A quiz on memes, internet and anything that is trending. This was the second season quiz conducted in NIT Durgapur by QuizInc, following India Quiz

3. Shaam tak khelenge inki....
• There are a total of 20 questions, worth 1 point each.
• The questions range from memes to YouTube to Pop
culture to just about anything that went viral.
• The star-marked questions will serve as tie-breakers.
• Decision of the quizmaster stands, or else we will have
to bring in Special Forces….

5. Q1.
• “They are cowards! Traitors! Losers!
• What you are saying is outrageous.
• They have no honour!
• They call themselves generals, because they spent years at the military
academy, just to learn how to hold a knife and fork!
• The military has just hindered my actions for years!
• It has put every conceivable obstacle in my way!
• I was never at an academy.
• Traitors.
• Right from the very beginning I’ve just been betrayed and lied to!
But all these traitors will pay. With their own blood, they will pay.
• They will drown in their own blood!”
• This is an excerpt from the 2004 movie Downfall, which was nominated for
the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
• What is its relevance to today’s Quiz?

6. Hitler Reacts To

7. Q2.
• The next viral sensation is a lot like the previous one. There are
multiple independent comments from local people who state that
the name of the protagonist is Denis (Денис). Two independent
comments from 2013 and 2018 on the social media service
VKontakte stated that Denis worked as a taxi driver in the past. One
added that Denis has a negative attitude towards his fame.
"Окорочков", "Корочков" and "Козлов" were named as possible
last names for the protagonist. There is also information which
indicates that he made effort to keep low profile and even deleted
traces when someone found him which is the reason why
numerous attempts to locate him on social media failed.
• However, for the purpose of this viral video, he has been given the
fictional name Dimitri. Identify the video in question.

8. Dimitri Knows the Song

9. Q3*****.
• The meaning of the word X according to the
internet is, ‘The chief magistrate of Venice or
Genoa’. This genre of memes involves
captioning with interior monologues in Comic
Sans font. The use of the misspelled word
dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was
mentioned in an episode of Homestar
Runner's puppet show. In the episode titled
"Biz Cas Fri 1", Homestar calls Strong Bad his
"X" while trying to distract him from his work.

10. Doge

11. Q4*****.
• On July 12th, 2012, YouTuber Dimaniztlt
uploaded the footage of X. Within five years,
the video gained over 181,000 views. The
images generally contain verbose copypastas
and song lyrics. Some popular songs parodied
include “All Star” by Smash Mouth,
“Somebody Told Me” by The Killers and
“Chopsuey” by System of a Down. Identify the
video/meme.

12. Inhaling
Seagull
Meme

13. Q5.
• . The scene aired in the first episode of Season 6
of Discovery Channel's American Chopper in an
episode called "NHL Bike B2 Bomber Bike," which
aired April 9th, 2009. A total of 39 expletives
were used in the scene. Several media outlets
covered the popularity of the meme, including
Vice, USA Today, Cnet, Slate, Mashable and more.
A very popular variant of the exploitable comics
derived from this scene is the “All Women are
Queen” meme.
• Identify the scene.

14. American Chopper Argument between
Father and Son

15. Q6.
• . “We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand”
• What 2007-2008 phenomenon just occurred
here?

16. Rick Roll

17. Q7.
• . Comedian and conservative podcaster Steven
Crowder tweeted a picture of himself outside
Christian Texas University and expressed his
belief that ‘Male Privilege is a Myth.’ This led
to a series of exploitable memes with the
tagline X.
• Give me the tagline.

18. Change My Mind

19. Q8*****.
• When describing the picture in discussion, The Daily
Dot went with this caption-
• “Social Media in 2018 is a struggle for attention,
whether you’re posting political tweetstorms, eating
laundry pods on Youtube, or dropping a new track on
SoundCloud. And sometimes we don’t feel heard, like
we’re not getting the attention and empathy we
deserve. In a sense, we’re all _______ ___ (7 and 3)”
• Originally posted by imgur user ThePornhubTitle, the
picture has been extensively used for captioned image
macros and object labelling.
• Fill in the Blanks.

20. Trumpet Boy

21. Q9*****.
• Urban Dictionary defines this internet trend as- Every song
in the world that people do not know the name to.
• Eg: "What is that song?" "X - Y" (Where X is the artist and Y
is the song name)
• The trend followed on Youtube is that if anyone asks for the
name of the song, you are compelled to let them know it is
the above song in that format, even though it is nothing
close to that.
• This infuriated a lot of Youtubers but raked in almost 130
million views for X.
• An example of this is given on the next page and a
ridiculous impression of the song as well.
• Identify X and Y.

