The Social Network
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50 free The Social Network trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Social Network turned the founding of Facebook into a campus thriller about friendship, ambition and betrayal. It moves from a college dorm room to Silicon Valley and into the lawyers' offices where former friends face each other across a table, and it has stayed one of the most quoted and argued-over movies of its era. This quiz covers the whole thing: the story and its characters, the actors who played them, the people behind the camera, the music, the shooting locations, the awards race and what the real founders made of seeing themselves on screen. There are also a few questions on the legacy, including the follow-up movie. It is written for anyone who has seen the movie at least once. Fans who know every scene will find some deep cuts, and casual viewers will find plenty they can work out. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave knowing more than when you started.
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Q 01Which actor earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for playing Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network?
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg wanted to meet the real Zuckerberg during the shoot and even planned to drive to Facebook's offices. Producers blocked the visit for legal reasons.
Q 02Which chart-topping pop singer took the role of fast-talking entrepreneur Sean Parker in The Social Network?
Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake plays Parker as a charming schemer. The real Sean Parker dismissed the portrayal as a complete work of fiction and said he had stayed friends with Eduardo Saverin.
Q 03In The Social Network, Sean Parker is introduced as a co-founder of which music file-sharing service?
Napster
Napster gives Parker instant credibility with Mark, who is dazzled by his billion-dollar vision for the company. Eduardo instead dismisses the newcomer as paranoid and delusional.
Q 04Which actor plays Eduardo Saverin, the best friend who ends up suing Mark Zuckerberg, in The Social Network?
Andrew Garfield
Andrew Garfield played Saverin two years before his first Spider-Man movie came out. BBC critic Mark Kermode was surprised the Academy overlooked him for a nomination.
Q 05Which film beat The Social Network to Best Picture at the Oscars, despite critics' groups favoring the Facebook drama?
The King's Speech
The King's Speech won four Oscars, including Best Picture, against three for the Facebook drama. New York Magazine later ranked the loser among the best movies to miss the top prize.
Q 06How many takes did the opening breakup scene of The Social Network need before the director was satisfied?
99
99 takes went into the bar scene where Mark's girlfriend dumps him, by the director's own count. A cast member said the repeats were meant to stop actors bringing rehearsed looks to the set.
Q 07Which actor played both identical rowing twins in The Social Network, with his face digitally added to a body double?
Armie Hammer
Armie Hammer and his double went through ten months of twin boot camp to match the brothers' movements. Other shots of Cameron and Tyler simply used split-screen photography.
Q 08Which band's track Baby, You're a Rich Man closes The Social Network as Mark sits alone at a laptop?
The Beatles
The Beatles play as closing text reports Mark's vast new fortune. Neither that track nor the opening bar tune made it onto the soundtrack album.
Q 09Which director, famous for demanding dozens of takes per scene, earned an Oscar nomination for The Social Network?
David Fincher
David Fincher lost the directing Oscar but won both the Golden Globe and the BAFTA for the same work. The Globes also gave his movie more wins than any other at the ceremony.
Q 10Which detail did the real Mark Zuckerberg say The Social Network got exactly right, despite calling much of it fiction?
His wardrobe
His wardrobe was what Zuckerberg singled out as accurate, noting that every shirt and fleece on screen matched one he really owned. He said the partying around it was mostly invented.
Q 11Which screenwriter won an Oscar for The Social Network and appears in it briefly as an advertising executive?
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin said yes to the job about three pages into an unfinished draft of the book. He built the script around two lawsuits because each side swore to a different version of events.
Q 12Which nonfiction book, written with Eduardo Saverin as its main consultant, is The Social Network based on?
The Accidental Billionaires
The Accidental Billionaires was not yet finished when the screenwriter signed on, so book and script were researched side by side. Saverin cut contact with its author after settling his lawsuit.
Q 13Which author of the blackjack bestseller Bringing Down the House wrote the book behind The Social Network?
Q 21In The Social Network, at which English rowing event do the twins narrowly lose to a Dutch crew?
Henley Royal Regatta
Henley Royal Regatta is where the twins learn Facebook has already reached British universities, the final push to sue. The race was shot in England and made to look like a miniature.
