The Texas Prison Rodeo was propelled in 1931 amid the misery years, being first held at the baseball stop outside the "Dividers" Unit. The baseball stop, situated on the east side of the jail, was ordinarily home to the Walls Tigers baseball group. The rodeo was the brainchild of Lee Simmons, General Manager of the Texas Prison System. Simmons imagined it as amusement for workers and detainees. Welfare Director Albert Moore headed up the association and getting ready for the early rodeos alongside Warden Walter Waid and domesticated animals boss, R. O. McFarland. The chaperons incorporated a little horde of neighborhood nationals and jail. Simmons acknowledged he had a victor staring him in the face. After two years, over l5,000 fans set out to Huntsville for the show. Before long, the Texas Prison Rodeo was drawing the biggest group for a wearing occasion in the condition of Texas. With a life expectancy of over 50 years, the Prison Rodeo turned into a Texas convention, held each Sunday in October. Swarms developed to surpass 100,000 in a few years.
Eddie Arnold, Guy Willis, Curley Fox and Texas Ruby. This began a yearly custom which pulled in such stars as Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb, Johnny Rodriguez, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, George Strait, Tom T. Corridor and the rundown goes on... Obviously, prisoner groups additionally gave an assortment of musical stimulation at the rodeo. The most well known detainee entertainer and one who some of the time stole the show from the paid performers was prisoner Juanita Phillips. She was better known in the "free world" as Candy Barr. The cattle rustlers, jokesters and performers of the Texas Prison Rodeo were made out of a wide range of detainees from the greater part of the units inside the Texas Department of Corrections. Some of these men had never been in a rodeo or ridden on a creature in their lives. In any case, it was a respect and a materialistic trifle to be among the cowpokes chose to contend in the rodeo.
- Which of the following coined the term “Grand Ole Opry: a) Bessie Smith, b) George Dewey Hay, c) Deford Bailey, d) Jimmie Rogers?
- Which of the following became the undisputed Political Boss in Tennessee after the fall of Luke Lea: a) Robin Cooper, b) Duncan Cooper, c) Ed Crump, d) Roger Caldwell?
- Which of the following gave women suffrage in the United States: a) 16th amendment, b) 17th amendment, c) 18th amendment, d) 19th amendment?
- Which of the following established itself after a split with the Disciples of Christ: a) Church of God, b) Pentecostals c) Church of Christ, d) Jehovah Witness?
- Which of the following was fired after refusing to purchase Kyrock from the Caldwell Asphalt Company: a) Henry Horton, b) C. Neil Bass, c) Luke Lea, d) Roger Caldwell?
- Which of the following is known as the prohibition amendment: a) 16th amendment, b) 17th amendment, c) 18th amendment, d) 19th amendment?
- Which of the following is the strongest Pentecostal Church black or white in the world: a) Church of God, b) Church of God in Christ, c) both a and b, d) none of the above?
- The famous Scopes Monkey Trial took place in which of the following counties: a) Blount, b) Rhea, c) Sullivan, d) Hamilton?
- Which of the following was appointed a head of the States Selective Service and the State Council of Defense: a) Rutledge Smith, b) Alvin York, c) John Vertrees, c) Alfred Taylor?
- Which of the following formed the state’s first women’s suffrage league: a) Jane Adams, b) Susan Anthony, c) Sue Shelton, d) Lide Meriweather?
- Which of the following was founder of the Nashville, Tennessean: a) Edward Carmack, b) Luke Lea, c) Robin Cooper, d) Roger Caldwell?
- Which of the following was the only Tennessee city to vote itself dry during prohibition: a) Chattanooga, b) Knoxville, c) Memphis, d) Nashville?
- Which of the following signed the suffrage amendment into law in Tennessee: a) Albert Roberts, b) Austin Peay, c) Henry Horton, d) Alfred Taylor?
- The Public Emergency Committee was established to: a) end the political machine of Ed Crump, b) end the political machine of Luke Lea, c) to provide more infrastructures in Tennessee, d) none of the above?
- Tennessee became which of the following states to ratify the 19th amendment: a) 33rd, b) 34th c) 35th d) 36th?
- Which of the following brought modern management to state government while pushing through progressive reforms: a) Albert Roberts, b) Austin Peay, c) Henry Horton, d) Alfred Taylor?
- Which of the following was born in Smith County and became famous as a harmonica player: a) Jimmie Rogers, b) Deford Bailey, c) Bessie Smith, d) George Hay?
- Which of the following was the first Tennessee Governor to die in office: a) Albert Roberts, b) Austin Peay, c) Henry Horton, d) Alfred Taylor?
- Which of the following single-handed killed 20 Germans and captured 131 more: a) Rutledge Smith, b) Jimmie Rogers, c) Benton McMillin, d) Alvin C. York?
- Which of the following was appointed Secretary of State by Franklin Roosevelt during his third administration: a) Ed Crump, b) Cordell Hull, c) Kenneth McKellar, d) Joseph Byrns?
- Chattanooga native, Bessie Smith is known as: a) Queen of Soul, b) Queen of Country, c) Empress of the Blues, d) Empress of Country?
- Which of the following obtained passage of the ouster law, where by officials could be removed from office for refusal to enforce prohibition: a) Thomas Rye, b) Albert Roberts, c) Alfred Taylor, d) Austin Peay?
- Which of the following introduced an anti-lynching bill in the Tennessee General Assembly in 1887, and was driven out of politics and the state: a) Robert Church, b) Preston Taylor, c) Samuel McElwee, d) James Napier?
- Which of the following established Greenwood Cemetery: a) William Goff, b) Preston Taylor, c) Robert Church, d) James Napier?
- Which of the following advocated activist religion: a) Tom Ryman, b) Sam Jones, c) Joel Cheek, d) Joseph Dortch?
- Which of the following was the first black to serve as a state lawmaker: a) Robert Church, b) James Napier, c) Sampson Keeble, d) Samuel McElwee?
- Which of the following provided for separate ballot box for state and federal elections: a) Myers Registration Bill, b) Lea Election Law, c) Dortch Bill, d) Blair Bill?
- The “Pride of Nashville and the whole south was/is: a) Vanderbilt University, b) Central Tennessee, c) Roger Williams, d) George Peabody?
- Which Tennessee Governor, in 1873, stated Tennessee was “third in ignorance” among all states: a) William Bate, b) John Brown, c) Dewitt Senter, d) Peter Turney?
- Which of the following invented Maxwell House Coffee: a) Joel Cheek, b) Sam Jones, c) Jere Baxter, d) none of the above?
- The founder of the Tennessee Central Railroad was: a) Joel Cheek, b) Sam Jones, c) Jere Baxter, d) Arthur Coylar?
- Which university opened its door in 1912, as a land grant university ordered by the Morrell act: a) Fisk University, b) Belmont University, c) Tennessee A&I, d) University of Tennessee, Knoxville?
- Highlander Folk school was founded in which of the following Tennessee Counties: a) Davidson, b) Anderson, c) Roane, d) Grundy?
- The Manhattan Project removed families from Anderson and which of the following counties: a) Rhea, b) Knox, c) Hamilton, d) Roane?