Q 01/05

How soon after graduating from high school in 1964 did Dolly Parton move to Nashville?

A) The very next day

B) About a week later

C) At the end of that summer

D) Two years later

Answer · why

A) The very next day

Parton left for Nashville the very next day after her 1964 graduation from Sevier County High School, and met her future husband Carl Dean within hour...

Q 02/05

Parton said 'Jolene' was inspired by a red-haired woman with what job who flirted with her husband?

A) A hairdresser

B) A bank clerk

C) A backup singer

D) A cocktail waitress

Answer · why

B) A bank clerk

A bank clerk with red hair flirted with Carl Dean whenever he came in, Parton said, and she turned that flash of jealousy into the song's plea.

Q 03/05

Whitney Houston recorded her record-breaking cover of Parton's 'I Will Always Love You' for which film?

A) Sparkle

B) The Bodyguard

C) The Preacher's Wife

D) Waiting to Exhale

Answer · why

B) The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard turned a song Parton wrote as her farewell to Porter Wagoner into a global smash; Houston's version led the Hot 100 for 14 weeks, a reco...

Q 04/05

What did Parton use to create the typewriter-clacking rhythm heard on '9 to 5'?

A) A real office typewriter

B) A pair of wooden spoons

C) Her acrylic fingernails

D) A set of castanets

Answer · why

C) Her acrylic fingernails

Her acrylic fingernails, run back and forth against each other, gave Parton the clacking typewriter beat as she wrote the song, a sound the finished r...

Q 05/05

In The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Parton's character Miss Mona runs a brothel known by what name?

A) The Chicken Ranch

B) The Yellow Rose

C) The Longhorn Lodge

D) The Bluebonnet House

Answer · why

A) The Chicken Ranch

Miss Mona's brothel is the Chicken Ranch, modeled on the real Chicken Ranch outside La Grange, Texas, which was shut down in 1973; in the film the win...