Q 01/05

Walk the Line opens with Johnny Cash waiting backstage to play for the inmates of which California prison?

A) San Quentin

B) Folsom

C) Alcatraz

D) Soledad

Answer · why

B) Folsom

Folsom hosted two Cash shows on one January day in 1968, and the live album cut there revived a career that drugs had stalled.

Q 02/05

Walk the Line earned five Academy Award nominations but won only one Oscar, in which category?

A) Best Actor

B) Best Picture

C) Best Costume Design

D) Best Actress

Answer · why

D) Best Actress

Best Actress went to Reese Witherspoon for her June Carter, a role that also brought her a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for...

Q 03/05

In Walk the Line, the young Johnny Cash leaves the family farm to enlist in which branch of the military?

A) The Air Force

B) The Army

C) The Navy

D) The Marine Corps

Answer · why

A) The Air Force

The Air Force trained the real Cash as a Morse code operator who intercepted Soviet Army transmissions. In the film he buys a guitar while serving ove...

Q 04/05

The onstage marriage proposal that closes Walk the Line really happened at a Johnny Cash concert in which country?

A) England

B) Australia

C) Canada

D) Ireland

Answer · why

C) Canada

Canada was the setting: Cash proposed to June mid-show in London, Ontario, in February 1968, and the couple married a week later in Kentucky.

Q 05/05

The director of Walk the Line later made A Complete Unknown, a biopic of which singer that features Johnny Cash?

A) Bruce Springsteen

B) Bob Dylan

C) Elvis Presley

D) Neil Young

Answer · why

B) Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is played by Timothée Chalamet in the 2024 film, which follows his rise through the folk scene. Boyd Holbrook takes over the part of Johnny ...