99 Fun Facts About Hillbilly Trivia Questions and Answers

Historically, the word "hillbilly" has been applied to people of Appalachia and which other rural US upland region?

The Ozarks share the label with Appalachia: "hillbilly" historically meant people of America's rural, mountainous areas, and those two regions above all.

In the Scottish origin story for the word, "billy" meant what?

Comrade: in the Scottish theory 'hill-folk' were people who kept apart from society and 'billy' meant comrade or companion, a sense later applied to Covenanters hiding in the southern hills.

The earliest known printed use of 'hillbilly', in 1892, was in a journal for which industry's workers?

Railroads: the earliest known printed use appeared in an 1892 issue of The Railroad Trainmen's Journal; an 1899 photograph labelled 'Camp Hillbilly' followed.

A 1900 New York Journal definition called a "Hill-Billie" a free and untrammeled white citizen of which state?

Alabama: the April 1900 New York Journal defined a 'Hill-Billie' as 'a free and untrammelled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills' and 'fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him'.

One theory ties the word to Scottish 'hill-folk' Covenanters who followed which Presbyterian preacher?

Richard Cameron: the Cameronians, his followers, fled to the hills of southern Scotland in the 1680s to escape persecution; one theory derives 'hillbilly' from those Scottish hill-folk.

The disputed Ulster origin story links the word to Protestant supporters of which king?

William III: the Ulster theory derives the word from Protestant followers of King William of Orange, but scholar Michael Montgomery calls it 'almost certainly incorrect', since the American word is first attested only in the 1890s.

Which Chicago neighbourhood was nicknamed "Hillbilly Heaven" in the 1960s for its Appalachian migrants?

Uptown: Chicago's Uptown neighbourhood took in so many Appalachian migrants in the 1950s and 1960s that it was nicknamed 'Hillbilly Heaven'; others settled in Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Akron.

Steve Earle's 1986 debut album, which included his song "Hillbilly Highway", was called what?

Guitar Town: Steve Earle's 1986 MCA debut album included 'Hillbilly Highway', a song that follows three generations of men leaving home to find work.

Dwight Yoakam's 1987 song about coal-country kids heading north is named for which highway?

23: 'Readin', Rightin', Rt. 23' appeared on Yoakam's 1987 album Hillbilly Deluxe; U.S. Route 23 carried coal-country families north through Prestonsburg toward Ohio's factory towns.

Which country pianist coined "hillbilly music" as a label in 1925?

Al Hopkins: in January 1925 his band told OKeh's recording director they were 'nothing but a bunch of hillbillies', were billed as the Hill Billies, and the label stuck to the genre until the 1950s.

Which OKeh Records recording director applied the Virginia term 'hillbilly' to all Southern country music?

Ralph Peer: OKeh's recording director took the 'hillbillies' name a Virginia string band gave itself in 1925 and applied it to all the Southern country music he recorded; in August 1927 he recorded the Carter Family for Victor.

Which Tennessee city has Congress recognized as the 'Birthplace of Country Music' for its 1927 recording sessions?

Bristol: Victor's July–August 1927 sessions on State Street in Bristol, Tennessee, produced the first Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers records, and Congress recognized the city as the Birthplace of Country Music in 1998.

Which Nashville station began broadcasting the Grand Ole Opry in 1925?

WSM: the Nashville station owned by National Life and Accident Insurance signed on in October 1925 and started the barn-dance broadcast that became the Grand Ole Opry that November.

What was Elvis Presley called early in his career, when he was playing rockabilly?

The Hillbilly Cat: Elvis was billed as 'the Hillbilly Cat' on Louisiana Hayride and Sun-era posters in 1954–55, when his rockabilly fused hillbilly boogie with rhythm and blues.

The "hillbilly" label for the genre faded after which trade organisation was founded in 1958?

Country Music Association: founded in Nashville in 1958, the CMA promoted 'country music' as the genre's name, replacing 'hillbilly' as the trade label.

Blake Shelton's 2009 duet 'Hillbilly Bone' featured which country singer?

Trace Adkins: 'Hillbilly Bone', released in November 2009, paired Blake Shelton with Trace Adkins and won the CMA Award for Musical Event of the Year in 2010.

What is Ivy League station WHRB's long-running weekly old-time and bluegrass show called?

