Country Music
Iconic Buildings
Nashville Institutions
Famous Figures
Fights for Rights
100
A long-running radio show presented by WSM that popularized country music in America and launched the careers of hundreds of country stars.
What is the Grand Ole Opry?
100
Currently, Nashville's tallest building, nicknamed for its resemblance to a certain caped and cowled superhero.
What is the Batman Building?
100
The restaurant that is the origin of Nashville's most famous dish; patrons can choose their level of spice.
What is Prince's Hot Chicken?
100
A country music star who got her start on the Grand Ole Opry, she's known for her love of pink and rhinestones and her hit songs "9 to 5" and "Jolene."
Who is Dolly Parton?
100
An addition to the United States Constitution which affords all citizens the right to vote, regardless of gender.
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
A silly-sounding nickname for a music bar specializing in country music; many famous ones can be found on downtown Nashville's Lower Broadway.
What is a honkey-tonk?
200
Originally constructed as a gospel tabernacle, it's a live music venue known as the Mother Church of Country Music for its long stint as the home of the Grand Ole Opry.
What is the Ryman Auditorium?
200
A system comprising twenty-one physical locations which provides Davidson County residents with books, research assistance, free community programs, and much more.
What is the Nashville Public Library?
200
The "Man In Black" who rose to fame in the Memphis rockabilly scene, he walked the line and fell into a burning ring of fire.
Who is Johnny Cash?
200
A civil rights era protest tactic where activists enter an establishment and peacefully refuse to leave; the first large and organized instance was carried out in Nashville.
What is a sit-in protest?
300
A specialized guitar played from a stand like a piano keyboard; its pitch-bending levers provide country songs with a distinctively mournful and keening sound.
What is a pedal steel guitar?
300
A replica of a Greek temple that sits on a hill in Nashville's Centennial park and contains a museum and a reproduction statue of Athena Parthenos.
What is the Nashville Parthenon?
300
The site of Nashville's one-hundredth-anniversary celebration and exposition, it now contains the artificial Lake Watauga, the Instagram-famous Taylor Swift Bench, and the Nashville Parthenon.
What is Centennial Park?
300
A belligerent American president known as "Old Hickory" for his toughness; his historic home, The Hermitage, is a popular Nashville site.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
A Fisk University graduate who participated in Nashville's civil rights movement and became one of the leaders of the national movement; he went on to become a state representative for Georgia.
Who is Rep. John Lewis?
400
A subgenre of country music said to have a "high lonesome sound;" it is named for the band of "Boys" who popularized it, and the name of their band comes from a type of plant commonly found in their native Kentucky.
What is Bluegrass Music?
400
Once the hub of Nashville's rail services, it is now a luxury hotel said to be haunted by the ghost of a young woman who died in the 1940s.
What is Union Station?
400
One of the largest municipal parks in Tennessee, named for the two brothers and Nashville statesmen who were crucial in preserving the wilderness the parks contain.
What is Percy Warner/Edwin Warner Park?
400
The first mayor of the consolidated Nashville-Davidson Metropolitan Government, he sported a full mustache and has the dubious honor of being the namesake of one of Nashville's worst parkways.
Who is Beverly Briley?
400
The symbol of the Suffragists, worn as pins or displayed in bouquets; they blanketed the floor of the Tennessee capitol building when the 19th Amendment was ratified.
What is a yellow rose?
500
It's what people called country music before they called it country music; nowadays, calling it this might sound offensive to rural Appalachian folks.
What is old-time/hillbilly music?
500
This fortified structure was built on a hill in South Nashville as as base for Union soldiers in the American Civil War, but never saw significant combat; it is now a park and protected historical site.
What is Fort Negley?
500
A public utility that provides electricity to thousands in Davidson county, with an imposing concrete office building sporting a distinctive dome.
What is Nashville Electric Service?
500
A Detroit-born rock musician who adopted Nashville as his home when he opened his record label and store, Third Man Records, in South Nashville's "Pie Town" neighborhood.
Who is Jack White?
500
The Black lawyer who defended the students arrested during the first sit-in protest in Nashville; he survived an assassination attempt wherein an unknown person threw dynamite at his home.
Who is Z. Alexander Looby?
