Johnny Cash Trivia Questions

Cash wore black as a personal statement for the downtrodden, not as a military holdover. His Air Force uniform was standard blue.

Cash often claimed Cherokee ancestry, but genealogists and his own family have found no evidence; he likely believed a family myth.

In 1968, Cash proposed to June Carter during a concert in London, Ontario, before a crowd of thousands. She said yes onstage.

Despite his 'Folsom Prison Blues' fame, Cash's only jail time was a handful of overnight stays for misdemeanors; he never served a long-term prison sentence.

Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, he was the first to achieve both.

Shel Silverstein wrote 'A Boy Named Sue.' Cash popularized it, but Dylan never wrote for him, though they were friends and collaborators.

During the 1969 filming of a TV special, a smoke machine ignited dry brush, sparking a wildfire in California's Los Padres National Forest.

This is a persistent myth. Sun Records had a tiled echo chamber, but Cash never recorded in the bathroom; that legend belongs to other artists.