# 🎻 Alison Krauss Trivia Set
**Used:** 2025-06-10  
**Categories:** Regular, Fill-in-the-Blank, Multiple Choice  
**Topic:** Alison Krauss, bluegrass, music career

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## 🎯 Regular Questions

### 1. What instrument is Alison Krauss most famously known for playing?  
**Answer:** The fiddle  
**Taglines:**  
- Bow before your fiddle queen.  
- She fiddles while the rest of us fiddle with our phones.  
- Not just for devils in Georgia anymore.  
- Strings attached—emotionally.  
- Fiddle me this, Batman.

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### 2. With what band has Alison Krauss released most of her music?  
**Answer:** Union Station  
**Taglines:**  
- All aboard the sadness express.  
- Sounds like a Civil War reenactment group.  
- Union Station: Because "Amtrak" was taken.  
- Railroads and heartbreak.  
- More twang than a Tennessee trampoline.

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### 3. What genre is Alison Krauss most associated with?  
**Answer:** Bluegrass  
**Taglines:**  
- It’s like country music, but with 400% more banjo.  
- Bluegrass: where everyone’s sad and owns suspenders.  
- Not just grass that’s blue, folks.  
- Yeehaw meets PhD-level musicianship.  
- When you're too classy for country.

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### 4. In 2007, Alison Krauss collaborated with what rock legend on the album *Raising Sand*?  
**Answer:** Robert Plant  
**Taglines:**  
- Led Zeppelin meets Led Mandolin.  
- From stairways to fiddles.  
- Krauss + Plant = Folk Zeppelin.  
- Who knew Gollum could harmonize?  
- A match made in Nashville and Mordor.

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### 5. How many Grammy Awards has Alison Krauss won as of 2023?  
**Answer:** 27  
**Taglines:**  
- She’s got more Grammys than your grandma’s got cats.  
- Move over, Beyoncé (temporarily).  
- Basically the Meryl Streep of music trophies.  
- Her trophy shelf filed for workers’ comp.  
- She flosses with Grammy ribbons.

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## 🧠 Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

### 1. Alison Krauss is a member of the band Union ______.  
**Answer:** Station  
**Taglines:**  
- The only station where crying is encouraged.  
- Next stop: Feelings.  
- Bring your own Kleenex.  
- Where every track is a trainwreck of emotion.  
- Don’t stand too close to the edge, metaphorically.

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### 2. Krauss won her first Grammy Award in the year _____.  
**Answer:** 1991  
**Taglines:**  
- Back when floppy disks still ruled.  
- She peaked before some of you were zygotes.  
- The only thing younger than her Grammy career is your taste in music.  
- Nirvana was cool, but Alison was Grammy-ing.  
- She was already winning while you were still drooling.

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### 3. Alison Krauss lent her vocals to the soundtrack of the film *O Brother, Where Art ____?*  
**Answer:** Thou  
**Taglines:**  
- Shakespearean sadness with a banjo beat.  
- Thou shalt harmonize.  
- Even George Clooney couldn’t outshine that voice.  
- From the Coens with twang.  
- Where art thou, and why are you crying?

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### 4. Alison Krauss signed with Rounder Records at the age of _____.  
**Answer:** 14  
**Taglines:**  
- Most kids get acne. She got a record deal.  
- I was still losing teeth, she was winning awards.  
- She hit puberty and the Billboard charts simultaneously.  
- Child prodigy, adult legend.  
- Rounder Records: now signing your overachieving niece.

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### 5. Alison Krauss is primarily a ______ singer.  
**Answer:** Bluegrass  
**Taglines:**  
- She’s not sad. She’s bluegrass sad.  
- Country’s more sophisticated cousin.  
- Hillbilly Harvard music.  
- You can’t spell “bluegrass” without “class.”  
- Yeehaw meets Yale.

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## ❓ Multiple Choice Questions

### 1. What voice part does Alison Krauss typically sing?  
A) Alto  
B) Soprano  
C) Tenor  
D) Baritone  
**Answer:** B) Soprano  
**Taglines:**  
- Higher than your GPA.  
- Not a baritone, despite the beard envy.  
- Her notes are so high, dogs cry.  
- Soprano: The non-mob kind.  
- If helium had talent.

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### 2. Which Led Zeppelin song did Robert Plant *not* try to recreate with Alison Krauss?  
A) Stairway to Heaven  
B) Gone Gone Gone  
C) Please Read the Letter  
D) Rich Woman  
**Answer:** A) Stairway to Heaven  
**Taglines:**  
- Sorry, no stairway—denied.  
- Not even Krauss can make that song fresh again.  
- There’s no fiddle solo in stairways.  
- That’s reserved for middle school guitar gods.  
- They took the elevator instead.

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### 3. Alison Krauss was born in which U.S. state?  
A) Tennessee  
B) Kentucky  
C) Illinois  
D) West Virginia  
**Answer:** C) Illinois  
**Taglines:**  
- Corn, cows, and Krauss.  
- Home of Lincoln and harmonies.  
- The fiddlin’ prairie princess.  
- Illinois: where even the fields cry.  
- Land of twang and toll roads.

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### 4. What year was Alison Krauss born?  
A) 1968  
B) 1971  
C) 1974  
D) 1980  
**Answer:** B) 1971  
**Taglines:**  
- Born when disco was a glimmer in hell’s eye.  
- 1971: The year music improved.  
- She predates the Internet, and yet, still relevant.  
- Baby Krauss was already humming.  
- Your mom was probably grounded that year.

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### 5. What bluegrass festival did Alison Krauss frequently attend as a child?  
A) Telluride  
B) MerleFest  
C) Bean Blossom  
D) Newport  
**Answer:** C) Bean Blossom  
**Taglines:**  
- Sounds like a digestive problem.  
- Nothing says fun like a musical legume.  
- Bean Blossom: where feelings sprout.  
- The chickpea of music festivals.  
- Where banjos meet baked goods.
