Q 01/05

J. Cole was born in January 1985 on a US military base in which country?

A) West Germany

B) Japan

C) Italy

D) United Kingdom

Answer · why

A) West Germany

West Germany: his father was a US Army soldier stationed in Frankfurt, and Cole was still a baby when his mother moved him and his older brother to No...

Q 02/05

In which North Carolina city did J. Cole grow up?

A) Durham

B) Fayetteville

C) Raleigh

D) Winston-Salem

Answer · why

B) Fayetteville

Fayetteville is where his mother raised him and his brother, and where a teenage Cole worked at a skating rink, sometimes dressed as its kangaroo masc...

Q 03/05

What is J. Cole's real first name?

A) Jeremiah

B) Jerome

C) Jamal

D) Jermaine

Answer · why

D) Jermaine

Jermaine Lamarr Cole tried out two invented rap names as a teenager before settling, by his first mixtape, on a short form of his real one.

Q 04/05

Which instrument did J. Cole play as first chair in his high-school orchestra?

A) Clarinet

B) Trumpet

C) Cello

D) Violin

Answer · why

D) Violin

Violin: he rose to first chair in the Terry Sanford Orchestra while teaching himself to rap and make beats at home.

Q 05/05

Before settling on J. Cole, the teenage rapper picked which stage name out of a dictionary?

A) The Analyst

B) Counselor

C) Therapist

D) Doctor J

Answer · why

C) Therapist

Therapist replaced his first rap name, Blaza. He dropped it as well, and by his first mixtape he was using a short form of his real name.