Shout Out / The Impossible Quiz

Many, many questions in The Impossible Quiz are Shout-Outs to various Internet memes, 4chan, video games and movies.

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The Impossible Quiz

• For starters, the first music is "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky. Also, the music in Question 84 is the Cantina music from A New Hope.
• Combined with a Stealth Pun in Question 18, which is the word "Stop..." above an image of a clock with 3, 6, 9, and 12 replaced with pictures of a banana, a house, a hammer, and a bucket respectively. The correct answer is the hammer.
• Question 42: "What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?" The answer, of course, is the 42nd 42.
• Question 43's "Bridget Makes Everyone..." relies on three shout-outs; the first (the fakeout) being a reference to the Guilty Gear English-sphere meme "Liking Bridget Makes You Gay", and the second and third (the answer) being a reference to the fact that Tom Cruise was in Jerry Maguire with Renée Zellweger, who had played his wife there and previously starred as the titular character in Bridget Jones' Diary.
• Question 76 has the message "...You are my candy girl" above a bag of sugar, a jar of jam, a jar of marmalade, and a jar of honey. The question as a whole is based off of the chorus of the song "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies; the lyrics needed to complete the question, which come directly before the question's message, are "Sugar...oh, honey, honey". You must click on the bag of sugar once and the jar of honey twice.
• Question 108 requires you to enter the numbers from Lost into the hatch computer before the timer runs out (you are given the numbers in Question 50, in case you are not familiar with the series). If you fail, you get a Non-Standard Game Over which is very similar to what happened when the characters actually failed to enter the numbers.
• "I'm green and have sticky balls. What am I?" The answer should be "The Prince", as in The Prince of All Cosmos, a little green boy who rolls things up in the sticky Katamari.

The Impossible Quiz 2

• Question 26: "A Flock of Seagulls approach you. What do you do?". The answer is "You run. You run so far away".
• Question 44 is a reference to the infamous opening scene of Zero Wing. The question is "All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time." The four answers given are all quotes from the opening scene.
• Question 56 has a picture of a duck with the hair and face of Burnt Face Man saying his Character Catchphrase.
• Question 71 and its answer are a reference to the movie Hackers.
• Question 95 features the song Bright Eyes being played over a photo of a dead rabbit, referencing Watership Down.
• Question 99 references "99 Red Balloons" by Nena.
• Question 108 again references Lost in the form of the countdown timer at 108:00.

The Impossible Quiz Book

General

• The three chapters have the subtitles Close Encounters of the Furred Kind, The Phlovomite's Guide to the Galaxy, and Spatula Future, respectively.

Chapter 1

• Question 49 asks you, "Is there life on Mars?"

Chapter 2

• Right off the bat, the main menu will have a random "Fact of the Day" to give you which is almost always a reference to a video game:
  • "A year has passed since Bimmy and Jimmy defeated the Shadow Warriors" is from this AVGN episode.
  • "I am the milkman. My milk is delicious."
  • The phrase "Kitty got wet" is from Uncharted 2.
  • "LAAAAAWRENCE!" is likely a reference to Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, as the villain Dr. Nefarious would constantly scream for his butter Lawrence.
  • "I've got BALLS OF STEEEEL. Another one says "Always bet on Duke".
  • "Prepare for unseen consequences."^note The actual quote is unforeseen consequences
  • "Reticulating Splines."
  • "Wacca-wacca-wacca"
  • "You spoony bard!"
  • "Do a barrel roll."
  • "Thank you for playing! But Chapter 1 is in another castle..."
  • "Chapter 2, I CHOOSE YOU!"
  • "Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAAAAAAKE!!" Another is a reference to a different Metal Gear meme which resulted from poor translation: "Uh-oh! the truck have started to move!"
  • "You have died of DYSENTERY"
  • "Hey dudes! Thanks for rescuing me. Let's go for a burger.... HA! HA! HA! HA!"
  • "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this: *picture of a Fusestopper*"
• The intro has multiple items and references to video games and other media scattered throughout:
  • The ship and some asteroids from Asteroids.
  • The Death Egg from Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • Some tetriminoes from Tetris.
  • A Star Barrel from Donkey Kong.
  • Balls of garbage with miscellaneous Mario and Nintendo items, such as an Item Block, a Super Mushroom, and a Nintendo 64.
  • A stage lifted straight from Q*bert.
  • An Earthworm Gym.
  • Ramona Flowers peeking out of a door to Subspace.
  • Also, the smaller Phlovomite ships below the mothership move similar to the movements of the enemies in Space Invaders.
  • Additionally, you are told that you can press S to Skip or press X to Jason.
    • Later in Question 96 you are told to find Jason in a shopping mall. The answer is, of course, repeatedly pressing X to call out for Jason and watch him get hit by a car, just like in the original Heavy Rain game.
• Question 55 references the the original title of the chapter itself by asking Define:Earth. Which is Mostly Harmless.
• Question 57 asks what hedgehogs are allergic to. The answer is Crab Meat, as is the most basic Badniks of Sonic The Hedgehog.
• The pixel pattern of Question 59 is none other than the infamous Snake.
• Question 60 is basically a game of Pong.
• Question 63 asks you how to get rid of the Red Ring of Death.
• Every planet from Question 66 (including the smaller planets scattered around) has a name and a description message when moused over. If you can somehow read them all without having the bomb explode, you'll find these gems:
  • Mercury (Rev)
  • Earth (Mostly Harmless)
  • Saturn (1994)
  • Uranus (Is Bleeding)
  • Pluto (Mickey's Dog)
  • Nintendu 64 (Blurry)
  • LittleBIG (Planet)
  • Kerwan (Wait, what?)
  • Zebes (It's creamy)
  • Moria (I dunno)
  • Stroggos (Beef)
  • Unicron (Om nom nom)
• Question 68, which has a bomb, requires you to destroy some soft blocks. Hint: The question is a Bomberman reference.
• Question 70 is a parody of Pac-Man called Pac-Frank, with scarily good ghost AI (barring the blue one).
• In Question 71, you are asked, "Which country produces the finest plumbers in the world?" Hint: The answer has something to do with Super Mario Bros..
  • Before this, the intro jingle and the "Loading" logo are direct parodies of Sega's infamous "SE-GA!" loading jingle. This reference comes back in Question 89.
• Question 72 is a Phlovomite version of Duck Hunt.
• Question 82 has you unzip a Sackboy open.
• Question 90 is taken straight from Pokémon Generation I games.
• Question 93 asks, "What is the worst thing you can discover about your wife?" The answer is "She is your bionic arm!"
• Question 95 lampshaded the fact that there hasn't been a question based on Grand Theft Auto yet in the game.
• Two of the incorrect answers to Question 98 (assuming you have enough time to button-mash and build all of them, of course), are Lara Croft and Master Chief.
  • The third one is Kevin Butler.
• Question 99 has LocoRoco as part of the question. If you answer it correctly, a certain Portal meme will appear.

Chapter 3

• Question 104 asks when the Ice Age occurred. The answer is 2002, referring to the movie.
• Question 109 asks you what T.A.R.D.I.S stands for.
• Question 120 has a Nyan Cat knockoff which farts out liquid rainbow.
• Question 127 asks you what is the (imaginary) prequel of Jurassic Park. It's Triassic Garden.

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