Q 01/05

James Brown grew up in Georgia but was born across the Savannah River in which neighboring state?

A) Alabama

B) Tennessee

C) South Carolina

D) North Carolina

Answer · why

C) South Carolina

South Carolina, in a one-room shack outside Barnwell. By his own account he was taken for stillborn at first and then revived.

Q 02/05

Which Georgia city, where Brown grew up shining shoes, later named its arena after him?

A) Augusta

B) Savannah

C) Macon

D) Athens

Answer · why

A) Augusta

Augusta also put up a statue of him in 2005, in the downtown where he had once danced for soldiers' pennies.

Q 03/05

Before music took over, a young James Brown briefly pursued which sport as a career?

A) Track

B) Basketball

C) Football

D) Boxing

Answer · why

D) Boxing

Boxing and baseball both looked like better bets than music to the young Brown. He spent his first years out of detention in the ring and on semipro d...

Q 04/05

Brown was paroled in 1952 from a youth prison at the old 'Band of Brothers' paratrooper camp near which Georgia town?

A) Valdosta

B) Toccoa

C) Dalton

D) Albany

Answer · why

B) Toccoa

Toccoa became his first home as a free man too, when the family of local singer Bobby Byrd took him in. He stayed, married there and sang gospel with ...

Q 05/05

Leading a gospel quartet behind bars earned the teenage Brown which nickname from fellow inmates?

A) Jukebox

B) Music Box

C) Songbird

D) Piano Man

Answer · why

B) Music Box

Music Box met local singer Bobby Byrd while he was still locked up. Byrd's group took him in after his release and, with Brown out front, became the F...