50 free Cardi B trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Cardi B went from a Tribeca grocery store to a strip club to Love & Hip Hop to the first solo woman to win the Best Rap Album Grammy, and she did it in about four years. Along the way she collected five Hot 100 number ones, more than any female rapper, and four diamond records. These 50 questions cover the whole story: the rum behind the name, the sister called Hennessy, the Shaggy remix nobody remembers, the Dallas producer behind Bodak Yellow, the boogaloo tune inside I Like It, the Baltimore club sample in WAP, the SNL pregnancy reveal, the secret 2017 wedding, Hustlers, Rhythm + Flow, the Vogue cover, the McDonald's meal, Am I the Drama? and the Little Miss Drama Tour. Easy questions ask who features on WAP; hard ones ask who sang the chant it samples. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a music quiz night.
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Q 01What is Cardi B's real first name?
Belcalis
Her full name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar; she was born October 11, 1992.
Q 02Cardi B's stage name is derived from which brand?
Bacardi
The rum was her nickname growing up; her younger sister is named Hennessy.
Q 03In which New York City neighbourhood was Cardi B raised?
Highbridge, the Bronx
She was born in Washington Heights and credits her grandmother's home there for her accent.
Q 04Cardi B's father is from which country?
Dominican Republic
Her mother is Trinidadian; Cardi identifies as Afro-Caribbean.
Q 05What is the name of Cardi B's younger sister?
Hennessy
Hennessy Carolina was born in 1995.
Q 06Which VH1 reality series made Cardi B famous starting in 2015?
Love & Hip Hop: New York
She left after two seasons to pursue music full-time.
Q 07Cardi B made her musical debut on a remix of which Shaggy single?
Boom Boom
The November 2015 remix also featured dancehall singer Popcaan.
Q 08With which major label did Cardi B sign her first record deal in 2017?
Atlantic Records
It released 'Bodak Yellow' that June.
Q 09What was Cardi B's commercial debut single, released in June 2017?
Bodak Yellow
It topped the Hot 100 that September and was later certified diamond.
Q 10Her 2017 debut single made Cardi the first female rapper with a solo Hot 100 number one since whom?
Lauryn Hill
Hill's 'Doo Wop (That Thing)' had debuted at number one in 1998.
Q 11Which rapper received an additional writing credit on her debut single for its flow?
Kodak Black
The title itself is a play on his name and his song 'No Flockin'.
Q 12Which Dallas producer created the beat for her 2017 debut single?
J. White Did It
Cardi said she pictured every woman she disliked while writing to it.
Q 13What is the title of Cardi B's 2018 debut studio album?
Invasion of Privacy
The title reflects how fame was invading her privacy.
Cardi B was the first solo female artist to win which Grammy, in 2019?
Q 21Which female rappers had been nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy before Cardi?
Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliott
Hill was nominated in 1999 and Elliott in 2004.
Q 22Cardi B made her film debut in which 2019 movie opposite Jennifer Lopez?
Hustlers
Lorene Scafaria directed it; Constance Wu and Lili Reinhart co-starred.
Q 23Cardi B judged which Netflix hip-hop talent competition alongside Chance the Rapper and T.I.?
Rhythm + Flow
The ten-part series premiered in October 2019 and she also executive produced it.
Best Rap Album
She won it in February 2019 wearing vintage Thierry Mugler.
Q 15Which two Latin artists feature on 'I Like It'?
Bad Bunny and J Balvin
It became her second Hot 100 number one in July 2018.
Q 16Cardi's 2018 Latin-trap number one interpolates a 1967 boogaloo hit with what title?
I Like It Like That
Atlantic's Craig Kallman suggested a track honouring Cardi's Latin heritage.
Q 17Which band's 'Girls Like You' gave Cardi B her third Hot 100 number one in 2018?
Maroon 5
It spent seven weeks at number one and 33 weeks in the top ten.
Q 18On which show did Cardi B officially announce her first pregnancy in April 2018?
Saturday Night Live
She was about six months pregnant during the performance.
Q 19Cardi B's husband Offset is a member of which hip-hop trio?
Migos
He formed it in 2008 with Quavo and Takeoff in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
Q 20When had Cardi B and Offset actually married, as TMZ revealed in 2018?
September 2017
It was a month before his public proposal on October 27, 2017.
Q 24Which Bruno Mars collaborations did Cardi B appear on in 2018 and 2019?
Finesse and Please Me
'Please Me' reached number three on the Hot 100.
Q 25Who features on Cardi B's 2020 single 'WAP'?
Megan Thee Stallion
It debuted at number one with a record 93 million first-week streams.
Q 26'WAP' samples a 1993 Baltimore club track by which DJ?
Frank Ski
The chant from 'Whores in This House' loops about 80 times through the song.
Q 27Which reality star's cameo in the 'WAP' video prompted a petition to remove her?
Kylie Jenner
Normani, Rosalía, Latto and Rubi Rose also appear in Colin Tilley's video.
Q 28'WAP' was the first number one on which new Billboard chart launched in 2020?
Global 200
It also topped charts in Australia and the UK.
Q 29Which 2021 single became Cardi B's fifth Hot 100 number one and second solo chart-topper?
Up
It debuted at number two, the highest solo female rap debut since 1998, and hit the top after her Grammys performance.
Q 30How many Hot 100 number ones does Cardi B have, the most of any female rapper?
Five
Bodak Yellow, I Like It, Girls Like You, WAP and Up.