Telegram (software) - Quiz
  • 1. What is required to sign up for Telegram?
A) A phone number or an anonymous +888 number
B) A social media account
C) An email address
D) A username only
  • 2. Can a user's phone number be seen by everyone on Telegram?
A) Only verified accounts can see other users' numbers.
B) Phone numbers are never shared on Telegram.
C) Yes, it is always visible to all users.
D) No, it is hidden by default and only visible to the user's contacts.
  • 3. How long does a Telegram account remain active before being deleted?
A) Indefinitely unless manually deleted.
B) 12 months without any change possible.
C) Up to 18 months, depending on user settings.
D) 6 months with no option for extension.
  • 4. What is the maximum file size that can be sent via Telegram?
A) 1 GB
B) 10 GB
C) 4 GB with Premium, otherwise 2 GB
D) 5 GB
  • 5. Can messages in private chats on Telegram be edited after being sent?
A) Only within the first 24 hours.
B) Editing is possible indefinitely.
C) Yes, for up to 48 hours.
D) No, they cannot be edited once sent.
  • 6. What happens when a user changes their phone number in Telegram?
A) A backup of all data is sent to the user's email.
B) All messages are deleted and contacts are notified.
C) The old number remains associated with the account.
D) The account is reassigned to the new number without exporting data or notifying contacts.
  • 7. Can Telegram users import chat history from other messaging apps?
A) No, importing from other apps is not supported.
B) Yes, from WhatsApp, Line, and KakaoTalk.
C) Only from WhatsApp.
D) Only to WhatsApp.
  • 8. What feature allows users to continue typing a message across different devices?
A) Cross-device messaging
B) Cloud draft
C) Draft save
D) Message sync
  • 9. How can Telegram messages be translated?
A) By opening the context menu or with one click for Premium users.
B) Translation is not available on Telegram.
C) Messages must be sent to a translator bot.
D) Only by copying and pasting into a translation service.
  • 10. What type of encryption does a Secret Chat use?
A) No encryption, it is stored on Telegram's servers.
B) End-to-end encryption with perfect forward secrecy
C) Standard encryption available to all chats.
D) Encryption only for text messages.
  • 11. Can Secret Chats be accessed from multiple devices?
A) Yes, they can be accessed from any logged-in device.
B) They are stored in cloud storage for access anywhere.
C) Only two devices at a time.
D) No, they are accessible only on the device where they were started.
  • 12. What happens to messages in Secret Chats when the user logs out?
A) Only media files are deleted, text remains.
B) Messages remain accessible until manually deleted.
C) The chat self-destructs.
D) They are backed up to Telegram's servers.
  • 13. Can users schedule messages on Telegram?
A) Yes, they can be sent at a specific time or when the recipient is online.
B) Scheduling is only for group chats.
C) No, messages must be sent immediately.
D) Only Premium users can schedule messages.
  • 14. What format do Telegram stickers use?
A) .tiff and .svg
B) .gif and .bmp
C) .png and .jpg
D) WebP or WebM
  • 15. Can reactions be used in group chats on Telegram?
A) Reactions are always available in all chat types.
B) Only Premium users can use reactions in groups.
C) Yes, but they must be enabled by admins.
D) No, reactions are only for private chats.
  • 16. How can Telegram messages be forwarded without revealing the original sender?
A) By selecting the option to hide the sender's identity.
B) This feature is not available.
C) Only media messages can have hidden senders.
D) Forwarding always reveals the sender's identity.
  • 17. Can Telegram users organize their chats into folders?
A) Yes, with options like 'Unread' and 'Muted', or custom separations.
B) Folders are only available for group chats.
C) No, chats cannot be organized into folders.
D) Only Premium users can create chat folders.
  • 18. What is a feature exclusive to Telegram's Secret Chats?
A) Importing chat history from other apps.
B) Sending files up to 10 GB.
C) Self-destructing messages after being read.
D) Reactions with special effects.
  • 19. On what date was Telegram removed from the App Store in 2026?
A) 3 August 2026
B) 1 August 2026
C) 5 August 2026
D) 4 August 2026
  • 20. What was the reason given by Apple for removing Telegram from the App Store?
A) Data privacy concerns
B) Inappropriate advertising content
C) Security vulnerabilities in the app
D) Content violating its guidelines against child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
  • 21. How many groups and channels associated with CSAM did Telegram block during 2026?
