The Ultimate Beatles Guitar Quiz

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Know everything there is to know about the guitars of The Beatles? Then test yourself with the GP quiz…

Two Rickenbacker guitars sit against a Vox amp. In the background is a drumkit. The bass drum says "let it Be".
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Welcome to the Ultimate Beatles Guitar Quiz, where we test your knowledge of the group’s guitars and players with 20 Fab questions.

From John Lennon’s acoustic guitars to George Harrison’s electrics and Paul McCartney’s basses — it’s all here, and more. We’ve even included tricky questions about the players’ histories and songs.

All the questions are multiple choice.

Make to the end and see if you know every little thing... or if you’re nowhere, man.

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GuitarPlayer.com editor-in-chief

Christopher Scapelliti is editor-in-chief of GuitarPlayer.com and the former editor of Guitar Player, the world’s longest-running guitar magazine, founded in 1967. In his extensive career, he has authored in-depth interviews with such guitarists as Pete Townshend, Slash, Billy Corgan, Jack White, Elvis Costello and Todd Rundgren, and audio professionals including Beatles engineers Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott. He is the co-author of Guitar Aficionado: The Collections: The Most Famous, Rare, and Valuable Guitars in the World, a founding editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine, and a former editor with Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician and Maximum Guitar. Apart from guitars, he maintains a collection of more than 30 vintage analog synthesizers.

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