YouTube trivia

YouTube Mini Quiz

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Question 1

Co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the first YouTube video, "Me at the zoo", to highlight what animal feature?

The very first video uploaded to YouTube, "Me at the zoo", features co-founder Jawed Karim casually talking about the length of elephant trunks.

Question 2

The original founders designed the video-sharing platform YouTube to serve what specific function?

YouTube's founders originally registered the domain on Valentine's Day in 2005 with the intention of creating a video-dating platform called "Tune In Hook Up".

Question 3

Viral hit "Gangnam Style" forced YouTube engineers to do what to the website infrastructure in 2014?

Psy's "Gangnam Style" became so popular that it surpassed the 32-bit integer limit of 2,147,483,647 views, forcing YouTube to upgrade its counter to a 64-bit system.

Question 4

Internet pranksters link to the Rick Astley video "Never Gonna Give You Up" to execute what bait-and-switch?

The Rickroll is a classic internet bait-and-switch meme that tricks users into clicking a disguised hyperlink that leads directly to Rick Astley's 1987 music video.