Q 01/05

The Statler Brothers took their name from a brand of which product, spotted in a hotel room?

A) Facial tissues

B) Bar soap

C) Shaving cream

D) Hotel stationery

Answer · why

A) Facial tissues

Facial tissues gave the quartet its name: a box of Statler Tissues sat in their hotel room when they needed a new one in 1963. None of the four was na...

Q 02/05

The Statler Brothers spent eight years as opening act and backing singers for which country legend?

A) Merle Haggard

B) Marty Robbins

C) Buck Owens

D) Johnny Cash

Answer · why

D) Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash hired the quartet in 1964 and insisted that his record label sign them too. They stayed until 1972, when they left his tour to chase hits ...

Q 03/05

Bruce Willis sings along to the Statler Brothers' "Flowers on the Wall" while driving in which film?

A) Armageddon

B) Pulp Fiction

C) The Last Boy Scout

D) Twelve Monkeys

Answer · why

B) Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction uses the group's 1975 re-recording rather than the 1965 original. Willis's character refers to the same song a year later in Die Hard wit...

Q 04/05

Which founding Statler Brother wrote "Flowers on the Wall", the quartet's only top-ten pop hit?

A) Harold Reid

B) Don Reid

C) Lew DeWitt

D) Phil Balsley

Answer · why

C) Lew DeWitt

Lew DeWitt, the group's original tenor, wrote it. The single climbed to number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1966, and the Statlers never rea...

Q 05/05

In 1980 the Statler Brothers bought which hometown building to turn into their offices and museum?

A) A former elementary school

B) A former train depot

C) A downtown movie theater

D) A closed textile mill

Answer · why

A) A former elementary school

A former elementary school, their own Beverley Manor, became the group's headquarters for more than two decades. The renovated complex also held an au...