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

The Man in Black explained itself in his 1971 song 'Man in Black': he said he wore black on behalf of the poor and the imprisoned.

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

Arkansas-born, Cash was named only by the initials J.R. because his parents couldn't agree on a first name; he began using John when he joined the Air...

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 aircraft radios

C) Driving supply trucks

D) Intercepting Soviet Morse code

Answer · why

D) Intercepting Soviet Morse code

Intercepting Soviet Morse code, he is said to have been one of the first Americans to hear that Stalin had died; he also formed his first band there.

Q 04/05

Which label and producer first signed Johnny Cash, after turning down 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

Sun Records and Sam Phillips asked for one more song, so Cash wrote 'Cry, Cry, Cry' overnight, and it shared his first single with 'Hey Porter'.

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.