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40 free Josh Turner trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Josh Turner has one of the most recognisable voices in modern country music, a low rumble that carried Long Black Train, Your Man and Why Don't We Just Dance onto radio playlists and wedding dance floors alike. Why Don't We Just Dance, his 2010 chart-topper about shutting out the world's bad news and dancing at home, became his longest-running number one. This quiz covers the whole story: a church upbringing in the rural South, a vocal injury that nearly stopped him before he started, the Grand Ole Opry debut that made his name, and the albums, duets, music videos and chart battles that followed. You will also meet the songwriters, producers and famous guests behind the hits. It is written for country fans of every level. The first questions are ones most listeners can reason out, and the later ones reward people who know the album tracks and the credits. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01While resting a damaged vocal cord for a year, Josh Turner learned to do what really well?
Whistle
Josh Turner learned to whistle while a vocal cord lesion kept him from singing in 1996. He later put the skill on record in his song Down in Georgia.
Q 02Josh Turner's Firecracker was kept from number one in 2007 by Our Song, an early hit for whom?
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift's Our Song leapt from number six straight to number one, jumping over Firecracker as it reached number two. It was the fastest-climbing single of Josh Turner's career.
Q 03Which country star co-wrote Josh Turner's first number one, Your Man, alongside Jace Everett?
Chris Stapleton
Chris Stapleton wrote Your Man with Jace Everett and Chris DuBois, and it earned him an ASCAP songwriting award. The single reached number one on the country chart in early 2006.
Q 04Who made his first recording since a 2013 stroke on Josh Turner's cover of Forever and Ever, Amen?
Randy Travis
Randy Travis joined Josh Turner on the cover for the 2020 album Country State of Mind. The stroke had severely limited his singing, and he had recorded nothing since.
Q 05Which boxing ring announcer delivers the introduction that opens Josh Turner's album Punching Bag?
Michael Buffer
Michael Buffer, the American ring announcer, is credited with the introduction on the opening track. Josh Turner co-wrote eight of the eleven songs that follow it.
Q 06Who auditioned for American Idol with Josh Turner's Your Man and went on to win the tenth season?
Scotty McCreery
Scotty McCreery sang Your Man at his Milwaukee audition aged sixteen. During the season Josh Turner surprised him onstage at a hometown concert and joined in on the song.
Q 07AllMusic said Josh Turner's Long Black Train conjured the ghost of which deep-voiced country legend?
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash was the comparison the reviewer reached for, thanks to the song's hellfire imagery and Josh Turner's low voice. The single spent more than thirty weeks on the country chart.
Q 08Josh Turner sang Two Steppin' on the Moon from Houston's Mission Control to astronauts aboard what?
The International Space Station
The International Space Station crew heard Josh Turner perform from Johnson Space Center. NASA invited him after he released the song on his album This Country Music Thing.
Q 09In Josh Turner's four-week number one Why Don't We Just Dance, where in the house does the couple dance?
The living room
The living room is where the song's narrator asks his partner to dance and forget their troubles. The video shows a real-life couple dancing there in the styles of each decade since the 1950s.
Q 10Josh Turner guested on a 2013 Christmas album by the Robertson family, stars of which reality show?
Duck Dynasty
Duck Dynasty's cast recorded Duck the Halls with guests including Josh Turner, George Strait, Luke Bryan and Alison Krauss. It entered the Top Country Albums chart at number one.
Q 11Josh Turner grew up singing in church in the small community of Hannah in which southern state?
South Carolina
South Carolina is home to Hannah, an unincorporated community in Florence County. Josh Turner left it for Nashville to study and chase a career in music.
Q 12Which vocal part did Josh Turner sing in the gospel quartet he founded while growing up in church?
Bass
Bass was Josh Turner's part in the quartet and in choirs. Years later a Country Weekly review of his fourth album praised his booming, polished voice in that same low register.
Q 13In Josh Turner's breakthrough hit Long Black Train, the train of the title is a metaphor for what?
Temptation
Q 21At which Nashville university did Josh Turner enrol and meet his future wife, Jennifer?
Belmont
Belmont University drew Josh Turner to Nashville after a spell at Francis Marion University back home. He and Jennifer married in 2003, the year his debut album came out.
