Q 01/05

What nickname did Cash earn from his trademark stage wardrobe?

A) The Midnight Rambler

B) The Man in Black

C) The Dark Rider

D) The Black Knight

Answer · why

B) The Man in Black

His 1975 autobiography took the name as its title and sold 1.3 million copies.

Q 02/05

Johnny Cash was born in 1932 to poor cotton farmers in which state?

A) Tennessee

B) Mississippi

C) Texas

D) Arkansas

Answer · why

D) Arkansas

His boyhood home in the New Deal colony of Dyess was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

Q 03/05

Cash spent much of his four years in the US Air Force in West Germany doing what job?

A) Flying reconnaissance

B) Repairing radios

C) Driving supply trucks

D) Intercepting Soviet Morse code

Answer · why

D) Intercepting Soviet Morse code

He is said to have been one of the first Americans to learn of Stalin's death, via Morse code, and he formed his first band, the Landsberg Barbarians,...

Q 04/05

Which label and producer signed Johnny Cash in 1955 after rejecting the sacred songs he auditioned with?

A) Columbia and Don Law

B) Sun Records and Sam Phillips

C) RCA and Chet Atkins

D) Decca and Owen Bradley

Answer · why

B) Sun Records and Sam Phillips

His given name was simply J. R.; the Air Force would not accept initials, so he became John R., and only became 'Johnny' when he signed.

Q 05/05

Guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant, Cash's original backing duo, were known as what?

A) The Memphis Boys

B) The Sun Rhythm Section

C) The Highwaymen

D) The Tennessee Two

Answer · why

D) The Tennessee Two

With a drummer added they became the Tennessee Three, who backed him at Folsom and San Quentin.