Bob Marley Trivia

200+ Best Bob Marley Trivia Questions & Answers

Mike Oberman

Updated: June 15th, 2023

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Discover how much you really know about the legendary Bob Marley with over 200 trivia questions and answers about his life, music, and legacy. Let's see if you're a true Bob Marley fan!

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Question: Zimbabwe' first appeared on what album?

Answer: Survival

Question: In what Jamaican village would you find Bob Marley's tomb?

Answer: Nine Mile

Question: What religion was Bob Marley?

Answer: Rastafarian

Question: Complete the title of the Bob Marley song, 'No Woman, No ___'.

Answer: Cry

Question: What instrument did Bob Marley play in his first band?

Answer: Guitar

Question: Don Taylor was Bob Marley's what?

Answer: Manager

Question: What song has the line, 'Men and people will fight ya down, when ya see Jah light'?

Answer: Exodus

Question: What song has the line, 'Live if you want to live, that's what we got to give'?

Answer: Positive Vibration

Question: What song features the line, 'What we need is love, to guide and protect us on'?

Answer: No More Trouble

Question: What song has the line, 'Let righteousness cover the earth, like the water cover the sea'?

Answer: Revolution

Question: What song has the line, 'Forget your troubles and dance, forget your sorrows and dance'?

Answer: Them Belly Full

Question: What song has the line, 'But I'm gonna stare in the sun, let the rats shine in my eyes'?

Answer: Talkin' Blues

Question: Finish this line of Bob Marley lyrics: 'Emancipate yourselves from ___________'.

Answer: mental slavery

Question: In what year was Bob Marley posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award?

Answer: 2001

Question: What song has the line, 'You think it's the end but it's just the beginning'?

Answer: Want More

Question: What song features the line, 'It won't be too long whether I'm right or wrong'?

Answer: Stop That Train

Question: What is the name of Bob Marley's posthumously released anthology collection?

Answer: Legend

Question: What song has the line, 'I feel so good in my neighborhood, so here I come again'?

Answer: Kaya

Question: What song has the line, 'So I shot him down and I say, if I am guilty I will pay'?

Answer: I Shot The Sheriff

Question: Where did Bob Marley move to live in self-exile following his attempted murder?

Answer: England

Question: After surviving an assassination attempt, Bob Marley went to live with who?

Answer: Cindy Breakspeare

Question: Bob Marley's band was the first reggae group to play at what famous Harlem theater?

Answer: Apollo Theatre

Question: What song has the line, 'I'm singin' that when the cat's away, the mice will play'?

Answer: Rat Race

Question: What song has the line, 'Now the times are changing, love has come to bloom again'?

Answer: Hallelujah

Question: What song features the line, 'I went down to Piccadilly Circus, down there I saw Marcus'?

Answer: Kinky Reggae

Question: What song has the line, 'The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night'?

Answer: Night Shift

Question: What song has the line, 'We all defend the right, ya children must unite'?

Answer: Jammin'

Question: After surviving an assassination attempt, Bob Marley went to live in which country?

Answer: England

Question: Finish this Bob Marley quote: 'The more people smoke herb, the more _______ fall.'

Answer: Babylon

Question: What song has the line, 'If you make me move, then you know you got the groove'?

Answer: Night Shift

Question: What was the name of Bob Marley's first tour across England the US in 1973?

Answer: Catch A Fire

Question: What crime was Bob Marley arrested and charged with during his visit to England?

Answer: Possession Of Marijuana

Question: Bob Marley's father served in what branch of Jamaica's armed forces as an officer?

Answer: Marines

Question: What song has the line, 'What's in the darkness, must be revealed to light'?

Answer: Pass It On

Question: What song features the line, 'I think I might join the fun but I had to hit and run'?

Answer: Kinky Reggae

Question: What song has the line, 'Cold ground was my bed last night, and rock was my pillow too'?

Answer: Talkin' Blues

Question: What ska band covered 'Simmer Down' for their album 'Ska-Core, the Devil and More'?

Answer: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Question: In what year did Bob Marley's first band break up forcing him to go solo?

Answer: 1974

Question: What song has the line, 'We bubblin' on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread'?

