Questions and Answers

Question 1: Who wrote the best-selling book series "Harry Potter"?

Answer: J.K. Rowling

Question 2: What is the name of the final film in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy?

Answer: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Question 3: Which television show, premiering in 2004, features the characters Jack, Kate, and Sawyer stranded on a mysterious island?

Answer: Lost

Question 4: Who won the first season of the American reality show "Survivor" in 2000?

Answer: Richard Hatch

Question 5: Which band released the hit song "Mr. Brightside" in 2003?

Answer: The Killers

Question 6: What was the highest-grossing film of the 2000s?

Answer: Avatar

Question 7: Who was named TIME Magazine's Person of the Year in 2006?

Answer: "You", representing individual content creators on the World Wide Web

Question 8: Who won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year in 2000?

Answer: Eminem, for "The Real Slim Shady"

Question 9: Who was elected President of the United States in the 2008 election?

Answer: Barack Obama

Question 10: Which television series, based on forensic anthropology and archaeology, debuted in 2005 and starred Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz?

Answer: Bones

Question 11: What popular social media platform was launched in 2004?

Answer: Facebook

Question 12: Which R&B singer released the hit song "Crazy in Love" in 2003?

Answer: Beyoncé

Question 13: What novel, released in 2003, centered around the character Robert Langdon and was later adapted into a successful movie?

Answer: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Question 14: Who was the author of the "Twilight" series?

Answer: Stephenie Meyer

Question 15: What gaming console, released in 2006, introduced motion-sensitive controllers to the mainstream market?

Answer: Nintendo Wii

Question 16: Which British singer won the Grammy for Record of the Year in 2008 for the song "Rehab"?

Answer: Amy Winehouse

Question 17: What animated film franchise, which started in the 2000s, features the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz?

Answer: Shrek

Question 18: Who was the winner of the first season of "American Idol" in 2002?

Answer: Kelly Clarkson

Question 19: What 2000 film starring Russell Crowe tells the story of a Roman general?

Answer: Gladiator

Question 20: Which novel, published in 2003, tells the story of a boy named "Piscine Molitor Patel", who survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean?

Answer: Life of Pi by Yann Martel