Q 01/05

What is Nicki Minaj's birth name?

A) Onika Tamika Samuels

B) Nikita Tara Petty

C) Nicola Tanya Marley

D) Onika Tanya Maraj

Answer · why

D) Onika Tanya Maraj

She has performed under variations of the stage name since the mid-2000s and hyphenated her husband's surname onto her own after marrying in 2019.

Q 02/05

She was born in the Saint James district of which Trinidad and Tobago city?

A) Chaguanas

B) Port of Spain

C) Scarborough, Tobago

D) San Fernando

Answer · why

B) Port of Spain

As a small child she lived there with her grandmother in a household with 11 cousins while her mother went ahead to New York.

Q 03/05

At roughly what age was she brought to live with her parents in New York City?

A) 12

B) 7

C) 5

D) 9

Answer · why

C) 5

Her mother had moved to the Bronx to attend Monroe College before sending for her, and the family settled in the South Jamaica neighborhood.

Q 04/05

Which New York City borough did she grow up in after arriving from the Caribbean?

A) The Bronx

B) Brooklyn

C) Staten Island

D) Queens

Answer · why

D) Queens

A planned ABC Family sitcom about her upbringing there, titled Nicki, shot a pilot in her old neighborhood in 2016 but never aired.

Q 05/05

She successfully auditioned for which specialist New York City public high school?

A) Professional Performing Arts

B) LaGuardia

C) Talent Unlimited

D) Frank Sinatra

Answer · why

B) LaGuardia

The school focuses on visual and performing arts, and a week after graduating she was cast in an Off-Broadway play called In Case You Forget.