Q 01/05

In which California city was Dwayne Johnson born in 1972?

A) Oakland

B) Hayward

C) Fresno

D) Stockton

Answer · why

B) Hayward

His parents were wrestler Rocky Johnson and Ata Maivia, daughter of a Pacific wrestling dynasty.

Q 02/05

Johnson's mother Ata is of which Pacific heritage?

A) Tongan

B) Fijian

C) Samoan

D) Māori

Answer · why

C) Samoan

His father was a Black Nova Scotian; the two sides gave him a wrestling lineage on both branches of the family.

Q 03/05

Which wrestler was Johnson's maternal grandfather?

A) Peter Maivia

B) Jimmy Snuka

C) Afa Anoa'i

D) Sika Anoa'i

Answer · why

A) Peter Maivia

His grandmother Lia ran Polynesian Pacific Pro Wrestling after Maivia's death, one of the first female promoters.

Q 04/05

Johnson's father, the wrestler Rocky Johnson, was born with which surname?

A) Fatu

B) Layden

C) Prichard

D) Bowles

Answer · why

D) Bowles

Born Wayde Douglas Bowles in Nova Scotia, he and Tony Atlas were WWE's first black tag team champions.

Q 05/05

Johnson graduated in 1990 from Freedom High School in which state?

A) Connecticut

B) Tennessee

C) Hawaii

D) Pennsylvania

Answer · why

D) Pennsylvania

He had attended schools in all four states; football coach Jody Cwik recruited him off a path of teenage arrests.