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99 free Viral Internet Moments trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
43 free Viral Internet Moments trivia questions with answers. Think you know everything about viral internet culture? From iconic memes to trending hashtags, the internet has given us countless unforgettable moments that shaped online communities. Challenge yourself with our comprehensive 99-question trivia quiz and discover how well you really know the viral moments that broke the internet.
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Q 01Which 2007 home video of two English brothers was once YouTube's most-viewed upload?
Charlie Bit My Finger
Charlie Bit My Finger, filmed in May 2007, shows one-year-old Charlie Davies-Carr biting his brother Harry; the clip sold as an NFT for $760,999 in 2021.
Q 02Which bait-and-switch prank ambushes people with a 1987 pop video instead of the link they clicked?
Rickrolling
Rickrolling began on 4chan in 2007 as a twist on an older link trick called duckrolling; years of ambushes helped Rick Astley's 1987 video pass one billion YouTube views in 2021.
Q 03Which 2013 meme cut from one masked dancer being ignored to a whole room thrashing?
Harlem Shake
The Harlem Shake, set to a 2012 track by Baauer, peaked at about 4,000 new uploads a day in February 2013; all those YouTube views sent the song to the top of the Billboard chart.
Q 04Which 2014 craze raised over $100 million for ALS research in a single summer?
Ice Bucket Challenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge raised $115 million for the ALS Association in summer 2014; the money helped fund the 2016 discovery of NEK1, a gene linked to the disease.
Q 05Which feline internet celebrity, real name Tardar Sauce, rose to fame in 2012?
Grumpy Cat
Grumpy Cat, whose real name was Tardar Sauce, became an internet sensation due to her unique facial expression caused by feline dwarfism and an underbite. She passed away in 2019.
Q 06Which 2013 meme features a Shiba Inu with Comic Sans monologue captions?
Doge
Doge grew from a 2010 photo of Kabosu, a Shiba Inu in Japan; the joke got so big that Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency started as a parody in December 2013, borrowed its name and face.
Q 07Which 2017 meme came from a stock photo of a man turning to ogle a passing woman?
Distracted Boyfriend
Distracted Boyfriend began as a 2015 stock photo shot in Girona, Spain, by Antonio Guillem for a set about infidelity; he said he had only just learned what a meme was when it took off.
Q 08Which phrase, slurred by teenager Danielle Bregoli on a 2016 Dr. Phil episode, became a meme and her nickname?
Cash Me Outside
Cash Me Outside, in Bregoli's accent 'Cash me ousside, how bow dah', made her the 'Cash Me Outside' Girl before she became the rapper Bhad Bhabie.
Q 09What brand were the white shoes complimented in the 2016 viral video 'Damn Daniel'?
Vans
Vans gave Daniel Lara a lifetime supply of shoes when the clip landed him and filmer Josh Holz on The Ellen DeGeneres Show; the pair then donated pairs to young patients at a California hospital.
Q 10What was the title of Chris Crocker's tearful 2007 YouTube video defending a pop star's VMA comeback?
Leave Britney Alone!
'Leave Britney Alone!' was Chris Crocker's tearful defence of Spears after her widely panned MTV VMA comeback in September 2007; the plea made Crocker, now Cara Cunningham, an overnight internet celebrity.
Q 11The viral 'Numa Numa Dance' video features lip-syncing to a song by which Moldovan group?
O-Zone
O-Zone's 'Dragostea Din Tei' had already topped charts across Europe when Gary Brolsma mimed to it at his webcam in December 2004; T.I. and Rihanna later borrowed its hook for their US number one 'Live Your Life'.
Q 12Which music video became the first on YouTube to reach one billion views, in December 2012?
Gangnam Style
Gangnam Style hit one billion views on 21 December 2012; two years later it passed 2,147,483,647, the most YouTube's 32-bit counter could show, and the site had to upgrade it.
Q 13'Baby Shark Dance', YouTube's most-viewed video from 2020, was produced by which South Korean brand?
Pinkfong
Q 21The 'Side Eyeing Chloe' meme captured a toddler's wary reaction to news of a surprise trip to where?
Disneyland
Disneyland was the surprise in her sister Lily's 2013 video; Chloe Clem's side-eye became the meme, and in 2021 her family sold the image as an NFT, saying it could help put her through college.
Q 22Which meme filled VRChat in early 2018 with squat red avatars asking if you 'know da wae'?
Ugandan Knuckles
Ugandan Knuckles began as YouTuber Gregzilla's squashed take on Sonic's Knuckles; players took its lines from Who Killed Captain Alex?, a Ugandan action film made on a shoestring budget.
