Q 01/05

In which city was Prince born and raised?

A) Detroit

B) Chicago

C) Minneapolis

D) Milwaukee

Answer · why

C) Minneapolis

He was born at Mount Sinai Hospital in June 1958 and pioneered what became known as the Minneapolis sound.

Q 02/05

Prince was named after what?

A) A racehorse

B) A Duke Ellington song

C) His father's stage name

D) His maternal grandfather

Answer · why

C) His father's stage name

His father's stage name was Prince Rogers, under which John Nelson led a jazz trio. 'I named my son Prince because I wanted him to do everything I wan...

Q 03/05

What was the title of the first song Prince wrote, on his father's piano at age seven?

A) Soft and Wet

B) Purple Piano

C) Funk Machine

D) Little Prince

Answer · why

C) Funk Machine

Funk Machine was his first tune, picked out at the age of seven. When his parents separated three years later he kept at the piano, he said, 'to fill ...

Q 04/05

Prince's first record deal, signed as a teenager in 1977, was unusual for granting him what?

A) Creative control

B) His own record label

C) A private recording studio

D) A share of the label

Answer · why

A) Creative control

Creative control came written into the three-album deal, a rare concession to an unknown teenager. He could ask for it because his demo tape had drawn...

Q 05/05

What was unusual about Prince's debut album credits?

A) His name was missing

B) He played every instrument

C) A fictional band played

D) Every song was a cover

Answer · why

B) He played every instrument

He played every instrument on For You, and the sleeve said so: 'Produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince'. He spent nearly all of his thre...