Q 01/05

Elvis Presley was born in 1935 in which Mississippi town?

A) Biloxi

B) Jackson

C) Tupelo

D) Natchez

Answer · why

C) Tupelo

Tupelo. He was born in a two-room house there; his twin brother was stillborn, so Elvis grew up an only child, and the family left for Memphis when he...

Q 02/05

Which blues song, played for fun during a break in a 1954 session, became Elvis Presley's first single?

A) Hound Dog

B) That's All Right

C) Don't Be Cruel

D) All Shook Up

Answer · why

B) That's All Right

That's All Right. The slow ballads were going nowhere when Elvis tore into Arthur Crudup's blues at speed; the producer heard it through the control-r...

Q 03/05

What was Elvis's first single for RCA Victor, released in January 1956, and his first million-seller?

A) Blue Suede Shoes

B) Love Me Tender

C) Heartbreak Hotel

D) Hound Dog

Answer · why

C) Heartbreak Hotel

Heartbreak Hotel. Its writers said the spark was a newspaper story about a man who died leaving one line, 'I walk a lonely street'; the song put a hot...

Q 04/05

Who managed Elvis for almost his entire career?

A) Andrew Loog Oldham

B) Brian Epstein

C) Colonel Tom Parker

D) Sam Phillips

Answer · why

C) Colonel Tom Parker

Colonel Tom Parker. The rank was honorary and the name invented: he was Andreas van Kuijk, a Dutchman who had entered the US illegally and claimed to ...

Q 05/05

What was Elvis's first movie, released in November 1956?

A) Blue Hawaii

B) King Creole

C) Love Me Tender

D) Jailhouse Rock

Answer · why

C) Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender. The Civil War drama was to be called The Reno Brothers until the studio renamed it after the ballad Elvis sings in it.