Q 01/05

Rapper Pitbull nicknamed himself Mr. 305 after the main area code of which city, where he was born and raised?

A) Tampa

B) Miami

C) Orlando

D) Dallas

Answer · why

B) Miami

Miami's 305 is so bound up with Pitbull that the vodka company he took over in 2016 was rebranded Voli 305 in a nod to the nickname.

Q 02/05

Area code 404, which shares its number with the web's page-not-found error, serves which Southern state capital?

A) Raleigh

B) Columbia

C) Jackson

D) Atlanta

Answer · why

D) Atlanta

Atlanta's 404 began in 1947 as the code for the whole of Georgia and is now an enclave, completely ringed by the suburban 770.

Q 03/05

Which phone prefix, often paired with the exchange name KLondike, do American films and TV use for made-up numbers?

A) 222

B) 555

C) 777

D) 999

Answer · why

B) 555

555 numbers are not all fake: only 555-0100 through 555-0199 is officially set aside for fiction, and the rest can be real or special-purpose lines.

Q 04/05

Which state's area code 808, assigned two years before statehood, shares its number with a classic Roland drum machine?

A) Hawaii

B) Alaska

C) Nevada

D) Utah

Answer · why

A) Hawaii

Hawaii was given 808 in 1957, when it was still a territory. The Roland TR-808 drum machine followed in 1980 and was built for only three years.

Q 05/05

Area code 321, requested by a space enthusiast to echo a launch countdown, serves the Space Coast of which state?

A) Texas

B) California

C) Florida

D) Georgia

Answer · why

C) Florida

Florida got 321 after Robert Osband, a volunteer at the American Space Museum, petitioned for a code that matched the countdowns heard at Cape Canaver...