Grumpyʼs Noughties Quiz Questions & Tinfoil Challenge

1. Which album sold more copies: James Blunt's "Back to Bedlam" or Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black"?

2. Who wrote the hit noughties novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"?

3. Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross were widely criticised in 2008 for leaving a rude message on whose answerphone?

4. Who was Britney Spears married to for only 55 hours in 2004?

5. Who resigned over the decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003 and received the first ever standing ovation in the House of Commons?

6. What is the name of napoleon dynamite’s llama?

7. Which country was the first to legalise same-sex marriage in 2001? Multiple Choice: A. The Netherlands / B. Belgium / C. Germany

8. Who is the main character in "The Da Vinci Code"?

9. What was George Bush doing when the September 11 attacks began in 2001? Mulitiple Choice: A.Shopping for shoes / B. Reading to schoolchildren / C. Playing golf

10. Which newspaper does "Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw write a column for?

11. Who did Italy beat in the 2006 World Cup final?

12. On "Lost", the survivors of a plane crash are left on a desert island. What was their flight? Multiple Choice: A. Atlantic Airlines Flight 514 / B. Oceanic Airlines Flight 815

13. What was the name of the boyband who lost out to Girls Aloud on "Popstars: The Rivals"?

14. In 2002, how many rounds did it take Lennox Lewis KO Mike Tyson?

15. Which two "Friends" characters are the only pairing to have never kissed?

16. Who locked himself in a box above the Thames in London and stayed there for 44 days?

17. Which airport features in "Love Actually"?

18. At the G8 summit, microphones accidentally picked up President George Bush greeting Prime Minister Tony Blair with what two words? Multiple Choice: A. Yo, Blair! / B. Howdy, pardner! / C. Hey, waiter!

19. What was Facebook originally called?

20. Which man featured in Kim Kardashian's 2007 sex tape?

21. Where were the 2004 Olympics held?

22. What series of hugely successful books started off life as twilight fan fiction?

23. What was said to be ‘excellent value’ because it cost the taxpayer only £36million a year? Multiple Choice: A. The Royal Family / B. The debt payments on the Millennium Dome. / C. Our EU membership

24. What made headlines following the 2004 Super Bowl?

25. In which US city was the tv show ‘The Wire’ set?

26. Which year did Michael Jackson die?

27. Who was everybody's first friend on MySpace? Multiple Choice: A. Sam Sanderson / B. Adam Andrew’s / C. Tom Anderson

28. In the movie Mean Girls, what do they wear on Wednesdays?

29. In which year was Saddam Hussein found guilty of genocide?

30. How did judges describe the dancing style of Strictly Come Dancing’s sequinned hero, John Sergeant in 2008? Multiple Choice: A. Like a drunk making his way home after a night out / B. Like he was taking his partner out to the recycling / C. Like an elephant trying to ice skate

31. Which year did Barack Obama become President of the United States?

32. Which song rocketed Take That’s come-back to number 1 in 2006?

33. Which northern comedian provided the original voice for Churchill, the nodding-dog star of the Churchill insurance TV ads?

34. The epicenter of the earthquake that caused the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami was off the coast of which island in the Indian Ocean? Multiple Choice: A. Sri Lanka / B. Papua New Guinea / C. Sumatra / D. Borneo

35. What MTV show did Ashton Kutcher host throughout the '00s?

36. What was the first video uploaded to YouTube? Multiple Choice: A. Me at the Zoo / B. Me doing yoga / C. Me eating spaghetti

37. What's did Chesley B. Sullenberger III become famous for in January 2009?

38. Which of the following is not a description of 'art' that won the Turner Prize during the Noughties? (a) A room where the light goes on and off (b) A woman writes about a porn film on a wall-size chart (c) A bronze statue of pornographic dolls, painted to look like plastic (d) A man films himself walking through Birmingham dressed as Minnie Mouse (e) A shed is converted into a boat, then back into a shed

39. According to a popular noughties t-shirt slogan, Who is "my homeboy”?

40. The 2018 play ‘Quiz’ tells the story of which 2001 news story, described by its playwright as the "most British crime of all time"?

41. What was Paris Hilton's noughties catchphrase?

42. In 2005, where was the first Live 8 concert held? Multiple Choice: A. Japan / B. London / C. South Africa

43. Noughties front man Pete Doherty has led such a drug-soaked life that: (a) He has twice been declared clinically dead (b) He was once unable to remember his name when arrested by police (c) His cat has tested positive for cocaine

44. Which of the following uk noughties tv shows scores highest on IMDb? Multiple Choice: A. The office / B. Peep Show / C. The Inbetweeners

45. Which song plays during the final scene of the last ever sopranos episode?

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