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96 free 2020s trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free 2020s trivia questions with answers. The 2020s hit different. A global pandemic, an AI revolution, streaming wars, and cultural moments that broke the internet. How well do you remember the decade so far?
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Q 01Which video-call app's daily meeting participants jumped from 10 million to over 300 million in early 2020?
Zoom
Zoom went from 10 million daily meeting participants in December 2019 to over 300 million by April 2020; amid 'Zoombombing' intrusions it froze new features for 90 days to fix security and privacy flaws.
Q 02Which US presidential candidate won the 2020 election?
Joe Biden
Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes to 232; Georgia, decided by about 12,000 votes, recounted all five million of its ballots by hand and the result stood.
Q 03Which app became the world's most downloaded in 2020, passing two billion installs that April?
TikTok
TikTok crossed two billion downloads in April 2020 after the best quarter any app had recorded; that June India, its biggest market by installs, banned it.
Q 04Which streaming service released the hit series "Tiger King" in March 2020?
Netflix
Netflix released Tiger King on March 20, 2020 and Nielsen counted 34 million viewers in ten days; its star Joe Exotic was already serving 22 years over a murder-for-hire plot against rival Carole Baskin.
Q 05Which city hosted the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in 2021 due to the pandemic?
Tokyo
Tokyo's Games were postponed in March 2020, the only postponement in Olympic history, yet kept the Tokyo 2020 name and went ahead a year later with almost no spectators.
Q 06Which 400-metre container ship ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal for six days in March 2021?
Ever Given
Ever Given was freed on March 29 with help from a supermoon's high tide; Egypt then impounded the ship for nearly three months until its owners agreed a compensation deal.
Q 07Which COVID-19 vaccine was the first to receive US Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA, on December 11, 2020?
Pfizer-BioNTech
Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine began as 'Project Lightspeed' at the German firm BioNTech in January 2020, days after the virus's genetic sequence was published; US authorization came before the year was out.
Q 08George Floyd's murder by a police officer in which US city set off worldwide protests in 2020?
Minneapolis
Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin killed Floyd during an arrest on May 25, 2020; protests spread to more than 60 countries, and Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years for murder.
Q 09Which streaming platform launched in November 2019, months before a pandemic-fuelled boom?
Disney+
Disney+ launched on November 12, 2019 and passed 100 million subscribers within 16 months; Disney's own forecast had been 60 to 90 million by 2024.
Q 10Which NASA rover landed in Jezero Crater on Mars in February 2021?
Perseverance
Perseverance carried the Ingenuity helicopter, which made the first powered flight on another planet; built for just five test flights, it went on to fly 72 times.
Q 11Which AI tool, released in November 2022, reached an estimated 100 million users within two months?
ChatGPT
ChatGPT reached an estimated 100 million monthly users by January 2023, and its sudden popularity led Google executives to sound a 'code red' over the threat to their search business.
Q 12Which two films opened on the same day in July 2023, sparking a viral double-feature craze?
Barbie and Oppenheimer
Barbie and Oppenheimer both opened on July 21, 2023; AMC said 40,000 of its members had booked same-day tickets to both, and the films opened to $162 million and $82 million in North America.
Q 13Taylor Swift's record-breaking concert tour that began in March 2023 was called what?
Q 21Which social media platform did Elon Musk acquire in October 2022?
Twitter sued Elon Musk when he tried to walk away from his $44 billion offer; he closed the deal on October 27, 2022 as a trial loomed, and renamed the platform X in July 2023.
Q 22Which 2022 AI image generator released its model publicly, so anyone could run it on a home computer?
Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion could run on an ordinary gaming graphics card; within months Getty Images sued its maker, Stability AI, alleging it had copied millions of Getty photos to train the model.
Q 23Which country hosted the first FIFA World Cup played in November and December?
Qatar
The Eras Tour
The Eras Tour's presale crashed Ticketmaster in November 2022, prompting a US Senate hearing; by its end in December 2024 it had grossed over $2 billion, the most of any tour to that date.
Q 14Which country did Russia invade in February 2022?
Ukraine
Ukraine was invaded on 24 February 2022 in what Moscow called a 'special military operation'; the drive on Kyiv failed, and Russian forces withdrew from the capital region about five weeks later.
Q 15Which sea shanty became a viral hit in January 2021 through a Scottish postman's cover?
Wellerman
Wellerman, a New Zealand folk song about whalers, took off when Nathan Evans posted his version online; he quit his job as a postman, signed a record deal, and the single reached UK number one.
Q 16Which company's stock did Reddit's r/WallStreetBets send soaring in January 2021?
GameStop
GameStop's shares peaked at $483 on January 28, 2021, up from about $17 at the start of the month; the squeeze cost Melvin Capital, a hedge fund betting against the stock, 53% of its value.
Q 17Which vice president was rushed from the Senate chamber when a mob stormed the US Capitol in January 2021?
Mike Pence
Mike Pence refused his Secret Service detail's requests to leave the Capitol, and returned to the chamber that night to preside as Congress confirmed the election result.
Q 18Which SpaceX mission in September 2021 was the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight?
Inspiration4
Inspiration4 doubled as a fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: commander Jared Isaacman gave $125 million himself, and Elon Musk added $55 million.
Q 19Which jubilee did Queen Elizabeth II celebrate in June 2022, marking 70 years on the throne?
Platinum Jubilee
Platinum Jubilee celebrations filled a four-day weekend from 2 June 2022 and included a short film of the Queen having tea with Paddington Bear.
Q 20Which comedian did Will Smith slap on stage at the 2022 Oscars over a joke about his wife?
Chris Rock
Chris Rock had joked about Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head; about forty minutes later Smith won Best Actor for King Richard, and the Academy then banned him from its events for ten years.
Qatar's tournament was the first World Cup in the Middle East, and it was moved from the usual June and July to November and December to avoid the extremes of the Gulf summer.
Q 24Which social media app launched in July 2023 and signed up over 100 million users in five days?
Threads
Threads signed people up through their existing Instagram accounts and reached 100 million users in five days, then the fastest start of any consumer app.
Q 25Which K-pop group announced a temporary hiatus in 2022 for members to fulfill mandatory military service?
BTS
BTS's oldest member, Jin, enlisted first, on December 13, 2022; a 2020 law had let top K-pop stars put off service until 30, and all seven members had completed it by June 2025.
Q 26Which crypto exchange went bankrupt in November 2022, leading to founder Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud conviction?
FTX
FTX filed for bankruptcy on November 11, 2022, days after rival Binance withdrew a rescue offer; Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 25 years in March 2024.
Q 27Which series' fourth season, released in 2022, became its streaming service's most-watched English-language season at the time?
Stranger Things
Stranger Things 4 logged 1.35 billion hours viewed in its first 28 days, and its use of Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill' sent the 1980s single to number one in eight countries.
Q 28Which workplace term went viral in 2022 for doing only what your job requires and no more?
Quiet quitting
Quiet quitting means staying in the job, not leaving it; Gallup estimated in 2022 that at least half of the US workforce fit the description.
Q 29Which observatory, launched on Christmas Day 2021, sent back its first full-color images in July 2022?
James Webb
James Webb was too big for its Ariane 5 rocket, so it launched folded on 25 December 2021 and unfolded its sunshield and 6.5-metre gold-coated mirror on the way to its post.
Q 30Which OceanGate submersible imploded during a deep-sea dive in June 2023?
Titan
Titan imploded on a dive to the Titanic wreck, killing all five aboard; its carbon-fibre hull had never been certified by any outside body, and the US Coast Guard later called the disaster preventable.