One of the most enduring figures in popular culture is the Jamaican-born musician Bob Marley. He achieved lasting fame during his life that has persisted to this day. His eclectic musical style, famous conversion to Rastafarianism, and political activism have made a permanent mark on popular culture.
Marley’s talents were incredibly diverse, and basically everyone has a song they like or at least heard. Whether it’s an oldie like “One Love,” the iconic “I Shot the Sheriff,” or his famous cover of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” Bob Marley’s music touches everyone’s heart in one way or another. What’s more, it’s apparent from listening to Marley’s politically-tinged tracks that he has an intense love for other human beings and a yearning for justice. There’s something for everyone to love!
If you fancy yourself a Bob Marley expert, check out these Bob Marley trivia questions and answers. Once you finish the Bob Marley quiz, try broadening your knowledge by taking quizzes on 70s music, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles.
What song has the line, ‘So while they fight you down, stand firm and give Jah thanks and praises’?
War
Positive Vibration
So Much Things To Say
Want More
What song features the line, ‘Oh we walk through the pale moonlight with our love that is right’?
Is That Love
Rock It Baby
Get Up, Stand Up
Stir It Up
What song features the line, ‘So won’t you come with me, I’ll take you to a land of liberty’?
Concrete Jungle
Stop That Train
Stir It Up
400 Years
What song has the line, ‘Cold ground was my bed last night, and rock was my pillow too’?
Johnny Was
Talkin’ Blues
Who The Cap Fit
Want More
What song has the line, ‘Let’s get together and feel all right’?
One Love
Get Up, Stand Up
Guiltiness
Is This Love
Where was Bob Marley trying to travel to when he died?
Russia
Jamaica
Germany
England
Bob Marley’s son Rohan was married to what singer?
Lauryn Hill
Whitney Houston
Diana Ross
Erykah Badu
Turn Your Lights Down Low’ was first published on what album?
Exodus
Kaya
Babylon By Bus
Confrontation
Rat Race’ first appeared on what album?
Rastaman Vibration
Burnin’
Exodus
Kaya
What song has the line, ‘We also go to realize we are one people or there will never be no love at all’?
Lively Up Yourself
One Foundation
Misty Morning
One Love
What song has the line, ‘Forget your troubles and dance, forget your sorrows and dance’?
Exodus
One Foundation
Them Belly Full
Pass It On
In which country is Bob Marley buried?
Canada
Mexico
Jamaica
USA
What song has the line, ‘I feel so good in my neighborhood, so here I come again’?
One Love
Kaya
She’s Gone
Sun Is Shining
Which of Bob Marley’s albums was chosen by Time magazine as the greatest album of the 20th century?
Kaya
Survival
Rastaman Vibration
Exodus
What song has the line, ‘Wake up and turn me loose, for the rain is falling’?
Johnny Was
Cry To Me
Who The Cap Fit
Kaya
What instrument did Bob Marley play in his first band?
Drums
Guitar
Bass
Saxophone
What song has the line, ‘All them drugs make you slow now, it’s not the music of the ghetto’?
Concrete Jungle
Positive Vibration
Burnin’ And Lootin’
Revolution
What song has the line, ‘Cost of living’ gets so high, rich and poor they start to cry’?
Them Belly Full
Rat Race
Cry To Me
Redemption Song
What song has the line, ‘But though we bear our burdens now, all afflictions got to end somehow’?
Bend Down Low
Hallelujah
Concrete Jungle
Them Belly Full
What song has the line, ‘Why can’t we roam this open country? Oh why can’t we be what we wanna be?’
Rebel Music
Positive Vibration
Pass It On
Rasta Man Chant
What song features the line, ‘I think I might join the fun but I had to hit and run’?
Rock It Baby
Kinky Reggae
No Woman No Cry
Duppy Conqueror
During what decade was Bob Marley born?
The 1950s
The 1910s
The 1930s
The 1940s
War’ was first recorded for what album?
Babylon By Bus
Rastaman Vibration
Kaya
Exodus
Bob Marley’s father served in what branch of Jamaica’s armed forces as an officer?
Marines
Air Force
Army
Navy
What song has the line, ‘Got to put aside them segregation, got to put aside them organization’?
Crisis
One Foundation
Natty Dread
Night Shift
In what year did Bob Marley’s first band break up forcing him to go solo?
1974
1964
1994
1984
What song has the line, ‘Why not help one another on the way? Make it much easier, just a little bit easier’?
One Foundation
Johnny Was
Revolution
Positive Vibration
Even though Bob Marley wrote ‘No Woman, No Cry,’ he gave the credit to whom, according to the liner notes?
Frank Grimes
Garrett Strange
Vincent Ford
Barry Nelson
One Love’ is a rendition of what artist’s hit song ‘People Get Ready’?
Johnny Cash
Curtis Mayfield
Del Shannon
James Brown
What song has the line, ‘Feel like dancing, dance ’cause we are free, feel like dancing, come dance with me’?
