Mississippi Blues Trail Quiz: Clarksdale and the Crossroads

This Mississippi blues trail quiz follows the roadside markers through the Delta where the blues began. Play an interactive set of 10 questions on the trail's 2006 start, Charley Patton and Dockery Farms, Clarksdale's crossroads, the Robert Johnson legend, Highway 61, the Delta Blues Museum, Muddy Waters' cabin, the B.B. King Museum and Ground Zero Blues Club.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

What
What is the Mississippi Blues Trail?
Start
When were the first markers placed?
Farm
Which plantation is often called a birthplace of the blues?
Town
Which Delta town is famous for its blues crossroads?
Legend
Who supposedly sold his soul at the crossroads?
Road
Which highway is called the Blues Highway?
Museum
Which museum in Clarksdale opened in 1979?
Cabin
Whose childhood cabin is shown in the Delta Blues Museum?
King
Which star has a museum in Indianola?
Club
Which actor co-founded Ground Zero Blues Club?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: What is the Mississippi Blues Trail?
Answer: A series of historical markers
Markers tell stories of blues history.
Q2: When were the first markers placed?
Answer: 2006
The first honored Charley Patton.
Q3: Which plantation is often called a birthplace of the blues?
Answer: Dockery Farms
Charley Patton lived there.
Q4: Which Delta town is famous for its blues crossroads?
Answer: Clarksdale
Highways 61 and 49 meet there.
Q5: Who supposedly sold his soul at the crossroads?
Answer: Robert Johnson
The legend explains his guitar skill.
Q6: Which highway is called the Blues Highway?
Answer: Highway 61
It runs from New Orleans north.
Q7: Which museum in Clarksdale opened in 1979?
Answer: Delta Blues Museum
It is Mississippi's oldest music museum.
Q8: Whose childhood cabin is shown in the Delta Blues Museum?
Answer: Muddy Waters
It came from Stovall Plantation.
Q9: Which star has a museum in Indianola?
Answer: B.B. King
His guitar was named Lucille.
Q10: Which actor co-founded Ground Zero Blues Club?
Answer: Morgan Freeman
It is in Clarksdale.

Markers, Juke Joints and the Crossroads Legend

The Mississippi Blues Trail is a series of roadside markers telling the stories of blues musicians and places. The first markers went up in 2006, honoring Charley Patton, who lived at Dockery Farms, a plantation often called a birthplace of the blues. Today there are well over 200 markers.

Clarksdale sits where Highways 61 and 49 meet, the crossroads of legend where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul for guitar skill. Highway 61, the Blues Highway, runs north from New Orleans through the Delta toward Memphis, carrying musicians who later moved to Chicago.

Clarksdale's Delta Blues Museum, opened in 1979, displays the cabin where Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation. In Indianola, the B.B. King Museum honors the man and his guitar Lucille. Visitors still hear live music at juke joints such as Ground Zero Blues Club, co-founded by Morgan Freeman.

What This Quiz Teaches

Music fans will enjoy these questions.

What the trail is
Where the blues began
Which legends surround it
Which museums to visit
Where to hear live blues

Did You Know?

The Juke Joint Festival takes place in Clarksdale each spring.
Many blues musicians moved north during the Great Migration.
Some markers stand outside other states.
Slide guitar is a Delta blues sound.
Muddy Waters later electrified the blues in Chicago.