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Quiz On Memes
Quiz On Memes
So, please dont take this as a purists work - its a gen quiz with a high meme
content.
BUT, I promise you this - all questions are a ) workoutable, b ) stuff youve
probably heard or seen and c ) intricately tied to silly puns and funny tidbits - the
stuff of internet culture, even if theyre not directly memes.
16 questions to start
Q1 - Makemytrip referencing something. FITB
That escalated quickly
Q2
When writing for the Daily Californian, Chris reports regretting the creation -
something he did just for fun after browsing 4chan - and started with 10 friends , 3
of whom left quickly. The explosion in popularity happened after they were part of
a vigil for _____ on campus, driving them to mainstream status.
He sometimes thinks of putting it on his Linkedin page, but cant bring himself to -
itd be too awkward.
What remark - made about the way to prepare tea and tie hair - am I on about ?
Q4 - FITB with a very specific phrase
The following is an excerpt from a Slate article investigating something.
Youve seen them. Peeking out from sidebars, jiggling and wiggling for your
attention, popping up where you most expect them: those ___ ____ _____ ads.
These crudely drawn Web advertisements promise easy tricks to reduce your belly
fat, learn a new language, and boost your credit score by 217 points. They seem
like obvious scams, but part of me has always wanted to follow the link.
One Weird Trick
Q5
FITB and explain the meme
The term stuck, and now ______ ( followed by another word ) constitutes the
standard way to refer to this since Kinseys work in the 1960s. What am I talking
about ?
The missionary position
Q7
The joke started on 4chan in the early 2000s with the spread of internet to the
developing world. In a heated argument lost to the servers of time, the exact
exchange went something along these lines :
Indignant reply : We dont have ____ _____ . People are civilized here, we have
________ _______ ______.
The organization mentions no formal headquarters , and states that the reason is
the fear of getting attacked over its content.
The tradition started in a college quiz festival where people were starved for ideas
to name the quiz theme, and decided to combine the name of an iconic Calcuttan
landmark with the name of a clothing brand you likely arent going to use because
quizzes have a demographic like Haryanas.
Sometimes, doujins become mangas in their own right. An example is One Punch
Man parodying most action animes as a whole.
A certain doujinshi called Densha De D decided to parody the street racing manga
genre by turning all the cars into trains. The doujin follows the lives of train racers
and their signature move - the ____ ____ ____ .
Bill Maher chose to take this on with a slight twist on the line. Specifically :
Owning a Rolls royce isnt a matter of life and death - I mean, till its bought by
_____, of course - then you get to die for free..
The remark became hugely popular, due to the controversy over the company and
Shkreli himself at the time. FITB with the name of the company.
Volkswagen
The emission scandal
Q16
The original definition of the term was to steal an idea from your friends and make
it your own, to either commercial success or fame or both , and was created in
urban dictionary by an anonymous guy from Boston during 2007 at the apex point
of a legal controversy that is now well known.
Over time, the term has become greatly shortened, and now refers to something
different entirely.
If youve ever read Discworld, you know how Terry likes to make almost
everything a reference to something funny.
This situation was described in 1935 in a paragraph that was explicitly aimed to
take the limits of determinability to absurd levels, and starts with the line :
I WAS SURPRISED THAT YOU JOSTLED ME, RINCEWIND. FOR I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH THEE THIS VERY
NIGHT.
Oh no, not
OF COURSE, WHATS SO BLOODY VEXING ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS IS THAT I WAS EXPECTING TO MEET
THEE IN PSEUDOPOLIS.
YOU DONT HAVE TO TELL ME, THE WHOLE SYSTEMS GOT SCREWED UP AGAIN. I CAN SEE THAT.
An Appointment in Samarra
Q3
The Night Watch in Discworld ( the equivalent of the police ) have a special motto
written in broken latin :
In Soul Music, Glod is a rule-breaker, a monk who ran away from his order. He is
given the chance to join a band and become a horn player of legend. The quote
goes as follows :
Do you want to be the greatest horn player in the world or just a _____ monk ?
The blank is a common word people have encountered in the world of tech, and
was first developed by Stallman at MIT. I am sure most people here have used a
____ product.
The smoking GNU
Q6
There is a popular myth that the word arises from Port Outside, Starboard Home
and refers to the cabins on a ship that would stay the coolest on a long voyage to
India from Britain. Since only the richest men could afford these cabins, the words
became associated with aristocracy and the upper class. Terry uses the word
extensively in his writing, as all British writers do, preferring it over equivalent
words such as upper-class.
According to the novel, this predator can visualize two contrasting geometries at
once, making their abilities to work with high dimensional data extraordinary, with
one weakness - viewing a perfect right angle makes their brain go into seizures,
and that is how they were driven into extinction.
Name this predator of humanity and the right angle bit ( funda will do )
Vampires and the cross
Q2
When Hillary clinton came to West Virginia to deliver her speech, she started by
saying Its true what the song says, this is ___ _____
The song in question has for over 50 years been one of the most popular songs in
the state, played in almost every occasion and has been subject to movements in
the senate and other administrative levels.
The _____ s motto is Tu Stultus Es, Latin for You are Dumb, and though not
exactly a meme website, _____ produces some of the highest grade OC on the
web.
The Onion
Q5
Vintage internet poetry. FITB
And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour,
Ive gotten used to it now. They end up living on..long afterwards on the internet,
what do you call them ? Memes ? Things like that. ____ ____ ___ ____ ask
for a drink , I see that with my face , making that hand gesture, I dont mind, really,
even though they say my casting spoils it all.
I was just approaching him as part of a routine interview...it was a fine morning,
quite cold, of course, but I didnt expect that, the entire month had been really
good for journalism, we had been getting so many opinions on what was going
on..but his opinion was truly anoukha(unique)....
Just explain
Q12
Wojak was a regular poster on the international 4chan board whose broken
English usually led to him getting made fun of. During the origin of polandball, a
parallel meme roughly featuring Wojaks sad face began to gain popularity , to the
point where this has become an overall phenomenon across memes.
FITB
Nyo-Yoku-Taimuzu - the NYT
Q15
Buzzfeed ran a piece in 2015 on X before the 2016 election mired the symbol in
so much controversy. Specifically, they tried to ask digital artists the process of
determining the value of a _____ X , keeping in mind the difficulty of assigning a
value to digital art in the first place.
Nevertheless, there is a market for original ____ Xs. Matt Furie, the original artist,
says that a good one can go for up to 400 dollars if the sketch quality is good.
Rare pepe
Q16
A seinfeld meme.
Whats the ref ?
The Shining
Written Lit round
Written
+10 each
10 bonus for all
It has earned its spot on a meme quiz by becoming one of the richest sources of
memes in literature, including sprouting its most famous meme ( which is given in
the last clue ) .
The author of the book was fond of the term meme, and was friends with Richard
Dawkins ( who coined the term ) as well.
+40/-20
+20/0
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
Genghis Khan
Heart of Gold
Ford, Dent
Vogon poetry
Hitchhikers guide to Europe
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