Reba Trivia
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This Reba trivia quiz has 47 free questions with answers and covers both the singer and the sitcom. On the music side: the Oklahoma ranch and rodeo family, the national anthem that got her discovered, the Mercury years and the MCA breakthrough, Fancy, Whoever's in New England, the 1991 plane crash and For My Broken Heart, Does He Love You, her record four straight CMA Female Vocalist awards, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Kennedy Center Honors. On the screen side: Tremors, Annie Get Your Gun, The Voice and Happy's Place — and, of course, Reba, the WB sitcom about Reba Hart, her ex-husband Brock, his dental hygienist Barbra Jean, pregnant teen Cheyenne, goofy Van, sarcastic Kyra and little Jake. Early questions suit anyone who has sung along to the theme song; later ones reward fans who know which network cancelled the show and how many number ones she has. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing. No lyrics are quoted.
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Q 01Reba McEntire is widely known by which nickname?
The Queen of Country
The Queen of Country took charge behind the scenes as well: in the late 1980s she set up her own company, Starstruck Entertainment, to run her career, from booking and management to music publishing.
Q 02What did Reba's father and grandfather both win world championships in?
Steer roping
Steer roping made world champions of her grandfather John in 1934 and her father Clark three times, and Reba rode rodeo herself, competing as a barrel racer through her college years.
Q 03Where was Reba singing the Star-Spangled Banner in 1974 when Red Steagall discovered her?
The finals of the pro rodeo season
The finals of the pro rodeo season, the National Finals Rodeo, met in Oklahoma City then; Steagall heard her anthem and set up a Nashville demo session that led to her Mercury deal in 1975.
Q 04What did Reba study to become at college in Durant?
A public-school teacher
A public-school teacher is what her elementary education degree trained her to be, and she finished it in 1976 even though Mercury Records had already signed her as a singer the year before.
Q 05Which record label did Reba join after leaving Mercury, launching her commercial breakthrough?
MCA
MCA let Reba start choosing her own songs, and the back-to-basics My Kind of Country (1984) brought her the No. 1s 'How Blue' and 'Somebody Should Leave'.
Q 06Which 1986 title track won Reba a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance?
Whoever's in New England
'Whoever's in New England' also gave Reba her first music video, shot in Boston, and playing the suspicious wife in it sparked her interest in acting.
Q 07Reba's hit 'Fancy' was a cover of a 1969 song by which singer?
Bobbie Gentry
Bobbie Gentry wrote and first recorded 'Fancy'; Reba wanted to cut it for years, but her producer thought it too closely tied to Gentry, so it waited until she had a new producer in 1990.
Q 08What kind of accident in March 1991 killed seven of Reba's band members and her road manager?
A plane crash
A plane crash: after a private show in San Diego the band left in two chartered jets, and one struck a mountain soon after take-off; Reba had stayed behind for the night.
Q 09Which album did Reba dedicate to the touring band members she lost in March 1991?
For My Broken Heart
For My Broken Heart came out that October; in its liner notes she says her emotions guided the song choices, and she hopes the album will be a form of healing for every broken heart.
Q 10With which then-unknown singer did Reba record the duet 'Does He Love You'?
Linda Davis
Linda Davis was a backing singer in Reba's own road band when Reba chose her for the 1993 duet, passing over the more established stars her label had in mind, and the gamble won them both a Grammy.
Q 11What was Reba's first film role, in 1990?
Heather Gummer in Tremors
Heather Gummer in Tremors is a gun-loving survivalist who, alongside her husband Burt, helps a tiny desert town fight off giant man-eating worms that tunnel underground.
Q 12Which role did Reba play on Broadway in 2001?
Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun was her Broadway debut: the Oklahoma rodeo kid took over the sharpshooter's part in the hit revival and played it from January to June 2001.
Q 13Reba won which CMA award four years in a row, starting in 1984?
Female Vocalist of the Year
Q 21On which network did the sitcom Reba premiere in October 2001?
The WB
The WB — the sitcom premiered there on October 5, 2001; its final season moved to The CW after The WB and UPN merged in 2006.
Q 22In which city is the sitcom Reba set?
