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This boy band's 2000 hit "Bye Bye Bye" opened with a now-iconic music video featuring marionette strings.
What is *NSYNC?
This 2001 fantasy film was the first installment based on J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy.
What is The Fellowship of the Ring?
This Nokia phone, released around 2000, was famous for its nearly indestructible build and the game Snake.
What is the Nokia 3310?
This reality competition series, which premiered in 2000, stranded contestants on an island to vote each other off.
What is Survivor?
This contested U.S. presidential election was decided by a Supreme Court ruling.
What is the 2000 presidential election (Bush v. Gore)?
This artist's 2000 album Oops!... I Did It Again sold over a million copies in its first week.
Who is Britney Spears?
This 2000 gladiator epic starring Russell Crowe won the Oscar for best picture.
What is Gladiator?
This social networking site, launched in 2003, let users customize profiles with music and glitter graphics.
What is Myspace?
This Fox singing competition, which debuted in 2002, launched the career of Kelly Clarkson.
What is American Idol?
On this date in 2001, terrorist attacks struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
What is September 11?
This Eminem album, released in 2000, featured the hit "The Real Slim Shady."
What is The Marshall Mathers LP?
This 2003 Pixar film followed a clownfish searching the ocean for his son.
What is Finding Nemo?
This search engine went public in 2004 and quickly became the dominant way people searched the web.
What is Google?
This NBC sitcom about a paper company in Scranton was based on a British series of the same name.
What is The Office?
This European currency began circulating as physical coins and banknotes on January 1, 2002.
What is the euro?
This file-sharing service, popular in 1999-2001, was shut down after a lawsuit from the music industry.
What is Napster?
This 2001 film introduced audiences to a young wizard attending Hogwarts on the big screen.
What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
This handheld gaming device, released by Nintendo in 2001, had two separate 32-bit processors.
What is the Game Boy Advance?
This HBO series about a New Jersey mob boss and his family premiered in 1999 and ran into the mid-2000s.
What is The Sopranos?
This category 5 hurricane devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in August 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This device, released by Apple in 2001, could hold "1,000 songs in your pocket."
What is the iPod?
This 2002 Sam Raimi film starring Tobey Maguire launched a major superhero franchise.
What is Spider-Man?
This blue-and-white feature announced "You've got mail" whenever a new message arrived.
What is AOL email (America Online)?
This dance-and-drama teen soap, set at a Texas high school, aired on The N and MTV starting 2004.
What is Degrassi: The Next Generation?
This human genome milestone, announced in 2003, marked the completion of mapping nearly all human genes.
What is the Human Genome Project?