Test your knowledge of The Beatles's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
You will know the melodies of 'Hey Jude', 'Let It Be' and 'Come Together' in an instant. The twist is naming which Beatle is on lead vocal, because that is where the points really live.
Some of the sharpest tiebreakers come from the band's story: the drummer swapped in before the first singles, the 1964 week when Beatles songs held the American top five, and the ballad only one of them plays on.
Sort the catalog by who made each song: McCartney's melodic hits, Lennon's sharper writing, the Harrison and Ringo surprises, and the joint songs where both men trade lines.
Paul McCartney's songs lean on melody and big, warm hooks. 'Hey Jude', 'Yesterday', 'Let It Be', 'Penny Lane', 'Blackbird' and 'Eleanor Rigby' are his, and once you hear his phrasing, this half of the catalog gets easier to call.
John Lennon's writing runs sharper and more surreal. 'Come Together', 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'A Hard Day's Night', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'I Am the Walrus' carry his bite, and his voice is often the tell when the credit reads simply Lennon-McCartney.
Two members are easy to overlook. George Harrison wrote and sang 'Something', 'Here Comes the Sun' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', while Ringo Starr fronts 'Yellow Submarine' and 'With a Little Help from My Friends'. Smart players keep a few guesses in reserve for them.
The hardest calls are the shared songs. 'A Day in the Life' hands the verses to Lennon and the middle to McCartney, 'We Can Work It Out' splits the same way, and 'I've Got a Feeling' stitches two half-songs together. When both voices show up, the guessing gets genuinely tough.
Naming the song is the easy part. The real challenge is authorship: telling a Lennon song from a McCartney song, and spotting which Beatle sings lead when the credit just says Lennon-McCartney.
The big ones turn up often, 'Hey Jude', 'Let It Be', 'Come Together', 'Yesterday' and 'Here Comes the Sun', alongside shared songs like 'A Day in the Life' that test the true fans.
Paul's tend to be melodic and upbeat, John's sharper and more surreal, and the voice usually settles it. The trickiest are joint songs like 'A Day in the Life', where both take a turn.
To sweep the board you have to catch the George Harrison and Ringo Starr leads and the shared songs, not only the obvious Lennon and McCartney hits.
The Beatles were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, formed in Liverpool, England, in 1960. Ringo replaced Pete Best on drums in 1962.
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