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Q.
On what Eve was Nashville founded?
A. Nashville
was founded on Christmas Eve 1779.
Q. Name the 7th and 11th presidents that lived in the Nashville
area.
A. Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk.
Q. What is the shape of the driveway at President Andrew Jackson’s
home Hermitage?
A. The drive is in the shape of a guitar.
Q. Which Nashville captain gave the American flag its most famous
nickname?
A. Retired Captain William Driver brought his trusty flag
"Old Glory" home to Nashville in 1837.
Q.What
was the original name of the Grand
Ole Opry?
A.The WSM Barn
Dance.
Q.What
was the longest home of the Grand Ole Opry?
A.The
Ryman Auditorium.
Q. Portions
of 16th and 17th Avenue South are known as what Nashville area?
A. Music Row.
Q. Who was the King of Country?
A. Roy Acuff.
Q. Who is Mr. Guitar?
A. Chet Atkins.
Q. What Nashville musician had a guitar-shaped swimming pool?
A. Webb Pierce.
Q. Who became famous as the featured female singer on Porter
Wagoner’s Show and now has her own theme park in the Smokey
Mountains?
A. Dolly Parton.
Q. What popular female singer started out as a tour guide
at the Country
Music Hall of Fame?
A. Kathy Mattea.
Q. What singer used to wash dishes at the Nashville Palace
and is now credited as beginning the movement of New Traditionalists?
A. Randy Travis.
Q.What country music star was know as the Father of Bluegrass
Music?
A.Bill Monroe.
Q.What
country music entertainers went into the sausage business?
A.Jimmy Dean and George Jones.
Q. Name the Nashville museum that houses Elvis’ gold cadillac
and piano.
A. Country
Music Hall of Fame.
Q.The song “I Was the One” began a long relationship between
Elvis Presley and what group?
A.The Jordannaires.
Q.According to the Lovin’ Spoonful, how many guitar pickers
are there in Nashville?
A.1352.
Q.Who is the only country recording artist to be elected
twice to the Country Music Hall of Fame?
A.Roy Rogers.
Q.After drinking a cup of locally produced coffee in Nashville,
which U.S. president coined the phrase “good to the last drop!”?
A.Theodore Roosevelt.
Q.Although this now famous coffee is still enjoyed everywhere,
it was served for the last time at the hotel where it got its
start on December 25, 1961. What was the name of the Nashville
hotel?
A.The Maxwell House Hotel.
What famous Nashville candy is made of chocolate, caramel,
marshmallows and peanuts?
A.Goo Goo’s.
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