e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia Online

Music

Sign in or create a free account to curate your search content.

1
These brothers' Clay County festival became a pattern for the Vandalia Gathering and other old-time music festivals.
  1. A.
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.
2
In 2011, Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. received national acclaim after winning this TV contest.
  1. A.
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.
3
This group had hits with "Build Your Treasures in Heaven" and "Moonlight on West Virginia."
  1. A.
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.
4
This country singer, who grew up in Hinton, had hits such as “Then and Only Then,” "Nobody but a Fool (Would Love You)," “The Hurtin’s All Over,” “Cincinnati, Ohio,” “and Just One Time."
  1. A.
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.
5
This West Virginia Music Hall of Fame pianist was originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York.
  1. A.
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.
6
What was Kathy Mattea's first number one hit?
  1. A.
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.
7
This fiddler from Elizabeth won the 1998 Vandalia Award.
  1. A.
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.
8
What Wheeling native has won Grammy Awards for best folk (2006) and bluegrass (2014) albums?
  1. A.
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.
9
This Mingo Countian was the first West Virginian to be honored with a National Heritage Fellowship.
  1. A.
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.
10
This duo began performing country music on radio when they were teenagers and later were regular on a Charleston TV show.
  1. A.
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.

Most quizzes offer a different set of 10 questions each time you test your knowledge, pulled from hundreds of facts about West Virginia. To test your West Virginia knowledge, choose an answer for each question and click the "Submit" button at the bottom, then we'll score your results!

Optionally, if you're not interested in this Quiz, please feel free to choose a different one!

Choose a different Quiz