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56 free Facebook trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Facebook started in February 2004 as a directory for one college and grew into the most downloaded app of the 2010s, with roughly three billion people logging in every month. This quiz covers the whole arc: the dorm-room prototype and its predecessor, the early investors and the move to California, the features everyone uses without thinking (the News Feed, the Like button, Stories), the record-setting IPO and the acquisitions that turned one website into a family of apps. It also covers the parts Facebook would rather you forgot: the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the five-billion-dollar fine, the outage that took every Meta app offline for hours, and the 2021 rebrand. There is a handful of questions on Mark Zuckerberg himself and on The Social Network, the film that dramatised the founding. The set runs from easy to genuinely hard, so it works for a pub quiz round, a tech team social, or just testing yourself. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's Facebook, Meta and Zuckerberg articles, and each question carries a source you can inspect.
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Q 01Which Facebook rival did News Corp buy for $580 million in 2005, then sell for about $35 million?
Myspace
Myspace went to Specific Media and Justin Timberlake in 2011, and Rupert Murdoch later called the purchase a 'huge mistake'.
Q 02Which company has owned Facebook since the parent firm renamed itself in 2021?
Meta Platforms
Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook, Inc., named itself after the metaverse, the blend of virtual and physical worlds it plans to build.
Q 03Which photo-sharing app did Facebook buy in April 2012, paying in cash and stock?
Instagram cost about $1 billion, and in 2020 the FTC sued Facebook, arguing that buying the young rival had helped protect its monopoly.
Q 04Which messaging app did Facebook agree to buy for about $19 billion in February 2014?
WhatsApp's co-founder Brian Acton left Facebook in 2017 after clashing over plans to make money from the app, then publicly backed #DeleteFacebook in 2018.
Q 05Which virtual-reality startup did Facebook buy in March 2014?
Oculus VR
Oculus VR, maker of the Rift headset, was bought for about $2 billion; its technology became the basis of the Quest line.
Q 06Which Facebook button was known internally as the 'Awesome' button before its 2009 launch?
Like
The Like button was called the 'Awesome' button in development until Zuckerberg renamed it, and it went live on February 9, 2009.
Q 07Which Facebook reaction was added in April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Care
The Care reaction, a face hugging a heart, launched in April 2020 as a way to show support during the pandemic; it joined Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry, introduced in February 2016.
Q 08Which 2010 film dramatised the founding of Facebook?
The Social Network
The Social Network had Armie Hammer play both Winklevoss twins, digitally grafting his face onto body double Josh Pence in post-production.
Q 09Who played Zuckerberg in the 2010 film about Facebook's founding?
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg was Oscar-nominated for the role; he and Zuckerberg finally met on Saturday Night Live in January 2011, when Zuckerberg made a surprise cameo during Eisenberg's hosting stint.
Q 10Which US law is why Facebook and other sites bar children under 13?
COPPA
COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, makes collecting data on under-13s costly, so many sites bar them; Facebook has required users to be 13 since 2006.
Q 11Facebook Stories disappear after how many hours?
24
Facebook Stories vanish after 24 hours; the feature was tested in a single country in January 2017 before a global rollout that March.
Q 12In which California city is Facebook's headquarters?
Menlo Park
Facebook moved to Menlo Park in 2011, taking over a former tech campus that it has since expanded with Frank Gehry-designed buildings.
Q 13What was the name of the 2003 site Zuckerberg built to rate students' attractiveness?
Facemash
Facemash paired photos from Harvard's online directories and asked which student was hotter; it was shut down within days after student groups complained.
Q 21What was Facebook's name before it bought the facebook.com domain for $200,000 in 2005?
TheFacebook
TheFacebook dropped 'The' from its name once the company owned facebook.com, bought for $200,000 in 2005.
Q 22What was the name of the algorithm that once ranked stories in Facebook's News Feed?
EdgeRank
EdgeRank weighed affinity, edge weight and time decay to rank News Feed stories; it was presented at the f8 conference in 2010 and later replaced by machine-learning models.
Q 23What did Facebook call the open-source programming language it announced in March 2014?
Hack
Hack, a PHP-derived language running on Facebook's HHVM virtual machine, grew out of the struggle to scale PHP; much of the site already ran on it before the March 2014 release.
Q 14Which venture capitalist made Facebook's first outside investment in 2004?
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel's $500,000 angel investment in August 2004 bought 10.2 percent of the company and a board seat.
Q 15Which Napster co-founder became Facebook's president in 2004?
Sean Parker
Sean Parker, who co-founded Napster with Shawn Fanning, negotiated Facebook's early funding so that Zuckerberg kept control of the board.
Q 16To which city did Facebook move its base of operations in June 2004?
Palo Alto
Zuckerberg and colleagues moved to a rented house in Palo Alto in June 2004, putting the company next to the Silicon Valley investors who would soon fund it.
Q 17What did Zuckerberg wear to meet investors before Facebook's 2012 IPO?
Hoodie
Zuckerberg wore a hoodie rather than a business suit on the roadshow, drawing criticism; the shares still priced at $38, valuing Facebook at $104 billion.
Q 18Technical problems on which exchange delayed the start of trading in Facebook stock on its first day?
Nasdaq
Nasdaq's systems left Facebook orders stuck for hours, and the botched debut cost the exchange a $10 million SEC fine, then the largest ever against an exchange.
Q 19What valuation did Microsoft's 2007 purchase of a $240 million stake imply for Facebook?
$15 billion
The $240 million bought 1.6% and implied a $15 billion valuation; the deal also gave Microsoft rights to sell international advertising on the site.
Q 20Who became Facebook's chief operating officer in March 2008?
Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg left Google to become COO in March 2008; her brainstorming sessions with staff settled how the site would make money: advertising.
Q 24At which October 2021 conference did Zuckerberg announce a new name for Facebook's parent company?
Facebook Connect
Facebook Connect is where Zuckerberg said the old name was so tightly linked to one product that it couldn't represent everything the company did.
Q 25Which game company made FarmVille, the 2009 farming game that swept Facebook?
Zynga
Zynga's FarmVille had over 80 million players by early 2010 and was the first Facebook game to reach 10 million daily users.
Q 26How large was the fine the FTC imposed on Facebook in July 2019 over the Cambridge Analytica affair?
$5 billion
The FTC's $5 billion penalty was then the largest ever imposed for violating consumer privacy, and came with a 20-year settlement order requiring new privacy oversight.
Q 27Which whistleblower exposed Cambridge Analytica's use of data from up to 87 million Facebook accounts?
Christopher Wylie
Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, went public in March 2018, and more than $100 billion was knocked off Facebook's market value within days.
Q 28Which company held serious talks to buy Facebook in September 2006, with prices reaching $1bn?
Yahoo
Yahoo was turned down, as Zuckerberg refused to sell; Facebook stayed independent and went public in 2012.
Q 29Which cryptocurrency exchange did the Winklevoss twins found after settling their lawsuit against Facebook?
Gemini
Gemini was founded in 2014 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, six years after their Facebook settlement, reportedly valued at $65 million.
Q 30Which Facebook co-founder wrote a 2019 New York Times op-ed calling for the company to be broken up?
Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes, Zuckerberg's college roommate, wrote that the most problematic aspect of Facebook's power was Mark's unilateral control over speech.