Q 01/05

Toby Keith was born in 1961 in which Oklahoma town?

A) Muskogee

B) Norman

C) Clinton

D) Tulsa

Answer · why

C) Clinton

His birth name was Toby Keith Covel; the family later settled in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, where he played high-school football.

Q 02/05

How old was Toby Keith when he got his first guitar?

A) Eight

B) Sixteen

C) Twelve

D) Five

Answer · why

A) Eight

He got hooked on music doing odd jobs at his grandmother's supper club, where he would climb onto the bandstand to play with the house band.

Q 03/05

After high school, what job did Toby Keith work while playing bars at night?

A) Long-haul truck driver

B) Derrick hand in the oil fields

C) High-school football coach

D) Rodeo bull rider

Answer · why

B) Derrick hand in the oil fields

He worked up to supervisor and sometimes had to walk out mid-concert when he was paged back to the rig; the 1982 oil bust put him out of work.

Q 04/05

After the oil bust, Toby Keith tried out for the Oklahoma Outlaws of which pro football league?

A) Arena Football League

B) CFL

C) XFL

D) USFL

Answer · why

D) USFL

He did not make the roster but played defensive end for the team's unofficial semi-pro farm club, the Oklahoma City Drillers, while still gigging with...

Q 05/05

What was the name of the group Toby Keith formed with friends at age twenty to play Oklahoma roadhouses?

A) Boomtown Boys

B) The Roughnecks

C) Easy Money

D) Red Dirt Rangers

Answer · why

C) Easy Money

The group played roadhouses across Oklahoma and Texas for most of a decade before Keith went to Nashville on his own.