A) Over 100,000
B) More than 337,900
C) Less than 50,000
D) Approximately 500,000
  • 22. What did Durov criticize Apple for?
A) Ignoring user complaints
B) Removing Telegram before contacting the company
C) Failing to apologize publicly
D) Not removing the content quickly enough
  • 23. In October 2013, how many daily active users did Telegram announce it had?
A) 200,000
B) 100,000
C) 500,000
D) 50,000
  • 24. How many monthly active users did Telegram have by March 2014?
A) 45 million
B) 35 million
C) 50 million
D) 25 million
  • 25. What event in South Korea contributed to a surge in Telegram's user base in October 2014?
A) Government surveillance plans
B) Internet blackout
C) Cyber attack
D) New app release
  • 26. In February 2016, how many monthly active users did Telegram report?
A) 100 million
B) 150 million
C) 120 million
D) 80 million
  • 27. As of March 2018, what was the number of Telegram's monthly active users?
A) 180 million
B) 220 million
C) 250 million
D) 200 million
  • 28. By October 2019, how many monthly active users did Telegram have?
A) 400 million
B) 250 million
C) 350 million
D) 300 million
  • 29. As of January 2021, how many monthly active users did Telegram approximately have?
A) 500 million
B) 600 million
C) 400 million
D) 550 million
  • 30. What percentage of Telegram's total installs came from India in August 2021?
A) 15%
B) 22%
C) 18%
D) 30%
  • 31. In June 2022, how many monthly active users did Telegram report?
A) 800 million
B) 750 million
C) 600 million
D) 700 million
  • 32. When did Telegram surpass 1 billion monthly active users?
A) December 2024
B) January 2026
C) March 2025
D) July 2024
  • 33. Where are Telegram's headquarters located as of 2024?
A) Berlin, Germany
B) Dubai, United Arab Emirates
C) London, United Kingdom
D) Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • 34. What was the largest market for Telegram as of March 2025?
A) Russia
B) Brazil
C) United States
D) India
  • 35. What was Pavel Durov's previous venture before founding Telegram?
A) Facebook
B) WhatsApp
C) Instagram
D) The Russian social network VK
  • 36. In what year did Pavel and Nikolai Durov leave VK due to government pressure?
A) 2013
B) 2016
C) 2015
D) 2014
  • 37. What protocol is the basis for Telegram Messenger?
A) MTProto
B) ZRTP
C) Open Whisper Systems
D) Signal Protocol
  • 38. How many legal requests from India did Telegram process between January to September 2024?
A) 203
B) 5,000
C) 6,992
D) 10,000
  • 39. What type of messaging does Telegram channels support?
A) One-way feeds
B) Private messages
C) Group discussions
D) Two-way chats
  • 40. Which service moved from WhatsApp to Telegram in December 2019?
A) The New York Times
B) Business Insider
C) Financial Times
D) Bloomberg News
  • 41. What feature allows Telegram groups to create subgroups dedicated to various subjects?
A) Creating channels
B) Splitting into topics
C) Enabling content protection
D) Using bots for moderation
  • 42. When were one-on-one calls first available on Telegram?
A) In June 2021
B) In December 2020
C) In August 2020
D) Since 2017
  • 43. When were group voice chats added to Telegram?
A) In August 2020
B) Since 2017
C) In June 2021
D) In December 2020
  • 44. What feature is supported by both group voice and video chats on Telegram?
A) Background music
B) Picture-in-picture video
C) Real-time translation
D) Automatic call recording
  • 45. What can be integrated with third-party apps like OBS Studio and XSplit on Telegram?
A) Livestreams in channels
B) Group voice chats
C) Private messages
D) One-on-one video calls
  • 46. What is a feature of Telegram's group video chats?
A) Automatic translation
B) Background music
C) Virtual backgrounds
D) Noise suppression
  • 47. When were video stickers added to Telegram?
A) January 2022
B) May 2024
C) August 2019
D) June 2022
  • 48. What type of emoji did Telegram introduce in August 2019?
A) Video stickers
B) Static emoji
C) Animated emoji
D) Interactive emoji
  • 49. When were interactive emoji added to Telegram?
A) September 2021
B) August 2019
C) May 2024
D) June 2022
  • 50. When were reactions first added to Telegram?
A) 2023
B) 2022
C) 2021
D) 2019
  • 51. In which month and year did free users gain access to more emoji reactions?