Q 22Which composer wrote In the Hall of the Mountain King, reworked electronically for a rowing race in The Social Network?
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Grieg's theme was picked to match the Edwardian garden-party mood of the race. An early draft of the electronic cover is among the Blu-ray extras.
Q 23The ranking formula Eduardo writes on a dorm window in The Social Network comes from the rating system of which game?
Chess
Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich insists the Facebook book is nonfiction despite its novel-like style. He later wrote The Antisocial Network, about the GameStop frenzy, which became the movie Dumb Money.
Q 14In The Social Network, what does Mark name the site he builds after a breakup to rate female students' photos?
Facemash
Facemash draws so much traffic that it crashes parts of Harvard's computer network. The stunt gets Mark punished by the college and noticed by two rowing twins with a site idea of their own.
Q 15Which actress plays Erica Albright, the girlfriend who dumps Mark in the first scene of The Social Network?
Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara has only a supporting part, yet the same director then cast her as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which brought her an Oscar nomination.
Q 16Which rock frontman shared an Oscar with Atticus Ross for the brooding electronic score of The Social Network?
Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails had planned time off, but gave it up once he read the script. The score went on to win both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award.
Q 17The trailer for The Social Network features a Belgian choir covering Creep, a hit first recorded by which band?
Radiohead
Radiohead's original was reworked by the choir Scala & Kolacny Brothers, and the finished trailer won the Grand Key Art award. It ran in cinemas ahead of Inception.
Q 18Which surname is shared by the identical twins who accuse Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea in The Social Network?
Winklevoss
Winklevoss twins Cameron and Tyler take their complaint to Harvard's president, who brushes them off. Closing text notes that their case was eventually settled out of court.
Q 19In The Social Network, which Silicon Valley angel investor puts $500,000 into Facebook soon after its move west?
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel, played by Wallace Langham, appears only briefly. News of his money is enough to calm a furious row between Eduardo and Mark.
Q 20In The Social Network, which change to the name TheFacebook does Sean Parker suggest, the one idea Eduardo accepts?
Dropping the The
Dropping the The turned TheFacebook into plain Facebook, a tidier name that stuck. Eduardo is otherwise unimpressed by the newcomer and his grand talk.
Chess players are ranked with the Elo system, built to compare the relative skill of any two opponents. In the movie, Mark borrows it to pit classmates' photos against each other.
Q 24Since Harvard rarely allows filming, which other university's campus doubled for it in parts of The Social Network?
Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins lent its Keyser and Wyman quadrangles for three days of shooting. Two Massachusetts prep schools and a Boston college filled in for the rest of the Ivy League campus.
Q 25Harvard has refused most movie shoots, The Social Network's included, since which earlier production damaged its trees?
Love Story
Love Story, the 1970 weepie, left the university wary of camera crews from then on. The Facebook drama had to recreate its Ivy League setting at other schools.
Q 26Which two-time Oscar-winning actor served as an executive producer on The Social Network without appearing in it?
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey predicted before release that the movie would be a lot funnier than people expected. His own Oscars came for The Usual Suspects and American Beauty.
Q 27On which TV show did Mark Zuckerberg appear in 2011 beside the actor who played him in The Social Network?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live brought the two together when Zuckerberg walked on during his screen double's opening monologue. He later said the actor seemed a little afraid to meet him.
Q 28Which 2026 film about Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is a standalone sequel to the 2010 Mark Zuckerberg drama?
The Social Reckoning
The Social Reckoning was written and directed by the first movie's screenwriter and dramatizes the 2021 leak of Facebook's internal documents. He and the cinematographer were the only major names to return.
Q 29Which actor took over the role of Mark Zuckerberg from the original lead in the 2026 sequel to The Social Network?
Jeremy Strong
Jeremy Strong plays Zuckerberg in a story set around the 2021 whistleblower leak. The original star had said years earlier that he would be interested in returning.
Q 30After The Social Network, its screenwriter wrote a 2015 biopic about which other technology company founder?
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, the 2015 biopic, borrowed a similar format to the Facebook drama. It starred Michael Fassbender as the Apple founder, with Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak.