Q 01/05

Jack Daniel's adverts long quoted Lynchburg's 1960s population as what figure?

A) 88

B) 25

C) 361

D) 190

Answer · why

C) 361

The consolidated city-county has since grown past 6,000 people, but the tiny number is too good for the marketing to give up.

Q 02/05

Which company has owned Jack Daniel's since 1956?

A) Pernod Ricard

B) Brown-Forman

C) Beam Suntory

D) Diageo

Answer · why

B) Brown-Forman

The Louisville firm also owns Old Forester, Woodford Reserve and Herradura tequila.

Q 03/05

What was Jack Daniel's real first name?

A) Jackson

B) Josiah

C) Jasper

D) Jedediah

Answer · why

C) Jasper

Jasper Newton Daniel was the youngest of ten children; his birth date is disputed between 1846, 1849 and 1850.

Q 04/05

Who taught the young Jack Daniel to distil, and later became the distillery's first master distiller?

A) Nearest Green

B) Tom Eaton

C) Dan Call

D) Lem Motlow

Answer · why

A) Nearest Green

Green was enslaved when he taught Daniel and is the first African-American master distiller on record in the United States.

Q 05/05

Dan Call, who took in the teenage Jack Daniel and owned the still he learned on, was also what?

A) A railroad agent

B) A lay preacher

C) A schoolteacher

D) A county sheriff

Answer · why

B) A lay preacher

Call eventually quit the whiskey business for religious reasons, leaving Daniel to take over.