A) June 2022
B) September 2022
C) May 2024
D) August 2019
  • 52. When were People Nearby and Groups Near Me features removed from Telegram?
A) 2024
B) 2023
C) 2021
D) 2022
  • 53. When was Telegram Premium launched?
A) 19 June 2022
B) January 2022
C) May 2024
D) September 2021
  • 54. Which platform allows users to purchase Telegram Premium with cryptocurrency?
A) Fragment
B) Apple Pay
C) PayPal
D) Google Wallet
  • 55. What is one of the features available to Telegram Premium users?
A) Access to all third-party apps
B) Unlimited voice message transcription
C) Automatic translation for all messages
D) Free stickers for all chats
  • 56. What is one way users can obtain Telegram Premium subscriptions?
A) Winning them through official Channel Giveaways
B) Purchasing them on Amazon
C) Requesting them as a gift from friends
D) Downloading from third-party websites
  • 57. When were message effects introduced in Telegram?
A) August 2019
B) May 2024
C) June 2022
D) September 2021
  • 58. What are Collectible Gifts registered on the TON blockchain as?
A) Blockchain assets
B) Digital tokens
C) NFTs
D) Cryptocurrency
  • 59. Which rapper partnered with Telegram to release a set of limited edition collectible gifts in July 2025?
A) Snoop Dogg
B) Kanye West
C) Drake
D) Jay-Z
  • 60. What system did Telegram begin using for new sets of collectible gifts in November 2025?
A) Pay-per-use
B) Fixed pricing
C) Subscription model
D) Auction-based system
  • 61. What is the maximum file size for images and videos that can be uploaded to Telegraph articles?
A) 15 MB
B) 5 MB
C) 20 MB
D) 10 MB
  • 62. Which university team provided a formal correctness proof for MTProto 2.0?
A) Stanford University
B) University of Udine, Italy
C) Harvard University
D) MIT
  • 63. What tool did the University of Udine team use to verify MTProto 2.0?
A) CryptoVerif
B) OpenSSL
C) EasyCrypt
D) ProVerif
  • 64. What type of attack is possible if users do not verify key fingerprints?
A) Man-in-the-middle attack
B) Brute force attack
C) SQL injection
D) Cross-site scripting (XSS)
  • 65. What model did the University of Udine team use for their verification?
A) Computational model
B) Symbolic Dolev-Yao model
C) OpenSSL model
D) AES model
  • 66. Which audio formats are supported by Telegram's built-in media viewer?
A) WMA, APE, Musepack
B) ALAC, DSD, MPC
C) MP3, FLAC, Vorbis, Opus, AAC
D) RA, MOD, S3M
  • 67. Which non-traditional platform does Telegram support through the Telekram client?
A) BlackBerry OS
B) KaiOS
C) Windows Phone
D) Palm OS
  • 68. What functionality do Telegram's public APIs allow developers to create?
A) Online shopping websites
B) Video streaming services
C) Social media platforms
D) Their own instant messaging applications
  • 69. What external service does Telegram offer functions to integrate with for making payments?
A) Stripe
B) PayPal
C) Square
D) Venmo
  • 70. What is the name of Telegram's confidential compute network for running open-source models?
A) Cocoon
B) Telegram Cloud
C) OpenAI Network
D) AI Hub
  • 71. Which AI feature allows users to summarize long posts in Telegram channels?
A) AI summaries
B) AI translators
C) AI stylizers
D) AI editors
  • 72. What was the value range of Telegram according to press reports before the bonds placement?
A) $30–40 billion
B) $10–20 billion
C) $20–30 billion
D) $40–50 billion
  • 73. Who was responsible for developing the codebase behind TON?
A) The Telegram team
B) External developers
C) Pavel Durov
D) Nikolai Durov
  • 74. What was Telegram's native cryptocurrency called?
A) DurovToken
B) TelegramCoin
C) TONcoin
D) Gram
  • 75. Which type of chats on Telegram uses end-to-end encryption?
A) Group Chats
B) All user messages
C) Secret Chats
D) Channel Posts
  • 76. What did Filippo Valsorda call the flaw in MTProto v1?
A) An enhancement to user privacy.
B) The most backdoor-looking bug he had ever seen.
C) A minor inconvenience with no real impact.
D) A necessary feature for server management.
  • 77. Who warned about Russia recruiting saboteurs through Telegram?
