1. Cast Away
   Almost Famous
2. The Perfect Storm
   Road Trip

Tom Hanks played a FedEx employee who landed on deserted island after his plane crashed during a storm. He spent four years on the island and became best friends with his volleyball, Wilson, before finally being rescued.

1. Erin Brokovich
   Gloria Alred
2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
   Sandra Day O'Connor

Julia Roberts won a bunch of awards for her portrayal of California legal clerk Erin Brokovich in the movie "Erin Brokovich." The movie was based on a true story about a legal battle against an energy company in California. The real Brokovich made a cameo in the film.

1. Muammar Al Gaddafi
   Bashar al-Assad
2. Saddam Hussein
   Yasser Arafat

Saddam Hussein was President of Iraq from 1979 until his capture in Operation Red Dawn in 2003. President George W. Bush had earlier given Hussein and his sons 48 hours to leave Iraq and threatened military action if they didn't.

1. Garfield
   Calvin and Hobbes
2. Peanuts
   Dilbert

Legendary cartoonist Charles M. Schultz passed away on February 12, 2000 and the final Peanuts strip appeared in print the next day. The Peanuts strip ran for 50 years and followed Charlie Brown and his group of friends.

1. There's Something About Mary
   The Heartbreak Kid
2. Meet the Parents
   Along Came Polly

Meet the Parents was a comedy classic that spawned two sequels and countless pop culture references. Ben Stiller teamed up with Owen Wilson for the first time, and Robert De Niro showed off his comedic chops in a classic role.

1. Storm Worm
   Mydoom Virus
2. Trojan Horse
   Y2K

The Y2K Bug was supposed to cause mass chaos around the world on the notion that computer systems everywhere — from banking accounts to elevators — would misread the year 2000 as 1900 by reading just the last two digits. More than $300 billion was spent on updates to prevent the issue.

1. Jack Nicklaus
   Tiger Woods
2. Phil Mickelson
   David Duval

Tiger Woods left Stanford University and turned pro in 1996. He won his first major — The Masters — in 1997, and by 2000 he had achieved the career Grand Slam. That year he also won six consecutive tournaments on the PGA Tour, which was the longest streak since 1948.

1. Pete Carroll
   Bill Belichick
2. Bill Parcels
   Jon Gruden

Pete Carroll was fired by the Patriots after the 1999 season but Bill Belichick wasn't available. He was actually the head coach of the New York Jets in 2000, but he resigned just one day into his job and was hired by the New England Patriots shortly after.

1. Russia
   Japan
2. The United States
   Australia

The Playstation 2 console was released in America just before Halloween in 2000 and went on to sell close to 160 million units and more than 1.5 billion video games worldwide. Japan was the first place it was released.

1. Debris
   Chad
2. Litter
   Fragment

The biggest story of 2000 was the presidential election and the controversy of the "hanging chad," which was the scrap piece of paper that was supposed to fall off a voting card after being punched out, but instead hung on by a thread and created a multitude of issues when it came time to count votes.

1. Congresswoman
   Mayor
2. Senator
   Governor

In the November 2000 elections, Hillary Clinton was elected as the first female Senator of New York. She defeated Republican candidate Rick Lazio with 55% of the vote, although she was criticized for never having lived in New York. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was her campaign manager.

1. Facebook
   Amazon
2. Uber
   Netflix

In 2000 Netflix was a company that mailed DVDs to people. According to Blockbuster, it was too niche, and Blockbuster management turned down an offer to buy the company in 2000 for $50 million. Today, Netflix is flourishing and Blockbuster is defunct.

1. Jimmy Carter
   George H. W. Bush
2. Bill Clinton
   Barack Obama

Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States and served from 1993 to 2001. In 1998 he became just the second president to ever be impeached, and in 1999 he was acquitted.

1. Los Angeles Lakers
   Boston Celtics
2. San Antonio Spurs
   Detroit Pistons

The Los Angeles Lakers — led by Shaq (MVP) and Kobe — defeated the Indiana Pacers 4-2 in the 2000 NBA Finals. The Lakers would go on to beat the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Nets in the next two championships to complete the three-peat.

1. David Robinson
   Magic Johnson
2. John Stockton
   Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan played 15 seasons in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. He retired in 1993 and returned in 1995 for the Chicago Bulls. In 1999 he retired a second time, and in 2000 he returned a second time, but this time as a part-owner of the Wizards.

1. Che Guevara
   Fidel Castro
2. Elian Gonzalez
   Tony Montana

In 1999, Elian Gonzalez's mother drowned while escaping to America. Gonzalez made it and authorities placed him with relatives in Miami, but his father in Cuba wanted him back. Federal agents raided the home where he was staying and returned him to Cuba by June of 2000.

1. Lil Wayne
   Eminem
2. Jay-Z
   Kanye West

The word "stan" is sometimes retroactively defined as a portmanteau of stalker and fan, but it originated from Eminem's hit song "Stan," which is about a crazed and obsessed fan named Stan. The song appeared on the Eminem's third album, The Marshall Mathers LP.

