1. Taylor Swift's full name:
a) Taylor Darlene Swift
b) Taylor Bennett Swift
c) Taylor Alison Swift
d) Taylor Whitney Swift
2. George Strait's first No. 1 hit:
a) "A Fire I Can't Put Out"
b) "Fool Hearted Memory"
c) "Right or Wrong"
d) "You Look So Good in Love"
3. Where is Monkeyville?
a) In Keith Urban's imagination
b) In Borneo
c) In Malaysia
d) In the Babar books
4. Toby Keith's first No. 1 hit:
a) "Who's That Man"
b) "Me Too"
c) "Should've Been a Cowboy"
d) "How Do You Like Me Now?!"
5. Brad Paisley's first No. 1 hit:
a) "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)"
b) "Mud on the Tires"
c) "He Didn't Have to Be"
d) "We Danced"
6. The Clark Brothers, who recently won The Next Great American Band competition, are a new country trio.
a) True
b) False
7. Trace Adkins' full name:
a) Tracy Darrell Adkins
b) Trace Durrell Adkins
c) Trace Ashton Adkins
d) Tracy Wayne Adkins
8. Waylon Jennings' first No. 1 hit:
a) "I'm a Ramblin' Man"
b) "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way"
c) "This Time"
d) "Good Hearted Woman"
9. Blake Shelton's first Nashville job:
a) Painting "Heartbreak Hotel" songwriter Mae Boren Axton's house
b) Tending Porter Wagoner's vegetable garden
c) Pool boy for Tammy Wynette
d) Modeling for art students
10. Garth Brooks' first No. 1 hit:
a) "The Dance"
b) "Friends in Low Places"
c) "Unanswered Prayers"
d) "If Tomorrow Never Comes"
11. Keith Urban's full name:
a) Keith Davidson Urban
b) Keith Braxton Urban
c) Keith Lamont Urban
d) Keith Lionel Urban
12. Dolly Parton's first No. 1 hit:
a) "Jolene"
b) "Joshua"
c) "I Will Always Love You"
d) "Please Don't Stop Loving Me"
13. Which of these George Strait singles was not a No. 1?
a) "What's Going on in Your World"
b) "I've Come to Expect It From You"
c) "Amarillo by Morning"
d) "It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You"
14. Kenny Chesney's full name:
a) Kenneth Smith Chesney
b) Kenneth Atkins Chesney
c) Kenneth Arnold Chesney
d) Kenneth Wayne Chesney
15. Which of these is a theory about Hank Williams' last night on earth:
a) He got a vitamin B-6 shot for an attack of hiccups.
b) He got a shot of morphine for his addiction.
c) He died from an overdose of alcohol and drugs.
d) He died of natural causes, probably a heart attack.
16. Until Johnny Cash's recent internment, the most visited country star's grave in Nashville belonged to:
a) Patsy Cline
b) Tammy Wynette
c) Keith Whitley
d) Minnie Pearl
17. Brad Paisley's full name:
a) Brad Douglas Paisley
b) Bradley Carroll Paisley
c) Brad Frederick Paisley
d) Bradford Willis Paisley
18. Gary LeVox's full name:
a) Gary Clyde Smith
b) Gary Michael LeFontaine
c) Gary Wayne Vernon Jr.
d) Douglas Gary Overton
19. Why did Francesco Maccarrone say of Trisha Yearwood, "I was a big Reba fan, but now I'm an even bigger Trisha fan."
a) She signed autographs for everyone in his family.
b) She stopped her tour bus to aid Maccarrone and his family when their car broke down in a snowstorm.
c) He was trapped in the baggage compartment of her flight when she heard his thumping and made the pilot land the plane to investigate.
d) She invited him and his family to Thanksgiving dinner after a fire at his house.
20. Mike Huckabee's campaign theme song:
a) "Davy the Fat Boy"
b) "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow"
c) "You Gave Me a Mountain"
d) "Free Bird"
ANSWERS: 1. c; 2. b; 3. d. (In the Babar books, Babar is the elephant and Zephir is his monkey friend who came from Monkeyville.); 4. c; 5. c; 6. b. (False. The Clark Brothers have been around playing music since the early 1990s. The present Clark Brothers are three of the six Clark brothers who made up the Clark Family Experience, who recorded their 2002 self-titled album -- which was co-produced by Tim McGraw and Byron Gallimore.); 7. a; 8. c; 9. a; 10. d; 11. d; 12. b; 13. c; 14. c; 15. All of them. (There are also others.); 16. c.; 17. a; 18. c; 19. c; 20. d.
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