24. Darude- Sandstorm

25. Q10.
• Lloyd Ahlquist and Peter Shukoff created the webseries X,
which has currently earned almost 3 billion views, though
diminishing in popularity. Multiple celebrities and
personalities have appeared on the series, including “Justin
Bieber”, PewDiePie, Lilly Singh, “Steve Jobs”, Snoop Dogg,
“Stephen Hawking”, T-Pain, “Lady Gaga”, Weird Al Yankovic,
“Bill Gates” comedian duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan
Peele, “Barack Obama” and “Donald Trump”, to name a
few.
• The quotation marks mentioned along with some names
specifies that that particular personality wasn’t present in
the truest sense.
• Identify X.

27. Q11.
• vlogbrothers is a famous Youtube channel run by two brothers.
Started by Hank and his brother to create a stronger bond between
them, as prior to it, they "didn't ever talk, really." The project, titled
"Brotherhood 2.0", quickly grew an audience, leading to the success
on YouTube. The two agreed that they would forgo all text-based
communication with each other for the duration of the project,
instead maintaining their relationship by exchanging video blogs,
each submitting one to the other on each alternate weekday. The
New Yorker has described the Vlogbrothers channel as "the anchor
of an online empire.
• However, at the same time, Hank’s brother was achieving success
elsewhere in his writing career. It was only with his sixth book that
he achieved mainstream success.
• Name Hank’s brother and his famous book.

28. John Green, Fault In Our Stars

29. Q12.
• This particular Vine has a number of origins, which were all
threaded together to make this internet sensation. The
original idea came from a Z Morning Zoo prank call
uploaded on YouTube on March 11th, 2014. A husband
repeatedly prank calls his wife who was angry at him for
wasting money on pay-per-view wrestling. The video was
uploaded by TripleFlipKick360, which uses actual footage of
_________ from 2012 and pairs it with his intro song.
• Most of the hype generated from reddit which overflowed
into vines. Popular variations of this have been employed in
other popular Youtube videos along with many TV shows
such as Spongebob and Pokemon.
• Identify the viral trend.

30. Unexpected John Cena

33. The ‘Baby’ Music Video

34. Q.14
• Fairly recent phenomena.What has been
blacked out?

36. Q15.
• X is one of the most popular entity it its
domain,but is extremely unstable to external
forces.
• Even slightest of external force can cause it to
become unstable and come to ground state.
• X’s instability is in its own advantage,and can
enhance the overall performance of X.
• X after coming to ground state continues to move
over much longer distances compared to similar
entities despite the presence of frictional force.
• ID X.

37. NEYMAR

38. Q16.
• ID the relevance.

39. • First ever #hashtag to be used on twitter.
• Precisely speaking first word to be preceded
by #, i.e the way we use hashtag these days.
• Term hashtag was coined later.

40. Q17.
• The phrase “X” is an idiomatic expression used to convey
surprise or astonishment but it can be also used
sarcastically in response to an obvious statement.The
image of was taken from a scene in the 1988 black comedy
film Vampire's Kiss (Jennifer Beals, María Conchita Alonso,
Kasi Lemmons, Nicolas Cage)
• It revolves around a troubled literary agent's descent into
madness after convincing himself that he is turning into a
vampire. His unique facial expression was taken from a
particular scene in which character Peter Loew torments
his secretary in a disturbing manner.
• Identify X.

42. Q18.
• ID the relevance of the poster.(+1 additional if
you can ID the guy).

43. Nike MEMES

44. • The guy is Colin Kaepernick,former San
Francisco 49ers quarterback.(NFL)
• This poster became controversial because of
Colin’s gesture against racial injustice during
national anthem in 2016 NFL season.

45. Q19.
• What is being talked about here?
• Used as a gesture of triumph or playfulness since
2015.
• Origins can be dated back to Atlanta hip-hop
scenes in 2010.
• Originators of this thing include Migos,Skippa Da
Flippa,Peewee Longway,Jose Guapo and Rich the
Kid.
• Later it was said that Skippa was the creator of
this stuff.

46. • The DAB gesture.

47. Q20.
• On March 6th, 2015, the Twitter feed for the
South African branch of The Salvation Army
posted an advertisement made by the creative
agency Ireland/Davenport as part a
"#StopAbuseAgainstWomen" campaign, which
featured a battered woman with the caption
"Why is it so hard to see _____ and ____"
• The picture is on the next slide.
• Fill in the blanks.

49. Black And Blue