Flashback: Baskin-Robbins Beatles

By Mick Harper

Pop, Rock, and Soul Trivia.

1. Name the ice cream flavor Baskin-Robbins created in celebration of the Beatles coming to America for the first time.

2. Which artist wrote and released "Duke of Earl"?

3. What's the name of the street the Beatles are crossing on their 1969 album cover?

4. Name the first rock group to ever play Carnegie Hall.

5. Name the song that contains these lyrics: "It's late September and I really should be back at school, I know I keep you amused but I feel I'm being used."

Answers

1. Beatle Nut. A reporter called Robbins and asked if a new flavor was being created. Nothing was planned and Robbins had to think fast. He said yes, and five days later the walnut, pistachio and chocolate ribbon ice cream was being delivered.

2. Gene Chandler (born Eugene Drake Dixon), in 1962. The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002.

3. Abbey Road, near Grove End Road, in North West London.

4. Chicago, in April 1971.

5. "Maggie May," by Rod Stewart, in 1971. The song tells the story of a college boy with an older woman for a lover. The song was released as the B side to "Reason to Believe."

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