Netflix (Company)
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48 free Netflix (Company) trivia questions with answers — science & nature quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Netflix began in 1997 as a DVD-by-mail start-up in Scotts Valley, California, offered itself to Blockbuster for $50 million and was laughed out of the room, then turned into the streaming company that invented binge-release television. Along the way it paid out a million-dollar algorithm prize, nearly split itself into something called Qwikster, bought a comic-book publisher and an Albuquerque studio, and started broadcasting boxing and WWE Raw. These 48 questions cover the founders Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, the Apollo 13 late-fee legend, the 2002 IPO, the Netflix Prize, the move from discs to streaming, House of Cards and Lilyhammer, the international expansion, the keeper test, Fast.com, the Obamas' deal, the ad tier and the failed Warner Bros. Discovery bid. Easy questions stick to the business basics; the expert tier asks about share prices, breakup fees and the people in the original carpool. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01Which 2018 Netflix thriller set off a viral challenge in which people did everyday tasks blindfolded?
Bird Box
Bird Box inspired so many risky blindfold stunts that Netflix tweeted a plea for people not to hurt themselves.
Q 02Before launching Netflix, what did its founders post to Hastings's home to test whether discs survived the mail?
A music CD
A music CD reached Hastings's home intact, and in April 1998 the pair launched Netflix as a DVD rental website.
Q 03What is Netflix's stock ticker symbol?
NFLX
NFLX plunged more than 35% in one day in April 2022, after Netflix reported its first subscriber loss in more than a decade.
Q 04Which South Korean survival drama became Netflix's biggest series launch in 2021, reaching 111 million accounts in 17 days?
Squid Game
Squid Game began as a film script Hwang Dong-hyuk wrote in 2009, a decade before Netflix turned it into a series.
Q 05Which Netflix series sent Kate Bush's 1985 song 'Running Up That Hill' back up the charts in 2022?
Stranger Things
Stranger Things used the song in its fourth season, and it shot to the top of the UK and US iTunes charts, 37 years after first peaking at No 3 in Britain.
Q 06Which series was marketed in 2013 as the first "Netflix Original"?
House of Cards
Netflix had ordered the Kevin Spacey drama straight to series from MRC in March 2011.
Q 07Which country was Netflix's first international market, in 2010?
Canada
Canada came first, and in 2017 Netflix pledged CA$500 million over five years to make content in Canada.
Q 08What did Netflix warn in April 2022 it would crack down on, estimating 100 million households were doing it?
Password sharing
Password sharing was flagged as Netflix reported losing subscribers for the first time in more than a decade, with 30 million sharing households in North America alone.
Q 09What was Netflix's streaming feature called when it launched alongside DVD rentals in 2007?
Watch Now
Watch Now at first capped viewing at an hour for each dollar of a subscriber's DVD plan, but Netflix lifted the limits a year later.
Q 10In which California town is Netflix headquartered?
Los Gatos, California
Los Gatos, California was already home in 2007, when Netflix was shipping DVDs from 42 distribution centres across the US.
Q 11In 2000, which video-rental giant turned down the chance to buy Netflix for $50 million?
Blockbuster
Blockbuster laughed Netflix's founders out of the room, and a decade later, in 2010, it filed for bankruptcy.
Q 12Hastings's oft-told founding story involves a $40 late fee on which film?
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is the film in Hastings's story, but co-founder Marc Randolph has since disputed the tale.
Q 13What was Netflix's ad-supported tier called at its 2022 launch?
Basic with Ads
Basic with Ads launched in 12 countries at $6.99 a month in the US, months after Netflix's first subscriber loss in more than a decade.
Q 21What name did Netflix briefly give its planned DVD-rental spin-off in 2011?
Qwikster
Qwikster was widely ridiculed, and within weeks Netflix dropped the plan and kept DVD rentals under its own name.
Q 22Which AMC show is considered the first to benefit from the "Netflix effect"?
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad's final eight episodes premiered to 5.9 million viewers, more than double the fourth season premiere's 2.6 million, after fans binged it on Netflix.
Q 23What is the name of the Obamas' production company that signed with Netflix in 2018?
Higher Ground Productions
Higher Ground Productions was set up to lift up diverse voices, making a mix of docu-series, documentaries and features for Netflix.
Q 14What is the title of Netflix's Formula One docuseries?
Drive to Survive
Drive to Survive's drivers teamed up with golfers from Full Swing for The Netflix Cup in November 2023, the streamer's first live sports event.
Q 15Which Netflix executive became co-CEO in January 2023?
Greg Peters
Greg Peters, a physics and astronomy graduate who had been chief operating officer, had spearheaded Netflix's expansion into games.
Q 16Which Norwegian drama starring Steven Van Zandt was promoted in 2012 as Netflix's first exclusive series?
Lilyhammer
Lilyhammer's Norwegian premiere was held back for weeks because the show contained product placement not allowed on Norwegian TV at the time.
Q 17Which 2018 Black Mirror film let Netflix viewers choose what its main character did next?
Bandersnatch
Bandersnatch won two Emmys, but Netflix removed it from the service in May 2025.
Q 18Which actress played chess prodigy Beth Harmon in Netflix's 2020 miniseries The Queen's Gambit?
Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya Taylor-Joy's Beth Harmon set off a chess boom, with Goliath Games saying its chess set sales rose more than 1,000%.
Q 19How much was the Netflix Prize for beating its recommendation algorithm?
$1,000,000
$1,000,000 went to the 2009 winners, but Netflix dropped a planned sequel contest in 2010 after a lawsuit and privacy concerns.
Q 20Netflix's abandoned "Netflix Player" hardware project was spun off as which company?
Roku
Roku grew out of Netflix's shelved box, which Hastings dropped so other device makers would keep building in Netflix support.
Q 24What is the name of the management rule behind Netflix's demanding culture?
The keeper test
The keeper test asks managers whether they would fight to keep someone, and Hastings reportedly applied it even to his longtime product chief.
Q 25What is the title of Hastings's 2020 book on Netflix culture?
No Rules Rules
It was co-written with Erin Meyer.
Q 26What internet-speed tool did Netflix launch in 2016?
Fast.com
Fast.com times downloads from Netflix's own servers, so viewers can check whether their internet provider is slowing streams, and it carries no ads.
Q 27After a 2008 database corruption halted DVD shipping, Netflix moved its data where?
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services won for its scale, and the move took seven years, with Netflix shutting its last streaming data centre systems in January 2016.
Q 28Netflix began its European expansion in January 2012 in which two countries?
United Kingdom and Ireland
The Nordics followed in October 2012 and the Netherlands in 2013.
Q 29Which YouTuber-turned-boxer beat Mike Tyson in Netflix's live stream of November 2024?
Jake Paul
Jake Paul beat the 58-year-old Tyson on a unanimous decision, while around 90,000 viewers reported streaming outages in the hour before the fight.
Q 30Which weekly wrestling show did Netflix agree in 2024 to stream in the US, in a 10-year, $5 billion-plus deal?
WWE Raw
WWE Raw left cable channel USA Network to stream live on Netflix every week from January 2025.