Hillbilly at Harvard: WHRB's Saturday-morning old-time, country and bluegrass programme began in 1948 and kept the old 'hillbilly' label in its name for decades.

Which duo recorded 'Hillbilly Boogie' in 1946, an early song with the word in its title?

The Delmore Brothers: Alton and Rabon Delmore cut 'Hillbilly Boogie' for King Records in 1946, and the boogie style they helped popularise fed directly into rockabilly.

Which black fiddler made the 1927 Gennett recordings filed as 'made for Hillbilly'?

Jim Booker: the Black fiddler recorded with a mixed-race string band for Gennett at Richmond, Indiana, in 1927, and the company's ledger filed the sides as 'made for Hillbilly'.

Bluegrass music takes its name from the band of which musician?

Bill Monroe: the genre takes its name from his band, the Blue Grass Boys, formed in 1939; their line-up of guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo and bass became the standard bluegrass instrumentation.

Which bluegrass duo performed "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" for The Beverly Hillbillies?

Flatt and Scruggs: Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs recorded 'The Ballad of Jed Clampett' in 1962; Jerry Scoggins sang the theme over the credits, backed by the pair, and the single topped Billboard's country chart in early 1963.

The Clampetts moved to Beverly Hills after striking what on their land?

Oil: the theme song has Jed 'shooting at some food' when 'up through the ground came a-bubbling crude', and the OK Oil Company bought the drilling rights for millions, sending the family to Beverly Hills.

Who created The Beverly Hillbillies?

Paul Henning: the former radio writer created The Beverly Hillbillies for CBS in 1962 and wrote its theme, 'The Ballad of Jed Clampett'; CBS followed with two more of his rural comedies.

Which CBS series from the same producer sent a city couple to a run-down farm?

Green Acres: the 1965 CBS sitcom, created by Jay Sommers for the Beverly Hillbillies producer, moved a Manhattan lawyer and his wife to a farm near Hooterville, the town shared with Petticoat Junction.

Ma and Pa Kettle first appeared in which 1945 best-selling memoir?

The Egg and I: Betty MacDonald's 1945 memoir of chicken farming on Washington's Olympic Peninsula introduced the Kettles, based on real neighbours who later sued her for libel and lost.

Which actress played Ma Kettle in all ten films and got an Oscar nod for the 1947 original?

Marjorie Main: she played Ma Kettle in all ten films and earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for the 1947 original; Percy Kilbride played Pa in the first eight.

The Ma and Pa Kettle films are said to have saved which studio from bankruptcy?

Universal: the nine cheaply made Kettle spin-offs grossed an estimated $35 million and are often credited with keeping Universal-International solvent in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Which 1941 Gary Cooper film is cited, with the Kettle series, as portraying the hillbilly as 'wild but good-natured'?

Sergeant York: Gary Cooper won the Best Actor Oscar for the 1941 biopic of the Tennessee mountain marksman Alvin York, a portrayal of the hillbilly as wild but good-natured.

Which Gunsmoke character is cited as a quick-witted hillbilly who merely lacked "education"?

Festus Haggen: Ken Curtis played the scruffy, quick-witted hill man who became Marshal Dillon's deputy after Chester's 1964 departure and stayed to the series' end in 1975.

Who wrote and drew Li'l Abner for its entire 43-year run?

Al Capp: Capp wrote and drew Li'l Abner from 1934 to 1977, and at its peak the strip reached about 60 million readers in over 900 US newspapers.

What was the name of the impoverished mountain village where Li'l Abner lived?

Dogpatch: Li'l Abner's ramshackle mountain village was described in the strip as 'an average stone-age community nestled in a bleak valley, between two cheap and uninteresting hills somewhere'.

Li'l Abner created which pseudo-holiday in 1937, on which unmarried women chase bachelors?

Sadie Hawkins Day: introduced in the strip in November 1937, the footrace in which unmarried women chased bachelors was reportedly celebrated at over 40,000 venues by 1952 and spawned girls-ask-boys dances nationwide.

In Li'l Abner, what was the potent moonshine brewed by Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat called?

Kickapoo Joy Juice: Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat's brew was so potent its fumes alone could melt the rivets off battleships; the name was licensed to a real soft drink in 1965.

Which Li'l Abner creature bred exponentially, ate nothing and tasted like pork, chicken or steak?

