Quiz: Facebook

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Test your knowledge of Facebook, which Jose Antonio Vargas writes about in the September 20, 2010, issue of The New Yorker.

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Q.1)	Before Mark Zuckerberg, whom Jose Antonio Vargas writes about in this week’s magazine, created Facebook, he worked on another site. What was it called?

Facemash

MyPlace

C.	Hot or Not

D.	College Humor

Q.2)	Roughly how many people worldwide have a Facebook account?

A.	One out of a hundred

B.	One out of fourteen

C.	One out of seven

D.	One out of three

Q.3)	Why is Facebook’s dominant color blue?

A.	As a deliberate affront to Harvard’s color, crimson

B.	Because blue is said to slow human metabolism and produce a calming effect

C.	Because Zuckerberg is color-blind, and that’s the color he sees best

D.	As an homage to the fact that Zuckerberg came up with the idea while swimming

Q.4)	In the early days of Facebook, what tag line was posted on every page?

A.	“The new face of friendship”

B.	“Taking the class out of college”

C.	“It’s okay to look”

D.	“A Mark Zuckerberg production”

Q.5)	Which of the following is NOT the name of one of the Facebook conference rooms?

Run-DMC

ZZ Top

C.	Natalie Portman

D.	Subprime Mortgage

Q.6)	How is Mark’s father, Edward, known professionally?

A.	Professor Zuck

B.	Lucky Zuck

C.	Painless Dr. Z

Mister Ed

Q.7)	In the upcoming film “The Social Network,” Jesse Eisenberg plays Zuckerberg. As Eisenberg told a New Yorker writer earlier this year, what does his mother, formerly a dancer, do part-time?

A.	Leads walking tours of the Upper West Side

B.	Makes and sells granola

C.	Works as a birthday-party clown

D.	Does design for, among other clients, Facebook

Q.8)	“The Social Network” was written by Aaron Sorkin, who created the series “West Wing.” What is Zuckerberg’s favorite episode of “West Wing”?

A.	The one where President Bartlet grinds out his cigarette in the National Cathedral

B.	The one where Josh Lyman finds out he has an online following

C.	The one featuring a character based on Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard professor known as “the Elvis of cyber law”

D.	The one where Donna and Josh finally get together

Q.9)	Initially, Facebook membership was only allowed for schools in the Ivy League, the Boston area, and what other university?

Stanford

N.Y.U.

Wash-U

D.	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Q.10)	Which of the following no longer operates?

A.	Facebook Pages

B.	Facebook Notes

C.	Facebook Beacon

D.	Facebook Marketplace

Q.11)	Last year, Facebook reached a sixty-five-million-dollar settlement. Who brought the suit?

A.	The founders of ConnectU, a precursor to Facebook, who argued that Zuckerberg stole their idea

B.	A group of Facebook users in a class-action suit, who claimed that their privacy had been violated by Facebook Beacon

C.	Paul Ciglia, who said that his contract web-development work with Zuckerberg entitled him to eighty-four per cent of the company

D.	Two Los Angeles teen-agers, who said that the “Like” button effectively sells minors’ names and images without parental consent

Q.12)	Rank the following people in terms of how many “likes” they have on Facebook: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Lady Gaga.

A.	Obama, Gaga, Palin, Beck

B.	Palin, Gaga, Obama, Beck

C.	Palin, Beck, Gaga, Obama

D.	Gaga, Obama, Palin, Beck

Q.13)	Who, calling Facebook a “waste of time,” said, “We didn’t have Facebook when I was growing up. We had Phonebook, but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it.”

A.	Charlie Rangel

B.	Betty White

C.	Buzz Aldrin

D.	Ray Bradbury

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