The Memes Quiz which was conducted by Amur Ghose.

1. Toasty memes
The dank quiz set

2. Customary rules and content
While the top element in the poll was “politically incorrect memes”, the difficulty in
making a quiz entirely about memes whilst retaining quiz-like quality was high.
So, please don’t take this as a purist’s work - it’s a gen quiz with a high meme
content.
BUT, I promise you this - all questions are a ) workoutable, b ) stuff you’ve
probably heard or seen and c ) intricately tied to silly puns and funny tidbits - the
stuff of internet culture, even if they’re not directly memes.

3. 16 questions to start

4. Q1 - Makemytrip referencing something. FITB

6. That escalated quickly

7. 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 can’t bring himself to -
it’d be too awkward.
Give the creation and FITB.

9. UC Berkeley memes for Edgy teens, Harambe

10. Q3
The quote occurs in the anime’s 2nd season, when the characters are discussing
the proper method to have a tea party and a suggestion is made to tie the hair
backwards in a ponytail-like knot in the classical style of Nobunaga, in order to
properly have a tea-drinking ceremony.
What remark - made about the way to prepare tea and tie hair - am I on about ?

13. Q4 - FITB with a very specific phrase
The following is an excerpt from a Slate article investigating something.
“You’ve 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.”

15. One Weird Trick

16. Q5
FITB and explain the meme
As in, what is the origin of the
“Gay frogman” bit ?

18. Mike Pence, Barron Trump, Atrazine on frogs
I was just looking for Alex jones/Infowars

19. Q6
When native Americans used to see this - then called the English-American -
being used, they would be puzzled and call it the ______ , as this group was their
first introduction to European culture.
The term stuck, and now ______ ( followed by another word ) constitutes the
standard way to refer to this since Kinsey’s work in the 1960s. What am I talking
about ?

21. The missionary position

22. 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 :
British poster : They’re so primitive, they have ______ ______
Indignant reply : We don’t have ____ _____ . People are civilized here, we have
________ _______ ______.
Give me this now-famed three word phrase.

24. Designated Shitting Streets

25. Q8
Till being removed recently by Google as the top result for the word “senate” ,
whose face would you have seen upon googling the word - in fact, that’s all you’d
have seen - thanks to the effort of a certain meme group ?

28. Q9
The Guardian ran an invective op-ed on this , aptly called “Selective ____” ,
arguing that the institute ends up deliberately using the most archaic translatory
norms possible , including terms that have never been used since the middle
ages, to create highly distorted text.
The organization mentions no formal headquarters , and states that the reason is
the fear of getting attacked over its content.
Either name the organization OR its infamous Indian counterpart.

30. MEMRI TV, Peace TV

31. Q10
According to an informal survey , this is the most commonly used phrase to name
a quiz about Bengal, specifically calcutta.
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 aren’t going to use because
quizzes have a demographic like Haryana’s.
Explain the pun and the name.

33. Victoria’s secret

34. Q11
“Two plus two is four. Three plus one is four. Partly cloudy, partly sunny. Glass
half full, glass half empty. Those are _____ ______.”
Excerpts from a follow-up interview. What’s the blank ?

36. Alternative facts
The speaker, of course, is Kellyanne Conway

37. Q12
Widely considered as one of the worst movies ever made ( it holds the coveted
0% rating on rotten tomatoes ) , Garbage Pail Kids ( 1987 ) tracks the lives of
several kids each deformed in some way such as being grossly fat, cursed with
bad breath or a violent attitude. Their existence revolves around avoiding contact
with the _____ ( one of the earliest uses of the term ) out of fear of persecution.
Give me the EXACT term

39. Normies

40. Q13
A doujinshi is a parody of a manga series - although of course, this isn’t an anime
quiz, so in short : a doujinshi usually exaggerates a manga so massively that even
serious-toned anime like Attack on Titan gets turned into comedy.
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 ____ ____ ____ .
Give me the three words, not popularized in an anime context.

42. Multi-track drifting

43. Q14
Simply explain

46. Q15
After Martin Shkreli hiked the price of Daraprim ( a life-saving drug ) by an insane
amount, he appeared on various late night shows using the analogy that “...the
drug was like a Rolls royce being sold at the price of a bicycle. I simply hiked it up
to the level of a Toyota, and people think it’s a crime…”
Bill Maher chose to take this on with a slight twist on the line. Specifically :
“Owning a Rolls royce isn’t a matter of life and death - I mean, till it’s 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.

48. Volkswagen
The emission scandal

49. 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.
Give me the original OR the current variant.

51. Zucc’d
The original term was “Zuckerberged”

52. Random discworld round
This is a round with 6 questions.
All questions refer to discworld by Terry Pratchett
If you’ve ever read Discworld, you know how Terry likes to make almost
everything a reference to something funny.
Knowledge of discworld is almost irrelevant here, though - guess on !

53. Q1
In “The Last Hero”, Death ( a character in Discworld of nearly godlike power
responsible for causing deaths on time and carrying souls to the afterlife ) talks to
a character about the only situation in which he is puzzled as whether or not to
take a soul to the afterlife.
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 :
“One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A _____ is penned up…”

55. Schrodinger’s cat

56. Q2
“Death, insofar as it was possible in a face with no movable features, looked surprised. RINCEWIND? … WHY ARE YOU
HERE?
‘Um, why not?’ said Rincewind.
I WAS SURPRISED THAT YOU JOSTLED ME, RINCEWIND. FOR I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH THEE THIS VERY
NIGHT.
‘Oh no, not—’
OF COURSE, WHAT’S SO BLOODY VEXING ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS IS THAT I WAS EXPECTING TO MEET
THEE IN PSEUDOPOLIS.
‘But that’s five hundred miles away!’
YOU DON’T HAVE TO TELL ME, THE WHOLE SYSTEM’S GOT SCREWED UP AGAIN. I CAN SEE THAT.”