Cry To Me
Night Shift
War
Roots, Rock, Reggae
What song has the line, ‘I don’t wanna live in the park, can’t trust no shadows after dark’?
Pass It On
Revolution
War
Johnny Was
What song has the line, ‘Oh true they have found me guilty, but through, through Jah proved my innocency’?
Roots, Rock, Reggae
Night Shift
Exodus
So Much Things To Say
What song has the line, ‘If you make me move, then you know you got the groove’?
Night Shift
Roots, Rock, Reggae
Want More
Cry To Me
Buffalo Soldier’ first appeared on what album?
Catch A Fire
Exodus
B Is For Bob
Confrontation
Alicia Keys and John Legend sang what Bob Marley song on an Australia tour in honor of Nelson Mandela’s memory?
Buffalo Soldier
Get Up, Stand Up
Redemption Song
One Love
What song has the line, ‘Men and people will fight ya down, when ya see Jah light’?
Turn Your Lights Down Low
Revolution
The Heathen
Exodus
What song features the line, ‘Why do they fight against the poor youth of today?’
Stir It Up
No More Trouble
400 Years
Midnight Ravers
What was the name of Bob Marley’s backing band?
The Supremes
The Wailers
The Bluenotes
The Melody Makers
What song has the line, ‘You grooving Kingston 12, Kingston 12, Grooving woe, woe, it’s Kingston 12’?
Trenchtown Rock
Who The Cap Fit
Cry To Me
One Love
Why did Peter Tosh and Neville Livingston leave Bob Marley’s first band in 1974?
Creative Differences
They Joined The Upsetters
They Didn’t Want To Tour
They Were Arrested
What song has the line, ‘Oh fisherman row to reap what you sow now, oh, tell you all I know’?
Pass It On
The Heathen
Bend Down Low
Positive Vibration
Where did Bob Marley move to live in self-exile following his attempted murder?
Russia
China
America
England
Who originally played keyboard in Bob Marley’s first band?
Beverley Kelso
Peter Tosh
Junior Braithwaite
Cherry Smith
What song has the line, ‘Live for yourself and you will live in vain, live for others, you will live again’?
Pass It On
Punky Reggae Party
Is This Love
Lively Up Yourself
What song has the line, ‘So I shot him down and I say, if I am guilty I will pay’?
Buffalo Soldier
I Shot The Sheriff
No Woman No Cry
One Love
What ska band covered ‘Simmer Down’ for their album ‘Ska-Core, the Devil and More’?
Madness
The Specials
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Reel Big Fish
What song has the line, ‘Feel them spirit, feel them spirit, feel them spirit, Lord I thank you’?
Stir It Up
Put It On
Bend Down Low
Natty Dread
What song has the line, ‘The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night’?
Is This Love
Night Shift
Roots, Rock, Reggae
Bend Down Low
Nigh Shift’ first appeared on what album?
Burnin’
Catch A Fire
Exodus
Rastaman Vibration
What is the only instrument used on ‘Redemption Song’?
Guitar
Drum
Bass
Accordion
What song features the line, ‘Some going east, and some going west, some stand aside to try their best’?
I Shot The Sheriff
Stop That Train
Put It On
Pass It On
What is the name of Bob Marley’s adopted daughter?
Sharon
Stephanie
Rohan
Karen
What song has the line,’ Take my soul and suss and suss me out, check my life if I am in doubt’?
The Heathen
Natural Mystic
Rebel Music
So Much Things To Say
On which album did Bob Marley’s ‘I Shot the Sheriff’ first appear?
Rastaman Vibration
Natty Dread
Burnin’
Catch a Fire
Finish this Bob Marley quote: ‘The more people smoke herb, the more _______ fall.’
Badness
Babylon
Destruction
Darkness
What was the name of Bob Marley’s first tour across England the US in 1973?
Catch A Fire
Rastaman Vibration
Natty Dread
Burnin’
Don Taylor was Bob Marley’s what?
Father
Brother
Manager
Shooter
After surviving an assassination attempt, Bob Marley went to live with who?
Reita Faria
Cindy Breakspeare
Carole Crawford
Lisa Hanna
What song has the line, ‘If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devils’?
Positive Vibration
Cry To Me
War
Night Shift
Complete the title of the Bob Marley song, ‘No Woman, No ___’.
Cry
Emotion
Money
Love
What song has the line, ‘What’s in the darkness, must be revealed to light’?
Revolution
Redemption Song
Pass It On
Crisis
Whose 1980 song ‘Master Blaster’ is an ode to Bob Marley?
Rick James
James Brown
Stevie Wonder
Michael Jackson
What song has the line, ‘One bright morning when my work is over, man will fly away home’?
Rasta Man Chant
Natty Dread
Redemption Song
One Love
What song has the line, ‘Hey Mister Music, sure sounds good to me, I can’t refuse it, what to be got to be’?
