Reddit Trivia
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110 free Reddit trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Reddit trivia quiz covers the self-styled front page of the internet from a University of Virginia dorm room to the New York Stock Exchange. It opens with the origin story: two roommates at a Paul Graham lecture, a rejected food-ordering app, Y Combinator's first class, a site coded in Common Lisp and padded with fake users, the merger with Aaron Swartz's Infogami and the 2006 sale to Condé Nast for a reported $10-20 million. The middle of the quiz is about how the site works and the culture around it: subreddits and moderators, upvotes and karma, cake day, r/popular versus r/all, Reddit Gold and Premium, the alien mascot Snoo and the rules on drawing him, the world-record Secret Santa, the April Fools experiments r/place and the Button, and the AMAs by Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Cookie Monster. The last stretch covers the crises and milestones: the SOPA blackout, the Boston Marathon misidentification, AMAgeddon and Ellen Pao's exit, the GameStop short squeeze on r/wallstreetbets, the 2023 API pricing revolt, the Google and OpenAI data deals and the March 2024 IPO under the ticker RDDT. Questions range from easy to expert. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia article on Reddit.
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Q 01What is a Reddit user called who reads the site regularly but never posts or comments?
A lurker
A lurker reads along without taking part; Reddit's 2017 overhaul of its logged-out front page was aimed squarely at them and at first-time visitors.
Q 02Before Reddit, its founders pitched which idea, only for their startup incubator to turn it down?
Ordering food by text message
Ordering food by text message was the plan for My Mobile Menu; the investor who rejected it invited the pair back to brainstorm, and Reddit was the idea they left with.
Q 03In which programming language did Steve Huffman originally code Reddit?
Common Lisp
Common Lisp was Huffman's pick in 2005, but that December the team rewrote the whole site in Python, finding the new code shorter and far easier to maintain.
Q 04How did Reddit's founders make the site look busier in its early days?
Hundreds of fake accounts
Hundreds of fake accounts did the job: the two founders submitted links under a new username each time because, as Steve Huffman put it, a blank site 'looks like a ghost town'.
Q 05Which startup founded by Aaron Swartz merged with Reddit in the site's first year, making him a co-owner?
Infogami
Infogami and Reddit came from the same startup class; the merger gave Swartz a share equal to each founder's, but he was pushed out in January 2007, months after the site was sold.
Q 06Which magazine publisher bought Reddit on October 31, 2006?
Condé Nast
Condé Nast, publisher of Wired and The New Yorker, bought Reddit on October 31, 2006, sixteen months after the site's June 2005 launch; the team then moved to San Francisco.
Q 07What is the name of the alien mascot in Reddit's logo?
Snoo
Snoo began as a doodle Alexis Ohanian drew while bored in a marketing class; the name plays on 'What's new?', a fit for a site built to share news links.
Q 08What colour are the eyes of Reddit's alien mascot in the site's official logo?
Orange-red
Orange-red is Reddit's signature shade, used for the mascot's eyes and the logo's speech bubble; the alien's plain white body has let hundreds of communities restyle it as their own.
Q 09The name 'Reddit' is a play on which phrase?
Read it
Read it, in the past tense: the pun lets a user say 'I read it on Reddit', which is why the name is spelled with 'Red' and not 'Read'.
Q 10On Reddit, what do the letters of the tag 'NSFW' stand for?
Not safe for work
Not safe for work: the tag warns that a post may be explicit or offensive, and communities marked this way are kept off the front page shown to logged-out visitors.
Q 11What is the status score that Reddit users earn from their posts and comments called?
Karma
Karma rises and falls with the votes on what you post; it is mostly street cred, but a minimum can be required before an account may post in some communities or start its own, which deters spammers.
Q 12What do redditors call the anniversary of the day their account was created?
Cake day
A redditor's cake day is the anniversary of the account's creation; a small slice-of-cake icon appears beside the username for that day.
Q 13Which subreddit became Reddit's default front page for logged-out visitors in 2017, replacing a hand-picked list?
r/popular
r/popular pulls top posts from almost every community instead of a curated set of defaults, though it leaves out adult content and communities that opted out of r/all.
Q 21What could the small chat rooms in Robin, Reddit's 2016 April Fools' experiment, vote to do?
