Internet Memes Trivia
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178 free Internet Memes trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
45 free Internet Memes trivia questions with answers. Memes are the folklore of the internet, and this quiz tests how well you know the classics. Forty-five questions cover Rickrolling and the Macy's parade, Doge and Dogecoin, Grumpy Cat's real name, the stock photo behind Distracted Boyfriend, the dress that split the world in 2015, Harlem Shake, Nyan Cat, Success Kid, Pepe, Leeroy Jenkins, Kilroy from World War II and the biologist who invented the word 'meme' in 1976. Easy questions ask which song a rickroll plays and what breed of dog Doge is; the hard ones want the Scottish island behind the dress, the year Keyboard Cat was filmed and which webcomic gave us 'This is fine'. Perfect for group chats, office quizzes and anyone who has spent too long online. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on each meme, and each question shows the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who coined the word 'meme' in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene?
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins coined 'meme' in The Selfish Gene (1976), shortening the Greek 'mimeme' ('imitated thing') so it would rhyme with 'gene'.
Q 02Who first used the phrase 'Internet meme', in 1993?
Mike Godwin
Mike Godwin is credited with first using the term 'Internet meme' in Wired in 1993; he had already formulated Godwin's law in 1990.
Q 03Godwin's law says the odds of a comparison to whom approach one as an online discussion grows?
Hitler or the Nazis
Hitler or the Nazis: Mike Godwin formulated the law in 1990, holding that as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Q 04A rickroll bait-and-switches you into the video for which 1987 Rick Astley hit?
Never Gonna Give You Up
It grew out of a 4chan prank called 'duckrolling'; the first rickroll in 2007 replaced a Grand Theft Auto IV trailer.
Q 05Rick Astley took rickrolling mainstream by lip-syncing on a float at which 2008 event?
The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
He appeared on a Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends float after Cartoon Network paid him handsomely; many 4chan users then declared the joke dead.
Q 06The Doge meme features which breed of dog?
Shiba Inu
The original dog, Kabosu, was photographed by her owner Atsuko Sato in 2010; the meme peaked in 2013 and spawned Dogecoin.
Q 07Doge captions are traditionally written in which font?
Comic Sans
The broken-English text ('such wow') represents the dog's inner monologue.
Q 08Which cryptocurrency launched in December 2013 as a joke based on a Shiba Inu meme?
Dogecoin
Dogecoin, created by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, launched on December 6, 2013, with the Shiba Inu from the Doge meme as its mascot.
Q 09What was Grumpy Cat's real name?
Tardar Sauce
Her permanent scowl came from an underbite and feline dwarfism; she was first posted to Reddit in September 2012.
Q 10The Distracted Boyfriend meme comes from a stock photo taken in which country?
Spain
Photographer Antonio Guillem shot it in Girona in 2015; its Shutterstock caption began 'Disloyal man walking with his girlfriend'.
Q 11The Dancing Baby, one of the first viral videos in 1996, was originally a demo for what?
3D animation software
3D animation software: the 'sk_baby.max' file shipped as a demo with Character Studio, a plug-in for 3D Studio Max, before the baby danced through Ally McBeal in 1998.
Q 12Nyan Cat flies through space with what for a body?
A Pop-Tart
A Pop-Tart: Chris Torres drew the Pop-Tart-bodied cat as a GIF in April 2011; a YouTuber set it to a Japanese Vocaloid song and it became one of 2011's most-viewed videos.
Q 13The 2013 Harlem Shake craze was set to a track by which producer?
Baauer
Baauer's 2012 track 'Harlem Shake' powered thousands of uploads a day at the craze's peak, and Billboard's newly added YouTube-view counting sent it to number one on the Hot 100 in February 2013.
Q 21The 'This is fine' dog sitting in a burning room comes from which webcomic?
Gunshow
Gunshow: KC Green drew the two-panel 'On Fire' strip for his webcomic Gunshow in January 2013; the comic ran from 2008 to 2014.
