60 free Facebook trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 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 01Who founded Facebook in 2004, together with his college roommates?
Mark Zuckerberg
He launched the site from his dorm room on February 4, 2004, with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes helping run it.
Q 02In which year did the site that became Facebook first go live?
2004
It launched as a students-only directory and only opened to the general public two and a half years later.
Q 03What was the site called when it launched in February 2004?
TheFacebook
The company dropped the definite article the following year after buying the shorter domain name.
Q 04Which company has owned Facebook since the parent firm renamed itself in 2021?
Meta Platforms
The new name signalled a shift toward building the so-called metaverse with virtual and augmented reality.
Q 05Which photo-sharing app did Facebook buy in April 2012, paying in cash and stock?
The deal, paid in cash and stock, closed only weeks before Facebook's own stock market debut.
Q 06Which messaging app did Facebook agree to buy in February 2014, in its biggest-ever acquisition?
It was the most ever paid for a venture-capital-backed startup at the time.
Q 07Which virtual-reality startup did Facebook buy in March 2014?
Oculus VR
The headset maker's technology later became the basis of the Quest line and the company's metaverse push.
Q 08Why is blue Facebook's primary colour?
Zuckerberg is red-green colourblind
He only found out he was colourblind from a test taken around 2007, by which time the palette was set.
Q 09In which year was the thumbs-up 'like' button first enabled?
2009
It was extended to comments in June 2010 and became the basis for Reactions six years later.
Q 10Which reaction was added in April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Care
It joined the original five Reactions of Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry introduced in 2016.
Q 11Which 2010 film dramatised the founding of Facebook?
The Social Network
It won three Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin.
Q 12Who played Zuckerberg in the 2010 film about Facebook's founding?
Jesse Eisenberg
He and Zuckerberg finally met on Saturday Night Live in January 2011, when Zuckerberg made a surprise cameo.
Q 13Since 2006, what is the minimum age to register for a Facebook account in most countries?
13
South Korea, Spain and Quebec are exceptions, where the minimum is a year higher.
Q 21Technical problems on which exchange delayed the start of trading in Facebook stock on its first day?
Nasdaq
The botched opening triggered a regulatory investigation and a class action from angry investors.
Q 22Microsoft's 2007 purchase of a 1.6% stake for $240m implied what valuation for Facebook?
$15 billion
The deal also gave Microsoft rights to place international advertisements on the site.
Q 23Who became Facebook's chief operating officer in March 2008?
Sheryl Sandberg
Her brainstorming sessions with staff settled the question of how the site would make money: advertising.
Q 14Facebook Stories disappear after how many hours?
24
The format copied Snapchat's, and was first rolled out on iOS and Android in one small European country in 2017.
Q 15In which California city is Facebook's headquarters?
Menlo Park
The company moved there in 2011 onto a former Sun Microsystems campus.
Q 16What was the name of the 2003 site Zuckerberg built to rate students' attractiveness?
Facemash
He built it in less than a week using photos lifted from house directories, and the university took it down within days.
Q 17Which venture capitalist made Facebook's first outside investment in 2004?
Peter Thiel
His $500,001 angel cheque bought 10.2 percent of the company and a board seat.
Q 18Which Napster co-founder became Facebook's president in 2004?
Sean Parker
He had been informally advising Zuckerberg and helped steer the company to Silicon Valley and its first investors.
Q 19To which city did Facebook move its base of operations in June 2004?
Palo Alto
The move west put the young company next door to the venture capitalists who would soon fund it.
Q 20Facebook's shares were priced at what level for its May 2012 IPO?
$38
The company was valued at $104 billion, the largest ever for a newly public company at that point, and the stock closed its first day just 23 cents above the offer price.
Q 24How much did the company pay for the facebook.com domain in 2005?
$200,000
The domain belonged to AboutFace Corporation, and buying it let the company drop 'The' from its name.
Q 25What was the name of the algorithm that governed the sorting of stories in the News Feed?
EdgeRank
Facebook was granted a patent on aspects of the News Feed in February 2010.
Q 26What did Facebook call the open-source programming language it announced in March 2014?
Hack
It grew out of the company's struggle to scale PHP, and much of the site was already running on it before the public release.
Q 27At which event on October 28, 2021 was the company's rename to Meta announced?
Facebook Connect
The 'Meta' trademark had belonged to a scientific-literature analysis company owned by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which handed the name over.
Q 28In which year did Facebook's monthly active users pass the 2bn mark?
2017
It had passed the one-billion mark in October 2012, five years earlier.
Q 29How large was the fine the FTC imposed on Facebook in July 2019 over the Cambridge Analytica affair?
$5 billion
It was the largest penalty ever imposed on a company for violating consumer privacy, and came with a 20-year settlement order.
Q 30Roughly how many Facebook users had their information sold to Cambridge Analytica?
87 million
Only about 270,000 people had actually used the quiz app; the rest were their friends, harvested through Facebook's API.