Merge with another group
Merge with another group: each winning 'Grow' vote doubled a chat's size, while a 'Stay' vote ended the chat and gave its members a community of their own.
Q 22RedditGifts began in 2009 with what event, which grew into a Guinness World Record holder?
A Secret Santa
A Secret Santa among redditors in 2009 grew into the largest online gift exchange Guinness had recorded, and Bill Gates signed up as a Santa more than once.
Q 23Which two pieces of proposed US legislation prompted Reddit's 12-hour blackout on January 18, 2012?
SOPA and PIPA
Q 14What happens to a Reddit post archived after six months?
Voting and comments close
Voting and comments close once a post is archived; since 2021 a community's moderators have been able to switch archiving off and keep older threads open.
Q 15What is Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman's well-known Reddit username?
u/spez
u/spez is Huffman's handle; in 2023, users angry at Reddit's new API fees covered the shared r/place canvas with messages insulting spez by name.
Q 16What was the ad-free premium membership called before it was renamed Reddit Premium in 2018?
Gold
Gold launched in July 2010 to help pay for Reddit's servers without running more ads; after the 2018 rename, the word lived on as one of the awards users could give each other.
Q 17Which digital currency did Reddit begin accepting for its premium membership in February 2013?
Bitcoin
Bitcoin payments arrived in February 2013 through the processor Coinbase; a decade later, in late 2023, Reddit shut down its own blockchain reward tokens, Community Points.
Q 18In 2018, r/thanosdidnothingwrong marked the film Avengers: Infinity War by doing what to half its members?
Banning them
Banning them at random mimicked the film's villain, who wipes out half of all life; members had begged for the purge, and the moderators carried it out that July.
Q 19What was the catch in The Button, Reddit's 2015 April Fools' experiment?
One press each
One press each was the rule, and the colour of the badge it earned depended on how far the timer had run down, so users agonised over when to spend their single click.
Q 20Which sitting US president took questions from users in a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' session?
Barack Obama
Barack Obama logged on in August 2012 during a re-election campaign stop; Donald Trump's Reddit Q&A four years later came while he was still a candidate.
SOPA and PIPA, the Stop Online Piracy and PROTECT IP acts, were pulled from further votes two days after thousands of sites went dark or posted protest banners.
Q 24Which comedian's October 2010 rally in Washington grew partly out of a Reddit campaign?
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert's march grew from a Reddit push for a 'Restoring Truthiness' rally; to get his attention, supporters gave more than $100,000 in a day to DonorsChoose, a school charity on whose board he sat.
Q 25Alexis Ohanian was the founding controlling owner of which women's soccer club that began play in 2022?
Angel City FC
Angel City FC changed hands in 2024, when Disney chief Bob Iger and his wife, Willow Bay, bought control at a $250 million valuation and Bay took over Ohanian's seat as controlling owner.
Q 26What nickname was given to the July 2015 moderator blackout over the firing of the staffer who ran Reddit's celebrity Q&As?
AMAgeddon
AMAgeddon, a blend of AMA and Armageddon, saw moderators set scores of the site's biggest communities to private after Victoria Taylor's dismissal; interim CEO Ellen Pao resigned eight days later.
Q 27Reddit was based in which US city before its 2006 sale moved the whole team to San Francisco?
Boston
Boston was home because the founders had moved there for the startup programme that first funded them; after the sale, all four employees relocated to the West Coast.
Q 28Why did CEO Yishan Wong say he resigned in 2014?
A dispute over moving the offices to Daly City
A dispute over moving the offices to Daly City, just south of San Francisco, ended his tenure: the board said it never asked him to go, and Wong admitted he was relieved to leave a draining job.
Q 29Before the 2018 redesign, Steve Huffman said newcomers to Reddit were greeted by a 'dystopian' version of which site?
Craigslist
Craigslist was his shorthand for a bare scrolling list of links; the redesign answered it with a card view that opens photos and videos in the feed, much as Facebook does.
Q 30Which third-party app did Reddit buy in October 2014 to become its official iOS app?
Alien Blue
Alien Blue's sole developer, Jase Morrissey, joined Reddit in the deal, and the app kept its own name as the official iOS client until a rebuilt Reddit app replaced it.