2000s Trivia Jeopardy

Flip phones, mall pop, and the early social web get their own trivia night. Copying the 2000s board is free, and every guest's phone becomes a buzzer.

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2000s Music

$200
This Houston-born singer's 2003 single Crazy in Love, featuring Jay-Z, became her signature solo breakout after Destiny's Child.
Who is Beyoncé?
$400
This singer's 2006 hit Since U Been Gone broke through after her earlier rise on a televised singing competition.
Who is Kelly Clarkson?
$600
This Canadian singer's whiny-voiced pop-punk hit Complicated launched her career in 2002 with the album Let Go.
Who is Avril Lavigne?
$800
This rapper's 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP became the fastest-selling solo album in U.S. history at the time.
Who is Eminem?
$1,000
This peer-to-peer file sharing service, launched in 1999 and shut down by lawsuit in 2001, let users trade MP3s for free and reshaped the music industry.
What is Napster?

2000s Movies

$200
This 2001 fantasy film, based on a J.K. Rowling novel, introduced Daniel Radcliffe as a boy wizard attending a magic school.
What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
$400
This 2003 fantasy epic, the final film in a trilogy, swept the Oscars with eleven wins including Best Picture.
What is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King?
$600
This 2008 superhero film starred Heath Ledger in an Oscar-winning posthumous performance as the Joker.
What is The Dark Knight?
$800
This 2009 James Cameron film, set on the alien moon of Pandora, went on to become the highest-grossing film in movie history.
What is Avatar?
$1,000
This 2004 animated film follows a family of undercover superheroes trying to live a normal suburban life.
What is The Incredibles?

2000s Television

$200
This mockumentary-style sitcom, set at a Scranton, Pennsylvania paper company, premiered on NBC in 2005 as a U.S. adaptation of a British series.
What is The Office?
$400
This competitive singing show, which launched Kelly Clarkson's career, premiered on Fox in 2002.
What is American Idol?
$600
This ABC drama about plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island premiered in 2004 and ran for six seasons.
What is Lost?
$800
This reality competition series strands contestants on a remote location where they compete in challenges and vote each other out, premiering in the United States in May 2000.
What is Survivor?
$1,000
This medical drama set in Seattle, created by Shonda Rhimes, premiered on ABC in 2005 and follows surgical interns at a fictional hospital.
What is Grey's Anatomy?

2000s Tech

$200
This social networking site, launched from a Harvard dorm room in 2004, was originally limited to college students.
What is Facebook?
$400
This video-sharing website was founded in 2005 and hosted its first uploaded video, a clip filmed at a zoo.
What is YouTube?
$600
This touchscreen smartphone, unveiled by Apple in January 2007, combined a phone, a music player, and an internet browser into one device.
What is the iPhone?
$800
This online encyclopedia, launched in 2001, allowed anyone with an internet connection to write and edit its articles.
What is Wikipedia?
$1,000
This microblogging platform, launched in 2006, originally limited posts to 140 characters.
What is Twitter?

2000s Sports

$200
This Jamaican sprinter set world records in the 100 and 200 meters at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Who is Usain Bolt?
$400
This American swimmer won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, breaking Mark Spitz's longstanding record.
Who is Michael Phelps?
$600
This New England Patriots quarterback won his first Super Bowl title following the 2001 season, upsetting the heavily favored St. Louis Rams.
Who is Tom Brady?
$800
This golfer won the U.S. Open in 2008 despite playing on a fractured leg, sinking a dramatic playoff putt.
Who is Tiger Woods?
$1,000
This American gymnast became the first U.S. woman to win the Olympic all-around gold medal outside of a boycotted games, at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Who is Carly Patterson?

2000s Headlines

$200
On September 11, 2001, coordinated terrorist attacks brought down these two towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
What are the Twin Towers?
$400
In 2005, this powerful hurricane caused catastrophic flooding in New Orleans after the city's levees failed.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
$600
This global financial crisis, triggered in part by the 2008 collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers, led to a deep worldwide recession.
What is the 2008 financial crisis?
$800
In 2008, this U.S. senator from Illinois was elected the first African American President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
$1,000
In May 2011, U.S. Navy SEALs killed this al-Qaeda leader responsible for the September 11 attacks during a raid in Pakistan.
Who is Osama bin Laden?

Final Jeopardy — 2000s Tech

Unveiled by Apple in October 2001, this pocket music player with a scroll wheel was marketed on holding a thousand songs.

What is the iPod?

How to run this board

It sneaks up on people that the 2000s are now a nostalgia decade, which makes this board land harder than guests expect. Its columns cover 2000s music, movies, television, tech, sports, and headlines, from burned CDs to the rise of social networks.

Host it like a rewatch party: board on the TV, phones out, snacks from a mall food court if you can manage it.

One tip for the host: the tech category is the great equalizer. The people who lived it misremember it, so expect confident wrong answers and enjoy them.

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