Q 01/05

In which state was June Carter born, at Maces Spring, in 1929?

A) Virginia

B) North Carolina

C) Tennessee

D) Arkansas

Answer · why

A) Virginia

Virginia. Two months after June died in 2003, Johnny Cash gave his last public performance in her home valley, at the Carter Family Fold on the old fa...

Q 02/05

Which first name did June Carter Cash set aside to go by her middle name?

A) Vivian

B) Violet

C) Veronica

D) Valerie

Answer · why

D) Valerie

Valerie. She was Valerie June Carter at birth and plain June Carter on stage, adding Cash only in 1968, five years after 'Ring of Fire' had made her n...

Q 03/05

In which city did the original Carter Family first record for Ralph Peer in August 1927?

A) Atlanta, Georgia

B) Nashville, Tennessee

C) Bristol, Tennessee

D) Charlotte, North Carolina

Answer · why

C) Bristol, Tennessee

Bristol, Tennessee. Jimmie Rodgers turned up to audition in the same fortnight, and the sessions that launched both acts are now called the 'Big Bang'...

Q 04/05

June Carter's family opened shows in the mid-1950s for which rising star?

A) Carl Perkins

B) Elvis Presley

C) Jerry Lee Lewis

D) Roy Orbison

Answer · why

B) Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley. The Carters opened for him just as he was breaking nationally, and June went back out on his tours between her acting classes in New Yo...

Q 05/05

Which instrument did June play in the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle?

A) Autoharp

B) Mandolin

C) Dobro

D) Fiddle

Answer · why

A) Autoharp

Autoharp. June said hers was the weakest voice in a family of harmony singers, so she strummed along, covered her bad notes with jokes and became the ...