This Justin Timberlake trivia quiz has 50 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
His father was a Baptist church choir director. He grew up in nearby Millington, Tennessee.
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
JC Chasez and Keri Russell were also Mouseketeers from 1993 to 1995. Efron is a decade younger.
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
Celebrity (2001) followed with 1.8 million. The band sold over 70 million records, fifth among boy bands.
Q 06Timberlake wrote the NSYNC single 'Gone' around 2001 for which artist, who turned it down?
Michael Jackson
NSYNC recorded it themselves for Celebrity.
Q 07Timberlake premiered his debut solo single, 'Like I Love You', at which 2002 event?
The 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
Released by Jive in November 2002, it won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album and has sold over 10 million copies.
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
More than 140 million people were watching the CBS broadcast from Houston. His 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
It debuted at number 90 in July 2006 and climbed to the top for seven weeks. 'My Love' and 'What Goes Around...' followed it to number one.
Q 13FutureSex/LoveSounds was made mainly at Timbaland's Thomas Crown Studios with which co-producer?
Danja
The album produced three Hot 100 number ones and was nominated for Album of the Year.
Q 21Which animated character did Timberlake voice in Shrek the Third (2007)?
Prince Artie
Artie is Fiona's cousin and heir to Far Far Away. He later voiced Boo-Boo Bear in Yogi Bear.
Q 22In the 2011 sci-fi film In Time, Timberlake played which protagonist?
Will Salas
Andrew Niccol directed. The same year he starred in Bad Teacher with Cameron Diaz and Friends with Benefits with Mila Kunis.
Q 23The 20/20 Experience (2013) debuted with roughly how many US copies, the biggest sales week of that year?
968,000
It was released through RCA after Jive folded and became the year's best-selling album.
Q 14In 2005, Timberlake had surgery to remove what?
Throat nodules
He discovered the condition while recording 'Signs' with Snoop Dogg. The operation was on May 5, 2005.
Q 15Timberlake's famous SNL Digital Short with Andy Samberg was called what?
Dick in a Box
The costume is displayed at Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition in New York. Two of his four Emmys are for original music and lyrics.
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
The Barry Gibb Talk Show. He was also on Fallon's first Late Night in 2009 and co-created the 'History of Rap' bit in 2010.
Q 18In The Social Network (2010), Timberlake played which real person?
Sean Parker
The Napster co-founder. David Fincher directed and later shot the 'Suit & Tie' video that won Timberlake a Grammy.
Q 19Which character does Timberlake voice in the Trolls films?
Branch
Anna Kendrick voices Poppy. He was also the 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
Released six months before Trolls opened, it earned Timberlake 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
The single peaked at number three. Its David Fincher-directed video won the Grammy for 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
Jonathan Demme's concert film Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids premiered at Toronto in 2016.
Q 26Which acclaimed director made the 2016 concert film of the final 20/20 Experience tour date in Las Vegas?
Jonathan Demme
The Silence of the Lambs and Stop Making Sense director filmed the final 20/20 Experience tour date at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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
It was his third halftime appearance, after NSYNC in 2001 and the 2004 show. He duetted with a projection of the late Prince 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. They had become engaged the previous December.
Q 30Timberlake and Jessica Biel are minority owners of which NBA team?
Memphis Grizzlies
His hometown team; the Predators are an NHL club.