A) Martin Jäger
B) US officials
C) Maia Sandu
D) Pavel Durov
  • 78. Which country's president denounced Telegram for refusing collaboration against illegal activities?
A) France
B) Brazil
C) Myanmar
D) Moldova
  • 79. What action did Telegram take in December 2016 regarding ISIS-related content?
A) Stopped all communications on the platform.
B) Began publishing daily moderation statistics.
C) Banned all users related to ISIS.
D) Collaborated with the US government.
  • 80. Who announced the appearance of a Telegram bot selling personal data of Ukrainian citizens on May 11, 2020?
A) Hyderabad Police
B) Apple
C) Volodymyr Flents
D) Mykhailo Fedorov
  • 81. What app's data was reportedly contained in the Telegram bot that sold personal information of Ukrainians?
A) WhatsApp
B) Facebook
C) Telegram itself
D) Diia application
  • 82. How many people were confirmed to be involved in criminal activity related to the Telegram bot selling Ukrainian data?
A) 350,000
B) 30
C) 15,000
D) 25
  • 83. What type of content led Apple to block a Telegram bot in 2020?
A) Terrorism-related content
B) Copyrighted media
C) Deepfake pornography
D) Child abuse content
  • 84. What type of fraud is most commonly associated with Telegram, as mentioned in the text?
A) Identity theft
B) Phishing attacks
C) Credit card fraud
D) Prepaid tasks scams
  • 85. From which country did the prepaid task fraud that duped Indian citizens originate?
A) China
B) Russia
C) Singapore
D) Spain
  • 86. What was the judge's final decision regarding the temporary blocking of Telegram in Spain?
A) The order was annulled as 'disproportionate'
B) The order was delayed indefinitely
C) The order was upheld permanently
D) The order was modified to include more restrictions
  • 87. Under which act is Telegram required to provide updated user numbers in the EU?
A) Telecommunications Act
B) Digital Services Act (DSA)
C) Consumer Rights Directive
D) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • 88. Which German public media broadcaster closed its Telegram channel in August 2025 due to advertisement issues?
A) BR
B) ARD
C) NDR
D) ZDF
  • 89. What was the name of the NDR's closed Telegram channel that published news summaries?
A) NDR Info
B) tagesschau
C) Deutschland Nachrichten
D) ARD News
  • 90. Which agreement places strict rules on how German public media broadcasters may generate revenue from advertisements?
A) Telecommunications Act
B) Digital Services Act
C) Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Interstate Broadcasting Agreement)
D) General Data Protection Regulation
  • 91. What type of advertisements were described as 'shady' or 'fraudulent' on the NDR's Telegram channel?
A) Sports bets
B) Product placements
C) News articles
D) Technology gadgets
  • 92. Which marketplace did Telegram block in 2025 for being used by online scammers?
A) TrustShield
B) FraudSafe
C) ScamNet
D) Huione Guarantee
  • 93. Which nationalities primarily composed the criminal network found on Telegram?
A) American nationals
B) German nationals
C) Chinese nationals
D) Russian nationals
  • 94. What type of terminology did the group use to refer to their victims?
A) Automotive terminology
B) Financial terminology
C) Legal terminology
D) Medical terminology
  • 95. Which OSINT service can retrieve information from multiple sources using a Telegram ID?
A) 'Glaz Boga'
B) 'InfoTrack'
C) 'SpyNet'
D) 'DataHunt'
  • 96. Which celebrity has used Telegram channels?
A) Leonardo DiCaprio
B) Arnold Schwarzenegger
C) Tom Cruise
D) Brad Pitt
  • 97. Name a politician who has used Telegram channels.
A) Joe Biden
B) Emmanuel Macron
C) Angela Merkel
D) Narendra Modi
  • 98. Which country's former president is known to have used Telegram?
A) Brazil (Jair Bolsonaro)
B) Argentina (Mauricio Macri)
C) Chile (Sebastián Piñera)
D) Colombia (Iván Duque)
  • 99. Which former Mexican president has used Telegram?
A) Carlos Salinas de Gortari
B) Andrés Manuel López Obrador
C) Enrique Peña Nieto
D) Felipe Calderón
  • 100. Which former Singaporean Prime Minister has used Telegram?
A) Goh Chok Tong
B) Lim Hng Kiang
C) Lee Hsien Loong
D) Tony Tan
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