Answer: Roots, Rock, Reggae

Question: What song has the line, 'Cost of living' gets so high, rich and poor they start to cry'?

Answer: Them Belly Full

Question: What song has the line, 'Wake up and turn me loose, for the rain is falling'?

Answer: Kaya

Question: What song features the line, 'Why do they fight against the poor youth of today?'

Answer: 400 Years

Question: What song has the line, 'Come with your heart and soul, come 'a come and rock your boat'?

Answer: Punky Reggae Party

Question: Why did Peter Tosh and Neville Livingston leave Bob Marley's first band in 1974?

Answer: They Didn't Want To Tour

Question: What song has the line, 'One bright morning when my work is over, man will fly away home'?

Answer: Rasta Man Chant

Question: Bob Marley and his mom moved to what town following the passing of his father?

Answer: Kingston

Question: What song has the line, 'Ain't no rules, ain't no vow, we can do it anyhow'?

Answer: Jammin'

Question: What song has the line, 'Three o'clock roadblock curfew and I've got to throw away'?

Answer: Rebel Music

Question: What song did Richard Branson use to promote flights to Jamaica on Virgin Airways?

Answer: One Love

Question: What Bob Marley song did the BBC pick as the 'Song of the Millennium' in 1999?

Answer: One Love

Question: What song has the line, 'Give me the food and let me grow, let the Roots Man take a blow'?

Answer: Burnin' And Lootin'

Question: What song has the line, 'Until the philosophy which hold one race superior'?

Answer: War

Question: Following an assassination attempt on him where did Bob Marley move to?

Answer: England

Question: What song has the line, 'And whosoever diggeth a pit, shall fall in it, fall in it'?

Answer: Small Axe

Question: What song has the line, 'What your hands do, it's your own eyes that've seen'?

Answer: Pass It On

Question: Which of the following is not one of the ingredients in a Bob Marley shooter?

Answer: Vermouth

Question: What song has the line, 'Now the weak must get strong, they say oh what a tribulation'?

Answer: Them Belly Full

Question: Bob Marley formed his first band with Neville Livingston who went by what nickname?

Answer: Bunny

Question: What song has the line, 'I'm so high, I even touch the sky, above the falling rain'?

Answer: Kaya

Question: What song features the line, 'Everytime I hear the crack of a whip, my blood runs cold'?

Answer: Slave Driver

Question: Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'' is from what Bob Marley song?'

Answer: Redemption Song

Question: What song has the line, 'Some a lawful, some a bastard, some a jacket'?

Answer: Rat Race

Question: Reggae sensation Bob Marley founded his own record label in the 1960s named what?

Answer: Tuff Gong

Question: What song has the line, 'Oh why can't we be what we wanna be? We want to be free'?

Answer: Rebel Music

Question: What song has the line, 'You want come cold I up, but you can't come cold I up'?

Answer: Trenchtown Rock

Question: Besides his military service, what did Bob Marley's father do for a living?

Answer: Plantation Owner

Question: What song features the line, 'I see 10,000 chariots and they coming without horses'?

Answer: Midnight Ravers

Question: As of 2015, where does Bob Marley rank on the list of top earning dead celebrities?

Answer: 5th

Question: What song has the line, 'But I'll never forget no way, they crucified Jesus Christ'?

Answer: So Much Things To Say

Question: Sublime covered what Bob Marley song for their box set 'Everything Under the Sun'?

Answer: Judge Not

Question: What song has the line, 'Hear the children cryin' but I know they cry not in vain'?

Answer: Hallelujah

Question: Who was not one of the original members of Bob Marley's female backup group?

Answer: Carlie Barrett

Question: Marley wrote the song 'Get Up, Stand Up' while touring what battered nation?

Answer: Haiti

Question: What song features the line, 'Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble'?

Answer: No More Trouble

Question: Bob Marley's birthday became a national holiday in 1990 for what country?

Answer: Jamaica

Question: Which of Bob Marley's albums did Time name the 'Best Album of the Century' in 1999?

Answer: Exodus

Question: What Bob Marley song was the first to become a hit outside of Jamaica?

Answer: No Woman, No Cry

Question: What singer officially inducted Bob Marley into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Answer: Bono

Question: What song has the line, 'It takes a joyful sound to make a world go 'round'?

