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

Her birth name is Onika Tanya Maraj; born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1982, she adopted the stage name Nicki Minaj while chasing a rap career in New Yor...

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

She was born in Saint James, a district of Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, and lived there with her grandmother while her mother we...

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

She grew up in Queens, in the South Jamaica neighborhood; a planned Freeform sitcom about her childhood there, titled Nicki, never made it to air.

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

She attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan, the school that inspired Fame, where she trained in ac...