Snapchat Trivia
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
7correct to beat the crowd
48 free Snapchat trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Sep 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.
30 of 48 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01What was Snapchat originally called when it launched on iOS in July 2011?
Picaboo
Picaboo was the name on the App Store in July 2011; the app was relaunched as Snapchat that September from the living room of Evan Spiegel's father.
Q 02At which university did Snapchat's three founders meet?
Stanford
Stanford is where Evan Spiegel pitched a disappearing-photo app as his product design class project in April 2011; his classmates told him it was a terrible idea.
Q 03Which Snapchat co-founder was pushed out within months of launch and later settled for $157.5 million?
Reggie Brown
Reggie Brown sued in 2013, saying the disappearing-photo idea had been his; the size of his 2014 settlement stayed secret until Snap's stock-market filing revealed it in 2017.
Q 04Snapchat's ghost mascot 'Ghostface Chillah' is named after a member of which hip-hop group?
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ghostface Killah is the pun behind Ghostface Chillah; the ghost was the one piece of branding the founders kept while they worked on making the app easy to use.
Q 05Which company was reported to have offered $3bn for Snapchat in November 2013?
Facebook offered $3 billion in cash for a two-year-old app with no revenue, and Evan Spiegel, then 23, turned it down.
Q 06Which app was the first big rival to copy Snapchat's Stories, launching its own version in August 2016?
Instagram did not pretend otherwise: asked about the near-identical feature on launch day, chief executive Kevin Systrom said Snapchat deserved all the credit for the format.
Q 07Which Australian model married Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel in 2017?
Miranda Kerr
Miranda Kerr married Spiegel in a private ceremony at their Los Angeles home in May 2017, ten months after the couple announced their engagement.
Q 08Where is Snap Inc. headquartered?
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California is the address on Snap's stock filings, though the firm grew up next door in Venice, the beach district its spreading offices reshaped before the 2017 listing.
Q 09What does an hourglass beside a Snapchat friend's name warn of?
Streak ending
Streak ending: the fire emoji and its day count only survive if both friends send a photo or video snap, so the hourglass is the nudge to snap back quickly.
Q 10What could Snap's first Spectacles, the sunglasses it launched in 2016, do?
Film short video clips
Film short video clips was all the $130 sunglasses did, sending each one to the wearer's phone; Snapchat Inc. renamed itself Snap Inc. the same day to show it now made more than an app.
Q 11How were the first Spectacles sold?
Through pop-up vending machines
Through pop-up vending machines called Snapbots: each bright yellow kiosk stayed put for about a day, and the first one stood near Venice Beach in Los Angeles.
Q 12Snapchat's 2013 Stories feature first let friends do what with your snaps?
Rewatch them
Rewatch them: a Story could be viewed an unlimited number of times until it expired, where an ordinary snap self-destructed after viewing; by mid-2014 Stories were outdrawing snaps.
Q 13How long does a Snapchat Story stay visible by default?
24 hours
24 hours has been the rule since the feature arrived in October 2013; about eight months later Stories were being watched more often than private snaps.
Q 21When Snapchat added video in December 2012, what was the longest clip a user could send?
10 seconds
10 seconds was the cap: you held down the photo button to record, and like a photo snap the clip vanished after a single viewing.
Q 22Which payments company powered Snapcash, launched in November 2014?
Square
Square held every user's debit card details, so nobody had to trust Snapchat with them after its privacy troubles; you typed a dollar sign and an amount into a chat and the send button turned green.
Q 23What does a Snapchat user's Snapscore mainly count?
Snaps sent and received
Snaps sent and received are the core of it, though Snapchat calls the full formula a super-secret equation that also counts Stories posted; a score can never be lowered or reset.
Q 14What is Snapchat's passcode-protected area for saved snaps called?
My Eyes Only
My Eyes Only sits inside Memories, the archive added in July 2016; it opens with a PIN, and Snapchat warned at launch that it would not recover the contents for anyone who forgot theirs.
Q 15Which acquired startup's facial-recognition software became Snapchat's Lenses?
Looksery
Looksery had funded its own face-filter video app on Kickstarter a year earlier; Snapchat bought the firm in September 2015 and launched Lenses the same month.
Q 16Which Toronto startup did Snapchat buy in 2016 for its personalised cartoon avatars?
Bitstrips
Bitstrips was founded in 2007 by a former cartoonist as a website for building comic strips starring your own avatar; its spin-off emoji app was what Snapchat wanted inside its chats.
Q 17Which acquired app's concepts became Snap Map in June 2017?
Zenly
Zenly was a Paris-based app that showed friends' live positions on a map; Snap bought it a few weeks before Snap Map launched and kept it running as a separate app.
Q 18What is the setting called that hides you from friends on Snap Map?
Ghost Mode
Ghost Mode mattered from Snap Map's first week in June 2017: without it the map showed friends a user's exact position every time the app was opened, which prompted child-safety warnings.
Q 19Which short-lived app did Mark Zuckerberg's company launch in December 2012 as a near-exact copy of Snapchat?
Poke
Poke hit number one on the App Store a day after launch, but the publicity lifted Snapchat past it within three days; Evan Spiegel likened it to a Christmas present, and the copy was pulled in 2014.
Q 20What was Snapchat's Snapkidz, introduced in 2013?
A no-sending version for under-13s
A no-sending version for under-13s: anyone who gave a young birth date at sign-up could take snaps and draw on them, but only save them to the phone.
Q 24Whose February 2018 tweet criticising Snapchat's redesign was blamed for wiping over $1.3bn off Snap's value?
Kylie Jenner
Kylie Jenner asked her followers whether anyone else had stopped opening Snapchat, and Snap shares fell about 7%; minutes later she tweeted that she still loved the app, her first love.
Q 25What did the FTC accuse Snapchat of exaggerating in a 2014 complaint?
How completely snaps self-delete
How completely snaps self-delete: the FTC said recipients could keep them indefinitely with simple third-party apps. Snapchat paid no fine but accepted 20 years of independent privacy monitoring.
Q 26What was unusual about the shares Snap sold at its 2017 stock market debut?
No voting rights
No voting rights came with them: Snap told regulators it knew of no other company that had floated non-voting stock on a US exchange, which left its two co-founders with nearly 90% of the votes.
Q 27What did Snap's very first earnings report, in May 2017, reveal?
A $2.2 billion quarterly loss
A $2.2 billion quarterly loss, about $2 billion of it stock-based pay, sent the shares down more than 20% the next day; in after-hours trading they sank to within cents of their $17 float price.
Q 28Which Chinese company bought a 12% stake in Snap in November 2017?
Tencent
Tencent, the owner of WeChat, bought its shares quietly on the open market and told Snap only afterwards; the stake came to light the same day weak results sent Snap's stock tumbling.
Q 29In which city did Snap open an international headquarters in January 2017?
London
London is where Snap books sales for countries without a local team, rather than routing them through lower-tax Ireland or Luxembourg as some other US tech firms do.
Q 30At its November 2020 launch, Snapchat Spotlight promised creators how much per day in total?
$1 million
$1 million a day was shared among the makers of the most-watched clips, Snap's bid to win viral video away from TikTok; by 2021 the promise had softened to millions per month.