Q 01/05

Bob Marley was born on 6 February of which year?

A) 1945

B) 1948

C) 1951

D) 1954

Answer · why

A) 1945

He was born on his grandfather's farm in the hill village of Nine Mile, where he is now buried in a mausoleum.

Q 02/05

What was Marley's middle name?

A) Norval

B) Nesta

C) Nathaniel

D) Nelson

Answer · why

B) Nesta

His eldest son David is better known as Ziggy, and shares the middle name.

Q 03/05

Marley's father Norval was a white Jamaican of what ancestry?

A) Welsh

B) Scottish

C) Irish

D) Dutch

Answer · why

A) Welsh

He called himself 'Captain' though he had only been a private, was about 60 when Bob was born, and died when the boy was ten.

Q 04/05

At age 12 Marley moved with his mother to which Kingston neighbourhood?

A) Tivoli Gardens

B) Half Way Tree

C) Trenchtown

D) Port Royal

Answer · why

C) Trenchtown

The area is named after Trench Pen, land once used for livestock by an 18th-century Irish immigrant.

Q 05/05

Marley formed his first vocal group with Peter Tosh and which childhood friend?

A) Bunny Wailer

B) Jimmy Cliff

C) Toots Hibbert

D) Desmond Dekker

Answer · why

A) Bunny Wailer

Born Neville Livingston, he and Bob shared a house in Kingston, and their parents even had a daughter together.