Houston
Houston took in well over 100,000 people fleeing Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the sitcom followed suit: that autumn the Harts shelter a dog that survived the storm, then its owner's very large family.
Q 23On the sitcom Reba, what does Reba's ex-husband Brock Hart do for a living?
Dentist
Dentist — Brock Hart runs a dental practice and leaves Reba for his much younger hygienist, Barbra Jean.
Female Vocalist of the Year left her in tears at the podium in October 1984, when she had yet to win a single CMA award, and the title then stayed hers through 1987.
Q 14Which country legend formally inducted Reba into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011?
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton did the honours that May; Reba had missed the announcement in March because she was at her father's hospital bedside in Oklahoma after his stroke.
Q 15What did Reba receive in 2018 alongside Cher, Philip Glass and Wayne Shorter?
The Kennedy Center Honors
The Kennedy Center Honors tribute included Lady Antebellum, whose singer Hillary Scott told the audience she had grown up watching Reba from the side of the stage while both her parents toured with her.
Q 16Which competition show did Reba McEntire join in 2023?
The Voice
The Voice brought her in for season 24 to fill the chair of the departing Blake Shelton, after she had already dropped by the show as an adviser and a 'mega mentor'.
Q 17Reba sang the national anthem before which major sporting event in February 2024?
The Super Bowl
The Super Bowl in Las Vegas put her beside deaf actor Daniel Durant, of the Oscar-winning film CODA, who performed the anthem in American Sign Language as she sang.
Q 18Which pop hit did Reba remake as a duet with its original singer for her 2007 album Reba: Duets?
Because of You
Because of You began as a teenager's private outlet: its original singer started writing it at 16 about the pain of her parents' divorce, years before she and Reba remade it as a country duet.
Q 19In the 1994 film The Little Rascals, Reba has a cameo as the boys' idol, a champion in which field?
Auto racing
Auto racing: Spanky, leader of a boys-only club, worships a champion driver and is stunned at the trophy presentation to discover that his hero, played by Reba, is a woman.
Q 20Which actor did Reba begin dating in 2020?
Rex Linn
Rex Linn, best known from CSI: Miami, first met Reba in 1991 on the set of a Kenny Rogers TV western, but they only became a couple after reconnecting in 2020.
Q 24On the sitcom Reba, who plays Barbra Jean, the bubbly younger woman Brock leaves Reba for?
Melissa Peterman
Melissa Peterman played Barbra Jean as a woman set on becoming best friends with the wife she replaced, and she and Reba have gone on working together ever since.
Q 25In the pilot of the sitcom Reba, what does the family learn about teenage daughter Cheyenne?
She is pregnant
She is pregnant by her football-star boyfriend Van, and Reba finds out just as her husband Brock admits that his girlfriend is expecting a baby too.
Q 26On the sitcom Reba, who plays Cheyenne's football-star husband Van Montgomery?
Steve Howey
Steve Howey spent a decade as Kevin Ball in Shameless, then turned up beside Reba and one of his old castmates again in December 2024, guest-starring in the Christmas episode of her new NBC sitcom.
Q 27On the sitcom Reba, which name does Van give his baby daughter in honour of the star of Bewitched?
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Montgomery played Samantha the witch in Bewitched, and since Van's surname is Montgomery too, his daughter ends up with the actress's full name.
Q 28Reba's first solo Top 20 hit was a 1979 remake of 'Sweet Dreams', a song most associated with which country legend?
Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline was one of Reba's idols, and her recording of the ballad is so well known that the 1985 film of her life, starring Jessica Lange, was named after it.
Q 29Which country duo reunited in 2015 to share a long-running Las Vegas residency with Reba at Caesars Palace?
Brooks & Dunn
Brooks & Dunn had split after a farewell tour in 2010, and it was reportedly their old touring partner Reba who talked them into getting back together for the Vegas shows.
Q 30Which Reba song is the theme to her sitcom Reba?
I'm a Survivor
I'm a Survivor was a Top 3 country hit in 2001, and its story of a hard-pressed single mother suited Reba Hart so well that a reworked version became the sitcom's theme.