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50 free Vine trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Vine lasted only four years, but its six-second clips left a bigger mark on internet humour than apps that ran for a decade. Lines from videos shot in bathrooms, car parks and school hallways are still quoted by people who never opened the app, and a generation of comedians, musicians and vloggers got their start there. This quiz covers the whole story. Some questions ask you to finish a famous line or name the clip it came from. Others cover the creators who built huge followings six seconds at a time, the songs and dances the app pushed into the mainstream, and the business behind it: who built it, who bought it, what tried to replace it and who has tried to bring it back. It is written for anyone who spent hours on Vine compilations. The early questions are the ones most fans will get, and the later ones reward people who remember the app in detail. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the story behind each clip as you go.
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Q 01In a 2015 Vine, Adam Perkins walks up to his bathroom mirror and says "Hi, welcome to" which restaurant?
Chili's
Chili's had used the greeting as an advertising jingle since 2007; the Vine turned it into a catchphrase with more than 20 million views in a year.
Q 02Which Hollywood actor "won't eat his cereal" in a 2013 Vine series that aims a spoon at his film scenes?
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling eventually answered the running joke in 2015, posting that he actually loves cereal. The series was the work of a Scottish film director.
Q 03Which social network bought Vine in October 2012, months before the video app had even been released?
Twitter paid a reported $30 million for a startup that was only four months old, then shut the app down in January 2017.
Q 04In a 2014 Vine filmed in a car, Peaches Monroee announced that her eyebrows were "on" what?
Fleek
Fleek took off at once: the selfie clip drew more than 20 million plays in its first five months, and "on fleek" entered everyday slang.
Q 05Which Canadian pop star first drew a following in 2013 by posting six-second song covers on Vine?
Shawn Mendes
Shawn Mendes posted a six-second cover of a Justin Bieber song and woke up to 10,000 likes and as many new followers the next day.
Q 06In a 2014 Vine, a man announces he is "back at it again" at which chain before backflipping into its sign?
Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme's sign takes the blow: the man strings together back handsprings and clips it mid-backflip, which is why the clip was captioned "He hit the sign".
Q 07In a 2014 Vine, a man startled by his friend yells "Stop, I could've dropped my" what?
Croissant
A croissant on a plate was what he was carrying around the corner. Years after Vine closed, the line resurfaced as two viral sounds on a newer video app.
Q 08In a much-copied Vine, creator JimmyHere declares that "it is" which day, "my dudes", before letting out a scream?
Wednesday
Wednesday was first announced by a picture of a Budgett's frog captioned with the line; the Vine borrowed the words and mimicked the frog's shriek.
Q 09Which billionaire asked his followers "Bring back Vine?" in an October 2022 poll that drew millions of votes?
Elon Musk
Elon Musk posted the poll days after buying the app's former owner, and about 70 percent of more than 4.9 million voters said yes.
Q 10Christine Sydelko's 2015 holiday Vine mangles a festive greeting and ends with her saying "Merry" what?
Chrysler
Chrysler, the car maker, caps her deliberately botched "Merry Christmas". The clip passed 100 million views, and fans sell merchandise printed with the line.
Q 11A man in a much-quoted Vine overhears a passer-by and gasps to camera, "Oh my god, they were" what?
Roommates
Roommates ends the only line he catches as a woman walks past on the phone. The Vine drew more than 60 million views and became a running joke on Tumblr.
Q 12Which Vine star joined Disney Channel's Bizaardvark in 2016 and later became a professional boxer?
Jake Paul
Jake Paul had 5.3 million Vine followers and two billion views by the time the app closed; on Bizaardvark he played a character called Dirk Mann.
Q 13Which photo-sharing app answered Vine in June 2013 by adding videos of up to 15 seconds?
Instagram's clips ran more than twice as long as Vine's, and by mid-2016 more than half of Vine's bigger accounts had quit for rival platforms.
