The 2000s Time Capsule

What this quiz asks

• Which music player arrived in 2001 with a 5 GB hard drive and a mechanical scroll wheel?
• The Y2K bug worried the world because many older computers stored the year using how many digits?
• Who wrote The Da Vinci Code, the 2003 thriller that became a worldwide bestseller?
• Was the final book in the Harry Potter series published during the 2000s?
• Which book series by Stephenie Meyer began in 2005 with a romance between a teenager and a vampire?
• Which high-definition disc format lost the format war to Blu-ray in 2008?
• Which Google service launched on 1 April 2004, leading many people to think it was an April Fools' joke?
• Concorde made its final commercial passenger flights in 2003.
• Select ALL of these films that were released in the 2000s.
• Which country beat the hosts Portugal in the final of Euro 2004?
• Barack Obama was elected US president in 2008. Which state had he represented as a senator?
• Crocs, the chunky foam clogs, were first sold in the 2000s.
• Which self-balancing two-wheeled transporter was unveiled on US television in December 2001?
• In 2005, which city won the vote to host the 2012 Summer Olympics?
• Select ALL of these countries that joined the European Union in 2004.
• Which double-decker Airbus airliner made its first flight in 2005?
• The internet calling service Skype, launched in 2003, was built by programmers from which country?
• The Orange Revolution of 2004 was a wave of protests over a disputed election in which country?
• How tall, in metres, is Taipei 101, the skyscraper that opened in Taiwan in 2004?
• Put these 2000s moments in order, earliest first.