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1. Country Music Television threatened to ban all videos by Canadian artists in 1995 because Canada was planning to create their own country video television station. What was the name of this short-lived video channel?
2. Many very successful Canadian country acts have had huge success in Canada, but never managed to get a number-one song in the United States. Which of the following artists is the only one to never hit the top spot south of the border?
3. Of the following, which album released in 1997, became the best selling country album by a Canadian artist?
4. By the early 1950's, the young man from Nova Scotia, Canada was a regular on the Grand Ole Opry. He convinced the Opry directors to allow a young unknown named Elvis Presley to be his opening act. He went on to have huge hits with songs like "I'm Movin' On" and "I've Been Everywhere", as well as 41 other top 10 hits. What was this man's name?
5. This man's debut single, "Horseshoes", went to the top spot in Canada when he was just 15 years old. Who is he?
6. This Canadian band has been making hit records since 1984, but have never made the leap to Nashville. The group is lead by sometimes solo artist, Jim Cuddy. What is the name of this group?
7. This woman from British Columbia was a label-mate of Garth Brooks when she was signed to a record deal on Liberty Records in Nashville in the mid-nineties. She failed to produce a hit record for the company, and after only two albums the label folded and left her without a recording contract. She returned to Canada and had a string of hit records through the end of the nineties and into the new millenium. She had success with songs like, "How Do I Let Go?", and "I'd Like to See You Try". What is her name?
8. Born in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Anne Murray was the first Canadian female solo artist to have a number one hit in the United States. What was the name of this ground-breaking record?
9. Reba McEntire got a start in the music business as this Canadian man's opening act in the late 1970's. He returned to the top of the charts again in the nineties with a song he had written in the 1970's, but this time it was turned into a pop song for the film, "54". What is this man's name?
10. This Canadian musical group of siblings came from a family of 12 children. They were set apart from the rest of the Canadian country music sound by their tradition Celtic stylings infused with catchy Nashville licks. Beginning in Mabou, Nova Scotia they conquered Canada's country scene. The group went their seperate ways after their piano playing brother was killed in a car crash in 2000. What is the name of these history making Canadian siblings?
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