The J-200 has been an icon for country & western music ever since its introduction in 1938, and players of the new Countryfied board game move their pieces around the body and up the fingerboard of a Gibson J-200.

To advance, you have to answer questions about country music and related subjects, like fishing or NASCAR. To make it hard--or easy, depending on the where the player's from--a designated "picker" draws a card then picks one of three questions to ask the players. He asks the question, then the first player who thinks he can answer it correctly picks up a cowbell and rings it (we'll spare you the WAV file on this one).

Some questions are easy. For example, "Dale Earnhardt is known as?" Answer: "The Intimidator." (That question must have been written before this last NASCAR season.)

Some questions are so easy, they ought to be on a citizenship test, like, "In the Andy Griffith Show, who is Barney Fife's sweetheart?" Answer: "Thelma Lou."

Some are designed to make people who are not from around here feel at home, such as "Name the state tree for Connecticut." Answer: "Huh?" (The real answer is white oak. The real question should have been, What kind of tree did Tom Dooley reckon he'd be hanging from 'bout this time tomorrow?)

Some are kind of tricky, like "Name the state that the planet Pluto was discovered in in 1930." "State of drunkenness" is the obvious answer, but no, the card says "Arizona."

The country music questions range from classic, like "The Drifting Cowboys was the name of whose band?" (Hank Sr., of course) to recent stuff, like "In Tim McGraw's 'Indian Outlaw' what tribe did his wife belong to?" (Chippewa).

To find out more about Countryfied and how to order, visit their site.