Q 01/05

Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and a female star died together in March 1963 in what kind of accident?

A) A plane crash

B) A bus fire

C) A train derailment

D) A hotel fire

Answer · why

A) A plane crash

Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, on March 5, 1963, flying home to Nashville from a Kansas ...

Q 02/05

Which Nashville country music venue has broadcast live radio shows since 1925?

A) The Grand Ole Opry

B) The Ryman Auditorium

C) The Bluebird Cafe

D) Tootsies Orchid Lounge

Answer · why

A) The Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry began as the WSM Barn Dance radio show on November 28, 1925, making it one of the longest-running radio broadcasts in history. It m...

Q 03/05

Which Dolly Parton country No. 1 of 1974 names the creature she adopted as her personal symbol?

A) Little Sparrow

B) Eagle When She Flies

C) Mule Skinner Blues

D) Love Is Like a Butterfly

Answer · why

D) Love Is Like a Butterfly

Love Is Like a Butterfly topped the country chart in 1974; two years later Parton made it the theme of her TV variety show, and the butterfly has stay...

Q 04/05

Which Garth Brooks hit has a boot-wearing narrator crash his ex's black-tie affair?

A) Friends in Low Places

B) The Dance

C) The Thunder Rolls

D) Callin' Baton Rouge

Answer · why

A) Friends in Low Places

Friends in Low Places grew from a joke: co-writer Earl Bud Lee, caught without money at a Nashville restaurant, said he had friends in low places beca...

Q 05/05

Which horizontal slide instrument, its strings bent by knee levers, gives country its weeping sound?

A) Pedal steel guitar

B) Lap steel guitar

C) Resonator slide guitar

D) Twelve-string guitar

Answer · why

A) Pedal steel guitar

Pedal steel guitar took over country after Bud Isaacs used a pedal to bend notes inside a chord on Webb Pierce's 1954 hit 'Slowly', a sound that sent ...