Q 01/05

In which Gulf Coast town was Jimmy Buffett born in 1946?

A) Pascagoula, Mississippi

B) Biloxi, Mississippi

C) Ocean Springs, Mississippi

D) Gulfport, Mississippi

Answer · why

A) Pascagoula, Mississippi

Pascagoula, Mississippi. The family soon moved along the coast to Mobile, Alabama, where his father worked at a shipyard, so Buffett grew up a state a...

Q 02/05

Jimmy Buffett shared his birthday with which holiday?

A) New Year's Day

B) Christmas Day

C) Halloween

D) Independence Day

Answer · why

B) Christmas Day

Christmas Day. Born on 25 December 1946, he went on to record two holiday albums of his own, Christmas Island and, twenty years later, 'Tis the SeaSon...

Q 03/05

Buffett flunked out of which university after a single year in 1966?

A) LSU

B) Ole Miss

C) Auburn

D) Alabama

Answer · why

C) Auburn

Auburn. He enrolled that autumn at a Mississippi junior college instead, and later said he had stayed in higher education to keep out of the Vietnam d...

Q 04/05

What subject was Buffett's 1969 bachelor's degree in?

A) English

B) Business

C) Music

D) History

Answer · why

D) History

History. He finished the degree at the University of Southern Mississippi, singing on street corners at weekends to help pay his way through college.

Q 05/05

As a Nashville editorial assistant, Buffett was first to report the breakup of which bluegrass act?

A) Flatt and Scruggs

B) The Stanley Brothers

C) The Osborne Brothers

D) Jim and Jesse

Answer · why

A) Flatt and Scruggs

Flatt and Scruggs. Buffett broke the story as a reporter for Billboard magazine; the duo parted in 1969, when Earl Scruggs left to play with his sons ...