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Free Internet Culture quiz: 72 trivia questions and answers — memes, emojis & viral videos. Easy to hard, with explained answers. No sign-up.
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Who drew the first emojis? Which video broke YouTube's view counter? Where do the word 'troll' and the meme of the dog drinking coffee in a burning room come from? This quiz explores the memes, slang and viral phenomena that shaped the way we communicate online. LOL guaranteed.
This quiz currently has 72 questions, ranging from easy to hard, available in French, English and Spanish when the Spanish translation is available.
Warm up before the quiz with these 14 trivia questions and their explained answers: click a question to reveal the answer.
Answer: 😂 Face with tears of joy. It was the first time a pictogram, rather than a word, received the honour. It remained the world's most used emoji for years… before some younger users decided it was uncool.
Answer: A Shiba Inu. Dogecoin was created as a parody of cryptocurrencies… before being worth billions of dollars, driven by celebrity tweets. The dog, Kabosu, became one of the most famous in the world.
Answer: 123456. It can be cracked in a fraction of a second. Experts advise a long phrase of several words, easy to remember but hard to guess, and a password manager.
Answer: Abruptly cutting off all contact with someone without explanation. The person vanishes like a ghost: no more replies, no more news. A practice made easy by messaging apps, and felt as quite hurtful by those on the receiving end.
Answer: In Real Life. It contrasts the 'real' world with online exchanges, as in 'we finally met IRL'.
Answer: A part of the internet not indexed by search engines, reached with special software such as Tor. The dark web guarantees anonymity: it is used for illegal trade, but also by journalists and dissidents in countries that censor the internet.
Answer: Frequently asked questions and their answers. FAQ stands for "Frequently Asked Questions". In French it is jokingly rendered as "Foire aux questions" (question fair).
Answer: Shigetaka Kurita. For the operator NTT DoCoMo, he created 176 tiny 12 × 12 pixel pictograms, to say a lot in very little space. The word 'emoji' means 'picture' + 'character' in Japanese, and has nothing to do with 'emotion'.
Answer: Chris Messina, a user. Twitter first thought the idea too technical for the general public. Two years later, the platform officially adopted it. In French, the Academy recommends 'mot-dièse'.
Answer: France. The law notably requires clear disclosure of paid partnerships and retouched images, and bans promoting certain products, such as cosmetic surgery.
Answer: Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist. On a Carnegie Mellon University forum, a joke had been taken seriously. He suggested marking humour with :-), to be read by tilting your head to the left.
Answer: The unease felt towards a figure that is almost, but not quite, human. The more a robot or digital character resembles a human, the more we like it… up to the point where small flaws become disturbing. Some animated films have paid the price.
Answer: Doxing. The word comes from "docs" (documents). In France, the practice has been punishable by law since 2021.
Answer: Carbon copy. It comes from the carbon paper slipped between two sheets to type a letter in duplicate. "BCC" means a blind (hidden) copy.
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