Trivia: Tuesday, August 9
Tuesday, 09 August 2011 |
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We’re digging back into the 1970s trivia vault because of a story today about a plan to immortalize musician John Denver by naming a Colorado mountain after him.
Question: John Denver’s 1975 CMA Award win for Entertainer of the Year was famously protested by which rival?
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Answer: Charlie Rich, who stunned the audience at the awards ceremony by lighting the envelope on fire as he announced Denver was the winner.
(Editors note: an earlier version of this answer incorrectly stated “Charlie Pride” was correct. This was a problem on two levels. 1- it was wrong. 2- the country singer with the last name Pride was “Charley” not “Charlie.)