Shmoo: introduced in August 1948, the bowling-pin-shaped creature laid eggs, gave milk and tasted like pork, chicken or steak, and it set off a merchandising craze as a satire of a consumer's paradise.

The 800-acre theme park based on Li'l Abner opened in 1968 in Marble Falls, in which state?

Arkansas: the park opened in 1968 at Marble Falls in northern Arkansas, near Harrison; its gift shops sold corncob pipes and moonshine jugs, and some 300,000 people visited in the first year.

Snuffy Smith entered the Barney Google strip in 1934 when Barney visited the mountains of which state?

North Carolina: in 1934 Barney Google went to the North Carolina mountains and met the pint-sized moonshiner Snuffy Smith, who soon took over the strip; Barney himself was written out in 1954.

What is the name of the Appalachian hamlet where Snuffy Smith lives?

Hootin' Holler: Snuffy Smith, his wife Loweezy and nephew Jughaid live in this remote Appalachian hamlet, the strip's setting since the moonshiner eclipsed Barney Google in the late 1930s.

What was the name of Barney Google's bow-legged, blanket-wearing racehorse?

Spark Plug: the bow-legged racehorse draped in a patched blanket debuted in 1922 and was so popular that the strip was retitled Barney Google and Spark Plug.

Which two country stars hosted Hee Haw, the cornpone country-music variety show, for most of its run?

Buck Owens and Roy Clark: Owens and Clark co-hosted from the 1969 CBS premiere; Owens left in 1986, and Clark stayed on until the show ended in 1993.

Hee Haw was set in which fictional rural community?

Kornfield Kounty: Hee Haw's fictional setting, with its cornfield of pop-up joke-tellers, hosted the show from 1969 to 1993, most of that run in syndication.

Hee Haw was modelled on which fast-cut comedy show of the late 1960s?

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: Hee Haw copied the NBC show's rapid-fire blackout sketches, with a cornfield in place of the joke wall; CBS launched it in June 1969 as a summer replacement for the cancelled Smothers Brothers.

CBS dropped Hee Haw and all its other country-themed shows in 1971 in what became known as what?

The Rural Purge: in 1971 CBS axed Hee Haw, The Beverly Hillbillies, Mayberry R.F.D. and its other rural shows to chase younger urban viewers; Hee Haw sat at No. 16 in the ratings and simply moved into syndication.

What phone number did Junior Samples repeat at the end of his Hee Haw used-car commercials?

BR-549: Junior Samples closed his Hee Haw used-car pitches with 'call BR-549', and the Nashville alt-country band BR5-49 took its name from the gag in the 1990s.

In the WWF storyline, which champion "trained" Hillbilly Jim after he turned down Roddy Piper's offer?

Hulk Hogan: after Hillbilly Jim refused Roddy Piper's offer, WWF vignettes in early 1985 showed the champion training him and presenting his first wrestling boots.

In which year was Hillbilly Jim inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame?

2018: Hillbilly Jim entered the WWE Hall of Fame in the 2018 class, inducted by Jimmy Hart; he had earlier managed the pig-farming Godwinns in the mid-1990s.

Who wrote the 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy?

JD Vance: Vance's memoir of his Appalachian family topped The New York Times best-seller list in August 2016, and in January 2025 he was sworn in as US vice president.

Hillbilly Elegy centres on the author's hometown, which Ohio city?

Middletown: the author grew up in Middletown, Ohio, an Armco steel town where his grandparents had settled after World War II, having left Breathitt County in the Appalachian hills.

Who directed the 2020 film adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy?

Ron Howard: Howard directed the 2020 Netflix adaptation from Vanessa Taylor's screenplay; released in November 2020, it drew largely negative reviews.

Which actress played the grandmother in Hillbilly Elegy and got a Golden Raspberry nomination?

Glenn Close: Close played Mamaw, the author's grandmother, and was nominated for both the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the Worst Supporting Actress Razzie; Amy Adams played the mother, Bev.

Which Pulitzer Prize-winning novel did Barbara Kingsolver write partly as a rebuttal to Hillbilly Elegy?

Demon Copperhead: Kingsolver's 2022 retelling of David Copperfield in southwest Virginia won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; she wanted a 'great Appalachian novel' that pushed back on the memoir's stereotypes.

The Hatfields and McCoys lived on opposite sides of which river?

Tug Fork: the Hatfields lived mostly on the Logan County side of the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy and the McCoys in Pike County across the water.

