TV/Movies
The American version of the show "The Office" premiered on NBC in 2005. The show takes place in which Pennsylvania city?
Scranton
David Brent was played by Ricky Gervais in the 2001-2003 British version of an iconic mockumentary TV series, but who played his counterpart Michael Scott in the 2005-2013 American version?
Steve Carell
Reflecting the artist's real name, "The Marshall Mathers EP," which features songs like "Stan" and "Kim," is a 2000 studio album by what one-named rap star?
Eminem
What is the somewhat-logical term for the internet prank and meme in which an unexpected appearance of the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" is "planted" into an unrelated link? The meme's popularity dates back to 2008.
Rickrolling
Thanks to Napoleon Dynamite’s massive popularity, shirts with what saying flew off the shelves?
Vote for Pedro
Michael C. Hall is probably best known for playing the titular serial killer on what Showtime drama that ran from 2006 to 2013?
Dexter
What actress won an Best Actress Academy Award (for "The Blind Side") in 2010, the same year she won a Golden Raspberry (Razzie) award for Worst Actress (for "All About Steve")?
Sandra Bullock
2003 was when Beyoncé Knowles become simply Beyoncé. That was the year she released her first solo album, “Dangerously In Love,” after splitting from which girl group that ruled the ‘90s?
Destiny's Child
“50 First Dates,” “Hitch,” and “The Fifth Element” were among the first films that were released on what new colorfully-named disc format on June 20, 2006?
Blu-ray
What song catapulted to stardom thanks to it playing through the opening sequence in Shrek?
All Star by Smashmouth
The subject of many recent internet memes, a 2007 episode of what Nickelodeon teen sitcom features the two title characters trapped in a newly-built treehouse after forgetting to cut out a doorway?
Drake & Josh
In 2002, Justin Guarini finished in second place to what future superstar in the inaugural season of American Idol?
Kelly Clarkson
One of the biggest hits of 2003, "Bring Me to Life" was recorded by what rock band whose name is a synonym for "impermanence?"
Evanescence
The songs "Hey Mama" by the Black Eyed Peas, "Technologic" by Daft Punk, and "Vertigo" by U2 appear in a series of commercials featuring black silhouettes dancing in front of brightly coloured backgrounds. What product, released in 2001, were these commercials created to advertise?
iPod
In 2002, which 3D game in the Nintendo Super Mario franchise was released for GameCube and took players on an adventure around Isle Delfino?
Super Mario Sunshine
E.L. James's erotic "Fifty Shades of Grey" was originally created as fan fiction for what book/movie series about vampires?
Twilight
In the year 2000, Kentwood, Louisiana opened a museum dedicated to which 18-year-old songstress who, along with her siblings Bryan and Jamie Lynn, calls the town home?
Britney Spears
Songwriters Hayley Williams and Josh Farro were added as writers on Olivia Rodrigo's song "Good 4 U," after listeners pointed out the similarities between the song and what band's 2007 hit "Misery Business?"
Paramore
A little birdie told us that Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams were three of the four founders of what social network that launched in 2006?
Before the iPhone, what fruit-inspired brand had the most popular smartphone in the industry?
Blackberry
Featuring Christoper Mintz-Plasse as “McLovin,’” what 2007 nerdy teen comedy starred Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Emma Stone?
Superbad
Who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009 just over a year after his death, becoming just the second person to win a posthumous acting Oscar?
Heath Ledger
It could happen if the G7 combined their military might. What iconic song of the early 2000s got its title from when, as a child, Jack White (the song's singer and writer) misheard the name of The Salvation Army?
Seven Nation Army
Jennifer Lopez's choice to wear a low-cut green Versace dress to the 2000 Grammy Award ceremony and the attention it recieved prompted the introduction of which specific search engine a year later?
Google Image Search
When asked about getting into Harvard, Legally Blonde’s main character, Elle Woods, has what to say?
“What, like it’s hard?”