🌟 Viral Internet Culture Trivia Questions & Answers
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30 Viral Internet Culture trivia questions
Q1. In February 2015, a viral dress photo split the internet — blue and black, or which two colors?
Answer: White and gold
💡 The dress was actually blue and black — but the lighting in the photo tricked millions of eyes into seeing gold.
Q2. At Katy Perry's 2015 Super Bowl show, which costumed dancer went viral dancing off-rhythm?
Answer: Left Shark
💡 The dancer inside the shark suit stayed anonymous for three years before finally revealing his identity in 2018.
Q3. Which Turkish chef went viral in 2017 for his flashy way of sprinkling seasoning on steak?
Answer: Salt Bae
💡 The clip racked up over 2.4 million views within just 48 hours of going up.
Q4. Baby Yoda first appeared onscreen in 2019 in which Star Wars TV series?
Answer: The Mandalorian
💡 Two million tweets mentioned 'Baby Yoda' within just weeks of the 2019 premiere.
Q5. The 'This Is Fine' meme shows a calm cartoon dog sitting inside what kind of room?
Answer: A room on fire
💡 It's based on a 2013 webcomic strip that became one of the internet's most-used reaction images.
Q6. The prank of tricking someone into clicking a link to a famous 1987 music video has what name?
Answer: Rickrolling
💡 It grew out of an earlier 4chan gag called 'duckrolling' and exploded in 2007-2008.
Q7. Which 1987 pop hit is the song at the center of every Rickroll prank?
Answer: Never Gonna Give You Up
💡 Singer Rick Astley's career got a huge second wind decades later thanks to the meme.
Q8. Which deep-voiced YouTube singer went viral in 2007 with the song Chocolate Rain?
Answer: Tay Zonday
💡 He was a grad student at the time and left his PhD program soon after the video exploded.
Q9. Which Baauer song sparked a 2013 meme where one dancer is joined by everyone when the bass drops?
Answer: Harlem Shake
💡 The meme sent the song to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for five straight weeks.
Q10. What's the popular name of the 2007 video of a British toddler biting his older brother's finger?
Answer: Charlie Bit My Finger
💡 It briefly held the title of most-viewed video in YouTube history.
Q11. Dumping ice water over your head for charity went viral in 2014 for awareness of which disease?
Answer: ALS
💡 The Ice Bucket Challenge raised over $115 million for ALS research in just a few months.
Q12. Whose mittens and folded arms at the 2021 inauguration sparked a wave of photoshopped memes?
Answer: Bernie Sanders
💡 The mittens were handmade by a Vermont schoolteacher, who later auctioned more for charity.
Q13. What was the real name of the scowling cat that became an internet star via a 2012 Reddit post?
Answer: Tardar Sauce
💡 Fans knew her better by her stage name, Grumpy Cat.
Q14. Which children's sing-along became the first YouTube video to hit 10 billion views, in January 2022?
Answer: Baby Shark Dance
💡 It knocked 'Despacito' off the top spot after reigning for over a year.
Q15. Which Spanish-language hit became YouTube's most-viewed video in 2017, surpassing Gangnam Style?
Answer: Despacito
💡 It hit 3 billion views in just 203 days, a record pace at the time.
Q16. In 2016, which Star Wars mask made a Texas mom burst into viral laughter on Facebook?
Answer: Chewbacca
💡 Her name is Candace Payne, and the video helped push Facebook Live into the mainstream.
Q17. From 90 daily players to millions, which game did The New York Times buy in January 2022?
Answer: Wordle
💡 Creator Josh Wardle made the game for his partner before it took over the internet — and sold it for a low-seven-figure sum.
Q18. The 'Success Kid' meme's iconic photo shows a baby clenching a fistful of what?
Answer: Sand
💡 The baby, Sammy Griner, was photographed mid-tantrum at the beach back in 2007.
Q19. The viral 2016 catchphrase 'Damn, Daniel' kept complimenting a teen's white what?
Answer: Vans
💡 The clip's stars later appeared on Ellen, who gifted them a surfboard and free sneakers.
Q20. The 'Big Chungus' meme reimagines which classic cartoon character as hugely overweight?
Answer: Bugs Bunny
💡 The oversized image actually comes from a real 1941 Looney Tunes short.
Q21. What's the name of the confused-looking cat in the 'Woman Yelling at Cat' meme?
Answer: Smudge
💡 Smudge's owner snapped the photo in Ottawa in 2018, after he claimed an empty chair.
Q22. Keyboard Cat's viral video secretly showed its owner moving the cat's what, off-camera?
Answer: Paws
💡 The original footage of the cat, named Fatso, was actually filmed back in 1984.
Q23. 'Epic Sax Guy' went viral for a sax solo at which song contest, back in 2010?
Answer: Eurovision
💡 Musician Sergey Stepanov played the solo for Moldova's entry with SunStroke Project.
Q24. What was the nickname of the 3D infant doing the cha-cha, an early viral video sensation in 1996?
Answer: Dancing Baby
💡 It's also called the 'Oogachacka Baby' after the 'Hooked on a Feeling' remix that often played alongside it.
Q25. What nickname stuck to Gary Brolsma after his dance to a Moldovan song went viral in December 2004?
Answer: Numa Numa Guy
💡 The clip briefly became one of the most-watched videos on the entire internet.
Q26. What animal appeared in the first test photo posted to Instagram in mid-2010 by Kevin Systrom?
Answer: A dog
💡 He captioned the golden retriever photo simply 'test' at a taco stand in Mexico.
Q27. What's the nickname for the meme of a man eyeing another woman as his girlfriend scowls?
Answer: Distracted Boyfriend
💡 The original 2015 photo was taken in Girona, Spain, for a completely unrelated stock shoot.
Q28. The colorful broken-English 'Doge' meme is built around photos of which real dog breed?
Answer: Shiba Inu
💡 The dog behind the meme, Kabosu, was rescued from a shelter in Japan before becoming internet-famous.
Q29. Which Lil Nas X song blew up on TikTok in 2019 and set a Billboard record for weeks at number one?
Answer: Old Town Road
💡 It spent 19 weeks at the top of the Hot 100, a run that stood as the record for years.
Q30. Scott Fahlman proposed the first ':-)' emoticon in 1982 at which university?
Answer: Carnegie Mellon
💡 Fahlman posted it to a campus bulletin board to flag jokes on a physics discussion.
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