It's Sunday, and here are the answers as promised.


1. d. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912. That's what we call Bastille Day, and it's the national holiday of France.

2. c. Woody is known to have fathered eight children: three with Mary Jennings Guthrie, four with Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, and one with Anneke Van Kirk Guthrie. Only three children survive: Arlo Davy Guthrie, Joady Ben Guthrie, and Nora Lee Guthrie, all born to Marjorie.

3. d. Lucky Strike. At least, according to people who knew him at the time, that was his preferred brand during the 1940s, when Woody was the Woody we have come to know best. Anyway, the other three brands would have been unlikely choices. Marlboro was being marketed as a women's cigarette back then, before they switched their marketing campaign. And both Pall Mall and Chesterfield were being marketed with a consciously upscale image, definitely not smokes for common folks!

4. d. Gordon Freisen liked to say that he would taunt Woody with that statement and ones like it whenever he felt Woody was becoming too establishment. Or at least so I have heard from Sis Cunningham, Gordon's widow.

5. b. Tommy Makem first came to the USA around 1960, by which time Woody was too seriously ill to perform. Woody appeared with Milton Berle and Billie Holiday and a number of other performers in a benefit in New York City in 1946. Woody performed several times with a young Tom Paley in New York, around the same time Woody started hanging out with Jack Elliott. To this day Tom wonders why is Jack remembered as Woody's sidekick-protegé and he isn't.


Nice work, Jerry. You got 4 out of 5 right. And Kat, you were right about Bastille Day, of course.

Would anyone like to continue this game by posting 5 questions about another folk musician?

---- Steve