Justin Timberlake Trivia
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This Justin Timberlake trivia quiz has 49 free questions with answers and runs from his childhood on Star Search and The All New Mickey Mouse Club through NSYNC's record-breaking No Strings Attached, the solo albums Justified, FutureSex/LoveSounds, The 20/20 Experience and Man of the Woods, and on to Everything I Thought It Was and the Forget Tomorrow tour. Expect questions on the Britney-inspired 'Cry Me a River', 'SexyBack' and his other number ones, the 2004 and 2018 Super Bowl halftime shows, his Emmy-winning SNL work with Andy Samberg, Sean Parker in The Social Network, voicing Branch in Trolls and the Oscar nomination for 'Can't Stop the Feeling!', plus his golf course, restaurants, the Memphis Grizzlies and his marriage to Jessica Biel. Difficulty runs from casual-fan easy to superfan hard. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Justin Timberlake was born on January 31, 1981, in which city?
Memphis
Timberlake was born in Memphis and raised in nearby Millington, Tennessee, where his father directed a Baptist church choir.
Q 02At age 11, Timberlake competed on Star Search singing country songs under what name?
Justin Randall
Randall is his middle name. He lost, but a Mickey Mouse Club audition soon followed.
Q 03Which of these was NOT a fellow cast member on The All New Mickey Mouse Club with Timberlake?
Zac Efron
Zac Efron, born in 1987, was never a Mouseketeer; the other three were 1993 additions to a cast that already included JC Chasez and Keri Russell.
Q 04Which boy-band manager financed the group that became NSYNC in 1995?
Lou Pearlman
Chris Kirkpatrick put the group together and Timberlake recruited JC Chasez. Pearlman was later jailed for a huge Ponzi scheme.
Q 05NSYNC's No Strings Attached (2000) sold how many copies in its first week, then a record?
2.4 million
No Strings Attached moved 2.4 million copies in its first week in March 2000, a record that stood until Adele's 25 in 2015.
Q 06Timberlake wrote the NSYNC single 'Gone' around 2001 for which artist, who turned it down?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson passed on 'Gone', so NSYNC cut it for Celebrity; Jackson later asked to record it as a duet.
Q 07Timberlake premiered his debut solo single, 'Like I Love You', at which 2002 event?
The MTV Video Music Awards
Timberlake debuted 'Like I Love You' live at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards; it peaked at number 11 in the US and number two in the UK.
Q 08Timberlake's debut solo album Justified was mostly produced by Timbaland and which duo?
The Neptunes
The Neptunes (Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo) produced most of Justified, released by Jive in November 2002, which won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Q 09'Cry Me a River' was widely thought to be inspired by Timberlake's break-up with whom?
Britney Spears
It won the Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 2004; the video features a Spears lookalike.
Q 10The 2004 Super Bowl halftime 'wardrobe malfunction' happened during Timberlake's duet with whom?
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson's breast was exposed for a split second at the end of 'Rock Your Body' in Houston; Timberlake's apology coined the phrase 'wardrobe malfunction'.
Q 11Which network produced the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show?
MTV
It was built around MTV's Choose or Lose campaign in an election year. Timberlake later returned to headline in 2018.
Q 12What was Timberlake's first solo number one on the Billboard Hot 100?
SexyBack
'SexyBack' reached number one in September 2006 and stayed seven weeks; 'My Love' and 'What Goes Around... Comes Around' followed it to the top.
Q 13FutureSex/LoveSounds was made mainly at Timbaland's Thomas Crown Studios with which co-producer?
Danja
Danja (Nate Hills) co-produced most of the album with Timbaland; it yielded three Hot 100 number ones and an Album of the Year nomination.
Q 21Which animated character did Timberlake voice in Shrek the Third (2007)?
Prince Artie
Prince Artie, Fiona's cousin and reluctant heir to Far Far Away, is pulled out of Worcestershire Academy by Shrek in Timberlake's voice role.
Q 22In the 2011 sci-fi film In Time, Timberlake played which protagonist?
Will Salas
Andrew Niccol directed In Time, in which Timberlake's Will Salas lives in a world where time is currency and Amanda Seyfried plays the heiress he kidnaps.
Q 23The 20/20 Experience (2013) debuted with roughly how many US copies, the biggest sales week of that year?
968,000
The 20/20 Experience opened with 968,000 US copies in March 2013, released through RCA after Jive folded, and finished as the year's best-selling album.
Q 14In 2005, Timberlake had surgery to remove what?
Throat nodules
Throat nodules on his vocal cords were removed in May 2005 after he noticed the problem while recording 'Signs' with Snoop Dogg.
Q 15Which 2006 SNL Digital Short with Andy Samberg won Timberlake his first Emmy?
Dick in a Box
'Dick in a Box', first aired in December 2006, won the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, the first of Timberlake's four.
Q 16Timberlake's four Primetime Emmys are two for Original Music and Lyrics and two for what?
Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Both guest-actor Emmys came from hosting Saturday Night Live.
Q 17On SNL, Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon played which brothers in a recurring talk-show sketch?
Barry and Robin Gibb
In 'The Barry Gibb Talk Show' Fallon played Barry and Timberlake his brother Robin Gibb; Timberlake also guested on Fallon's first Late Night in 2009.
Q 18In The Social Network (2010), Timberlake played which real person?
Sean Parker
Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder, was played by Timberlake under David Fincher, who later directed the Grammy-winning 'Suit & Tie' video.
Q 19Which character does Timberlake voice in the Trolls films?
Branch
Timberlake voices Branch, the grumpy gray troll, opposite Anna Kendrick's Poppy, and was executive music producer on the first film.
Q 20Which Swedish hitmaker co-wrote 'Can't Stop the Feeling!' with Timberlake and Karl Schuster?
Max Martin
Max Martin co-wrote it with Timberlake and Shellback; released six months before Trolls opened, it earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
Q 24Which rapper features on "Suit & Tie" and co-headlined the 2013 Legends of the Summer tour with Timberlake?
Jay-Z
Jay-Z raps the verse on 'Suit & Tie', which peaked at number three, and shared the 2013 Legends of the Summer stadium tour; the Fincher video won Best Music Video.
Q 25What is the name of Timberlake's 15-piece backing band, a throwback to the big-band era?
The Tennessee Kids
The Tennessee Kids, a 15-piece band with horns and backing singers, backed Timberlake on the 20/20 Experience tour from 2013 and share the title of his 2016 Netflix concert film.
Q 26Which acclaimed director made Timberlake's 2016 Netflix concert film?
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme, director of The Silence of the Lambs and Stop Making Sense, shot the final 20/20 Experience show at the MGM Grand for Netflix.
Q 27Timberlake's 2018 album Man of the Woods is named after which family member?
His son Silas
The name Silas means 'from the forest'. The album came out two days before his 2018 Super Bowl halftime show.
Q 28Where was Super Bowl LII, which Timberlake headlined in February 2018, held?
Minneapolis
Minneapolis hosted it at U.S. Bank Stadium, and Timberlake duetted with a projection of the late Prince, a Minnesota native, on 'I Would Die 4 U'.
Q 29Timberlake married Jessica Biel in October 2012 in which country?
Italy
The ceremony was at the Borgo Egnazia resort in Fasano, in Italy's Puglia region; they had become engaged the previous December.
Q 30Timberlake joined the ownership group of which NBA team in 2012?
Memphis Grizzlies
Timberlake took a minority stake in the Memphis Grizzlies, his hometown team, when Robert Pera's group bought the franchise in 2012.