Q 22Which country star formally inducted Josh Turner into the Grand Ole Opry in October 2007?
Vince Gill
Vince Gill did the honours on October 27, 2007, four weeks after the invitation was sprung on stage. Josh Turner was still a few weeks short of his thirtieth birthday.
Q 23Josh Turner was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry while presenting an award to which Hee Haw star?
Roy Clark
Temptation is what the train stands for: Josh Turner said the image came to him in a vision of people beside a track, deciding whether to climb aboard.
Q 14Which country pioneer inspired Long Black Train, which Josh Turner sang at his Grand Ole Opry debut?
Hank Williams
Hank Williams inspired the song, which Josh Turner wrote himself. It peaked at number thirteen on the country chart in early 2004 and became the title track of his debut album.
Q 15Which country star sings harmony with Josh Turner on Another Try, a 2008 ballad about a lost love?
Trisha Yearwood
Trisha Yearwood adds the harmony vocal, though she never appears in the song's video. It was the 37th single of her career and reached number fifteen on the country chart.
Q 16Josh Turner recorded a live album at which Nashville hall, home of the Grand Ole Opry until 1974?
Ryman Auditorium
Ryman Auditorium hosted the concert that became a Josh Turner live album. The building began as a house of worship, which earned it the nickname the Mother Church of Country Music.
Q 17Josh Turner played singer George Beverly Shea in a 2008 film about which evangelist's early years?
Billy Graham
Billy Graham is the subject of Billy: The Early Years, in which Josh Turner plays the soloist from his crusades. Shea is thought to have sung live to more people than anyone in history.
Q 18Josh Turner's Unsung Hero, performed on NBC's Today for Veterans Day, honours which relative?
His grandfather
His grandfather served in World War II, and Josh Turner wrote the song about him. Its music video later premiered on a billboard in New York's Times Square.
Q 19Which restaurant chain distributed Josh Turner's 2012 concert album Live Across America?
Cracker Barrel
Cracker Barrel sold the album, twelve songs recorded in concert in different cities. Its stores were also the only place to buy an earlier Josh Turner live album.
Q 20Why Don't We Just Dance was the lead single from which Josh Turner album, his fourth studio release?
Haywire
Haywire followed the single by six months and entered the Billboard 200 at number five. Josh Turner said its title track felt relevant to the world and to his own life.
Roy Clark was being honoured for twenty years as an Opry member when the invitation came. He had co-hosted the country variety show on television for more than two decades.
Q 24Josh Turner's I Saw the Light with Sonya Isaacs won him which gospel music honour in 2019?
A Dove Award
A Dove Award from the Gospel Music Association went to the track from his album I Serve a Savior. It was the first one Josh Turner had won.
Q 25In the video for Josh Turner's Would You Go with Me, a jar of sand turns a farmhouse room into what?
A beach
A beach appears when two children tip the sand onto the floor of an abandoned farmhouse in Watertown, Tennessee. Green and blue screens conjured each new setting inside the house.
Q 26Which Josh Turner single was Billboard's top country song of 2012 despite never reaching number one?
Time Is Love
Time Is Love peaked at number two yet outperformed every other country song across the year. Only one earlier single had topped the year-end list without a week at number one.
Q 27Which Josh Turner summer song about heading to the riverbank topped the country chart in late 2010?
All Over Me
All Over Me gave Josh Turner his fourth country number one, months after his third. Co-writer Rhett Akins called it a good-time song about hot weather, a boat and a girl.
Q 28Which bluegrass great, leader of the Clinch Mountain Boys, sang with Josh Turner on Me and God?
Ralph Stanley
Ralph Stanley, then nearly eighty, shared the vocal on the song Josh Turner wrote for his second album. The duet was nominated for an ACM award for Vocal Event of the Year.
Q 29How were the story scenes of Josh Turner's Another Try video, which open on a high bridge, filmed?
Backwards
Backwards filming put the bridge scene first, mirroring a song about wishing to undo the past. The footage was shot around the town square in Franklin, Tennessee.
Q 30Josh Turner's wife Jennifer tours in his band, singing background vocals and playing what?
Keyboards
Keyboards are Jennifer Turner's instrument on the road, and she is credited on piano on his records too. She also starred in the original music video for Your Man.