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Q 01Which network aired Presley's 1968 comeback special?
NBC
NBC aired the special, officially titled 'Singer Presents... Elvis', on 3 December 1968; it returned him to live performance after years of films and led to the Las Vegas residency.
Q 02Which record label first signed Elvis Presley?
Sun Records
Sun Records owner Sam Phillips signed him in July 1954; Sun sold his contract to RCA Victor in November 1955, and RCA reissued his Sun sides within weeks.
Q 03Who was Elvis Presley's long-time manager?
Colonel Tom Parker
Colonel Tom Parker did the RCA deal and stayed in charge for the rest of his client's life.
Q 04By what popular moniker was Elvis Presley often known?
The King
Elvis disliked being called the King of Rock and Roll, once pointing at Fats Domino and calling him the real king.
Q 05Elvis Presley's mansion Graceland, bought in 1957, stands in which city?
Memphis, Tennessee
Graceland sits on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee; he bought the 13.8-acre estate in March 1957 for $102,500.
Q 06In which small Mississippi town was Elvis Presley born on 8 January 1935?
Tupelo
Elvis was born in a two-room shotgun house in Tupelo, Mississippi, built by his father Vernon; the family moved to Memphis in 1948.
Q 07Elvis Presley's twin, stillborn 35 minutes before him, was named what?
Jesse Garon
Jesse Garon Presley was delivered stillborn shortly before Elvis Aaron on 8 January 1935; the loss shaped a lifelong closeness between Elvis and his mother, Gladys.
Q 08In March 1958, at the height of his early fame, Elvis Presley was drafted into which branch of the US armed forces?
Army
The Army inducted him at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas. He donated his service pay to charity and relaunched his recording career two years later.
Q 09In what year did Elvis Presley die?
1977
Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977 at Graceland, aged 42, after being found unresponsive in his bathroom that afternoon.
Q 10Which January 1956 song was Presley's first RCA Victor single and first million-seller?
Heartbreak Hotel
He cut it on 10 January 1956 with the Blue Moon Boys, joined by guitarist Chet Atkins and pianist Floyd Cramer.
Q 11Which Arthur Crudup blues number became Elvis's first single at Sun in July 1954?
That's All Right
'That's All Right' came about on 5 July 1954 when Elvis launched into the Crudup song during a break and Sam Phillips began taping; Sun released it on 19 July 1954.
Q 12Which two Memphis musicians backed Elvis on guitar and upright bass at his first Sun sessions?
Scotty Moore and Bill Black
Sam Phillips invited them in; the trio played publicly for the first time at Memphis's Bon Air club on 17 July 1954.
Q 13For what then-unprecedented sum did RCA Victor buy Elvis's Sun contract in November 1955?
$40,000
Q 21On 21 December 1970 Elvis engineered a meeting with President Nixon and asked him for what?
A federal narcotics agent's badge
He believed he could reach out to hippies and fight the drug culture; Nixon reportedly found the encounter awkward.
Q 22Elvis's 1973 Aloha from Hawaii show was a milestone of what kind?
First solo gig broadcast worldwide
It came the year his marriage to Priscilla ended; the same era's 'Burning Love' was his last US top-ten pop hit.
Q 23The 1969 single that became Elvis's first US pop number one in over seven years, and his last, was what?
Suspicious Minds
RCA paid $40,000 in all: $35,000 to Sun plus a $5,000 bonus to Elvis for back royalties, far above Atlantic's $25,000 offer; RCA reissued his Sun sides within weeks.
Q 14On whose 1956 TV show did Elvis sing 'Hound Dog' to a basset hound in a top hat?
Steve Allen's
That Sunday broadcast beat Ed Sullivan in the ratings, and Sullivan, who had called Elvis 'unfit for family viewing', soon booked him anyway.
Q 15For how many weeks did Elvis's 'Don't Be Cruel'/'Hound Dog' top the charts in 1956, a record for 36 years?
Eleven
The double-sided single held number one for eleven weeks, a record until Boyz II Men's 'End of the Road' in 1992; both sides were cut on 2 July 1956, the day after the Steve Allen show.
Q 16What was Elvis's 1956 film debut called before it was renamed Love Me Tender?
The Reno Brothers
The Reno Brothers, a Civil War western, was retitled Love Me Tender after the ballad drew a million advance orders following his first Ed Sullivan appearance; Elvis was billed below Richard Egan and Debra Paget.
Q 17Which 'Million Dollar Quartet' member joined Elvis, Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis in 1956 but left before taping?
Johnny Cash
The recordings stayed secret for decades until a bootleg surfaced in 1980.
Q 18How many rooms did Graceland have when Elvis bought it in March 1957?
18
Graceland had 18 rooms when Elvis bought it for $102,500 in March 1957; his later additions brought it to 23 rooms, including eight bedrooms.
Q 19While serving in the US Army in Germany, the 24-year-old Elvis met Priscilla Beaulieu, who was how old?
14
They met in Bad Nauheim; he proposed shortly before Christmas 1966 and they married in May 1967 at Las Vegas's Aladdin Hotel.
Q 20Elvis's first Grammy Award was for which 1967 gospel album?
How Great Thou Art
How Great Thou Art won Best Sacred Performance at the 1968 Grammys; all three of his competitive Grammys were for gospel, plus a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1971 at 36.
All four came from his American Sound Studio sessions in Memphis after the comeback special.
Q 24Elvis's landmark 1969 Las Vegas residency, 57 shows in four weeks, was at which brand-new hotel?
The International
The International Hotel had opened only weeks earlier; owner Kirk Kerkorian flew rock journalists in from New York on his own plane for Elvis's 31 July 1969 debut.
Q 25Costume designer Bill Belew based Elvis's famous jumpsuit stage look on the singer's passion for what?
Karate
Elvis had studied karate in Germany with Jürgen Seydel and worked moves into his live shows.
Q 26Elvis's father Vernon was jailed for eight months in 1938 for what offence?
Altering a cheque
The family lost their home as a result and often relied on neighbours and government food assistance.
Q 27Lansky Brothers, the Memphis clothier young Elvis admired, stood on which famous street?
Beale
Lansky Brothers stood at 126 Beale Street; founder Bernard Lansky sold the teenage Elvis his flashy early clothes, and the shop later supplied the suit he was buried in.
Q 28Into which Memphis public housing project did the Presleys move in 1949?
Lauderdale Courts
The Presleys moved into Lauderdale Courts, a public housing complex near downtown Memphis, in 1949; Elvis practised guitar there and the family stayed until early 1953.
Q 29The 1972 MGM concert film Elvis on Tour won which award?
A Golden Globe
A Golden Globe for Best Documentary Film went to the tour movie. An earlier MGM documentary, Elvis: That's the Way It Is, had captured his 1970 Las Vegas shows.
Q 30In 2018 Elvis was posthumously awarded which US honour?
The Presidential Medal of Freedom
Donald Trump awarded Elvis the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2018; he had earlier been inducted into the rock and roll, country and gospel halls of fame.