50 free Snapchat trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Snapchat trivia quiz covers the app from its 2011 launch as Picaboo to the present: the three Stanford students who built it and the $157.5 million settlement that followed, the ghost mascot named after a Wu-Tang Clan rapper, the first blog post, and the offers from Facebook and Google that Evan Spiegel turned down. It also covers the features people actually use (Stories, Discover, Lenses, Snap Map, Memories, My Eyes Only, Snapchat+), the acquisitions behind them (Looksery, Bitstrips, Zenly), the Spectacles vending machines, the 2017 IPO, the Kylie Jenner tweet that wiped more than a billion dollars off the company's value, and the FTC settlement over disappearing messages that did not fully disappear. Questions range from easy (what a snap is) to expert (which Shakespeare character the 5.0 update was code-named after). Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01What was Snapchat originally called when it launched on iOS in July 2011?
Picaboo
It was relaunched under its current name that September.
Q 02At which university did the founders meet?
Stanford
Evan Spiegel first proposed an ephemeral-messaging app as a product design class project there in April 2011.
Q 03Which co-founder was pushed out months after launch and later settled for $157.5m?
Reggie Brown
According to depositions he brought the disappearing-pictures idea to Spiegel in the first place.
Q 04Snapchat's ghost mascot 'Ghostface Chillah' is named after a member of which hip-hop group?
Wu-Tang Clan
The mascot was designed by Reggie Brown and kept even as the team ignored branding.
Q 05Which company was reported to have offered $3bn for Snapchat in November 2013?
Spiegel declined the cash offer; a $4 billion Google offer was reported the following day.
Q 06Which co-founder has been Snap Inc.'s CEO since its 2011 founding?
Evan Spiegel
He was the world's youngest billionaire in 2015.
Q 07Which Australian model did the CEO marry in 2017?
Miranda Kerr
They became engaged in July 2016 and married privately in Los Angeles.
Q 08Where is Snap Inc. headquartered?
Santa Monica, California
Its 2015 move to offices near Venice Beach helped earn the area the nickname 'Silicon Beach'.
Q 09What did the company rename itself in September 2016?
Snap Inc.
The change coincided with the launch of its first hardware product.
Q 10What was Snap's first hardware product?
Spectacles smartglasses
The first version recorded ten seconds of video at a time.
Q 11How were the first Spectacles sold?
Through pop-up vending machines
The bright yellow 'Snapbots' first appeared in Venice, Los Angeles, and then moved around the country.
Q 12In which month and year did the 'My Story' feature launch?
October 2013
By mid-2014 Stories had overtaken private snaps as the most-used part of the app.
Q 13For how long is a Story visible?
24 hours
Discover, launched in January 2015, added ad-supported channels from publishers alongside Stories.
What is the password-protected area for saved snaps called?
Q 21What was the maximum length of a video snap when the feature launched in December 2012?
10 seconds
Spiegel said the limit let video be compressed to the size of a photo.
Q 22Which payments company powered Snapcash, launched in November 2014?
Square
It let users send money to each other through private messages.
Q 23What does a user's Snapscore count?
Snaps sent and received
Tapping your own score splits it into sent versus received.
Q 24Whose February 2018 tweet criticising a redesign was blamed for wiping over $1.3bn off Snap's value?
My Eyes Only
It sits inside Memories, the private storage feature introduced in July 2016.
Q 15Which acquired startup's facial-recognition software became Snapchat's Lenses?
Looksery
Snap bought it in September 2015; the Lens feature launched the same month.
Q 16Which company did Snap buy for about $100m to get Bitmoji?
Bitstrips
Bitstrips had launched in 2007 as a website for making comic strips with personal avatars.
Q 17Which acquired app's concepts became Snap Map in June 2017?
Zenly
Users can hide themselves on the map by switching on Ghost Mode.
Q 18What is the setting called that hides you from friends on Snap Map?
Ghost Mode
The map data comes from OpenStreetMap and Mapbox.
Q 19What was the code name of Snapchat version 5.0, released in June 2013?
Banquo
The name refers to a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth; the update added swipe navigation and double-tap to reply.
Q 20What was Snapkidz?
A no-sending version for under-13s
Children could take and draw on snaps but only save them locally.
Kylie Jenner
More than 1.2 million people also signed a petition asking for the update to be reversed.
Q 25What did the FTC accuse Snapchat of exaggerating in a 2014 complaint?
How completely snaps self-delete
There was no fine, but the company agreed to 20 years of independent privacy monitoring.
Q 26On which exchange did the company go public in March 2017, and under what ticker?
NYSE: SNAP
It ended its first day of trading with a market value of almost $30 billion.
Q 27What did Snap's very first earnings report, in May 2017, reveal?
A $2.2 billion quarterly loss
The stock fell more than 20%, erasing most of its post-IPO gains.
Q 28Which Chinese company bought a 12% non-voting stake in Snap in November 2017?
Tencent
Alibaba had earlier led a $485 million funding round.
Q 29In which city did Snap open an international headquarters in January 2017?
London
The office is in Soho.
Q 30At its November 2020 launch, Snapchat Spotlight promised creators how much per day in total?
$1 million
By 2021 the model had shifted to 'millions per month'.