Q 01/05

The stage name Eminem is a phonetic spelling of what?

A) A Detroit street

B) His initials

C) His mother's surname

D) His first DJ's name

Answer · why

B) His initials

His initials, M and M: Marshall Mathers first rapped under the name 'M&M' as a teenager and only later spelled the sound out as Eminem.

Q 02/05

Detroit's best-known rapper, Eminem, was actually born in St. Joseph in which state?

A) Ohio

B) Indiana

C) Kansas

D) Missouri

Answer · why

D) Missouri

Missouri: he and his mother moved back and forth between there and Michigan, and he says he changed schools two or three times a year, an outcast at e...

Q 03/05

The first rap song Eminem ever heard, 'Reckless', featured which rapper, who went on to play a TV detective?

A) LL Cool J

B) Ice Cube

C) Ice-T

D) Snoop Dogg

Answer · why

C) Ice-T

Ice-T: the song was on the Breakin' soundtrack, a gift from Eminem's Uncle Ronnie, whose suicide years later left him unable to speak for days.

Q 04/05

Eminem failed ninth grade three times and quit school at 17, but which subject does he say he was always good at?

A) History

B) English

C) Music

D) Science

Answer · why

B) English

English: he had no time for literature, though, preferring comic books, and before rap took over he hoped to become a comic book artist; the school he...

Q 05/05

What was the title of Eminem's 1996 debut album, a commercial failure?

A) The Slim Shady EP

B) Soul Intent

C) Devil's Night

D) Infinite

Answer · why

D) Infinite

Infinite was ignored by Detroit radio, and the advice he got, to give up rap and try rock and roll, made every rhyme he wrote afterwards angrier.