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Q 01Which network aired Presley's 1968 comeback special?
NBC
NBC aired the special on 3 December 1968; it put him in front of a live audience for the first time in more than seven years, and its success sent him back to the concert stage.
Q 02In which country did Elvis give the only concerts he ever played outside the United States?
Canada
Canada heard him in three cities in 1957, and he never sang abroad again; many suspect the reason was his manager, an illegal immigrant who had no passport to travel on.
Q 03What did TCB, the motto Elvis wore on a gold necklace, stand for?
Taking Care of Business
Taking Care of Business, usually followed by 'in a flash', hence the lightning bolt in the logo: he gave gold TCB necklaces to his inner circle and had the emblem painted on the tail of his private plane.
Q 04How did The Ed Sullivan Show's cameras famously frame Elvis on his third and final appearance in 1957?
Only from the waist up
Only from the waist up, and only that once: on his first two appearances the cameras had shown him head to toe, so the legend that the show always hid his hips is wrong.
Q 05Which former president's yacht did Elvis buy in 1964 and give to a children's hospital?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt's yacht, the Potomac, cost him $55,000; he meant it for the March of Dimes, which turned it down, so it went to St. Jude in Memphis, which sold it to raise funds.
Q 06Which future sitcom star joined Elvis in a comedy sketch on network television in July 1956?
Andy Griffith
Andy Griffith played alongside him and Imogene Coca in a cowboy skit; the host had planned the whole evening to make the rock and roller look tame, and Elvis went along with it without enjoying it.
Q 07What name was given to Elvis Presley's twin brother, who was stillborn?
Jesse Garon
Jesse Garon was delivered stillborn shortly before Elvis, so Elvis grew up as his parents' only child, the centre of a household that had very little else.
Q 08What did Elvis receive in front of the press at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, just after his 1958 Army induction?
A regulation haircut
A regulation haircut: his manager had invited the news crews, so the shearing of the most famous hair in America became a publicity event instead of a private loss.
Q 09Which organisation named Elvis one of its Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation in January 1971?
The Jaycees
The Jaycees, the US Junior Chamber of Commerce, held him up as a model for the country fifteen years after preachers and pundits had blamed him for teenage delinquency.
Q 10Which song, cut at his first RCA Victor session in January 1956, became Elvis's first million-seller?
Heartbreak Hotel
'Heartbreak Hotel' sounded so unlike his earlier records that his old producer called it a 'morbid mess' and RCA's own staff doubted it, yet it became his first number one on the pop chart.
Q 11Which Arthur Crudup blues number became Elvis's first single at Sun in July 1954?
That's All Right
'That's All Right' came about on 5 July 1954 when Elvis launched into the Crudup song during a break and Sam Phillips began taping; Sun released it on 19 July 1954.
Q 12Which two Memphis musicians backed Elvis on guitar and upright bass at his first Sun sessions?
Scotty Moore and Bill Black
Sam Phillips invited them in; the trio played publicly for the first time at Memphis's Bon Air club on 17 July 1954.
Q 13For what then-unprecedented sum did RCA Victor buy Elvis's Sun contract in November 1955?
$40,000
Q 21What did Elvis ask President Nixon for at their Oval Office meeting in December 1970?
A federal narcotics agent's badge
A federal narcotics agent's badge was the prize: he collected police badges, and in a six-page handwritten letter he offered to help fight drug abuse as a 'Federal Agent-at-Large'.
Q 22Elvis's 1973 Aloha from Hawaii show was a milestone of what kind?
First solo gig broadcast worldwide
First solo gig broadcast worldwide: it went out live by satellite to Asia and Oceania and reached Europe on delay, while American viewers had to wait until April to see it.
Q 23The 1969 single that became Elvis's first US pop number one in over seven years, and his last, was what?
$40,000 topped every rival bid, none of which had passed $25,000: $35,000 went to Sun, which was short of cash, and $5,000 to Elvis for the royalties the label still owed him.
