Justin Timberlake Trivia
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This Justin Timberlake trivia quiz has 99 free questions with answers and runs from his childhood on Star Search and The All New Mickey Mouse Club through NSYNC's record-breaking No Strings Attached, the solo albums Justified, FutureSex/LoveSounds, The 20/20 Experience and Man of the Woods, and on to Everything I Thought It Was and the Forget Tomorrow tour. Expect questions on the Britney-inspired 'Cry Me a River', 'SexyBack' and his other number ones, the 2004 and 2018 Super Bowl halftime shows, his Emmy-winning SNL work with Andy Samberg, Sean Parker in The Social Network, voicing Branch in Trolls and the Oscar nomination for 'Can't Stop the Feeling!', plus his golf course, restaurants, the Memphis Grizzlies and his marriage to Jessica Biel. Difficulty runs from casual-fan easy to superfan hard. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Which singer co-headlined the 2003 Justified and Stripped Tour with Timberlake?
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera had been his Mickey Mouse Club castmate ten years earlier; a ceiling grid collapsed over the stage in Atlantic City before one show, and the wrecked gear forced several dates to move.
Q 02At age 11, Timberlake competed on Star Search singing country songs under what name?
Justin Randall
Justin Randall paired his first and middle names; he lost his round to a singer named Anna Nardona, then won a place on The All New Mickey Mouse Club.
Q 03Which future film star was a fellow Mouseketeer of Timberlake on The All New Mickey Mouse Club?
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling, a Canadian, spent part of his time on the show living with Timberlake and his mother, after his own mother had to return home for work.
Q 04Which boy-band manager financed the group that became NSYNC in 1995?
Lou Pearlman
Lou Pearlman, who had already created the Backstreet Boys, bankrolled the group; NSYNC later fought him in court to break free, and he died in prison while serving 25 years for a Ponzi scheme.
Q 05Which NSYNC album sold a record 2.4 million US copies in its first week in 2000?
No Strings Attached
No Strings Attached kept the one-week sales record for 15 years, until Adele's 25; its title, a nod to puppets cutting their strings, marked the group's break from their old management.
Q 06Timberlake wrote the NSYNC single 'Gone' around 2001 for which artist, who turned it down?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson passed on 'Gone', so NSYNC cut it for Celebrity; Jackson later asked to record it as a duet.
Q 07Timberlake premiered his debut solo single, 'Like I Love You', at which 2002 event?
The MTV Video Music Awards
The MTV Video Music Awards gave him his first solo stage months after NSYNC paused so that he could record alone; the group did not release another new song until 2023, about two decades later.
Q 08Timberlake's debut solo album Justified was mostly produced by Timbaland and which duo?
The Neptunes
The Neptunes, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, picked Timberlake up from his hotel and drove him around playing old Earth, Wind & Fire albums to set the mood for Justified.
Q 09'Cry Me a River' was widely thought to be inspired by Timberlake's break-up with whom?
Britney Spears
Britney Spears is never named in the song, but Timberlake later said he wrote it straight after an angry phone call, walking into Timbaland's studio visibly furious.
Q 10The 2004 Super Bowl halftime 'wardrobe malfunction' happened during Timberlake's duet with whom?
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson's breast was briefly exposed at the end of 'Rock Your Body' in Houston, and Timberlake's apology gave the language the phrase 'wardrobe malfunction'.
Q 11Which network produced the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show?
MTV
MTV built the show around its Choose or Lose voting campaign; after the uproar the NFL cut ties with the network and shut it out of future halftime shows.
Q 12What was Timberlake's first solo number one on the Billboard Hot 100?
SexyBack
SexyBack spent seven weeks at number one even though Timberlake's voice is distorted throughout and he sings it in a rock style, a sharp turn from his R&B hits.
Q 13Which producer joined Timbaland and Timberlake to make most of the album FutureSex/LoveSounds?
Danja
Danja, born Nate Hills, built the tracks with Timbaland at Thomas Crown Studios while Timberlake kept most of the lyrics in his head instead of writing them down.
Q 21Which animated character did Timberlake voice in Shrek the Third (2007)?
