Q 01/05

Which Beijing-founded company launched TikTok in 2017?

A) Tencent

B) Alibaba

C) NetEase

D) ByteDance

Answer · why

D) ByteDance

The same company had already built China's biggest news-recommendation platform before it ever made a short-video app.

Q 02/05

TikTok launched in international markets in which month and year?

A) September 2013

B) September 2015

C) September 2017

D) September 2019

Answer · why

C) September 2017

For its first year abroad it competed with a rival lip-sync app that it would end up swallowing whole.

Q 03/05

The name of TikTok's separate Chinese app translates literally into English as what?

A) Shaking Sound

B) Bright Moment

C) Fast Hand

D) Little Red Book

Answer · why

A) Shaking Sound

The Chinese app runs on its own servers with its own content library, so the two feeds never mix.

Q 04/05

Which lip-syncing app was merged into TikTok in 2018, with its accounts folded into the same app?

A) Dubsmash

B) Triller

C) Musical.ly

D) Funimate

Answer · why

C) Musical.ly

Its American teenage user base carried over intact, which is why TikTok's early audience skewed so young.

Q 05/05

Before building the lip-sync app that became TikTok, its two founders had made what kind of app?

A) A ride-hailing app

B) An education video app

C) A photo-filter app

D) A food delivery app

Answer · why

B) An education video app

The teaching idea flopped, but its short-video format survived into the app that replaced it.