What was the nickname of the Hatfield patriarch, whose timber business enriched the family?

Devil Anse: William Anderson 'Devil Anse' Hatfield led the clan, and his timber business made the Hatfields wealthier and better connected politically than the McCoys.

The feud's second recorded act of violence, in 1878, followed a dispute over the ownership of what?

A hog: Randolph McCoy claimed a hog in Floyd Hatfield's pen by the notches on its ears; Justice of the Peace 'Preacher Anse' Hatfield ruled for Floyd on the testimony of Bill Staton.

When the two families met on Family Feud in 1979, what was the result?

The McCoys won, 3 games to 2: a pig was kept on stage as part of the prize, and although the Hatfields banked more cash over the week, the McCoys' winnings were topped up to beat them by a dollar.

Kevin Costner's 2012 miniseries Hatfields & McCoys set a ratings record for which network?

History: the May 2012 miniseries drew 13.9 million viewers for its premiere, then the most-watched entertainment telecast in ad-supported cable history, with Kevin Costner as the Hatfield patriarch.

When the feud reached the US Supreme Court in 1888, the justices ruled 7–2 in favour of which state?

Kentucky: in Mahon v. Justice (1888) the court ruled 7–2 that Kentucky could try the Hatfield men seized across the border by a posse; several were convicted and Ellison Mounts was hanged in 1890.

Local members of which organisation started Pikeville's Hillbilly Days festival as a fundraiser?

The Shriners: Pikeville's Hillbilly Days began in 1977 when local Shriners staged it to raise money for Shriners Hospitals for Children; the town also hosted the Hatfield–McCoy families' official 2003 truce.

Which US president received Springfield's "Hillbilly Medallion" after a breakfast speech in 1952?

Harry S. Truman: the president received the medallion in Springfield in June 1952 after a breakfast speech; Generals Omar Bradley and Matthew Ridgway and retailer J. C. Penney were also made honorary hillbillies.

The word "moonshine" comes from a tradition of doing what?

Distilling at night to avoid detection: illicit distillers worked by moonlight to dodge excise officers, and the name stuck; modern distilleries have since adopted it for its outlaw cachet on legal spirits.

Which of these states allows the production of moonshine for personal consumption?

Missouri: state law lets adults make up to 200 gallons of intoxicating liquor a year for personal or family use without a licence, although federal law bans home distilling without a permit; the other three states do not.

Traditional American moonshine is a clear, unaged whiskey made from a mash of which grain?

Corn is the American base: moonshine in the United States is traditionally a clear, unaged whiskey from maize mash, where Scotland and Ireland used barley.

Which bluegrass instrumental became a pop-culture landmark thanks to a scene in the 1972 backwoods thriller Deliverance?

Dueling Banjos became a landmark through the Deliverance scene in which Ronny Cox's character plays it on guitar; the film grossed $46.1 million on a $2 million budget.

Deliverance was shot mainly in Rabun County, in which state?

Georgia: the 1972 film was shot in Rabun County in northeast Georgia, with the Chattooga and Tallulah rivers standing in for the fictional river; locals later criticised it for cementing Appalachian stereotypes.

Who wrote the 1970 novel Deliverance and adapted it for the screen?

James Dickey: the poet's 1970 novel and his own screenplay gave the 1972 film its plot, and Dickey appears on screen as the sheriff in the final scenes.

Barred from owning guns by probation, what did Bo and Luke Duke arm themselves with?

Bows and arrows: on probation for running moonshine, the Duke boys could not carry firearms, so they used bows and arrows, sometimes with dynamite tied to the shafts.

Who wrote and sang the Dukes of Hazzard theme "Good Ol' Boys" and narrated the show as the Balladeer?

Waylon Jennings: Jennings wrote and sang 'Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)', a No. 1 country hit in 1980, and narrated every episode as the unseen Balladeer.

The Dukes of Hazzard grew out of which 1975 bootlegging film by the show's creator?

Moonrunners: Gy Waldron's 1975 film about a bootlegging family, based on the stories of real moonshiner Jerry Rushing, supplied the premise Waldron reworked into The Dukes of Hazzard in 1979 after Smokey and the Bandit's success.

The TV series Justified sent Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens back to his coal-country hometown of what?

