Paul McCartney begins a two-night stand at the MGM Grand Garden at 8 p.m. today. He'll be playing Beatles and solo material.

Paul McCartney's touring schedule precluded him from speaking us.

So the Review-Journal instead offers a quiz for Paul-o-philes to bone up on before Sir McCartney's performance at 8 p.m. today and Saturday in the MGM Grand Garden arena.

Award yourself extra points for staying away from the Internet while playing.

Listed at right are the songs McCartney played Nov. 7 at his concert in San Jose, Calif., a set list typical of the shows he's been playing throughout his current tour.

Each song from the list is an answer to a trivia questions below. Match the letter or letters listed next to each song to the clues below. Answers are printed below.

1. This surreal track from 1973 contains the lyric "I thought the major was a lady suffragette."

2. Composing the music for this song before its lyrics, McCartney initially dubbed this song "Scrambled Eggs" as a working title.

3. British bluesman Duffy Power's slowly passionate, acoustic cover of this song radically changed the original arrangement from the one that appeared on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

4. This McCartney album opener is the only track here from 1971's "Ram."

5. After he dreamed he served spaghetti to a woman with a shovel, John Lennon told McCartney about it. McCartney suggested they film the dream. This song is the title track from the resulting BBC TV movie.

6. This character sketch is about a girl whose "broken heart took her soul away."

7. The album this song is from features a cover photo of the Beatles looking beatnik in black turtlenecks.

8. This Wings track has been covered from everyone from Joe Cocker and Petula Clark to Black Oak Arkansas and the Faces.

9. The strings and arrangment of this new track from "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard" heavily recall "Eleanor Rigby."

10. Upon its release in 1970, fans and critics alike felt this melodic Beatles track was suffocated by Phil Spector's overblown symphonic production, most notably the syrupy strings.

11. McCartney's tale about a character who "left his home in Tucson, Ariz., for some California grass."

12. One of the characters mentioned in this song is named "Billy Shears."

13. After Ringo Starr stormed out of a recording studio and briefly quit the Beatles, McCartney took over drumming duties on this track.

14. This track from "Revolver" is a character sketch of a woman fond of "wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door."

15. One of the final Lennon/McCartney collaborations, this song sees Lennon crooning "Ev'rybody had a hard year/Ev'rybody had a good time/Ev'rybody had a wet dream/Ev'rybody saw the sunshine."

16. This solo song includes couplets like "Stick my tongue out and lick my nose/Tuck my shirt in and zip my fly" and "I took my brains out and stretched 'em on a rack/Now I'm not so sure I'm gonna get 'em back."

17. The only song here from the Liverpool lads' most downcast record, "Beatles For Sale."

18. The only McCartney composition ever covered by Guns 'n' Roses.

19. McCartney, never much of a drinker, proclaimed on this 1973 track "All I need is a pint a day."

20. The only surviving recorded composition by Beatles' precursors the Quarrymen.

21. This single may have gotten the Beatles banned from the BBC airwaves had officials known its references to "fish and finger pie" referred to a sexual rather than culinary treat.

22. This late Beatles track is the only one featuring guitar solos from McCartney, Lennon and George Harrison.

23. At more than 27 minutes, this is the longest song ever recorded by the Beatles, but it was edited down to five minutes for release on "The White Album."

24. The title of this song refers to rabid Beatles fans who would break into McCartney's London home.

25. At seven minutes and 11 seconds, this 1968 song is the longest single the Beatles ever released.

26. Containing one of the great McCartney melodies of his songwriting career, this ballad is believed to have been written about his pre-Linda girlfriend Jane Asher.

27. The title of this Wings song is not only a double entendre referencing marijuana, but McCartney's answer to John Lennon's bitter "How Do You Sleep?"

28. The title of McCartney's new solo album, "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," is drawn from this song's lyrics.

29. As heard on "Anthology 3," the Beatles' first take of this song sounded great. But it wasn't until they got to take 68 of this 104-second song until they felt they had a good enough version to include on "The White Album."

30. Rockers the Donnas recently covered this song for "This Bird Has Flown: A 40th Anniversary Tribute to Rubber Soul."

31. This horn-punctuated song features the lyric "What can I do, what can I be/When I'm with you I want to stay there."

32. The harmonics of this "White Album" song have made it a staple for reinterpretation by jazzmen like pianist Brad Mehldau

33. This 1963 track was the B-side to the smash single "She Loves You."

34. Producer George Martin played the honky-tonk piano solo on this optimism-radiating Lennon/McCartney composition.

35. This early Beatles single saw John Lennon complaining "there's always rain in my heart."

36. Released in the spring of 1970, this was the Beatles' final single.

QUIZ ANSWERS

1) C; 2) DD; 3) P; 4) U; 5) A; 6) N; 7) F; 8) J; 9) Q; 10) K; 11) EE; 12) II; 13) AA; 14) T; 15) Z; 16) B; 17) R; 18) CC; 19) X; 20) L; 21) Y; 22) JJ; 23) FF; 24) V; 25) BB; 26) O; 27) G; 28) I; 29) M; 30) E; 31) H; 32) S; 33) D; 34) W; 35) HH; 36) GG