Mark Zuckerberg Trivia
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58 free Mark Zuckerberg trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Mark Zuckerberg wrote a messaging system for his father's dental office at eleven, built a music player that machine-learned your taste in high school, crashed Harvard's network with Facemash, and launched thefacebook.com from Kirkland House on February 4, 2004. By 23 he was the world's youngest self-made billionaire; by 2010 he was Time's Person of the Year and the subject of an Oscar-winning film he wished nobody had made while he was alive. This Mark Zuckerberg trivia quiz runs 58 questions across his life and career: White Plains and Dobbs Ferry, Phillips Exeter and the fencing team, ZuckNet and Synapse, CourseMatch and Facemash, the four co-founders, the Winklevoss and Saverin lawsuits, Peter Thiel and Palo Alto, hackathons, the 2012 IPO, Instagram and the Meta rebrand, Congressional testimony, Priscilla Chan and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Newark donation, Kauai, the gray T-shirt, MMA and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and the Simpsons and SNL cameos. Easy questions come first; the last third is for people who remember Wirehog. Every answer is verified against Wikipedia's articles on Zuckerberg and Meta Platforms, with the supporting sentence quoted under each question. If you enjoy this quiz, try our Facebook history and tech billionaires quizzes next.
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Q 01Which Saturday Night Live star played Zuckerberg in a 2010 sketch that the real Zuckerberg called funny?
Andy Samberg
Andy Samberg played him on Weekend Update in October 2010, and Zuckerberg shared the sketch on Facebook, calling himself a big Samberg fan.
Q 02At a January 2024 Senate hearing, Zuckerberg stood and apologised to families over what issue?
Child safety on social media
Child safety on social media: Senator Lindsey Graham told the CEOs, Zuckerberg included, that though they didn't mean it, they had blood on their hands.
Q 03Zuckerberg was born in which New York town?
White Plains
White Plains was only his birthplace: he grew up in nearby Dobbs Ferry and, while still in high school, took a graduate computer class at Mercy College.
Q 04What were the professions of Zuckerberg's parents Edward and Karen?
Dentist and psychiatrist
Dentist and psychiatrist: Edward's dental office was attached to the family home, and Karen gave up her psychiatry career to raise the children and manage his practice.
Q 05Which Roman emperor did Zuckerberg call one of the most fascinating, crediting him with two hundred years of world peace?
Augustus
Augustus: Chan teased him about all his photos of Augustus statues on their Rome honeymoon, and the couple named a daughter August.
Q 06At about eleven, Zuckerberg wrote what program linking the family home to his father's office?
ZuckNet
ZuckNet let the office receptionist message his father instead of yelling across the room.
Q 07Zuckerberg's high-school music player, which learned a user's listening habits, was called what?
Synapse
Synapse drew buyout interest from AOL and Microsoft, but Zuckerberg turned the offers down and went to Harvard instead.
Q 08Zuckerberg was captain of which team at his prep school?
Fencing
Fencing: he captained the team, and he took to Latin there because, he said, it was very much like coding or math.
Q 09Zuckerberg studied computer science and which other subject at Harvard?
Psychology
Psychology: he later called Facebook as much psychology and sociology as it is technology, a business at the intersection of technology and psychology.
Q 10Zuckerberg's Facemash site let students do what?
Vote on which of two people was hotter
Vote on which of two people was hotter: in hours, 450 visitors cast at least 22,000 votes on ID photos he had hacked from House websites.
Q 11What was Zuckerberg's second-year program that helped students pick classes from others' choices?
CourseMatch
CourseMatch showed students who else was taking their classes, and Zuckerberg later built that class-search idea into Thefacebook.
Q 12Which web giant tried to buy Facebook in 2006, only for Zuckerberg to break off the talks?
Yahoo
Yahoo: CEO Terry Semel recalled Zuckerberg telling him, 'It's not about the price. This is my baby.'
Q 13Which Napster co-founder served as Facebook's first president?
Sean Parker
Sean Parker later turned critic, calling himself something of a conscientious objector to using social media.
Q 21Which messaging app did Facebook buy in 2014?
WhatsApp: Facebook had turned its co-founder Brian Acton down for a job in 2009.
Q 22What did Zuckerberg wear to meet investors before Facebook's 2012 IPO?
A hoodie
A hoodie: Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter called it a mark of immaturity, saying investors deserved respect because he was asking for their money.
Q 23Zuckerberg's annual base salary was cut to what on January 1, 2013?
$1
His wealth comes from his shares, not his paycheck.
Q 24Zuckerberg conducted a 2014 Q&A at Tsinghua University in Beijing in which language?
Q 14Which prep school's student photo directory may have inspired the name Facebook?
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy had its Photo Address Book, and at Harvard he later pulled ID photos from House face books to build Facemash.
Q 15The Winklevoss twins accused Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for which social network?
HarvardConnection
HarvardConnection's founders had asked Zuckerberg to help build their site, but he soon abandoned their project to build his own.
Q 16Which city's public hospital was renamed for Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan after their $75 million gift?
San Francisco
San Francisco General Hospital took their names in 2015, a personal gift because Chan had worked there for years as a doctor.
Q 17Which co-founder sued Facebook after his stake was diluted, then settled while keeping his co-founder title?
Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo Saverin had run the business side, and Zuckerberg's lawyer had warned that diluting him could bring a claim of breach of fiduciary duty.
Q 18Which investor became Facebook's first outside backer in the summer of 2004?
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel put in $500,000 and joined the board, but sold most of his shares in 2012, soon after Facebook's IPO.
Q 19To which California city did Zuckerberg and the co-founders move in 2004?
Palo Alto
Palo Alto: they leased a small house there as an office, and in 2005 Zuckerberg announced he was leaving Harvard indefinitely.
Q 20Which celebrity did Forbes call a younger self-made billionaire than Zuckerberg in 2019, before recanting?
Kylie Jenner
Kylie Jenner was hailed at 21, beating his record of 23, but in 2020 Forbes said she had likely forged tax returns and was not a billionaire.
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin Chinese, even though Facebook itself was blocked in China by the country's Great Firewall.
Q 25Facebook acquired Instagram in April 2012 for approximately how much?
$1 billion
$1 billion in cash and stock bought Instagram, and Zuckerberg promised to keep building and growing the app independently.
Q 26Facebook renamed itself Meta in 2021, borrowing 'metaverse', a word coined in which 1992 novel?
Snow Crash
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, coined metaverse from meta- and universe, and Meta took the name to signal its bet on that virtual world.
Q 27Which Facebook co-founder, once Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate, left to work on Barack Obama's 2008 campaign?
Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes later turned critic, calling for Facebook to be broken up in a 2019 New York Times op-ed.
Q 28Zuckerberg testified before the U.S. Senate in April 2018 over which data scandal?
Cambridge Analytica
Cambridge Analytica had improperly obtained data on up to 87 million Facebook users through an academic researcher's app.
Q 29Who played Zuckerberg in the 2010 film The Social Network?
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg played him in a film that framed Facebook as a bid to impress a girl, a motive Zuckerberg and his biographer both rejected.
Q 30The Social Network was based on which book by Ben Mezrich?
The Accidental Billionaires
The Accidental Billionaires is written in what Mezrich called a thriller-esque style, though he maintains the book is not fiction.