Can you name the things that satisfy each category for the period from 2000-2009?

created by Hejman

Enter an answer in the box below
Correctly named answers will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
For professional sports team enter the team name, not the city. The number in brackets is the number of possible answers for that entry.
"Best selling author" asks for the name of an author whose book or books appeared in the #1 spot on the annual Publisher's Weekly list of best selling books of each year.
Also try: 1990s Blitz

Popular trivia games today

Candy Wrappers Close-Up

4681

Same Letter Country/Capitals

2309

Click or Be Killed!!!

1331

Word Ladder: Horse Gaits

1241

Countries of the World (Redux)

1214

Multiple Eurovision Winners

1048

Word Laddyrinth XIII

919

Missing Word: Television Movies

809

And more...

04:00

Show Missed Answers

Category	2000s answer
Olympic host city [5]
Super Bowl winning team [7]
World Series winning team [8]
Stanley Cup winning team [7]
World Cup (soccer) winning nation [2]
New United Nations member [5]
British Prime Minister [2]
American President [3]
Nation sanctioned by the U.N. [8]
Oscar Best Picture [10]
Oscar Best Actor [9]
Oscar Best Actress [10]
Russian president [2]
Roman Catholic Pope [2]
Oscar Best Score (composer) [8]

Category	2000s answer
Tony Best Musical [10]
Premier League Champion [3]
Steven Spielberg directed movie [8]
New Artist Grammy winner [10]
Emmy Best Comedy winner [7]
Nobel Peace Prize winner [14]
UN Secretary-General [2]
Emmy Best Drama Winner [5]
Tour de France winner [4]
Time magazine Person of the Year [9]
#1 ranked Boy's name (US) [1]
#1 ranked Girl's names (US) [3]
Discovered chemical elements [4]
Best selling author (US) [6]
Artist with 20 million + selling album [6]

Javascript is not currently enabled on your browser.
If you do have Javascript enabled:
This site uses javascript to make the magic happen.
Please turn on javascript and reload this page, or use a more current browser (like Firefox)

2000s Blitz Quiz

by Hejman

Created Nov 22, 2011 in History
Featured Dec 2, 2011
Game Plays 67,921

Report a Mistake

Friend Scores and Standings

Loading friend results....

Top Games Today in History

Top Games with Similar Tags

Top User Games in History

Archived comments: show them

	Hejman:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 04:09 GMT	9 points
	If you thought this was fun the 1990s Blitz and 1980s Blitz are in the history category of the user contributed section. Should I keep going? The disco 70s could be interesting...

	rightanswer:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 04:25 GMT	8 points
	Pleasantly surprised that Stephenie Meyer wasn't a best selling author because I would've thought Twilight would have put her up there.

	Hejman:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 04:35 GMT	6 points
	@rightanswer- Glad you mentioned that. It reminds me that I need to point out that Publishers Weekly apparently has an unusual and highly secretive set of rules about what counts and what doesn't for their book lists. Among the unusual results of those rules are that J.K. Rowling is excluded. I presume that the list does not include "young adult" fiction and that they categorized the Potter books that way, but the whatever the reason, the rules are theirs, I'm just the messenger.

	MetaphysicalMan:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 04:54 GMT	6 points
	I typed 'the' and got credit for the Tour de France winner

	Barbara624:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 05:05 GMT	4 points
	Russell Crowe has two Ls...I typed it right and didn't get credit for it.

	Hejman:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 05:13 GMT	7 points
	@MetaphysicalMan- Anytime there's an extra slash at the end of a row of answers, it does that. @Barbara624- I found the extra 'l'- it was on my keyboard all the time.

	jonesjeffum:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 05:17 GMT	1 point
	yes this was great!! more

	IndigoBlue:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 06:02 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz. Even better link. :)

	CraigBerger:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 06:14 GMT	46 points
	There's something deeply unsatisfying about typing out "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and having 'munich' pop up...

	Triffid:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 09:35 GMT	-1 points
	I typed in Obama for the US President question and got two other presidents' names popping up in separate questions.

	Hejman:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 11:42 GMT	13 points
	@Triffid- that's because Obama is an answer in 3 categories!

	eggseronius:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 11:55 GMT	1 point
	The quiz does not accept "pope benedict xvi". I'd think it would accept his title as well.

	Happ_Hazzard:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 11:55 GMT	2 points
	Jacob?

	TrueNorth:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 12:34 GMT	1 point
	I read that as PEOPLE who discovered new elements, and didn't even think of typing in the elements themselves.

	Hejman:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 13:51 GMT	2 points
	@Happ_Hazzard- Jacob has been the #1 boys name in the U.S. each year since 1999.

	sercher:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 14:04 GMT	17 points
	No bonus for unobtainium?

	Hejman:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 16:11 GMT	20 points
	@CraigBerger- Isn't there just something deeply unsatisfying about having to type, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" at all?

Comment below threshold: show it

	hodgetiger:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 17:38 GMT	4 points
	Grrrr at your North American sports with your Miami Sharks and your Chicago Redskins and your New York 49ers that I'm never going to know the answers to (joking!!)

	TheLanimal:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 18:07 GMT	17 points
	I wish there was a way that you could see all of the possible answers for the ones you miss.

	Mr_Black:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 18:43 GMT	9 points
	This URL rules

	Badgerhawk:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 19:17 GMT	0 points
	Oh how I loved typing White Sox for World Series winners!

	Hejman:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 19:32 GMT	0 points
	@trinityjo55- As with Flick's excellent letter blitz series, which inspired this quiz, only one correct answer is shown because there is not space to display them all. Therefore, when you type a correct answer one answer (which has been, usually not so randomly, chosen by me) appears. Thus, when you type "Patriots", a team that did win a Super Bowl in the decade, the designated display answer "Rams" appears. I actually chose the Rams because the franchise has been long suffering and I thought I'd throw a nod to the Rams fans. In many cases I simply have the first chronological answer as the displayed one. @TheLanimal- Me too, but the quiz would end up being huge and wonky and taking up more than a single screen worth of space in order to do that. If you want to know all the answers to a particular category feel free to email me and I'll send you the list.

	drewbo19:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 20:08 GMT	1 point
	This doesn't accept "Muhammad Yunus" for Peace Prize Winners and it should as he received the award (along with Grameen Bank) in 2006 for his microfinance work.

	Hejman:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 20:59 GMT	1 point
	@drewbo19- You're absolutely correct. I had accidentally spelled it "Yunis". It's fixed.

	eab21:	Dec 3rd, 2011 at 00:23 GMT	7 points
	It was surprisingly hard; I kept trying answers from this and last year. Definitely worthy of 5 globes, though!

	Patrick_Greylock:	Dec 4th, 2011 at 22:25 GMT	2 points
	Barack Obama and LOTR gave me about half my correct answers. And with any luck my Tolkien knowledge will help on the next decade's quiz as well.

	MinnieMee:	Jan 8th, 2012 at 11:31 GMT	1 point
	I did better with the 2000s quiz than the 1990s...maybe because I was more sober during the 2000s?

	oren0:	Jan 9th, 2012 at 23:52 GMT	2 points
	I just did the 90s quiz and I swear I must've gotten at least 10 of the same answers. I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.

	Rob42:	Feb 22nd, 2012 at 20:57 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz, but I found the movie-related ones tough though. These days I am too busy Sporcling to go to the pictures.....