2010s Pop Culture Trivia
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130 free 2010s Pop Culture trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
71 free 2010s pop culture trivia questions with answers. These 2010s pop culture trivia questions and answers cover the whole decade, from the first iPad and the royal wedding of 2011 through Gangnam Style, the Harlem Shake, the Ice Bucket Challenge and the great dress debate, to Fyre Festival, Old Town Road and the final season of Game of Thrones. You will find memes and viral challenges alongside the biggest movies, albums, TV finales, apps and celebrity moments of the 2010s. The early questions are easy enough for anyone who spent the decade online; the later ones dig into the details that only true pop culture obsessives remember, like the real name of Grumpy Cat, what Snapchat was first called, and how much Rebecca Black's mother paid for the "Friday" video. It works as a solo warm-up, a party round or a themed pub quiz. Every answer has been checked against encyclopaedia entries and primary reporting before publishing, so the facts hold up when the arguments start.
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Q 01Which music video became the first on YouTube to reach one billion views, in December 2012?
"Gangnam Style"
Its view count later overflowed YouTube's 32-bit counter, forcing the site to upgrade to 64-bit integers.
Q 02The Ice Bucket Challenge that flooded social media in summer 2014 raised money to fight which disease?
ALS
The challenge raised more than $115 million worldwide in 2014 alone.
Q 03The Harlem Shake videos of February 2013 were all set to a track by which producer?
Baauer
The craze pushed Billboard to start counting YouTube views in the Hot 100, and the song went straight to number one.
Q 04In February 2015 the internet split over the colours of "the dress". What colours was it really?
Black and blue
The retailer, Roman Originals, cashed in by making a one-off white and gold version for charity.
Q 05Pokémon Go sent millions of players into the streets in July 2016. Which company developed it?
Niantic
Niantic began as an internal Google startup and previously built the AR game Ingress.
Q 06Which toy craze took over school playgrounds in 2017, marketed as a stress reliever?
Fidget spinners
Many schools banned them within months for being a distraction rather than a focus aid.
Q 07Frozen (2013) reigned as the highest-grossing animated film until which 2019 release overtook it?
The Lion King
Frozen took more than $1.28 billion worldwide, a record it held for almost six years.
Q 08Avengers: Endgame became the highest-grossing film of all time in July 2019 by overtaking which movie?
Avatar
Avatar took the crown back in 2021 thanks to a re-release in China.
Q 09Game of Thrones ended in May 2019 after how many seasons?
8
The show ran 73 episodes, and its shortened final season drew a famous fan petition demanding a remake.
Q 10Which photo-sharing app did Mark Zuckerberg's company buy for roughly $1 billion in April 2012?
At the time Instagram had about 13 employees and had not made a cent in revenue.
Q 11Vine, the six-second looping video app, was shut down in January 2017 by which parent company?
Many Vine stars, from Logan Paul to Shawn Mendes, went on to bigger careers on other platforms.
Q 12Which word did Oxford Dictionaries name its Word of the Year for 2013?
Selfie
Oxford traced the word to an Australian internet forum post from 2002.
Q 13Prince William and Catherine Middleton married on 29 April 2011 at which London venue?
Westminster Abbey
Around a million people lined the route between the Abbey and Buckingham Palace on the day.
Q 21Grumpy Cat, the internet's favourite scowl from 2012 onwards, had what real name?
Tardar Sauce
Her permanent frown came from feline dwarfism and an underbite.
Q 22The Doge meme is built on a 2010 photo of a Shiba Inu with what name?
Kabosu
Know Your Meme named Doge the top meme of 2013, and the dog later inspired the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.
Q 23The disastrous Fyre Festival of 2017 was supposed to take place on an island in which country?
The Bahamas
Guests who paid thousands for luxury villas found disaster-relief tents and cheese sandwiches on Great Exuma.
Q 14How many Tony Awards did Hamilton win in 2016 from its record 16 nominations?
11
The show also collected the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Q 15E. L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey began life as fan fiction of which book series?
Twilight
The original fan fiction was titled Master of the Universe and starred Edward Cullen and Bella Swan.
Q 16Which film was mistakenly announced as Best Picture at the 2017 Oscars?
La La Land
The presenters had been handed a duplicate Best Actress envelope for Emma Stone.
Q 17Ellen DeGeneres's star-packed photo broke the retweet record while she hosted which 2014 event?
The Academy Awards
The photo of twelve stars was retweeted more than two million times before the ceremony ended.
Q 18"Left Shark" became a meme after dancing out of sync behind which singer at the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show?
Katy Perry
The shark appeared during "Teenage Dream" and "California Gurls" and was out of step with its Right Shark partner.
Q 19Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen, who pulled the game in 2014, is from which country?
Vietnam
Nguyen said he felt guilty about how addictive the game had become, even though it was reportedly earning $50,000 a day in ads.
Q 20Which company bought Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion in 2014?
Microsoft
Creator Markus "Notch" Persson left the company the day the deal closed.
Q 24Which pastry chef created the Cronut, the croissant-doughnut hybrid of 2013?
Dominique Ansel
Ansel trademarked the name and launched it on 10 May 2013 at his SoHo bakery in New York.
Q 25The viral 2012 short film Kony 2012 was produced by which organisation?
Invisible Children
It aimed to make Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony famous enough to be arrested by the end of the year.
Q 26Sharknado, the 2013 made-for-TV movie that took over social media, aired on which channel?
Syfy
It spawned five sequels, the last of which had a time-travel plot.
Q 27Serial, the 2014 podcast that turned true crime into a mainstream obsession, was hosted by whom?
Sarah Koenig
Its first season re-examined the murder of Hae Min Lee and the conviction of Adnan Syed.
Q 28For 2015, Oxford Dictionaries chose an emoji as its Word of the Year for the first time. Which one?
Face with Tears of Joy
Oxford found it made up 20 percent of all emoji used in the UK that year.
Q 29The 2018 "Yanny or Laurel" audio illusion came from a pronunciation recording made for which website?
Vocabulary.com
An opera singer recorded the word "laurel" in 2007 as one of 200,000 reference pronunciations.
Q 30Whose "Old Town Road" spent a record 19 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2019?
Lil Nas X
At one minute 53 seconds, the original was the shortest US number one since 1965.