Cardi B Trivia
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49 free Cardi B trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Cardi B went from a Tribeca grocery store to a strip club to Love & Hip Hop to the first solo woman to win the Best Rap Album Grammy, and she did it in about four years. Along the way she collected five Hot 100 number ones, more than any female rapper, and four diamond records. These 49 questions cover the whole story: the rum behind the name, the sister called Hennessy, the Shaggy remix nobody remembers, the Dallas producer behind Bodak Yellow, the boogaloo tune inside I Like It, the Baltimore club sample in WAP, the SNL pregnancy reveal, the secret 2017 wedding, Hustlers, Rhythm + Flow, the Vogue cover, the McDonald's meal, Am I the Drama? and the Little Miss Drama Tour. Easy questions ask who features on WAP; hard ones ask who sang the chant it samples. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a music quiz night.
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Q 01What is Cardi B's real first name?
Belcalis
Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar. In her teens she went from a low-paid shop job to dancing in a strip club, which she has said gave her the money to escape an abusive relationship.
Q 02Cardi B's stage name is derived from which brand?
Bacardi
Bacardi was her nickname long before she rapped, and she later shortened it. She has said the 'B' stands for whatever suits the day: 'beautiful or bully'.
Q 03In which New York City neighbourhood was Cardi B raised?
Highbridge, the Bronx
Highbridge, the Bronx. She also spent a lot of time at her grandmother's in Washington Heights, which she has said might be why she has 'such a thick accent'.
Q 04Cardi B's father is from which country?
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic. Her mother is from Trinidad, and when people online called Cardi an immigrant she set them straight: she was born and raised in New York City.
Q 05What is the name of Cardi B's younger sister?
Hennessy
Hennessy Carolina was named after the cognac. She appeared beside her sister on reality TV, then built her own following as a fashion influencer.
Q 06Which VH1 reality series did Cardi B join as a cast member in 2015?
Love & Hip Hop: New York
Love & Hip Hop: New York. She arrived for its sixth season with a big social-media following, then quit after two seasons to concentrate on music.
Q 07With which major label did Cardi B sign her first record deal in 2017?
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records signed her in early 2017, when she was still best known from reality TV. The first single she released on the label went to number one on the Hot 100.
Q 08What was Cardi B's major-label debut single, released in June 2017?
Bodak Yellow
Bodak Yellow. Cardi has said she wrote it on a plane while listening to the beat, picturing every woman she didn't like.
Q 09Cardi B's 2017 breakthrough made her the first female rapper with a solo Hot 100 number one since whom?
Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill had last done it with 'Doo Wop (That Thing)' in 1998. Cardi's single knocked Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do' off the top, and Swift sent her flowers.
Q 10Which rapper earned a writing credit on Cardi B's debut hit because she borrowed his flow?
Kodak Black
Kodak Black. Cardi rapped the song in the cadence of his 2015 track 'No Flockin', and he later jumped on an official remix of it.
Q 11The low-budget video for Cardi B's breakout single was filmed in which desert city?
Dubai
Dubai. The clip shows her riding through the desert among exotic animals, yet Cardi has said the whole shoot cost only about $10,000.
Q 12What is the title of Cardi B's 2018 debut studio album?
Invasion of Privacy
Invasion of Privacy. When reporters uncovered her secret wedding weeks after its release, Cardi tweeted that this was why she chose the name: people 'will do the most to be nosey about your life'.
Q 13Cardi B was the first solo female artist to win which Grammy, in 2019?
Best Rap Album
Best Rap Album. She won it for her debut album barely two years after walking away from reality TV to concentrate on music.
Q 21Cardi B made her film debut in which 2019 crime film?
Hustlers
Hustlers. She plays a dancer at the strip club where Jennifer Lopez's crew works, a world Cardi knew first-hand from her own years as a stripper.
Q 22Cardi B judged which Netflix hip-hop talent competition alongside Chance the Rapper and T.I.?
Rhythm + Flow
Rhythm + Flow. Its first winner, Inglewood rapper D Smoke, released his debut album the next year and earned two Grammy nominations for it.
Q 23Which Bruno Mars collaborations did Cardi B appear on in 2018 and 2019?
Finesse and Please Me
Finesse and Please Me. Cardi was also booked to open Bruno Mars's 2018 tour, but pulled out weeks after giving birth, saying she had 'underestimated this whole mommy thing'.
Q 14Which two Latin stars feature on Cardi B's 2018 hit 'I Like It'?
Bad Bunny and J Balvin
Bad Bunny and J Balvin. Label boss Craig Kallman, a former DJ, dug the 1967 boogaloo record it samples out of his vinyl collection to honour Cardi's Latin roots.
Q 15The video for Cardi B's 'I Like It' was filmed in which Miami neighbourhood?
Little Havana
Little Havana. Cardi shot her scenes at the nightclub Ball & Chain in March 2018, while fans were still guessing whether she was hiding a baby bump.
Q 16Which band's 'Girls Like You' gave Cardi B her third Hot 100 number one in 2018?
Maroon 5
Maroon 5 first put the song out as an album track with no rapper on it. The new version with Cardi's verse followed months later and spent seven weeks at number one.
Q 17On which show did Cardi B officially announce her first pregnancy in April 2018?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live. Midway through 'Be Careful' the camera pulled back to show her bump under a white evening gown, ending months of speculation.
Q 18Offset, whom Cardi B married in 2017, found fame in which rap group?
Migos
Migos. Offset guested on 'Lick', a track on Cardi's 2017 mixtape, and the two were married before the year was out.
Q 19Which gossip site revealed in 2018 that Cardi B and Offset had secretly married before his on-stage proposal?
TMZ
TMZ published the marriage certificate: the couple had wed quietly in Atlanta in September 2017, a month before Offset dropped to one knee in front of a concert crowd.
Q 20Which Depression-era president did Cardi B rave about in a 2018 GQ profile?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cardi called him 'the real Make America Great Again', arguing that without him 'old people wouldn't even get Social Security'.
Q 24What did Cardi B and Offset name their first child, a daughter born in July 2018?
Kulture
Kulture Kiari Cephus. Her middle name comes from her father: Offset was born Kiari Kendrell Cephus.
Q 25Cardi B reportedly threw a shoe at which rival rapper during a 2018 New York Fashion Week party?
Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj. Security held Cardi back and walked her out of the Harper's Bazaar party, and within days Minaj had a new music video out.
Q 26Which reality star's cameo in the 'WAP' video prompted a petition to remove her?
Kylie Jenner
Kylie Jenner. A Change.org petition demanded she be cut from the video, and Cardi hit back that she had invited Jenner as a friend: 'Not everything is about race.'
Q 27'WAP' was the first number one on which new Billboard chart launched in 2020?
Global 200
Global 200. Billboard launched the chart in September 2020 to rank songs by streams and sales in more than 200 territories, so that hits from outside the US would finally be counted.
Q 28Which 2021 single became Cardi B's fifth Hot 100 number one and second solo chart-topper?
Up
Up entered the Hot 100 at number two and slipped back, then surged from sixth place to number one the week after Cardi performed it at the Grammys.
Q 29Cardi B joined which star on 'Rumors', a 2021 single that opened at number four on the Hot 100?
Lizzo
Lizzo. 'Rumors' ended her two-year break from releasing music, and it became her first single to enter the Hot 100 inside the top ten.
Q 30Cardi B's catchphrase 'Okurrr' was the punchline of 2019 TV commercials for which brand?
Pepsi
Pepsi. When a diner waitress asks a customer 'Is Pepsi OK?', Cardi cuts in: 'Of course Pepsi is okurrr.'