2000s Music Quiz

1. Which artist-and-song pairing is correct?

2. A dramatic pop-punk song depicts a wedding being interrupted and includes a refrain about closing a door. Which song is it?

3. Which Coldplay song begins with the declaration “I used to rule the world”?

4. Which rapper delivers the featured opening verse on Rihanna’s “Umbrella”?

5. A chorus repeatedly promises shelter “under my umbrella.” Which song is it?

6. You hear a prominent piano introduction followed by “making my way downtown.” Which song should you name?

7. Which 2000 song is identified by the lyric fragment “Oops! ... I did it again”?

8. Which Maroon 5 song contains the line “This love has taken its toll on me”?

9. A track opens with the tense description “His palms are sweaty,” before following a rapper facing a crucial opportunity. Which song are you hearing?

10. Which of these songs was released earliest?

11. A singer recalls being told to seek treatment but responds, “No, no, no.” Which song is this?

12. A stadium crowd chants the notes of a heavy guitar riff from a song whose opening lyric imagines an army unable to hold the narrator back. Which track is it?

13. Which act released “Hey Ya!” during the 2000s?

14. Who performed the 2000s hit “Since U Been Gone”?

15. At a 2000s party, the DJ plays a crunk track featuring the call “to the window, to the wall.” Which song is it?

16. A song’s narrator spirals through jealousy, imagined betrayal, and the feeling of emerging from a cage. Which 2000s track best matches those clues?