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100

This English pop band from Bath truly believes that everybody wants to rule the world.

Who are "Tears for Fears"?

100

This show featured a chronically aggrieved fossil-hoarder, A former hanger-on turned corporate style-climbing refugee, A perpetually sarcastic data-reconciliation entity, A high-velocity, militant sanitation enthusiast, A biologically buoyant, intellectually unburdened acting automaton, and an anarchist street-musician.

What is "Friends"?

100

Released in 2012 by South Korean artist PSY, this absolute cultural tsunami became the first YouTube video to ever hit one billion views.

What is "Gangnam Style"?

100

"Impoverished artistic vagrant wins a ticket onto an unsinkable luxury transatlantic vessel in a pub gamble, falls in love with an upper-class passenger, and ultimately refuses to share a very spacious wooden floating door."

What is "Titanic"?

100

The USSR ran out of this 22 hours into celebrating the end of WW2.

What is "Vodka"?

200

The singer of this song really wants his friends Mom to know that she's "got it going on.

What is "Stacy's Mom"?

200

Developed for American television by Greg Daniels, the office; 2000s mockumentary sitcom tracked the mundane, hilarious daily operations of the Dunder Mifflin paper company in this town where Joe Biden was also born.

Where is "Scranton, Pennsylvania"?

200

Originating in the late 2000s, this legendary bait-and-switch prank involved hyperlinking a completely unrelated piece of text to a 1980's music video.

What is "Rickrolling"?

200

"Receiving an eviction notice forcing him to negotiate with a vertically challenged local lord to rescue a princess"

What is "Shrek"?

200

This substance rolled down the street on the 15th of Janruary 1919, after a cast-iron tank exploded, spilling 2.5 million gallons, killing 21 people and injuring a further 150.

What is "Molasses"?

300

Even though this song was first released in 1975, it never reached it's heights until the death of its band's frontman in 1992.

What is "Bohemian Rhapsody"?

300

Before striking gold with Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan cut his teeth writing and producing for this iconic 90s sci-fi series.

What is the "X-Files"?

300

After escaping an apartment fire in 2012, this local Oklahoma resident gave an iconic, highly theatrical local news interview that birthed a legendary auto-tuned remix and an immortal catchphrase.

What is "Ain't nobody got time for that?"

300

"Eccentric billionaire invites you to an isolated tropical island to inspect clones, only for the enterprise's security infrastructure to collapse catastrophically during a severe tropical storm." 

What is "Jurassic Park"?

300

This US president opened a whiskey distillery after his time in the presidency.

Who is "George Washington"?

400
This band initially did not approve the usage of one of their songs by a famous female popstar for her hit song in 2005, but decided to make a rare exception.

Who are "Abba"?

400

This prestige fantasy show features an erratic, silver-haired conqueror trapped in a multi-generational corporate family feud over a pointy chair.

What is "Game of Thrones"?

400

Released in 2013 by Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis, this viral music video became a massive global earworm by asking a deeply existential, zoological question.

What is "What does the fox say"?

400

"An insecure, plastic lawman experiences severe psychological distress and territorial panic over being replaced"

What is "Toy Story"?

400

During WW2, many American restaurants began calling these items "liberty steaks" and "Liberty cabbage".

What are "Hamburgers" and "Sauerkraut"?

500

This 1990's alt-rock hit was written by a singer who got the title phrase from a misheard lyric in a completely different song by The Cure (Just Like Heaven). The track features a haunting, repetitive cello riff.

What is "Losing my Religion"

500

This surreal prestige mystery features a fast-talking federal agent who arrives in a bizarre Pacific Northwest timber town possessing an intense obsession with local cherry pie and black coffee.

What is "Twin Peaks"?

500

Long before short-form video apps, this 2007 viral flash game created by FRS Interactive tasked players with guiding an impossibly long, stretchy feline body through space while leaving behind a trail of pink stardust and playing a relentless, looping techno-pop theme.

What is "Nyan Cat"?

500

"Expert sleep-thief enters triple-layer slumber realm to inject fake thought into sleeping oil heir, constantly harassed by ghost wife and small spinning metal toy."

What is "Inception"?

500

Shakespeare originated this modern joke in his play "Titus Andronicus" by the reply from Aaron to "Thou has undone our mother".

What is "Yo Mamma"?

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