Season 11, Day 17 - "Five Facts on the Fab Four"

It's Invasion week, and today's quiz is inspired by the British Invasion.

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British Invasion

The British Invasion was a mid-1960s musical movement in which British rock and pop acts became wildly popular in the United States. In late 1963, major US media outlets began publishing stories about "Beatlemania," the increasing fanaticism surrounding the Beatles at that time. When Walter Cronkite aired such a story on the CBS Evening News, a young girl wrote a letter to a radio DJ asking "Why can't we have music like that here in America?" The station played "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and the phones lit up with requests. The record spread to other radio DJs around the country, with similar reactions from listeners. The song would soon become the Beatles' first American #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and it was during this time that the band made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. This performance was seen by a then-record 73 million viewers and is considered a cultural watershed moment that helped launch the British Invasion. Other British Invasion acts hitting #1 on the Hot 100 in the mid-1960s include Peter and Gordon ("A World Without Love"), the Animals ("The House of the Rising Sun"), Manfred Mann ("Do Wah Diddy Diddy"), the Rolling Stones ("(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"), Herman's Hermits ("Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter"), Donovan ("Sunshine Superman"), the Troggs ("Wild Thing"), Petula Clark ("Downtown"), Freddie and the Dreamers ("I'm Tellin' You Now"), and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders ("The Game of Love").

Season 11, Day 17 - "Five Facts on the Fab Four"

[Q1] ACCORDING TO PROSECUTOR VINCENT BUGLIOSI, THE RHYMING TITLE OF THIS BEATLES SONG WAS USED BY CHARLES MANSON WHEN HE SPOKE OF AN IMPENDING APOCALYPTIC RACE WAR (BUGLIOSI ALSO USED IT FOR THE TITLE OF HIS BEST-SELLING BOOK ABOUT MANSON'S TRIAL)

[Q2] FROM AUGUST 1960 TO JULY 1962, THE BEATLES (IN THEIR ORIGINAL PRE-RINGO FORM) COULD BE FOUND REGULARLY PLAYING AT VARIOUS CLUBS IN THIS SECOND-MOST POPULOUS GERMAN CITY

[Q3] ONE OF THE LONE BRIGHT SPOTS ON THE CRITICALLY PANNED SOUNDTRACK TO THE "SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND" MOVIE WAS THIS BAND, WHOSE COVER OF "GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE" FITTINGLY PEAKED IN THE TOP 10 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER

[Q4] ON FEBRUARY 9, 1964, THE BEATLES MADE THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE ON "THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW," OPENING THE FIRST SET WITH THIS SONG THAT BEGINS "CLOSE YOUR EYES AND I'LL KISS YOU / TOMORROW I'LL MISS YOU / REMEMBER I'LL ALWAYS BE TRUE / AND THEN WHILE I'M AWAY, I'LL WRITE HOME EVERYDAY / AND I'LL SEND [SONG TITLE REDACTED] TO YOU"

[Q5] FIRST POPULARIZED IN 1920s AMERICA, THIS STYLE OF MUSIC PLAYED WITH RUDIMENTARY HOMEMADE OR IMPROVISED INSTRUMENTS MADE IT ACROSS THE POND IN THE 1950s AND INFLUENCED THE BEATLES

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