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Hard 2000s Trivia Questions
The hard questions from our 2000s set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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14 hard 2000s trivia questions with answers
Mozilla shipped version 1.0 of which browser in 2004?
Answer: Firefox It grew out of the earlier Mozilla suite.
Which film took Best Picture at the ceremony held in 2006?
Answer: Crash The result is still cited as one of the Academy's biggest upsets.
Which country adopted the euro in 2001, a year after the first wave?
Answer: Greece It had missed the original convergence criteria.
Amy Winehouse won five Grammys in 2008 for which album?
Answer: Back to Black It was her second and final studio album.
Blizzard released which massively multiplayer game in 2004?
Answer: World of Warcraft It grew out of the earlier Warcraft strategy series.
NASA's rovers Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars in which year?
Answer: 2004 Both far outlasted their planned three-month missions.
Who became president of Russia in 2000?
Answer: Vladimir Putin He had been acting president since the last day of 1999.
The Harry Potter novels concluded in 2007 with which book?
Answer: Deathly Hallows It was the seventh and final novel in the series.
Martin Scorsese won his first Best Director Oscar for which film?
Answer: The Departed The win came at the 2007 ceremony.
Apple opened its music download store in which year?
Answer: 2003 Songs were sold individually rather than only as albums.
Which country joined the World Trade Organization in 2001?
Answer: China Membership followed fifteen years of negotiation.
Avatar: The Last Airbender first aired in which year?
Answer: 2005 It ran three seasons on Nickelodeon.
Which investment bank filed for bankruptcy in September 2008?
Answer: Lehman Brothers Its collapse was the largest bankruptcy filing in US history.
Radiohead released which 2007 album as a pay-what-you-want download?
Answer: In Rainbows The band had no record contract at the time.
Answer key
- Firefox
- Crash
- Greece
- Back to Black
- World of Warcraft
- 2004
- Vladimir Putin
- Deathly Hallows
- The Departed
- 2003
- China
- 2005
- Lehman Brothers
- In Rainbows
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