2000s Music Quiz: Eminem, Beyoncé, Green Day and Coldplay

This 2000s music quiz covers the decade's biggest artists and albums, with questions on Eminem, Beyoncé, Green Day, Lady Gaga, OutKast, Amy Winehouse, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Coldplay. Ten questions, 90 seconds.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 90 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 90s

Hip-Hop
Which rapper released The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000?
R&B
Whose 2003 single Crazy in Love launched her solo career?
Rock
Which band released the rock opera album American Idiot in 2004?
Pop
Which singer's debut album, The Fame, came out in 2008?
Pop
Which group recorded the 2009 party hit I Gotta Feeling?
Hip-Hop
Which Atlanta duo released the 2003 hit Hey Ya!?
Soul
Which British singer released the album Back to Black in 2006?
Discoveries
Which Canadian singer was discovered through YouTube videos in 2008?
Country
Who became the youngest Album of the Year Grammy winner at the time with Fearless (2008)?
Rock
Which British band's 2000 single Yellow made them famous?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which rapper released The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000?
Answer: Eminem
The Marshall Mathers LP sold about 1.76 million copies in its first week in the U.S., a record for a solo rap album at the time. Eminem was discovered by Dr. Dre.
Q2: Whose 2003 single Crazy in Love launched her solo career?
Answer: Beyoncé
Crazy in Love, featuring Jay-Z, came from Beyoncé's first solo album, Dangerously in Love. It won two Grammy Awards and topped the charts in the U.S. and the U.K.
Q3: Which band released the rock opera album American Idiot in 2004?
Answer: Green Day
American Idiot won the Grammy for Best Rock Album and was later turned into a Broadway musical. It revived Green Day's career a decade after their breakthrough with Dookie.
Q4: Which singer's debut album, The Fame, came out in 2008?
Answer: Lady Gaga
The Fame included Just Dance and Poker Face, both U.S. number-one hits. Lady Gaga became famous for her bold outfits as much as her music.
Q5: Which group recorded the 2009 party hit I Gotta Feeling?
Answer: Black Eyed Peas
I Gotta Feeling spent 14 weeks at number one in the U.S. and became one of the first songs to sell more than 1 million digital downloads in the U.K.
Q6: Which Atlanta duo released the 2003 hit Hey Ya!?
Answer: OutKast
OutKast, made up of André 3000 and Big Boi, won the Grammy for Album of the Year with Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, a rare win for a hip-hop record.
Q7: Which British singer released the album Back to Black in 2006?
Answer: Amy Winehouse
Back to Black won Amy Winehouse five Grammy Awards in 2008, then a record for a British female artist. Producer Mark Ronson helped create its retro 1960s sound.
Q8: Which Canadian singer was discovered through YouTube videos in 2008?
Answer: Justin Bieber
Manager Scooter Braun found Justin Bieber's YouTube covers by chance and flew him to Atlanta. Bieber's first single, One Time, came out in 2009.
Q9: Who became the youngest Album of the Year Grammy winner at the time with Fearless (2008)?
Answer: Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift was 20 when Fearless won Album of the Year in 2010. Fearless was the most awarded album in country music history at the time.
Q10: Which British band's 2000 single Yellow made them famous?
Answer: Coldplay
Yellow came from Coldplay's first album, Parachutes. Chris Martin has said the song's title came from the Yellow Pages phone book that was lying in the studio.

2000s Music Quiz – Hits From the iPod Era

The 2000s were a strange and exciting time for music. CDs were still selling in huge numbers at the start of the decade, but by the end most people were buying songs one at a time on iTunes or sharing them online. The iPod put thousands of tracks in every pocket, and MySpace and YouTube gave new artists a way to find fans without a record deal.

Hip-hop and R&B ruled the charts. Eminem became the best-selling artist of the decade, OutKast pushed rap in new directions and Beyoncé stepped out from Destiny's Child to become a solo superstar. Producers such as Timbaland and The Neptunes created sounds that are still copied today.

Rock found new life too. Green Day returned with American Idiot, Coldplay grew into a stadium band and garage-rock acts like the White Stripes and the Strokes made guitars cool again. Pop-punk and emo filled teenagers' playlists.

At the end of the decade, a new generation took over. Lady Gaga and Katy Perry brought theatrical pop, Taylor Swift crossed from country to the mainstream and Justin Bieber showed how a teenager with a webcam could become a global star.

This quiz covers the albums, singles and stars that defined music from 2000 to 2009.

What This Quiz Teaches

This quiz is perfect for millennials, playlist builders and anyone who remembers burning mix CDs.

Which albums made Eminem and Green Day the voices of the decade
How Beyoncé and Lady Gaga launched solo careers
Why OutKast's Grammy win was special
The story behind Amy Winehouse's Back to Black
How YouTube helped Justin Bieber get discovered
How Coldplay and Taylor Swift broke through

Quick Facts About 2000s Music

Apple opened the iTunes Store in 2003, selling songs for 99 cents each.
Eminem was the best-selling music artist in the U.S. in the 2000s, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Kelly Clarkson's Since U Been Gone helped bring rock guitars back to pop radio.
Gnarls Barkley's Crazy was the first U.K. number one based on downloads alone, in 2006.
Rihanna's Umbrella spent 10 weeks at number one in the U.K. in 2007.
Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory was the best-selling album of 2001 in the U.S.