Roots, Rock, Reggae
Positive Vibration
Johnny Was
Who The Cap Fit
What religion was Bob Marley?
Rastafarian
Muslim
Buddhist
Christian
In what year was Bob Marley posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award?
2006
2001
1991
1996
Bob Marley and his mom moved to what town following the passing of his father?
Spanish Town
Montego Bay
Kingston
Portmore
What song has the line, ‘They stab you in the back and they claim that you’re not looking’?
Bend Down Low
Is This Love
Johnny Was
Want More
What song has the line, ‘But I’m gonna stare in the sun, let the rats shine in my eyes’?
Talkin’ Blues
One Foundation
Night Shift
Johnny Was
What song has the line, ‘I’m singin’ that when the cat’s away, the mice will play’?
Stir It Up
Get Up, Stand Up
Rat Race
Mix Up, Mix Up
What song has the line, ‘We bubblin’ on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread’?
Exodus
Roots, Rock, Reggae
Punky Reggae Party
Revolution
What song has the line, ‘Lord knows how I get from the heartaches, Lord that leadeth me, yeah’?
Positive Vibration
Roots, Rock, Reggae
Cry To Me
War
What song has the line, ‘Now the times are changing, love has come to bloom again’?
No Woman No Cry
Hallelujah
Positive Vibration
Revolution
Zimbabwe’ first appeared on what album?
Burnin’
Survival
Confrontation
Uprising
Bob Marley received the United Nations Medal Of Peace in which year?
1970
1980
1990
1960
Why did Bon Marley say he liked to drive a BMW?
It Was The Best To Sing In
It Was His Father’s Car
It Matched His Initials
It Was The Quietest
What song has the line, ‘We all defend the right, ya children must unite’?
Mix Up, Mix Up
Jammin’
Get Up, Stand Up
Redemption Song
What song features the line, ‘What we need is love, to guide and protect us on’?
No More Trouble
Small Axe
War
Stir It Up
What song has the line, ‘Let righteousness cover the earth, like the water cover the sea’?
One Love
Crisis
Natty Dread
Revolution
What song has the line, ‘Come with your heart and soul, come ‘a come and rock your boat’?
One Love
Cry To Me
Punky Reggae Party
Johnny Was
After surviving an assassination attempt, Bob Marley went to live in which country?
Scotland
Ireland
England
Wales
Bob Marley practiced what form of vegetarianism?
Edenic
Jhatka
Kapu
Ital
What song features the line, ‘I went downtown, I saw Miss Brown, she had brown sugar all over her booga-wooga’?
Lively Up Yourself
Punky Reggae Party
Kinky Reggae
Is This Love
What song features the line, ‘I went down to Piccadilly Circus, down there I saw Marcus’?
I Shot The Sheriff
Lively Up Yourself
Pass It On
Kinky Reggae
Bob Marley was born in what year?
1955
1945
1965
1975
Bob Marley’s band was the first reggae group to play at what famous Harlem theater?
Apollo Theatre
Town Hall
Majestic Theatre
Radio City Music Hall
What song has the line, ‘Live if you want to live, that’s what we got to give’?
Positive Vibration
One Foundation
War
One Love
What song has the line, ‘We’re not here to judge what’s good from bad but to do the things that are right’?
Pass It On
Natty Dread
400 Years
Lively Up Yourself
What song has the line, ‘You think it’s the end but it’s just the beginning’?
Exodus
Want More
War
Cry To Me
What song has the line, ‘You’re gonna walk back through the pain, shed those lonely teardrops’?
War
Exodus
Johnny Was
Cry To Me
In what Jamaican village would you find Bob Marley’s tomb?
Ocho Rios
Claremont
Nine Mile
Browns Town
What song features the line, ‘I’ll push the wood, then I blaze ya fire, then I’ll satisfy your heart’s desire’?
Burnin’ And Lootin’
No Woman No Cry
Is That Love
Stir It Up
What song features the line, ‘It won’t be too long whether I’m right or wrong’?
Midnight Ravers
Stir It Up
Concrete Jungle
Stop That Train
What song features the line, ‘Good God, I think it’s illiteracy, It’s only a machine that makes money’?
Night Shift
Concrete Jungle
Slave Driver
I Know
What is the name of Bob Marley’s posthumously released anthology collection?
Bob
Show
Legend
Reggae
In which country was Bob Marley born?
USA
Jamaica
Canada
Mexico
What crime was Bob Marley arrested and charged with during his visit to England?
Drunk Driving
Fraud
Possession Of Marijuana
Driving Without A License
Finish this line of Bob Marley lyrics: ‘Emancipate yourselves from ___________’.
mental slavery
redemption
their prophets
this generation
How old was Bob Marley when he passed away?
56
66
46
36
How old was Bob Marley when he died?
36
27
65
44
Who wrote ‘Get Up, Stand Up’ with Bob Marley?
Bunny Wailer
Chris Blackwell
Rita Marley
Peter Tosh
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