Dig if You Will This Prince Quiz

Prince isn't just his stage name. Prince's real name is Prince.

Prince's full name is Prince Rogers Nelson.

John Nelson, a musician whose stage name was Prince Rogers, and Mattie Shaw, a jazz singer who performed with the Prince Rogers Band, named their son after the band.

Prince was 5 feet 2 inches.

All of these are Prince-penned lyrics. "You sho'nuf do be cookin' in my book" is from "U Got The Look"; “Mommy, why does everybody have a bomb?" is from "1999"; and "From the heart of Minnesota, here come the purple Yoda" is a lyric in the song "Lay Down."

"Erotic City" was the B-side to the single "Let's Go Crazy." Prince once explained he recorded the song directly after attending a Parliament-Funkadelic show in Los Angeles in the early '80s.

Prince played The Kid, a fictional version of himself, in "Purple Rain."

This is a real lyric from the song "Let's Go Crazy."

"When Doves Cry" was Prince's first No. 1 single in the U.S. and topped the charts for five weeks.

In an interview with Public Broadcasting Service, Prince revealed he had epilepsy as a child but no longer had seizures after a visit from an angel.

Sinead O'Connor topped the charts with Prince-penned "Nothing Compares 2 U," hitting No. 1 in 16 countries.

Prince won his first and only Academy Award for the track "Purple Rain" in the movie "Purple Rain."

Graffiti Bridge, which was written by, directed by and stars Prince, is the sequel to "Purple Rain."

"Under the Cherry Moon" (1986) was Prince's directorial debut.

Prince and Garcia had a son, Ahmir (which is Arabic for "prince"), in 1996, but he died just a week later, to Pfeiffer syndrome. Mayte and Prince also lost a second child to miscarriage.

Testolini and Prince were married from 2001-06; she was his second wife. Melvoin and Prince were engaged but never married. Sheila E. and Prince, too, were never married.

Prince, as Alexander Nevermind, wrote "Sugar Walls" for Sheena Easton.

MC Hammer is one of the few artists Prince gave permission to sample his music, including 1990's "Pray."

Prince’s hit "D.M.S.R." is featured on the soundtrack of "Risky Business."

Prince originally penned "When Doves Cry" with a bassline but removed it for the final version.

The lyrics to "Darling Nikki" inspired Tipper Gore to co-found the PMRC, the group that added the "parental advisory" label to albums.

A combination of male and female symbols, Prince referred to the glyph he adopted as his name as "the Love Symbol."

Prince gave up the Love Symbol in 2000 when his contract with Warner Bros. ended.

Kenny Rogers recorded "You're My Love," written by Prince as "Joey Coco," for his album "They Don't Make Them Like They Used To."

Prince won worst actor, worst director and worst original song in 1987's Razzie Awards. In 2000 he was also nominated for worst actor of the century for "Under the Cherry Moon."

Prince composed the songs for Spike Lee's movie "Girl 6" in 1996, the only time he is credited as "Prince" during that time frame.

While Dwyane Wade was known to be his favorite player, it was the Oklahoma City Thunder who Prince was rooting for.

While his parents were Seventh-Day Adventists, Prince chose to follow the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Prince was inducted in 2004.

According to autopsy reports, Prince died from an accidental overdose of the opioid painkiller fentanyl.