Q 01/05

At which university did Mark Zuckerberg launch Facebook in 2004, at first for fellow students only?

A) Stanford

B) Harvard

C) Princeton

D) Columbia

Answer · why

B) Harvard

Harvard students were the only people allowed to join at first, and the site went by TheFacebook until it was renamed in 2005.

Q 02/05

Which rapper interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards?

A) Lil Wayne

B) Busta Rhymes

C) Kanye West

D) Ludacris

Answer · why

C) Kanye West

Kanye West took the microphone to argue that Beyoncé deserved the prize. When Beyoncé won Video of the Year later that night, she called Swift back on...

Q 03/05

Which singer accepted a prize at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards wearing a dress made of raw beef?

A) Lady Gaga

B) Nicki Minaj

C) Gwen Stefani

D) Avril Lavigne

Answer · why

A) Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga's meat dress was later preserved by taxidermists as a kind of jerky so it could go on show at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Time named it ...

Q 04/05

Which fantasy TV epic accidentally left a disposable coffee cup in shot during a 2019 banquet scene?

A) The Witcher

B) Outlander

C) His Dark Materials

D) Game of Thrones

Answer · why

D) Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones showed the cup, from a local café, in the first broadcast of the episode The Last of the Starks. It was digitally erased two days late...

Q 05/05

Which Central Asian country does Sacha Baron Cohen's blundering reporter Borat call home?

A) Kazakhstan

B) Uzbekistan

C) Kyrgyzstan

D) Tajikistan

Answer · why

A) Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan was played by Romania: the scenes in Borat's home village were filmed in Glod, a Romanian village whose residents later sued the producers.