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Quiz about The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
Quiz about The Life and Times of Dolly Parton

The Life and Times of Dolly Parton Quiz


Dolly Parton, sometimes scoffed at for superficial reasons, is truly legendary because of her contributions to country music, her honesty, her philanthropy and an overall integrity which genuinely sizzles in these sometimes overly analytical days.

A multiple-choice quiz by Windswept. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
Windswept
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
318,591
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
9 / 15
Plays
996
Awards
Top 5% quiz!
Last 3 plays: CGJORDAN255 (11/15), Guest 98 (11/15), Guest 24 (13/15).
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Question 1 of 15
1. In which Tennessee city was Dolly Rebecca Parton born? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. An amazingly gifted musician, which of the following instruments does Dolly Parton NOT play? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. Who was the singer who prompted Dolly Parton to disregard what others might think and to follow the promptings of her own heart?

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Question 4 of 15
4. Dolly Parton maintains an amazingly youthful appearance. When was she born? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. What completes the title of what people call her signature song: "____ of Many Colors"? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. What was the song the Dolly Parton refused to share publishing rights with Elvis Presley in 1974? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. What is the name of the famous song Dolly Parton sang with Kenny Rogers? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. For which song did Dolly Parton receive death threats because of the song's defense of trans-gender people? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. Which album of the following is NOT a top ten country album for Dolly Parton? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. In an interview with Larry King, how many songs did Dolly Parton say she wrote since she was seven? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. How do you complete the famous Dolly Parton statement, "You'd be surprised how much money it costs to look this _____? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. What is the name of Dolly Parton's husband whom she married in 1966? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. Which Parton single was turned into a Broadway musical? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. With what famous British figure did Dolly Parton appear in a November 2009 BBC series on the roles of faith in people's lives? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. What is the missing word in the title of Dolly Parton's Dollywood Foundation: Dolly Parton's Imagination ____? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. In which Tennessee city was Dolly Rebecca Parton born?

Answer: Sevierville

Sevierville is situated about ten miles south of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is small: about twenty square miles with a population under 20,000. It seems that Sevierville was a center of much abolitionist activity in the 19th century. Sevierville openly invites visitors on its website, which says "Where Smoky Mountain Fun Begins."
2. An amazingly gifted musician, which of the following instruments does Dolly Parton NOT play?

Answer: sitar

Dolly Parton plays the dulcimer, the fiddle, and the drums as well. She says that she has "the gift of rhyme." Her musical career began when she was ten. She has rather famously said that she got both her musical abilities and her free-flowing imagination from a combination of what she calls her mother and father's "hard work ethic."
3. Who was the singer who prompted Dolly Parton to disregard what others might think and to follow the promptings of her own heart?

Answer: Johnny Cash

She met Johnny Cash at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. 'Rolling Stone Magazine' included Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash as among the greatest 100 singers of all time.

This is a famous idea of Johnny Cash: "I'd like to wear a rainbow every day, and tell the world that everything is o.k. But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back. Until things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black."
Similarly, Dolly Parton calls things as they are and doesn't squirm away from the unpleasant.

Johnny Cash: 'Cash: The Autobiography,' 1998.
4. Dolly Parton maintains an amazingly youthful appearance. When was she born?

Answer: 1946

Dan Rather reported that Dolly Parton said to him in a CBS interview: "I'm just doing great....It's like you have to spend a lifetime in the business to really know kind of what you're doing ... It's like this great song out of Nashville that Buddy Killen had, 'When I've learned enough to really live, I'll be old enough to die.'"

She says about retirement,"I think that I'm never going to retire....I love to work. I wake up with a new dream every day, and so, as long as I can, you know, dream and as long as I can afford to put them in motion, that's just what I'm going to do."
5. What completes the title of what people call her signature song: "____ of Many Colors"?

Answer: Coat

This song embraces and celebrates her very humble beginnings, affirms her faith and speaks out for diversity and a loving spirit.
6. What was the song the Dolly Parton refused to share publishing rights with Elvis Presley in 1974?

