Q 01/05

At her mother's insistence, Krauss began lessons at five in which style of music?

A) Old-time

B) Western swing

C) Classical

D) Cajun

Answer · why

C) Classical

Classical violin came first, but she soon tired of its regimented practice, and a fiddle contest her mother heard about turned her towards bluegrass i...

Q 02/05

What was John Pennell's band called when Krauss joined it at 12, before it became Union Station?

A) Blue Highway

B) Iron Horse

C) Silver Rail

D) Coal Train

Answer · why

C) Silver Rail

Silver Rail hired her as a fiddler, changed its name because another band already used it, and by its first album in 1989 she was the one leading it.

Q 03/05

Krauss was born in Decatur and raised in Champaign, both in which state?

A) Kentucky

B) Illinois

C) Tennessee

D) Missouri

Answer · why

B) Illinois

Illinois gave her folk records at home, where her mother played guitar; bluegrass came later, through the fiddle contests she entered as a girl.

Q 04/05

Krauss's 2007 collaboration with Robert Plant, which won Album of the Year, was titled what?

A) Lonely Runs Both Ways

B) Paper Airplane

C) New Favorite

D) Raising Sand

Answer · why

D) Raising Sand

Raising Sand grew out of a 2004 Lead Belly tribute concert where the pair first sang together; Krauss recalls that the first thing Plant wanted to tal...

Q 05/05

Krauss held the record for most Grammys won by a woman until which star passed her 27 in 2021?

A) Beyoncé

B) Adele

C) Alicia Keys

D) Norah Jones

Answer · why

A) Beyoncé

Beyoncé took her 28th that night. Four years earlier Krauss had said she would be honoured to hand over the crown, calling her 'much more deserving th...