Q 14On whose 1956 TV show did Elvis sing 'Hound Dog' to a basset hound in a top hat?
Steve Allen's
Steve Allen's show dressed him in white tie and tails as a joke at rock and roll's expense, but it beat Ed Sullivan in the ratings, and Sullivan, who had vowed never to book him, signed him within weeks.
Q 15Which group's 1992 hit broke Elvis's 1956 rock-era record of eleven weeks at number one?
Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men's 'End of the Road' spent 13 weeks at number one in 1992, ending a rock-era mark that 'Don't Be Cruel' and 'Hound Dog' had held for 36 years, and then lost the record itself within months.
Q 16Elvis's 1956 film debut, a Civil War tale of four siblings, was called what before it was renamed Love Me Tender?
The Reno Brothers
The Reno Brothers was retitled once advance orders for the ballad 'Love Me Tender' passed a million, a first for a single; Elvis, new to films, was not even the top-billed star.
Q 17Which Sun star joined Elvis, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis in the 1956 'Million Dollar Quartet'?
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash is in the famous photograph, though accounts differ on whether he stayed to sing; the jam got its name from a reporter's headline about four stars who 'could sell a million'.
Q 18Which vaccine was Elvis photographed receiving before a 1956 Ed Sullivan Show appearance?
Polio
Polio vaccination was lagging among teenagers even as young children were being immunised in their millions, so health officials asked the idol of that age group to take his shot for the cameras.
Q 19Priscilla Beaulieu's family was in West Germany in 1959 because her stepfather served in what?
The Air Force
The Air Force had just posted her stepfather, a captain, from Texas to a base in West Germany; within a month the 14-year-old was invited to a party at the house Elvis rented off base.
Q 20Elvis's first Grammy Award was for which 1967 gospel album?
How Great Thou Art
How Great Thou Art won Best Sacred Performance at the 1968 Grammys; all three of his competitive Grammys were for gospel, plus a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1971 at 36.
Suspicious Minds
'Suspicious Minds' was nearly lost in a row over publishing: Elvis's publishers demanded a share of the song's rights and the session almost stopped before the demand was dropped.
Q 24Elvis's landmark 1969 Las Vegas residency, 57 shows in four weeks, was at which brand-new hotel?
The International
The International had opened only weeks earlier with the largest showroom in the city; opening night went so well that the hotel signed him the next day to return twice a year for five years.
Q 25Costume designer Bill Belew based Elvis's famous jumpsuit stage look on the singer's passion for what?
Karate
Karate had been his passion since his Army service in Germany: he earned a black belt in 1960 and went on to work its kicks and stances into his concerts.
Q 26Elvis's father Vernon was jailed for eight months in 1938 for what offence?
Altering a cheque
Altering a cheque written by the landowner he sometimes worked for put Vernon in prison; the family lost their house, and his wife and three-year-old son had to move in with relatives.
Q 27Lansky Brothers, the Memphis clothier whose flashy window displays the young Elvis admired, stood on which street?
Beale
Lansky Brothers stood at 126 Beale Street; Bernard Lansky sold the teenage Elvis his first flashy clothes, and the shop dressed him for the last time too, supplying the suit he was buried in.
Q 28What kind of Memphis home did the Presleys get in 1949?
Public housing
Public housing, a two-bedroom apartment in the Lauderdale Courts, ended nearly a year in rooming houses; around the complex Elvis fell in with other teenagers who played music together.
Q 29The 1972 MGM concert film Elvis on Tour won which award?
A Golden Globe
A Golden Globe for Best Documentary went to the film of his spring 1972 tour; a young Martin Scorsese oversaw the montage sequences that cut the concerts into split screens.
Q 30In 2018 Elvis was posthumously awarded which US honour?
The Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian honour, came 41 years after his death; in life his best-known meeting with a president was the visit he talked his way into in 1970.