Answer: I Will Always Love You

Dolly Parton wrote this song in 1973. According to Dolly Parton, she got a call from Colonel Tom Parker the morning Elvis Presley was going to record "I Will Always Love You." Parker told her that Elvis didn't record anything he didn't have a copyright to. Dolly Parton reported that this news literally 'broke her heart." She refused to let Elvis Presley have the copyright. Undercover.com, March 24, 2009
In 1992 when Whitney Houston sang "I Will Always Love You," she did not ask to get the copyright.
7. What is the name of the famous song Dolly Parton sang with Kenny Rogers?

Answer: Islands in the Stream

This was a 1983 hit, written by the Bee Gees.
The name of the song is the title of an Ernest Hemingway novel.
8. For which song did Dolly Parton receive death threats because of the song's defense of trans-gender people?

Answer: Travelin' Thru

In 2006, for the second time, Parton was nominated for an Academy Award for her song, "Travelin' Thru" which she wrote for the film "Transamerica." The song's defense of a transgendered woman drew the ire of many, even death threats. Subsequently, Dolly Parton has spoken eloquently of her understanding of and solidarity with all peoples.

In an 2009 interview with Larry King, she says of the Dixie Chicks, "But I have to say that in defense of them, they are great girls, they are great artists, and I'm sure they never meant the harm that has come from all of this....Natalie is kind of like me. She opens her mouth sometimes before her brain kicks in....I really think it's time to be Americans and kind of forgive them, because that's the American way to do."
9. Which album of the following is NOT a top ten country album for Dolly Parton?

Answer: My Tennessee Mountain Home

"My Tennessee Mountain Home," both the title track and the album, was Parton's open-ended memory of her youth in Tennessee. She began the album with parts of the first letter she ever wrote her parents. Although critics have praised this album highly, it never was in either the top ten US country albums or singles.
This title song functions as a theme at her unique theme park, Dollywood.
10. In an interview with Larry King, how many songs did Dolly Parton say she wrote since she was seven?

Answer: 5,000

According to her website, she writes a song every two or three days. Her first song, "Little Tiny Tassletop," was about her corn-cob doll. She could not write at the time, and her mother apparently wrote the words down for her.
11. How do you complete the famous Dolly Parton statement, "You'd be surprised how much money it costs to look this _____?

Answer: cheap

In an interview, Parton openly brings up the topic of money, "I made a lot of money, and I need a lot of money, because it costs a lot of money to look this cheap," she said with a laugh." Bob Edwards, "Dolly Parton's Stairway to Success,"
NPR, September 24, 2002.

As of 2009, various sources believe that Dolly Parton's net worth is over 900 million dollars.
12. What is the name of Dolly Parton's husband whom she married in 1966?

Answer: Carl Thomas Dean

"We get along great, and we've never even had a big argument, a big fight," Larry King Live, July 3, 2003.
"He's proud of me," she says. "He doesn't care what I do, and he knows I'm always coming home. He knows I love him, and he loves me. But he's a loner. He don't want to be with anyone but me, so that works out just fine." CBS Sunday Morning, "Nobody's Fool," July 24, 2004.

Dean is a construction worker. They married May 30, 1966. Ultimately, it was a mutual decision not to have children. He chooses not to travel with her. Their marriage, despite all rumors, appears to be unique and complete for them.
13. Which Parton single was turned into a Broadway musical?

Answer: 9 to 5

A musical version of the highly successful film, "9 to 5," opened on Broadway in April, 2009. It received five Tony awards and will start a national tour in September 2010. The 1980 movie was the highest earning comedy of the year. It starred Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman.
14. With what famous British figure did Dolly Parton appear in a November 2009 BBC series on the roles of faith in people's lives?

Answer: Tony Blair

Archbishop Desmond Tutu was also interviewed for this series which particularly focuses on the role of faith in high profile people.
15. What is the missing word in the title of Dolly Parton's Dollywood Foundation: Dolly Parton's Imagination ____?

Answer: Library

Her literacy program, "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library," a part of the Dollywood Foundation, mails one book per month to enrolled youth from the time of birth until kindergarten. It began in Sevier County but now functions in thirty-six U.S. states. In December 2007 it expanded to Europe.

Parton has been very generous with this program. She herself says of it that she "put her money where her mouth is - and with such a big mouth that's a pretty large sum of money." She encourages people to become 'champions of the imagination."
Source: Author Windswept

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