawberry Fields Forever
D. I Am the Walrus
 
 
24.) At one point or another, all of the Beatles quit the group in turn. In what order did this occur?
A. John, Ringo, George, Paul
B. Paul, John, Ringo, George
C. George, Ringo, Paul, John
D. Ringo, George, John, Paul  
 
25.) Which of these titles was the "Let It Be" album originally going to be called?
A. It was always going to be called "Let It Be"
B. The Long And Winding Road
C. Get Back  
D. Maggie Mae
 
26.) Which of the following songs written by John Lennon was not released as a B side on a single, anywhere?
A. All You Need Is Love  
B. I Am The Walrus
C. Come Together
D. Baby You're a Rich Man
 
27.) Which of the following tracks is not included on "The White Album"?
A. Blackbird
B. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
C. Revolution  
D. Savoy Truffle
 
28.) One Beatles song says the word "opaque". This is obviously not a very common word, but can you tell me what album this song was on?
A. Revolver
B. Rubber Soul  
C. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
D. Magical Mystery Tour
 
29.) Name the recording engineer who most frequently worked with George Martin and the Beatles after the album "Rubber Soul".
A. George Martin
B. Geoff Emerick  
C. Phil Spector
D. Glyn Johns
 
30.) Besides the screams of the fans, what else prevented the Beatles from hearing themselves when they played live?
A. Their amps were too small.
B. They had to use the house PA system, which always sucked.
C. They had no stage monitors.
D. All of the above   
 
31.) What was the first Beatles song to give Ringo Starr co-writing credit?
A. Act Naturally
B. What Goes On  
C. Yellow Submarine
D. With a Little Help from my friends
 
32.) Paul plays lead guitar on this song of George's.
A. Octopus' Garden
B. Taxman  
C. Something
D. Across the Universe
 
33.)  Seven years and seven months separate which of the following pairs of events in the history of the Beatles?
A. Paul McCartney meets John Lennon and 'Please Please Me' reaches number 1 in the UK
B. The Beatles' first Hamburg performance and their last concert in Candlestick Park, San Francisco
C. Release of the first single in the UK and last single in the USA (excluding post-break up recordings)  
D. Ringo Starr joins the band and the Beatles partnership is legally dissolved
 
34.) What was the only Beatles album to feature only Lennon and McCartney compositions--no Harrison, no Starr, and no covers of songs by other artists?
A. A Hard Day's Night  
B. Beatles For Sale
c. Help!
D. Meet the Beatles
 
35.) What was the first American TV Show to broadcast The Beatles?
A. The Jack Paar Show  
B. The Ed Sullivan Show
C. Laugh In
D. Smothers Brothers
 
36.) During the recording of what song in the movie "Help!" did Ringo's drums fall through the floor?
A.  The Night Before
B.  Ticket to Ride
C. I Need You
D. You're Gonna Lose That Girl
 
37.) What song did Lennon write that was modeled after comments from Peter Fonda during an LSD trip in 1965?
A. I'm Only Sleeping
B. Tomorrow Never Knows
C. She Said She Said 
D. Nowhere Man
 
38.) Which Beatle song was one of the first songs to purposely incorporate feedback within the song?
A. I Feel Fine
B. I'm Only Sleeping
C. Strawberry Fields Forever
D. Tomorrow Never Knows
 
39.) What song did John Lennon write in Almeria, Spain while on the set of "How I Won The War"?
A. Baby Your a Rich Man
B. Strawberry Fields Forever 
C. I am the Walrus
D. Nowhere Man
 
40.) Which of these men was not a drummer for the Beatles (in any incarnation)?
A. Tommy Moore
B. Pete Best
C. Norman Chapman
D. John Dunbar


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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)