Moving To The Country! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Tim McGraw

McGraw was born in 1967 and married country star Faith Hill in 1996. The Delhi, Louisiana native, ironically got his start in Start, Louisiana, and is a resident, as noted by the large sign on the town limits that emphasize he lives there. His father was Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw, who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball as a relief pitcher. Tim has also taken his talents to the big screen, starring in "The Blind Side", "Friday Night Lights", as well as lead roles in "Flicka" and "Country Strong". Taylor Swift named her debut song "Tim McGraw" in reference to him.

Answer: Carrie Underwood

The Oklahoma native won the fourth season of "American Idol" in 2005, launching her to a multi-platinum selling, multiple-Grammy, and Country Music Association "Female Vocalist of the Year" winning career. Underwood is a devoted vegan and stopped eating meat at the age of 13.

She married then-Ottawa Senator Mike Fisher in 2010, before Fisher was traded to the Nashville Predators to be closer to his wife. She had previously dates Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo (although she denied it) and actor Chase Crawford.

Answer: Lady Antebellum

The group formed in 2006 in Nashville, Tennessee and is composed of Hillary Scott (vocals), Charles Kelley (vocals), and Dave Haywood (vocals, piano, guitar). In 2008, the group won Top New Duo or Group by the Academy of Country Music and New Artist of the Year by the Country Music Association.

Answer: Brad Paisley

Born in Glen Dale, West Virginia, Paisley released ten consecutive songs that reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs from 2005-2009. With the success he's had as an individual, Paisley has also performed duets with Keith Urban ("Start A Band"), Carrie Underwood ("Remind Me"), Dolly Parton ("When I Get Where I'm Going") and Alison Krauss ("Whiskey Lullaby").

He won Top Male Vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards five years in a row from 2007-11.

Answer: Martina McBride

McBride is considered the "Celine Dion of Country Music" for her big-voiced ballads and soprano vocal range. After signing her first record deal in 1991, she didn't break through until her fourth album, "Evolution" in 1997, and celebrated her 50th single released in 2012. In 2011, she was nominated for the CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year for the 14th consecutive year.

Answer: Toby Keith

Toby Keith Covel released his break out song "How Do You Like Me Now?" in 1998. His 2003 duet with Willie Nelson, called "Beer for My Horses", stayed at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs list for six weeks, which he matched again in 2005 with "As Good As I Once Was". Keith had a run-in with Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines after she called "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" was "ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant".

He responded by insulting Maines' songwriting skills and displayed an edited picture of her and Sadaam Hussein at a concert.

Answer: Zac Brown Band

Lead singer Zac Brown (also guitar) is joined by Jimmy De Martini (fiddle, vocals), Coy Bowles (guitar, keyboards), Chris Fryar (drums), John Driskell Hopkins (bass guitar, vocals), Clay Cook (various instruments), and Daniel de los Reyes (percussion).

Their debut hit "Chicken Fried" almost wasn't theirs as the 2003-written song was recorded by The Lost Trailers in 2006. Brown decided he and his band would like to release the song themselves, which they did to country radio in 2008. Of their first ten releases, eight reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Charts, with the two that didn't peaked at the #2 spot.

Answer: Sara Evans

The Missouri singer-songwriter signed with RCA Records in 1998, and her first album "Three Chords and the Truth" did not produce a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot Country charts. Album number two "No Place That Far" did much better, receiving gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), launching her career. Evans participated in the third season of ABC's "Dancing With The Stars", but withdrew after advancing through five rounds, as she divorced her first husband, Craig Schelske.

Answer: Alan Jackson

A member of the Grand Ole Opery, Jackson's first song "Blue Blooded Women" was released in 1989, but didn't crack the US Billboard Hot Country Top 40. In 1990, "Here in The Real World" reached #3 on the same charts, and in 1991, "I'd Love You All Over Again" became the legend's first #1, with over 30 more to come. "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" spent eight non-consecutive weeks at the #1 spot on the Billboard charts.

In June 2009, Jackson sold his 135-acre estate in Franklin, Tennessee for $28 million, and spent *only* $4 million on a smaller house in Nashville.

Answer: Kenny Chesney

The Luthrell, Tennessee native won the Country Music Association's "Entertainer of the Year" award four times in five years from 2004-2008, with 2005 being the only year he came up short. Chesney married actress Renee Zellweger in 2005, and they filed for an annulment after four months.

A lifelong football fan, Chesney released "The Boys of Fall" in 2010 was a tribute to football, and he narrated an ESPN documentary about Condredge Holloway, his favorite football player growing up, called "The Color Orange".