1. 200 million
   280 million
2. 190 million
   310 million

The 22nd U.S. Census was taken on April 1, 2000 and revealed the U.S. population to be 281,421,906. California, Texas and New York were the three most populous states in the country, and California became the first state to have more than 30 million residents

1. 1 day
   1 week
2. 1 month
   1 year

The election was held on November 7th and recounting continued for a month until the U.S. Supreme Court ended the recount and a few days later ruled to completely end the recount, giving the state of Florida, and the election, to George W. Bush.

1. $0.50
   $1.00
2. $1.50
   $2.00

A gallon of gas in 2000 cost about $1.50 on average. The average cost per gallon first crack $3.00 in 2008 and it peaked at $3.64 in 2012. It gradually fell since then, but began approaching the three-dollar mark again in 2019.

1. Big Brother
   The Real World
2. Survivor
   The Amazing Race

Survivor has been going strong since 2000, airing more than 500 episodes over 38 seasons with a 39th season scheduled for 2019. The show follows a group of strangers trapped on a deserted island who get voted out one by one by castmates.

1. American Psycho
   Almost Famous
2. American Beauty
   Gladiator

Ridley Scott's epic about a Roman gladiator starred Russell Crowe in the lead role and earned him the Oscar for Best Actor. The film debuted in Los Angeles in May of 2000 and won the Best Picture Oscar as well as many other awards.

1. New York Mets
   Brooklyn Dodgers
2. Boston Red Sox
   Los Angeles Dodgers

Derek Jeter won MVP of the series and the Yankees defeated the Mets in five games. It was the first Subway Series since the New York Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3) in 1956. The Dodgers had beat the Yankees for the title the year before.

1. Jimmy Fallon
   Tina Fey
2. Will Ferrell
   Cheri Oteri

Tina Fey began writing sketches for SNL in 1997 and when Cheri Oteri, Colin Quinn and Tim Meadows left the show in 2000, she joined the cast. She appeared in sketches and sat alongside Jimmy Fallon as co-anchor of Weekend Update.

1. London
   Sydney
2. Tokyo
   Athens

The 2000 Summer Games were known as the Millennium Olympics and were the last games of the 20th century. The Games were held in Sydney and it was the first appearance for Michael Phelps, who qualified at age 15.

1. LimeWire
   iTunes
2. Kazaa
   Napster

Napster was released in 1999 and by 2000 it was revolutionizing the music industry. When rock band Metallic saw an unreleased song of theirs being shared on the network, they decided to take legal action. Napster shut down in 2001 and then was revived in various ways years later.

1. Steve Young
   Dan Marino
2. Brett Favre
   John Elway

Dan Marino joined the NFL in 1983 and played his last game on January 16, 2000, when the Dolphins lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars 62 - 7 in the second round of the playoffs. Marino never won a Super Bowl but held 40 records when he retired and is considered one of the best quarterbacks ever.

1. The Goblet of Fire
   The Philosopher's Stone
2. The Prisoner of Azkaban
   The Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was the fourth book in the Harry Potter series and was released in 2000. The book went on to win several awards and earn rave reviews, and its movie adaptation earned close to $1 billion worldwide.

1. Macy Gray
   Britney Spears
2. Christina Aguilera
   Kid Rock

Christina Aguilera beat Britney Spears, Macy Gray and Kid Rock to take home the Best New Artist Award at the 2000 Grammy Awards. She had released two studio albums up until that point and released her third later that year.

1. India
   The United States
2. China
   Russia

The government of India designated May 11, 2000 as the day the country reached 1 billion citizens. India was, and still is, the second most populous country in the world, behind China, which counted 1.2 billion citizens that year.

1. Bill Gates
   Steve Jobs
2. Warren Buffet
   Jeff Bezos

Bill Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft at the beginning of 2000 and Steve Balmer took over the postion. Gates said the move had nothing to do with the company's legal issues, but within a year the company was found guilty of unlawful monopolization.

1. Nokia 3310
   BlackBerry 850
2. Motorola StarTAC
   Siemens M30

Nokia made the most popular cell phones for several years and the 3310 sold 126 million units worldwide in the year 2000, making it one the best selling cell phones ever. The first Blackberry device was released in 1999 and became the dominant smartphone the first decade of the 21st century.

1. Viacom
   AT&T
2. Comcast
   America Online

America Online was at the center of the Internet universe during the 1990s, and by 2000 it was part of one of largest corporate mergers ever when it purchased Time Warner for $164 billion. Time Warner got out of the deal by 2009.

1. Vermont
   Colorado
2. California
   Massachusetts

In 2000 Vermont became the first state in the country to introduce same-sex civil unions and the state legalized same-sex marriage in 2009. Massachusetts and Connecticut were the first states to legalize same-sex marriage.

1. St. Louis Rams
   New England Patriots
2. Green Bay Packers
   San Francisco 49ers

Super Bowl XXXIV took place on January 30, 2000 in Atlanta and the St. Louis Rams defeated the Tennessee Titans 23-16. Kurt Warner was the MVP and it was the first Super Bowl victory in Rams history. It was the first Super Bowl appearance for the Titans.