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58 free Facebook trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Facebook started in February 2004 as a directory for one college and grew into the most downloaded app of the 2010s, with roughly three billion people logging in every month. This quiz covers the whole arc: the dorm-room prototype and its predecessor, the early investors and the move to California, the features everyone uses without thinking (the News Feed, the Like button, Stories), the record-setting IPO and the acquisitions that turned one website into a family of apps. It also covers the parts Facebook would rather you forgot: the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the five-billion-dollar fine, the outage that took every Meta app offline for hours, and the 2021 rebrand. There is a handful of questions on Mark Zuckerberg himself and on The Social Network, the film that dramatised the founding. The set runs from easy to genuinely hard, so it works for a pub quiz round, a tech team social, or just testing yourself. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's Facebook, Meta and Zuckerberg articles, and each question carries a source you can inspect.
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Q 01Who founded Facebook in 2004, together with his college roommates?
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg launched the site from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004, with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes as co-founders.
Q 02Which company has owned Facebook since the parent firm renamed itself in 2021?
Meta Platforms
The new name signalled a shift toward building the so-called metaverse with virtual and augmented reality.
Q 03Which photo-sharing app did Facebook buy in April 2012, paying in cash and stock?
Facebook announced the $1 billion Instagram deal on April 9, 2012, about six weeks before its own stock market debut; it closed that September after regulatory clearance.
Q 04Which messaging app did Facebook agree to buy for about $19 billion in February 2014?
WhatsApp cost about $19 billion in cash and stock (around $22 billion by closing), then the most ever paid for a venture-backed startup.
Q 05Which virtual-reality startup did Facebook buy in March 2014?
Oculus VR
Oculus VR, maker of the Rift headset, was bought for about $2 billion; its technology became the basis of the Quest line and the company's metaverse push.
Q 06Why is blue Facebook's primary colour?
Zuckerberg is red-green colourblind
Zuckerberg is red-green colourblind and told The New Yorker in 2010 that 'blue is the richest colour for me, I can see all of blue', so the site's palette was built around it.
Q 07In which year was the thumbs-up 'like' button first enabled?
2009
The Like button went live on February 9, 2009; it was extended to comments in June 2010 and became the basis for Reactions in February 2016.
Q 08Which reaction was added in April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Care
The Care reaction, a face hugging a heart, launched in April 2020 as a way to show support during the pandemic; it joined Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry, introduced in February 2016.
Q 09Which 2010 film dramatised the founding of Facebook?
The Social Network
The Social Network, directed by David Fincher, won three Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Film Editing.
Q 10Who played Zuckerberg in the 2010 film about Facebook's founding?
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg was Oscar-nominated for the role; he and Zuckerberg finally met on Saturday Night Live in January 2011, when Zuckerberg made a surprise cameo during Eisenberg's hosting stint.
Q 11Since 2006, what is the minimum age to register for a Facebook account in most countries?
13
The minimum age is 13, matching the US COPPA law; in a few places such as South Korea, Spain and Quebec the threshold is 14.
Q 12Facebook Stories disappear after how many hours?
24
Like the Snapchat format it copied, Facebook Stories vanish after 24 hours; the feature was tested in a single country in January 2017 before a global rollout that March.
Q 13In which California city is Facebook's headquarters?
Menlo Park
Facebook moved to Menlo Park in 2011, taking over a former tech campus at 1 Hacker Way that it has since expanded with Frank Gehry-designed buildings.
Q 21Who became Facebook's chief operating officer in March 2008?
Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg left Google to become COO in March 2008; her brainstorming sessions with staff settled how the site would make money: advertising.
Q 22How much did the company pay for the facebook.com domain in 2005?
$200,000
The company paid $200,000 to AboutFace Corporation for facebook.com in 2005, which let it drop 'The' from its name.
Q 23What was the name of the algorithm that governed the sorting of stories in the News Feed?
EdgeRank
EdgeRank weighed affinity, edge weight and time decay to rank News Feed stories; it was presented at the f8 conference in 2010 and later replaced by machine-learning models.
Q 14What was the name of the 2003 site Zuckerberg built to rate students' attractiveness?
Facemash
Facemash, launched in October 2003, paired photos lifted from house directories and asked which student was hotter; Harvard shut it down within days and disciplined Zuckerberg.
Q 15Which venture capitalist made Facebook's first outside investment in 2004?
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel's $500,000 angel investment in August 2004 bought 10.2 percent of the company and a board seat.
Q 16Which Napster co-founder became Facebook's president in 2004?
Sean Parker
Sean Parker, who had co-founded Napster with Shawn Fanning, became president in 2004 after informally advising Zuckerberg, and steered the company to Silicon Valley and its first investors.
Q 17To which city did Facebook move its base of operations in June 2004?
Palo Alto
Zuckerberg and colleagues moved to a rented house in Palo Alto in June 2004, putting the company next to the Silicon Valley investors who would soon fund it.
Q 18Facebook's shares were priced at what level for its May 2012 IPO?
$38
The offer price was $38, valuing Facebook at $104 billion, the largest valuation ever for a newly public US company at that point; the stock closed its first day at $38.23.
Q 19Technical problems on which exchange delayed the start of trading in Facebook stock on its first day?
Nasdaq
Nasdaq's systems failed to confirm orders for hours on May 18, 2012; the botched opening brought the exchange a $10 million SEC penalty and a class action from investors.
Q 20What valuation did Microsoft's 2007 purchase of a $240 million stake imply for Facebook?
$15 billion
The $240 million bought 1.6% and implied a $15 billion valuation; the deal also gave Microsoft rights to sell international advertising on the site.
Q 24What did Facebook call the open-source programming language it announced in March 2014?
Hack
Hack, a PHP-derived language running on Facebook's HHVM virtual machine, grew out of the struggle to scale PHP; much of the site already ran on it before the March 2014 release.
Q 25At which event on October 28, 2021 was the company's rename to Meta announced?
Facebook Connect
The rename was announced at the Facebook Connect conference on October 28, 2021; the company later paid Meta Financial Group about $60 million for rights to the Meta name.
Q 26In which year did Facebook's monthly active users pass the 2bn mark?
2017
Facebook announced 2 billion monthly active users on June 27, 2017, when Zuckerberg posted that the community was 'now officially 2 billion people'.
Q 27How large was the fine the FTC imposed on Facebook in July 2019 over the Cambridge Analytica affair?
$5 billion
The FTC's $5 billion penalty was then the largest ever imposed for violating consumer privacy, and came with a 20-year settlement order requiring new privacy oversight.
Q 28Roughly how many Facebook users had their information sold to Cambridge Analytica?
87 million
Facebook said up to 87 million users were affected; only about 270,000 people had used Aleksandr Kogan's quiz app, and the rest were their friends, harvested through Facebook's API.
Q 29Which company held serious talks to buy Facebook in September 2006, with prices reaching $1bn?
Yahoo!
Zuckerberg turned it down; the company's own internal valuation was said to be around $8 billion.
Q 30In which year was Zuckerberg named Time magazine's Person of the Year?
2010
Time named Zuckerberg Person of the Year in 2010, the year Facebook passed 500 million users and The Social Network hit cinemas.