Q 23Which looping-video app, shut down by Twitter in 2017, limited every clip to six seconds?
Vine
Pinkfong released its version of the children's song in 2016 and it overtook Despacito as YouTube's most-viewed video in November 2020; a year earlier the Washington Nationals had made it their World Series anthem.
Q 14Which Norwegian brothers scored a 2013 viral hit with 'What Does the Fox Say'?
Ylvis
Ylvis, brothers Vegard and Bård Ylvisåker, made the song as a joke to promote their Norwegian talk show; it climbed to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Q 15'The Dress', the 2015 viral photo many viewers saw as white and gold, really showed a garment of which colors?
Blue and black
Blue and black was the real dress, as its maker Roman Originals confirmed; the retailer sold out within 30 minutes the next day and later made a single white and gold version for a charity auction.
Q 16The 2018 'Yanny or Laurel' clip came from a 2007 vocabulary.com recording by what kind of speaker?
An opera singer
An opera singer, Jay Aubrey Jones, recorded 'laurel' for Vocabulary.com in 2007; listeners who pick up the clip's higher frequencies hear 'Yanny' instead, which is why shifting the pitch flips the word.
Q 17Which 2017 luxury event in the Bahamas, hyped by influencers and models, collapsed into a viral disaster?
Fyre Festival
Fyre Festival, promoted by Kendall Jenner and other influencers, collapsed in April 2017 into disaster tents and cheese sandwiches; co-founder Billy McFarland pleaded guilty to wire fraud and got six years in 2018.
Q 18Which meme shows a toddler on a beach clenching a fistful of sand with a determined look?
Success Kid
Success Kid is Sammy Griner, photographed by his mother Laney in 2007; in 2015 the meme's fame helped the family crowdfund his father's transplant operation.
Q 19The 'Disaster Girl' meme shows a smirking four-year-old in front of what?
A burning house
A burning house in Mebane, North Carolina, is behind Zoë Roth, though firefighters had set the blaze on purpose as a controlled burn; she sold the original photo as an NFT in 2021, saying she would pay off her student loans.
Q 20Which meme name was given to Hungarian engineer and stock-photo model András Arató?
Hide the Pain Harold
Hide the Pain Harold is András Arató, a retired engineer who was unhappy at first when his stock photos were memed; he later embraced it, giving a TEDx talk and fronting a Coca-Cola campaign in Hungary.
Vine was bought by Twitter in October 2012, three months before it had even launched; Twitter retired the app in January 2017, renaming what was left Vine Camera.
Q 24TikTok star Charli D'Amelio popularized the 'Renegade' dance, but which Atlanta-area 14-year-old actually created it?
Jalaiah Harmon
Jalaiah Harmon posted the Renegade in September 2019; after a New York Times story traced the dance to her, she performed it at the 2020 NBA All-Star Game.
Q 25Which 2019 hit spent a then-record 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100?
Old Town Road
Old Town Road led the Hot 100 for 19 weeks, beating the 16 of 'One Sweet Day' and 'Despacito'; Billboard had earlier pulled it from the country chart, shortly before the Billy Ray Cyrus remix arrived.
Q 26The oversized mittens Bernie Sanders wore in his viral 2021 inauguration photo were made by whom?
A Vermont schoolteacher
A Vermont schoolteacher, Jen Ellis, made the mittens from repurposed wool sweaters and fleece from recycled plastic bottles; she had given them to Sanders as a gift and had none left to sell.
Q 27Nathan Apodaca's viral 2020 'Dreams' skateboard video featured which juice brand?
Ocean Spray
Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry was in Apodaca's hand as he skated to work because his truck had broken down; the clip sent 'Dreams' back up the charts, and the brand gave him a new truck.
Q 28The 2019 'Storm Area 51' Facebook joke targeted a secret Air Force site in which state?
Nevada
Area 51 lies in the Nevada desert near the tiny town of Rachel; Matty Roberts posted the 'raid' as a joke, and the September 2019 date brought alien-themed festivals to Rachel and Hiko instead of an invasion.
Q 29What early-2010s fad involved lying face down, hands by your sides, in unusual public places and being photographed?
Planking
Planking was a viral photo fad that emerged in the early 2010s, where participants would lie rigidly face down in odd or unexpected locations, like a plank of wood, and photograph themselves.
Q 30Which detergent brand's laundry pods were at the centre of a dangerous 2018 eating 'challenge'?
Tide
Tide's maker, Procter & Gamble, answered with a video of NFL star Rob Gronkowski telling people the pods were for washing and nothing else, while YouTube began taking down challenge clips.