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"Please, Please Me": The Beatles First Album

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Introduction:
"I'm concerned that there are not enough Beatles' quizzes at this site, so I decided to create yet another. Obscure stuff about the Beatles' first album."


1. What was the working title for the album's first song?
    The World is Treating Me Bad
    Seventeen
    Scrambled Eggs
    Way Beyond Compare


2. Three of the selections from the album were originally recorded by American girl groups. Which three?
    P.S. I Love You, Boys, Twist and Shout
    Chains, Boys, Twist and Shout
    Chains, Boys, Baby It's You
    Baby It's You, Boys, Twist and Shout


3. OK, here's an obscure one: "A Taste of Honey", the next to last track on the LP, was the theme song for a movie based on a play. Ready? Who wrote the play?
    Sean O'Casey
    Siobahn McKenna
    Rita Tushingham
    Shelagh Delaney


4. What was the last song recorded for the "Please Please Me" LP?
    There's a Place
    Boys
    Do You Want to Know a Secret?
    Twist and Shout


5. What record company in America first released an album containing the same material found on "Please Please Me"?
    Verve
    Tollie
    Swan
    Vee Jay


6. "Please Please Me" was released under a different title in America . What was it?
    Meet the Beatles
    Introducing the Beatles
    Beatlemania!
    The Beatles Beat


7. What American act originally had a hit with "Twist and Shout"?
    The Isley Brothers
    Barret Strong
    The Miracles
    The Bar Kays


8. Of the 14 songs on the album, how many were Lennon-McCartney compositions?
    6
    4
    8
    10


9. "Misery" was originally written with what British songstress in mind?
    Helen Shapiro
    Dusty Springfield
    Petula Clark
    Cilla Black


10. "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" was a hit for what other Liverpool band?
    The Big Three
    Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
    Gerry and the Pacemakers
    Rory Storme and the Hurricanes


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