Memes, TV formats, comics and chart-toppers.
About this quiz
This Pop Culture Quiz covers what people have watched, shared and sung along to: viral memes, K-dramas and game-show formats, cartoons and comics, and the stage personas and nicknames of famous musicians. It reaches well beyond Hollywood, with Korean and Indian television and a Japanese song contest next to blockbusters and British pop.
You'll also find video-game makers, Eurovision, children's TV and a Japanese hit from the sixties that topped the US charts under a different name. Rounds are 10 questions with 20 seconds each, and a quick fact after every answer fills in the backstory.
Try a few questions
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Which children's TV series features Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po?
- Teletubbies
- In the Night Garden
- Balamory
- Tweenies
Answer: Teletubbies
Did you know? Created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport, the BBC show began in 1997; each Teletubby has a screen on its tummy and a differently shaped antenna on its head.
Which 1984 comedy features a team of paranormal investigators whose theme song asks 'Who you gonna call?'
- Gremlins
- Beetlejuice
- Ghostbusters
- Poltergeist
Answer: Ghostbusters
Did you know? Directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, 'Ghostbusters' was one of the biggest box-office hits of 1984, and Ray Parker Jr.'s theme song reached number one in the US.
Pororo, the South Korean cartoon star nicknamed 'the children's president', wears aviator goggles because he dreams of flying. What is he?
- A penguin
- A baby dinosaur
- A fox
- A polar bear
Answer: A penguin
Did you know? The series, first shown in 2003, made the little penguin such a favourite with preschoolers that he earned the presidential nickname. Penguins cannot fly, hence the helmet and goggles of his dreams; his friends include Crong, a baby dinosaur, Poby, a polar bear, and Eddy, a fox.
Which band released the album 'Abbey Road' in 1969?
- The Beatles
- The Kinks
- The Who
- The Rolling Stones
Answer: The Beatles
Did you know? Abbey Road was actually the last album The Beatles recorded together, even though Let It Be was released later — its iconic zebra-crossing cover photo was taken in under ten minutes.