Answer: Punky Reggae Party

Question: What song has the line, 'Oh while I'm gone, everything's gonna be all right'?

Answer: No Woman No Cry

Question: What song has the line, 'This morning I woke up in a curfew, Oh God I was a prisoner too'?

Answer: Burnin' And Lootin'

Question: What song has the line, 'Driven from the mainland to the heart of the Caribbean'?

Answer: Buffalo Soldier

Question: What song has the line, 'Don't forget your history, know your destiny'?

Answer: Rat Race

Question: What song has the line, ''Cause everyday we pay the price with a little sacrifice'?

Answer: Jammin'

Easy

Question: How old was Bob Marley when he passed away?

Answer: 36

Question: Who originally played keyboard in Bob Marley's first band?

Answer: Peter Tosh

Question: Bob Marley received the United Nations Medal Of Peace in which year?

Answer: 1980

Question: Where was Bob Marley trying to travel to when he died?

Answer: Jamaica

Question: Who wrote 'Get Up, Stand Up' with Bob Marley?

Answer: Peter Tosh

Question: Turn Your Lights Down Low' was first published on what album?

Answer: Exodus

Question: What is the only instrument used on 'Redemption Song'?

Answer: Guitar

Question: One Love' is a rendition of what artist's hit song 'People Get Ready'?

Answer: Curtis Mayfield

Question: What was the name of Bob Marley's backing band?

Answer: The Wailers

Question: On which album did Bob Marley's 'I Shot the Sheriff' first appear?

Answer: Burnin'

Question: How old was Bob Marley when he died?

Answer: 36

Question: Nigh Shift' first appeared on what album?

Answer: Rastaman Vibration

Question: Bob Marley was born in what year?

Answer: 1945

Question: Rat Race' first appeared on what album?

Answer: Rastaman Vibration

Question: In which country was Bob Marley born?

Answer: Jamaica

Question: Whose 1980 song 'Master Blaster' is an ode to Bob Marley?

Answer: Stevie Wonder

Question: What song has the line, 'Let's get together and feel all right'?

Answer: One Love

Question: Bob Marley's son Rohan was married to what singer?

Answer: Lauryn Hill

Question: During what decade was Bob Marley born?

Answer: The 1940s

Question: Bob Marley practiced what form of vegetarianism?

Answer: Ital

Question: War' was first recorded for what album?

Answer: Rastaman Vibration

Question: What is the name of Bob Marley's adopted daughter?

Answer: Sharon

Question: In which country is Bob Marley buried?

Answer: Jamaica

Question: Buffalo Soldier' first appeared on what album?

Answer: Confrontation

Question: Why did Bon Marley say he liked to drive a BMW?

Answer: It Matched His Initials

Question: When was Bob Marley's 'Could You Be Loved' a hit?

Answer: 1980

Question: What is the name of Bob Marley's wife?

Answer: Rita

Question: Bob Marley's song 'Jamming' features in which of these films?

Answer: Despicable Me 2

Question: What song has the line, 'Your life is worth much more than gold'?

Answer: Jammin'

Question: Caribbean sensation Bob Marley died from what disease?

Answer: Cancer

Question: Concrete Jungle' first appeared on what album?

Answer: Catch A Fire

Question: What is the name of the last album released before Bob Marley's death?

Answer: Uprising

Question: In which country did Bob Marley live in for treatment of his cancer?

Answer: Germany

Question: What was the name of Bob Marley's backing singers?

Answer: The Wailers

Question: Bob Marley was a member of what religious movement?

Answer: Rastafari

Question: What is the stage name of Bob Marley's son?

Answer: Ziggy

Question: Who once sang a famous cover of Bob Marley's 'I Shot the Sheriff'?

Answer: Eric Clapton

Question: What childhood nickname became the name of Bob Marley's record label?

Answer: Tuff Gong

Question: What was the name of Bob Marley's female backup singers?

Answer: The I-Threes

Question: What record company did Marley's band join with in 1972?

Answer: Island Records

Question: What kind of music did Bob Marley's first band originally play?

Answer: Blues

Question: What was Bob Marley's favorite sport?