58. An Appointment in Samarra

59. Q3
The Night Watch in Discworld ( the equivalent of the police ) have a special motto
written in broken latin :
“Fabricati Diem, Punc”
Just give me the well-known english variant.

61. Make my day, Punk

62. Q4
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 ?”
________ is a word that translates to “convict” and is a play on words. Give me
the pun.

64. Felonious monk, Thelonious monk

65. Q5
In a play on the words “smoking gun”, the group of anarchist, anti-government
hackers in “Going Postal” are called “The smoking _____” , and are modelled
almost explicitly on Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.
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.

67. The smoking GNU

68. 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.
Though the above etymology is likely false , what word is it describing ?

70. Posh

71. Round 2 - 16 questions

72. Q1
In Peter Watt’s Blindsight ( a fantastic hard sci-fi novel in its own right ) humanity
resurrects an ancient predator extinct for thousands of years due to its highly
advanced intelligence.
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 )

74. Vampires and the cross

75. Q2
When Hillary clinton came to West Virginia to deliver her speech, she started by
saying “It’s 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.
ID the song or the blanks

77. Country roads, almost heaven

78. Q3
The washington post - noted liberal outlet - ran a story exploring the history of this
phrase, which, till very recently, was a compliment. Used since the 1800s, the
meaning was twisted during GamerGate in 2011 ( a controversy over whether
game developers intentionally sexualized women all the time ) to turn the meaning
from a noble activist to something different.
ID the phrase ( acronym will do )

80. Social Justice Warrior

81. Q4
In a very recent ( March 20th interview ) to the New Yorker, the editors of ____
confessed that they were, for the first time, lost : “We’ve been writing Trump
articles for years and have been sued relentlessly. We’re tired of it now, and we’re
not even sure how to cover his presidency - our job has been to cover such things
from all angles and we feel like we’re done.”
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.

83. The Onion

84. Q5
Vintage internet poetry. FITB
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I porn-surfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious porn-site of "hot chicks galore",
While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour,
"Tis not possible," I muttered, "give me back my free hardcore!"
Quoth the server, “_____”

86. 404

87. Q6
“Under severe thermal stress, it is possible that materials which seek to expand
both ways end up radially sagging, transferring stress to the adjacent material - in
this case, concrete. This can happen at as little of 60% of the required value,
which makes this claim not entirely wrong, yet misleading….remember that the
ranges in question are 900-1500, maybe 1800, as opposed to 2500+”
Lifted from a reddit post explaining what ?

89. Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams ( but they sag )
The values were temps in Fahrenheit

90. Q7
In an interview, the actor confessed that he has mixed feelings about his roles:
“I’ve 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 don’t mind, really,
even though they say my casting spoils it all….”
FITB or give the actor speaking

92. Sean Bean
One does not simply

93. Q8
He started his career with the critical and commercial hit Cheerleaders at a pretty
late age of 28. The role allowed him to sign on with producing giant ______, and
he went on to appear in over 500 productions and 150+ full-length films.
Some of his films are :
● 2 young to fall in love
● Chemistry
● Asian fever fortune cookies
● Blazed and confused

95. Johnny Sins, blank = Brazzers

96. Q9 - Who’s the guy on the left ?

98. Art Garfunkel ( from Simon and Garfunkel )

99. Q10
This legend’s FB description simply says:
“I respect those who respect me
and forget those who forget me.
Simple as that.”
He doesn’t say anything about feet.
Or about growing too proud.
Who is he ? Or rather, where was he ?

102. Q11
The following paragraph had to be translated from Hindi by me, so apologies in
advance for terrible translation.
“I was just approaching him as part of a routine interview...it was a fine morning,
quite cold, of course, but I didn’t 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

105. 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 Wojak’s sad face began to gain popularity , to the
point where this has become an overall phenomenon across memes.
What’s the face in question ?

107. Feels guy

108. Q13
What originally consisted of these and a few others ? I cut out the ones from more
niche series such as Sailor Moon.
● Yu Yu Hakusho - Raizen ascends into Yusuke
● Pokemon - Ash creates Raichu
● Attack on Titan - Eren uses Titan form
● Bleach - Ichigo becomes hollow

110. Top 10 anime transformations

111. Q14
Around 50-100 English terms entered Japan during WW2, one of which was
____-_____-Taimuzu. Notably, this was one of the few terms to enter that did not
directly relate to war. The japanese thought of the 150 year old X, widely
considered as the best element of its kind, as a giant source of fuel to the war,
something that motivated the spirit of every American, and was thus essential to
know about.
FITB

113. Nyo-Yoku-Taimuzu - the NYT

114. 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.

116. Rare pepe

117. Q16
A seinfeld meme.
What’s the ref ?

119. The Shining

120. Written Lit round
Written
+10 each
10 bonus for all
Each question is a famous work of Lit turned into a Buzzfeed article.

126. Answers
1. The Prince
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray
3. Romeo and Juliet
4. Frankenstein

127. The terminal connect

128. +140/-70

129. +120/-60

130. +100/-50

131. +80/-40

132. Meta clue before last 2 clues - + 60/-30
The connect is a Lit connect.
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.

133. +40/-20

134. +20/0

136. Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy
Genghis Khan
Heart of Gold
Ford, Dent
Vogon poetry
Hitchhiker’s guide to Europe
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