Q 21Which French duo revealed the track listing of the album Random Access Memories in a 2013 Vine?
Daft Punk
Daft Punk had kept the song titles from online retailers until a Vine from their record label flashed images of the album's back cover.
Q 22Which 2014 comedy film gave Vine the falsetto line "My name is Jeff", dubbed over countless clips?
22 Jump Street
22 Jump Street has Channing Tatum's character Greg Jenko squeak the line, and one early Vine dubbed it over Eminem's "My Name Is" video.
Q 23Which service released Chasing Cameron, a 2016 reality series about Vine star Cameron Dallas on tour?
Netflix
Netflix premiered the series in late December 2016, three weeks before Vine itself shut down; the cameras also followed Dallas's immediate family.
Q 14Which Toronto-born comedian was the most-followed person on Vine, with more than 16 million followers?
King Bach
King Bach took the top spot in March 2015, and he has said he turned down most offers to post sponsored Vines.
Q 15Which WWE star's booming ring introduction was spliced onto the end of countless Vines to startle viewers?
John Cena
John Cena's bombastic introduction was lifted from a Z Morning Zoo prank call that reached YouTube in March 2014, then pasted where viewers least expected it.
Q 16Which NBA star's name does a small boy repeat over and over in a much-remixed Vine from June 2014?
LeBron James
LeBron James is all the boy says. His older brother filmed him outside their house, and remixers dubbed the soundbite over films and music videos.
Q 17Which filmmaker won fame on Vine in 2013 with six-second illusions he called "magic Vines"?
Zach King
Zach King opened his account in September 2013 and set out to post a Vine a day for thirty days; by 2014 he was making them full-time from his garage.
Q 18In which Marvel film does Shuri shout the Vine catchphrase "What are those?" at T'Challa's sandals?
Black Panther
Black Panther borrowed the line from a 2015 clip in which a man mocks a police officer's footwear, which drew nearly 40 million views on Vine.
Q 19Which Slovakia-born creator passed a million Vine followers before leading YouTube's Vlog Squad?
David Dobrik
David Dobrik was born in the city of Košice and moved to Los Angeles straight after high school to chase a career on Vine.
Q 20In a 2016 Vine, which SpongeBob character on a parade float obliges a shouting fan by doing the dab?
Squidward
Squidward, a costumed performer at an amusement park, hears a man in the crowd call for the dance craze of the day and promptly dabs.
Q 24Which Vine comedian interviewed President Barack Obama on her YouTube channel in November 2016?
Liza Koshy
Liza Koshy posted on Vine as "Lizzza" and had seven million followers when it closed; the interview was meant to encourage voter registration.
Q 25Which Caracas-born creator was the first person on Vine whose videos passed one billion plays?
Lele Pons
Lele Pons finished as Vine's most-followed woman, with 11.5 million followers, and has said she used the app to show off creative things she was already doing.
Q 26Which live quiz app with real cash prizes did Vine co-founders Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll release in 2017?
HQ Trivia
HQ Trivia grew out of Yusupov's idea for a game show hosted by astronauts; players who survived its daily live rounds split real prize money.
Q 27What did Vine call each play of a video in the counter it added above clips in July 2014?
A loop
A loop was counted every time someone watched a clip, and the tally included plays of Vines embedded on other websites.
Q 28Vine launched in January 2013 as an app for which company's devices, months before reaching any other?
Apple
Apple users had Vine to themselves until an Android version arrived that June, and by April it was already the most downloaded free app in the App Store.
Q 29Which Ruth B. ballad grew out of a single made-up line she sang in a six-second Vine?
Lost Boy
Lost Boy began as a line inspired by the TV series Once Upon a Time; she built it into a full song and shared it on YouTube in January 2015.
Q 30Which YouTube commentator made the much-quoted Vine "Road work ahead? Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does"?
Drew Gooden
Drew Gooden joined Vine in 2013 after dropping out of community college twice and taking improv classes, then carried his audience over to YouTube.