Take Me Home, Country Roads Trivia Questions

The correct title has always included the 's'—'Country Roads.' The singular version is a common misremembering, not an original draft.

WVU fans adopted it immediately after its 1971 release. It's played at every home football game and has become a beloved tradition, despite the geographical errors.

Denver didn't write it alone; co-writers Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert based it on a road trip in Maryland. The song almost wasn't about West Virginia at all.

In 2014, the West Virginia Legislature adopted it as a state song, despite Denver never living there and the song's geographical inaccuracies.

RCA executives worried the 3-minute song was too country and too long for pop radio. Denver fought to keep it, and it became his signature hit.

The Shenandoah River runs entirely through Virginia. The song's geography is famously inaccurate, but fans overlook it for the emotional feel.

Danoff was inspired by driving on a winding road in Maryland, near Gaithersburg. He saw a sign for 'Western Maryland' and thought it sounded like a place to go home to.

Denver never performed it with Miss Piggy. He did appear on 'The Muppet Show' in 1979, but his duet was with Kermit the Frog, singing 'The Rainbow Connection.'