Free Facebook Trivia Questions
What is Facebook?
A: Facebook is an American corporation and
online social media and social networking
service.
Where is Facebook based?
A: In Menlo Park, California.
When was the Facebook website launched?
A: February 4, 2004.
Who launched Facebook?
A: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew
McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Initially the website’s membership was limited
to whom?
A: Harvard students.
A: Other universities, and to high school students as well.
Since 2006, who can join Facebook?
A: Anyone age 13 and older.
Where did the name Facebook come from?
A: The Facebook name comes from the face book directories often given to United States university students.
After registering to use the site, users can create what?
A: A user profile indicating their name, occupation, schools attended and so on.
Users can add other users as what?
A: Friends.
How does Facebook make most of its revenue?
A: From advertisements.
When did Facebook, Inc. hold its initial public offering (IPO)?
A: In February 2012.
What did Facebook do three months later?
A: It began selling stock to the public.
On July 13, 2015, Facebook became the what?
A: The fastest company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to reach a market cap of $250 billion.
As of March 31, 2016, how many active users did Facebook have?
A: 1.65 billion.
As of April 2016, Facebook was the most popular what?
A: Social networking site in the world.
On February 4, 2004, what did Mark Zuckerberg do?
A: He launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.
Six days after the site launched, Harvard seniors Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of what?
A: Intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com.
What did they claim?
A: That he was using their ideas to build a competing product.
In mid-2004, entrepreneur Sean Parker became the company's what?
A: President.
In June 2004, where did Facebook move its operations base to?
A: Palo Alto, California.
It received its first investment later that month from whom?
A: Peter Thiel.
In 2005, what did the company from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com?
A: The “the”.
How much did he have to pay for the domain name?
A: $200,000.