Harlan: the FX series (2010–15), based on Elmore Leonard's Raylan Givens stories, sent the marshal back to Harlan County, where plots leaned on oxycodone dealers and snake-handling revivalists.

Which 2010 horror comedy parodies the murderous-hillbilly trope of Deliverance and Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil: Eli Craig's 2010 comedy has two well-meaning hillbillies mistaken for killers by college kids who keep dying by accident; the other three films play the trope straight.

Which two politicians joined the campaign against CBS's proposed The Real Beverly Hillbillies?

Robert Byrd and Mike Huckabee: the senator and the governor backed the Center for Rural Strategies' 2003 campaign, which argued no other group could be demeaned so openly, and CBS quietly shelved the show.

Roughly what share of Appalachia's workforce did coal mining employ by the 2020s?

2%: coal mining, once the region's defining industry, employed only about 2% of Appalachia's workforce by the 2020s, after US coal jobs fell from roughly 180,000 in 1985 to under 50,000 by 2020.

How many episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies were made?

274: The Beverly Hillbillies ran for 274 episodes over nine seasons on CBS from September 1962 to March 1971, the first two seasons in black and white.

How much of the Clampett fortune was banker Milburn Drysdale guarding, in 1969 dollars?

$96 million: by 1969 Drysdale's Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills was holding a Clampett fortune of $96 million, which he guarded by doing anything to keep the family in town.

Miss Jane Hathaway, Drysdale's secretary, held a degree from which college?

Vassar: Nancy Kulp's Miss Jane Hathaway, Drysdale's prim secretary, was written as a Vassar graduate and keen bird-watcher, the educated foil to the Clampetts.

Which future Manson-family murder victim played bank secretary Janet Trego in 15 episodes?

Sharon Tate: before her 1969 murder by Manson followers, Tate played Commerce Bank secretary Janet Trego in 15 episodes from 1963 to 1965, wearing a dark wig over her blonde hair.

In the 1981 reunion TV movie, what job does Elly May Clampett hold?

Head of a zoo: in The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981) Elly May runs her own zoo, a fitting job for the character famed for her 'critters', while Jethro has become a Hollywood producer.

In the 1981 reunion TV movie, Jane Hathaway had become a federal agent for which agency?

Department of Energy: in The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981) Miss Hathaway is a Department of Energy agent sent to fetch Granny's moonshine recipe as a gasoline substitute during the energy crisis.

In which year did the McCoys' Kentucky homeplace host a joint family reunion attended by over 5,000 people?

2000: the first joint Hatfield–McCoy reunion, organised by Bo and Ron McCoy, great-great-great-grandsons of Randolph McCoy, drew more than 5,000 people in June 2000 and became an annual festival.

Who played Randolph McCoy opposite Kevin Costner in the 2012 miniseries Hatfields & McCoys?

Bill Paxton: Paxton played the McCoy patriarch Randolph 'Ole Ran'l' McCoy opposite Kevin Costner's Hatfield patriarch, with Tom Berenger as Jim Vance; Costner and Berenger won Emmys and Paxton was nominated.

In the 1949 Samuel Goldwyn film Roseanna McCoy, who played Johnse Hatfield?

Farley Granger: Granger, fresh from Hitchcock's Rope, played Johnse Hatfield opposite Joan Evans' Roseanna in Samuel Goldwyn's 1949 fictionalised romance, with Raymond Massey as Old Randall McCoy.

Mountain Dew, named after old slang for moonshine, was first created in which Tennessee city?

Knoxville: bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman created Mountain Dew in Knoxville in 1940 as a lemon-lime whiskey mixer, and early labels showed 'Willy the Hillbilly', a barefoot mountaineer with a rifle and jug.

In Hillbilly Hare (1950), the Martin brothers mistake Bugs Bunny for a member of which clan?

The Coys: Curt and Punkinhead Martin demand to know whether Bugs is 'a Martin or a Coy', and the short ends with Bugs calling an increasingly violent square dance that sends the brothers over a cliff.

What was the surname of the feuding cartoon family in Hanna-Barbera's The Hillbilly Bears?

Rugg: the 1965 Hanna-Barbera shorts followed Paw Rugg, whose mumbling only his wife Maw could decipher, plus daughter Floral and son Shag, feuding with their mountain neighbours.

Which Chicago group of Appalachian migrants joined the Black Panthers in the 1969 Rainbow Coalition?