Answer: Soccer

Question: Bob Marley had what kind of hairstyle?

Answer: Dreadlocks

Question: In which US city is there a street named after Bob Marley?

Answer: New York

Question: Bob Marley is best known for playing what style of music?

Answer: Reggae

Question: Bob Marley died in which year?

Answer: 1981

Question: I Shot the Sheriff' first appeared on what album?

Answer: Burnin'

Question: Reggae superstar Bob Marley sold how many records in his career?

Answer: Over 20m

Question: In what year did Bob Marley's band release their first album?

Answer: 1965

Question: Who in Bob Marley's band taught him how to play the guitar?

Answer: Peter Tosh

Question: What Bob Marley album was the first to be released outside of Jamaica?

Answer: Soul Rebels

Question: What band did Bob Marley help form in 1963?

Answer: The Wailing Wailers

Question: Which of these sports was Bob Marley an avid fan of?

Answer: Football

Question: Smile Jamaica' first appeared as a bonus track on what album?

Answer: Kaya

Question: Burnin' and Lootin'' first appeared on what album?

Answer: Burnin'

Question: Natty Dread' first appeared on what album?

Answer: Natty Dread

Question: Bob Marley was born in which country?

Answer: Jamaica

Question: In what year did Peter Tosh leave the Wailers?

Answer: 1964

Question: What is the full first name of Bob Marley's wife?

Answer: Alpharita

Question: Get Up, Stand Up' was first published on what album?

Answer: Burnin'

Question: The lion in the song 'Iron Lion Zion' refers to what holy symbol?

Answer: Lion Of Judah

Question: No Woman, No Cry' first appeared on what album?

Answer: Natty Dread

Question: Kinky Reggae' first appeared on what album?

Answer: Catch A Fire

Question: What country gave Bob Marley an official Order of Merit in 1981?

Answer: Jamaica

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Question: What song has the line, 'Oh true they have found me guilty, but through, through Jah proved my innocency'?

Answer: So Much Things To Say

Question: What song has the line, 'But though we bear our burdens now, all afflictions got to end somehow'?

Answer: Hallelujah

Question: What song has the line, 'They stab you in the back and they claim that you're not looking'?

Answer: Want More

Question: Alicia Keys and John Legend sang what Bob Marley song on an Australia tour in honor of Nelson Mandela's memory?

Answer: Redemption Song

Question: What song features the line, 'So won't you come with me, I'll take you to a land of liberty'?

Answer: 400 Years

Question: What song has the line, 'Feel like dancing, dance 'cause we are free, feel like dancing, come dance with me'?

Answer: Roots, Rock, Reggae

Question: What song features the line, 'Good God, I think it's illiteracy, It's only a machine that makes money'?

Answer: Slave Driver

Question: What song has the line,' Take my soul and suss and suss me out, check my life if I am in doubt'?

Answer: Rebel Music

Question: What song has the line, 'All them drugs make you slow now, it's not the music of the ghetto'?

Answer: Burnin' And Lootin'

Question: Even though Bob Marley wrote 'No Woman, No Cry,' he gave the credit to whom, according to the liner notes?

Answer: Vincent Ford

Question: What song has the line, 'We're not here to judge what's good from bad but to do the things that are right'?

Answer: Pass It On

Question: What song has the line, 'Live for yourself and you will live in vain, live for others, you will live again'?

Answer: Pass It On

Question: What song has the line, 'Why can't we roam this open country? Oh why can't we be what we wanna be?'

Answer: Rebel Music

Question: What song has the line, 'I don't wanna live in the park, can't trust no shadows after dark'?

Answer: Revolution

Question: What song has the line, 'If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devils'?

Answer: Positive Vibration

Question: What song has the line, 'You grooving Kingston 12, Kingston 12, Grooving woe, woe, it's Kingston 12'?

Answer: Trenchtown Rock

Question: What song has the line, 'Hey Mister Music, sure sounds good to me, I can't refuse it, what to be got to be'?

Answer: Roots, Rock, Reggae

Question: What song has the line, 'So while they fight you down, stand firm and give Jah thanks and praises'?

