Where did the Distracted Boyfriend image come from?

A stock photo by Antonio Guillem

What two-panel format uses images from Drake's Hotline Bling video?

Rejecting one thing and approving another

Which two images form Woman Yelling at a Cat?

A reality TV scene and a cat at a dinner table

Meme Formats Quiz: From Rage Comics to Distracted Boyfriend

Richard Dawkins invented the word meme in a 1976 book about genes, long before image macros and reaction pictures, and this meme formats quiz follows the formats that took over the web. Play 10 interactive questions on rage comics, Impact font captions, Distracted Boyfriend, Drakeposting, This Is Fine, Doge and Woman Yelling at a Cat.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Origin
Who coined the word meme?
Rage
Which format featured crudely drawn faces like Trollface?
Font
Which bold white font with black outline became standard for image macros?
Boyfriend
Where did the Distracted Boyfriend image come from?
Drake
What two-panel format uses images from Drake's Hotline Bling video?
Fine
Where does the This Is Fine dog come from?
Doge
What breed is the dog in the Doge meme?
Cat
Which two images form Woman Yelling at a Cat?
Pigeon
Which source gave us the Is This a Pigeon? meme?
Rickroll
Which song is used to trick people in Rickrolling?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who coined the word meme?
Answer: Richard Dawkins
He introduced it in The Selfish Gene in 1976 to describe ideas that spread.
Q2: Which format featured crudely drawn faces like Trollface?
Answer: Rage comics
Rage comics spread from forums around 2008.
Q3: Which bold white font with black outline became standard for image macros?
Answer: Impact
Top and bottom text in Impact defined early meme style.
Q4: Where did the Distracted Boyfriend image come from?
Answer: A stock photo by Antonio Guillem
The 2015 photo was taken in Girona, Spain, and became a meme in 2017.
Q5: What two-panel format uses images from Drake's Hotline Bling video?
Answer: Rejecting one thing and approving another
The format is often called Drakeposting.
Q6: Where does the This Is Fine dog come from?
Answer: KC Green's webcomic Gunshow
The dog calmly drinks coffee as the room burns.
Q7: What breed is the dog in the Doge meme?
Answer: Shiba Inu
Kabosu, the real dog, became famous worldwide and inspired a cryptocurrency.
Q8: Which two images form Woman Yelling at a Cat?
Answer: A reality TV scene and a cat at a dinner table
The 2019 meme joined The Real Housewives with Smudge the cat.
Q9: Which source gave us the Is This a Pigeon? meme?
Answer: A 1990s Japanese anime
It comes from The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird.
Q10: Which song is used to trick people in Rickrolling?
Answer: Never Gonna Give You Up
Rick Astley's 1987 hit became a bait-and-switch prank around 2007.

Meme Formats Quiz – How Memes Took Over the Web

The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene in 1976 to describe ideas that spread like genes. On the internet it came to mean images, videos and phrases that people copy and remix.

Early formats included rage comics with faces like Trollface and image macros with Impact font captions. Later templates included Distracted Boyfriend, from a 2015 stock photo, Drakeposting from the Hotline Bling video and This Is Fine from KC Green's webcomic.

Animal memes such as Doge, starring the Shiba Inu Kabosu, and Woman Yelling at a Cat show how images from different sources are combined. Rickrolling with Never Gonna Give You Up remains one of the longest-lasting pranks.

What This Quiz Teaches

Internet culture fans will enjoy these questions.

Who coined the word meme
Which early formats spread
Where famous templates came from
Which animals became memes
How pranks spread

Did You Know?

Know Your Meme documents meme histories.
Many memes come from stock photos.
Some meme templates are used for years.
Reaction GIFs replaced many text replies.
Memes often mutate as they spread across platforms.