The Young Patriots: the Chicago group of white Appalachian migrants wore the Confederate battle flag as its symbol while allying with Fred Hampton's Black Panthers and the Puerto Rican Young Lords in 1969.

Who hosted Ozark Jubilee, the 1950s ABC country music show broadcast live from Springfield?

Red Foley: the Grand Ole Opry star hosted Ozark Jubilee from Springfield's Jewell Theatre from 1955 to 1960, and the show gave an 11-year-old Brenda Lee her first national exposure.

Max Baer Jr., who played Jethro Bodine, was the son of a world champion in which sport?

Boxing: his father Max Baer won the world heavyweight boxing title in 1934 by stopping Primo Carnera; unlike sixth-grade Jethro, Baer Jr. earned a business degree from Santa Clara University.

In the 1950s sitcom The Real McCoys, the Appalachian family leaves home for an inherited farm in which part of California?

San Fernando Valley: in the 1957–63 sitcom Grandpa Amos (Walter Brennan) and his family leave their Appalachian home for a farm they inherit in the San Fernando Valley.

What price was shown on the tag that dangled from Minnie Pearl's hat?

$1.98: Sarah Cannon's Minnie Pearl wore a straw hat with a dangling price tag reading $1.98, a gag that began when she left a store tag on by mistake and kept it after the laughs.

Hee Haw banjo picker Stringbean was also a semiprofessional player of which sport?

Baseball: David 'Stringbean' Akeman played semipro baseball, and his future bandleader, who fielded a rival team, hired him in 1943 partly for his baseball skills; he joined Hee Haw in 1969.

Jesco White, the mountain dancer of the 1991 documentary Dancing Outlaw, comes from which state?

West Virginia: Jesco White comes from Boone County, West Virginia, and dances in the tap shoes of his late father D. Ray White, filmed by the Smithsonian as one of America's greatest mountain dancers.

How did Appalachian moonshiner Marvin Sutton earn his famous nickname?

He attacked a faulty popcorn machine with a pool cue: Marvin 'Popcorn' Sutton earned the name as a young man after beating a bar's machine that ate his coins; he self-published the moonshining guide Me and My Likker in 1999.

Which president pardoned NASCAR legend Junior Johnson for his 1956 moonshining conviction?

Ronald Reagan: Reagan granted Johnson a full pardon in December 1986; agents had caught him at his father's moonshine operation in 1956, never on the road, and he served 11 months in a federal prison in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Bluegrass anthem 'Rocky Top' was written in 1967 by which husband-and-wife songwriting team?

Felice and Boudleaux Bryant dashed off 'Rocky Top' in about 15 minutes as a break from slow songs at the Gatlinburg Inn; the Osborne Brothers recorded it first and Tennessee made it a state song in 1982.

Who played Ree Dolly, the teenager searching for her missing father, in Winter's Bone (2010)?

Jennifer Lawrence: Lawrence earned her first Oscar nomination as Ree Dolly; the $2 million film won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and took four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.

The doomed canoe trip in Deliverance takes place on which river?

Cahulawassee: the novel's fictional river, about to be dammed into a lake, was played on screen by the Chattooga; Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox made their film debuts in the 1972 thriller, added to the National Film Registry in 2008.

Mayberry's wild mountain man Ernest T. Bass was notorious for hurling what through windows?

Rocks: Howard Morris's Ernest T. Bass hurled rocks through windows whenever he was crossed, boasted he was the best rock thrower in the county, and wanted a gold tooth to impress the ladies.

Which real bluegrass band played the Darlings, the family of mountain musicians on The Andy Griffith Show?

The Dillards were signed by Elektra within weeks of reaching Los Angeles in 1962 and soon booked as the Darlings, playing the mountain musicians from 1963 to 1966.

The bluegrass band The Hillbilly Thomists is made up of friars from which Catholic order?

Dominican: the band of Dominican friars from the Province of St. Joseph took its name from Flannery O'Connor, who wanted readers to see her as a 'hillbilly Thomist' rather than a 'hillbilly nihilist'.

The General Lee, the Duke boys' car in The Dukes of Hazzard, was what make and model?

1969 Dodge Charger: the General Lee was a 1969 Dodge Charger painted orange with a Confederate flag on the roof; its doors were welded shut, and crews wrecked an estimated 255 to 325 of them across the series.