Internet & Memes Trivia Questions and Answers

Where things came from and what happened to them: the memes, the sites, the viral moments and the platforms that rose and disappeared. Questions cover origins more than punchlines — which video, which forum, which year — plus the founders, the acquisitions and the features that were added in a weekend and outlived the product. This is the fastest-ageing topic in the bank, so it deliberately leans on the material that has already proved it lasts rather than on the current cycle. It is also the one where the youngest person at the table usually wins, comfortably.

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  1. 1. What is it called when a music video link secretly leads to a Rick Astley song?Easy

    • Rickrolling ✓
    • Punking
    • Trolling
    • Gotcha-ing

  2. 2. What was the real name of the meme known as Grumpy Cat?Hard

    • Tardar Sauce ✓
    • Colonel Meow
    • Lil Bub
    • Maru

  3. 3. What breed was the cat behind the animated Nyan Cat meme?Hard

    • It was a real cat named Marty ✓
    • It was purely computer generated
    • It was a stuffed toy
    • It was a video game sprite

  4. 4. What is the meme called showing Keanu Reeves alone and dejected on a park bench?Medium

    • Sad Keanu ✓
    • Hide the Pain Harold
    • Disaster Girl
    • Bad Luck Brian

  5. 5. What is a fake or exaggerated online rumour meant to deceive called?Easy

    • A hoax ✓
    • A meme
    • A troll
    • A leak

  6. 6. What is the term for scrolling endlessly through bad news online?Hard

    • Doomscrolling ✓
    • Clickbaiting
    • Lurking
    • Rage baiting

  7. 7. Which YouTuber is known for his MrBeast persona and giant giveaway videos?Easy

    • Jimmy Donaldson ✓
    • Logan Paul
    • PewDiePie
    • KSI

  8. 8. Which children's channel became one of YouTube's most-watched of all time?Medium

    • Cocomelon ✓
    • Sesame Street
    • Blippi
    • PBS Kids

  9. 9. Which country is credited with inventing the emoji in the late 1990s?Hard

    • Japan ✓
    • The United States
    • South Korea
    • Finland

  10. 10. Which discussion platform organises posts into topic-based communities?Easy

    • Reddit ✓
    • Digg
    • 4chan
    • Discord

  11. 11. Which anonymous imageboard is known for spawning many early internet memes?Easy

    • 4chan ✓
    • Reddit
    • Tumblr
    • Something Awful

  12. 12. Which Reddit mascot is a small alien creature?Medium

    • Snoo ✓
    • Digg Dog
    • Chan Bot
    • Redditron

  13. 13. Which early social network let users pick a top eight friends to display?Easy

    • MySpace ✓
    • Friendster
    • Bebo
    • Orkut

  14. 14. Which internet slang term means laughing out loud?Easy

    • LOL ✓
    • BRB
    • IDK
    • TTYL

  15. 15. What does the abbreviation SMH stand for?Hard

    • Shaking my head ✓
    • So much hype
    • Send me help
    • Still moving here

  16. 16. Which hoax claimed a certain year's calendar predicted the end of the world?Easy

    • The 2012 Mayan prophecy ✓
    • The Y2K bug
    • The Millennium Bug hoax
    • The Blood Moon prophecy

  17. 17. Which April Fools' hoax has Google run for years with fake product announcements?Medium

    • Google's annual joke products ✓
    • Facebook's fake outages
    • Apple's prank keynotes
    • Amazon's joke deliveries

  18. 18. Which text-based app did Meta launch in 2023 to rival Twitter?Medium

    • Threads ✓
    • Bluesky
    • Mastodon
    • Spaces

  19. 19. Which Chinese company owns TikTok?Hard

    • ByteDance ✓
    • Tencent
    • Alibaba
    • Baidu

  20. 20. Which webcam video of a young man lip-syncing to a Moldovan song went viral in 2004?Medium

    • Numa Numa ✓
    • Chocolate Rain
    • Charlie Bit My Finger
    • Leave Britney Alone

  21. 21. Which deep-voiced song about being called ugly became an unlikely 2007 viral hit?Hard

    • Chocolate Rain ✓
    • Friday
    • Numa Numa
    • Chocolate Rain remix

  22. 22. Which teenager's video swinging a golf-ball retriever like a lightsaber went viral in 2002?Hard

    • Star Wars Kid ✓
    • Charlie Bit My Finger
    • David After Dentist
    • Leave Britney Alone Guy

  23. 23. Which extremely loud sneeze-related viral video became a huge early YouTube hit?Medium

    • Sneezing Baby Panda ✓
    • Chocolate Rain
    • Bed Intruder
    • Star Wars Kid

  24. 24. Which New Jersey teenager filmed the original Numa Numa video?Hard

    • Gary Brolsma ✓
    • Tay Zonday
    • Ghyslain Raza
    • Andy Milonakis

  25. 25. Which lawsuit-plagued file-sharing service used a green smiley face logo?Hard

    • LimeWire ✓
    • Napster
    • Kazaa
    • BitTorrent

  26. 26. Which format did people use to type sideways smiling faces before emoji existed?Easy

    • Emoticons like :) ✓
    • ASCII art only
    • GIFs
    • Stickers

  27. 27. Which typing style using deliberate misspellings was common in early internet gaming chat?Easy

    • Leetspeak ✓
    • Netspeak
    • Slang code
    • Chatspeak

  28. 28. What does GG mean at the end of an online match?Medium

    • Good game ✓
    • Go again
    • Great goal
    • Got game

  29. 29. Which platform introduced a heart icon to replace its original star favourite button?Easy

    • Twitter ✓
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Reddit

  30. 30. What is a post with unusually high engagement said to do?Easy

    • Blow up ✓
    • Crash
    • Expire
    • Flatline

  31. 31. What is it called when a user permanently prevents another account from contacting them?Medium

    • Blocking ✓
    • Muting
    • Reporting
    • Flagging

  32. 32. What term describes a platform quietly reducing a user's visibility without notifying them?Hard

    • Shadowbanning ✓
    • Muting
    • Blocking
    • Demonetising

  33. 33. Which website's slogan was once Because the internet needs another list?Easy

    • BuzzFeed ✓
    • Reddit
    • Cracked
    • Buzz1000

  34. 34. Which website, known for satire and lists, predates BuzzFeed by years?Medium

    • Cracked ✓
    • The Onion
    • College Humor
    • Funny or Die

  35. 35. Which satirical newspaper site is famous for fake but funny headlines?Medium

    • The Onion ✓
    • Cracked
    • BuzzFeed
    • ClickHole

  36. 36. Which satirical spinoff of The Onion mimics viral clickbait content?Hard

    • ClickHole ✓
    • Cracked
    • Funny or Die
    • Reductress

  37. 37. Which company bought the livestreaming platform Twitch in 2014?Medium

    • Amazon ✓
    • Google
    • Microsoft
    • Meta

  38. 38. Which annual event has Reddit users collaboratively drawing on a shared online canvas?Medium

    • r/place ✓
    • r/all
    • r/pics
    • r/AskReddit

  39. 39. Which streaming platform's mascot is a purple figure named Glitch?Hard

    • Twitch ✓
    • YouTube
    • Discord
    • Kick

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