Answer: So Much Things To Say

Question: What song has the line, 'Lord knows how I get from the heartaches, Lord that leadeth me, yeah'?

Answer: Cry To Me

Question: What song features the line, 'I'll push the wood, then I blaze ya fire, then I'll satisfy your heart's desire'?

Answer: Stir It Up

Question: What song features the line, 'I went downtown, I saw Miss Brown, she had brown sugar all over her booga-wooga'?

Answer: Kinky Reggae

Question: What song has the line, 'We also go to realize we are one people or there will never be no love at all'?

Answer: One Foundation

Question: What song has the line, 'You're gonna walk back through the pain, shed those lonely teardrops'?

Answer: Cry To Me

Question: What song has the line, 'Oh fisherman row to reap what you sow now, oh, tell you all I know'?

Answer: Bend Down Low

Question: What song has the line, 'Feel them spirit, feel them spirit, feel them spirit, Lord I thank you'?

Answer: Put It On

Question: What song features the line, 'Some going east, and some going west, some stand aside to try their best'?

Answer: Stop That Train

Question: What song features the line, 'Oh we walk through the pale moonlight with our love that is right'?

Answer: Rock It Baby

Question: What song has the line, 'Why not help one another on the way? Make it much easier, just a little bit easier'?

Answer: Positive Vibration

Question: What song has the line, 'Got to put aside them segregation, got to put aside them organization'?

Answer: One Foundation

Question: Which of Bob Marley's albums was chosen by Time magazine as the greatest album of the 20th century?

Answer: Exodus

Question: What song has the line, 'Rejected by society, treated with impugnity, protected by their dignity'?

Answer: Punky Reggae Party

Question: What song has the line, 'Yeah I've been down on the rock for so long, I seem to wear a permanent screw'?

Answer: Talkin' Blues

Question: What Bob Marley song inspired Owen Wilson to name his dog Marley in the movie 'Marley & Me'?

Answer: One Love

Question: What song has the line, 'Smelling the air when spring comes by raindrops reminds us of youthful days'?

Answer: Hallelujah

Question: What song has the line, 'There will never be no love at all, I mean there will never be no love at all'?

Answer: One Foundation

Question: What song has the line, 'Babylon, you throne gone down, gone down, Babylon, you throne gone down'?

Answer: Rasta Man Chant

Question: What song has the line, 'So who's gonna stay at home, when the freedom fighters are fighting'?

Answer: Talkin' Blues

Question: Where did Rolling Stone rank Bob Marley on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004?

Answer: 11

Question: What song features the line, 'Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty'?

Answer: Slave Driver

Question: What song has the line, 'But walk right in woman, sit right down, I will keep on lovin' you, I play the clown'?

Answer: Bend Down Low

Question: What song has the line, 'The riders, they cover their face, so you couldn't make them out in smoky place'?

Answer: Midnight Ravers

Question: What song has the line, 'And hey Mr. Cop, ain't go no, ain't go no birth certificate on me now'?

Answer: Rebel Music

Question: What song has the line, 'Kill, cramp and paralyze all weak at conception, wipe them out of creation'?

Answer: Revolution

Question: What song has the line, 'All that we got, it seems we have lost, we must have really paid the cost'?

Answer: Burnin' And Lootin'

Question: What song has the line, 'How many rivers do we have to cross before we can talk to the boss'?

Answer: Burnin' And Lootin'

Question: What song is also the title of the book written by Bob Marley's wife about her life with her late husband?

Answer: No Woman, No Cry

Question: What song has the line, 'I'm a gonna take a just one step more, 'cause I feel like bombin' a church'?

Answer: Talkin' Blues

Question: What song has the line, 'Why boasteth thyself, oh evil men, playing smart and not being clever'?

Answer: Small Axe

Question: What song has the line, 'Your momma won't lose this one, you're the lucky one under the sun'?

Answer: Night Shift

Question: What song features the line, 'Quench me when I'm thirsty, come on and cool me down, baby, when I'm hot'?

Answer: Stir It Up

Question: What song features the line, 'If you hope good down from above, help the weak if you are strong now'?

Answer: No More Trouble

Question: What song has the line, 'One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain, so hit me with music'?

Answer: Trenchtown Rock