Country Music Trivia Questions

True. The Grand Ole Opry started as the 'WSM Barn Dance' on Nashville radio station WSM on November 28, 1925, and later changed its name.

True. Dolly Parton stated in interviews that the song 'Jolene' was inspired by a red-haired bank teller who had a crush on her husband Carl Dean.

True. Willie Nelson wrote 'Crazy' and Patsy Cline recorded it in 1961. It became one of her signature songs and a classic country standard.

False. The first commercial country music recordings were made elsewhere, notably by Eck Robertson in New York (1922) and Fiddlin' John Carson in Atlanta (1923), not in Nashville.

False. 'Hey, Good Lookin'' was written and recorded by Hank Williams in 1951. Johnny Cash was a later country star but did not write this song.

False. 'Stand By Your Man' was co-written by Tammy Wynette and producer Billy Sherrill. Wynette did not write it alone.

False. The song was written by Ed Bruce and Patsy Bruce. Willie Nelson famously performed it with Waylon Jennings in 1978 but did not write it.

True. 'The Wreck of the Old 97' by Vernon Dalhart in 1924 is widely recognized as country music's first million-selling record, marking a commercial milestone.