Artie Pendragon
Artie Pendragon, Fiona's teenage cousin and the reluctant heir to Far Far Away, is fetched from his boarding school, Worcestershire Academy, by Shrek.
Q 22In which 2011 sci-fi thriller does Timberlake play a factory worker in a world where people stop aging at 25?
In Time
In Time turns lifespan into money: everyone carries a countdown clock on their arm, and Timberlake's Will Salas goes on the run with an heiress played by Amanda Seyfried.
Q 23Which album ended Timberlake's six-year break from music, which he had spent acting in films?
The 20/20 Experience
Q 14In 2005, Timberlake had surgery to remove what?
Throat nodules
Throat nodules on his vocal cords were removed in May 2005 after he noticed the problem while recording 'Signs' with Snoop Dogg.
Q 15Which 2006 SNL Digital Short with Andy Samberg won Timberlake his first Emmy?
Dick in a Box
Dick in a Box was bleeped 16 times on air, so NBC put the uncensored cut online that night and it went viral; it won the 2007 Emmy for Original Music and Lyrics.
Q 16Timberlake's four Primetime Emmys are two for Original Music and Lyrics and two for what?
Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Guest Actor in a Comedy Series went to Timberlake in 2009 and 2011 for hosting Saturday Night Live; the song he sang as his 2011 opening monologue won him a music Emmy too.
Q 17On SNL, Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon played which brothers in a recurring talk-show sketch?
Barry and Robin Gibb
Barry and Robin Gibb were played by Fallon and Timberlake in 'The Barry Gibb Talk Show', which began in 2003; the real Barry Gibb walked on to sing and dance with them in 2013.
Q 18In The Social Network (2010), Timberlake played which real person?
Sean Parker
Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook's first president, was not flattered: he called the film 'a complete work of fiction'.
Q 19Which character does Timberlake voice in the Trolls films?
Branch
Branch is gray for a reason: as a child his singing led a troll-eating Bergen to his grandmother, and the guilt drained his colour and made him swear never to sing again.
Q 20Which Swedish hitmaker co-wrote 'Can't Stop the Feeling!' with Timberlake and Karl Schuster?
Max Martin
Max Martin wrote and produced it with Timberlake and Shellback for Trolls; Timberlake opened the 2017 Oscars with it, but the song lost its category to La La Land's 'City of Stars'.
The 20/20 Experience arrived in March 2013 as his first album since 2006 and debuted at number one; after the long wait he released a second volume, 2 of 2, six months later.
Q 24Which rapper features on "Suit & Tie" and co-headlined the 2013 Legends of the Summer tour with Timberlake?
Jay-Z
Jay-Z raps a verse on 'Suit & Tie' and shared the stadium tour; Timberlake returned the favour that summer by singing the hook on Jay-Z's 'Holy Grail'.
Q 25What is the name of Timberlake's big-band-style backing ensemble, introduced on his 2013 tours?
The Tennessee Kids
The Tennessee Kids, horns and backing singers included, also share the billing of his 2016 concert film, which opens by introducing the players one by one.
Q 26Which acclaimed director made Timberlake's 2016 Netflix concert film?
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme, director of The Silence of the Lambs and Stop Making Sense, shot the final 20/20 Experience show at the MGM Grand for Netflix.
Q 27Timberlake's 2018 album Man of the Woods is named after which family member?
His son Silas
His son Silas, born in 2015, has a name taken to mean 'man of the forest'; the album came out two days before Timberlake headlined the Super Bowl halftime show.
Q 28Where was Super Bowl LII, which Timberlake headlined in February 2018, held?
Minneapolis
Minneapolis hosted it at U.S. Bank Stadium, and Timberlake duetted with a projection of the late Prince, a Minnesota native, on 'I Would Die 4 U'.
Q 29Timberlake married Jessica Biel in October 2012 in which country?
Italy
Italy's Puglia region hosted the wedding, and the couple broke the news themselves in a joint statement: 'It's great to be married, the ceremony was beautiful.'
Q 30Timberlake joined the ownership group of which NBA team in 2012?
Memphis Grizzlies
Timberlake took a minority stake in the Memphis Grizzlies, his hometown team, when Robert Pera's group bought the franchise in 2012.