Q 22The house burning behind Disaster Girl was actually what?
A firefighter training exercise
A firefighter training exercise: local firefighters had set the house ablaze as a controlled drill in January 2005 when Dave Roth caught his four-year-old daughter Zoë smirking in front of it.
Q 23The girl in the 'Ermahgerd' meme is gleefully clutching which books?
Goosebumps books
Q 14The Ice Bucket Challenge of 2014 raised money to fight which condition?
ALS (motor neurone disease)
ALS (motor neurone disease): the summer-2014 challenge gave nominees 24 hours to douse themselves in ice water or donate, and the ALS Association saw a record surge in gifts.
Q 15Which cartoonist created the green frog character from the 2005 comic Boy's Club that became a meme?
Matt Furie
Furie later sued groups that turned Pepe into a hate symbol; the 2020 documentary Feels Good Man tells the story.
Q 16Keyboard Cat's original footage was filmed in which year?
1984
1984: Charlie Schmidt filmed his cat 'playing' the keyboard in 1984; the 'Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat' meme only took off in 2009, long after the cat had died.
Q 17Success Kid is actually clutching a fistful of what?
Sand
Sand: the August 2007 beach photo shows toddler Sammy Griner clutching the sand he had been trying to eat; the White House later used the image to promote immigration reform.
Q 18The 'woman yelling at a cat' meme pairs a Real Housewives star with a cat named what?
Smudge
Smudge, from Ottawa, was photographed glaring at a salad; the combo was first tweeted in May 2019.
Q 19Which was the first YouTube video to reach one billion views, in December 2012?
Gangnam Style by Psy
'Gangnam Style' by Psy crossed one billion views on December 21, 2012, and stayed YouTube's most-viewed video until 'See You Again' overtook it in July 2017.
Q 20The Bernie Sanders mittens meme came from a photo taken at which event?
Joe Biden's 2021 inauguration
Joe Biden's 2021 inauguration: Sanders was photographed bundled up in a folding chair on January 20, 2021, and the image was pasted into thousands of scenes within hours.
Goosebumps books: the photo shows Maggie Goldenberger, dressed up for a game, clutching several of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps paperbacks; 'Ermahgerd' spells 'Oh my God' with a retainer lisp.
Q 24'Kilroy was here' graffiti became a worldwide meme during which conflict?
World War II
World War II: American GIs scrawled the bald, big-nosed doodle across Europe and the Pacific; in Britain the same figure was known as Mr Chad.
Q 25What is the deliberately mangled grammar of 'I can has cheezburger' captions called?
Lolspeak
Lolspeak: the broken-English dialect of cat-picture captions ('I can has cheezburger?') took its name from 'lolcat', itself a blend of the acronym LOL and 'cat'.
Q 26'All your base are belong to us' comes from the botched translation of which video game?
Zero Wing
Zero Wing: the line appears in the 1991 European Mega Drive port of Toaplan's 1989 arcade shooter, in its clumsily translated opening cutscene.
Q 27Leeroy Jenkins became famous for ruining a carefully planned raid in which game?
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft: the 2005 video shows Leeroy charging into Upper Blackrock Spire mid-plan; Blizzard later added him as an in-game character and a Hearthstone card.
Q 28Hide the Pain Harold is a stock-photo model from which country?
Hungary
Hungary: András Arató, a Hungarian retiree, posed for a 2011 stock-photo shoot whose pained smiles were later captioned as 'Hide the Pain Harold'.
Q 29Gary Brolsma's 2004 'Numa Numa Dance' video had him lip-syncing to a song by which band?
O-Zone
O-Zone: Brolsma uploaded the clip to Newgrounds in December 2004, lip-syncing 'Dragostea din tei', the 2003 Romanian-language hit by the Moldovan pop group O-Zone.
Q 30In real life, what colours was 'the dress' that divided the internet in 2015?
Blue and black
Blue and black: the dress photographed in February 2015 was a royal-blue lace dress with black trim; washed-out lighting in the photo led many to see white and gold instead.