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1. Part of becoming famous while being terrible is knowing how to predict internet trends ahead of time. Sometimes even thirty years ahead of time! That's what one man did with his song "Trololo," a parody of the Russian folk song, "I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home." Who was this man?
2. In 1987, Rick Astley released his song "Never Gonna Give You Up," a song which, decades later, would become his quintessential single. The act of tricking someone into clicking a link to this song is known by what name?
3. A great way to become famous is to develop something that is new at the time. In this case, it's the online meme. What Canadian college student did that in 2000 with her song "Hamster Dance"?
4. Being a novelty artist, it can help to have an extremely low voice. Tay Zonday did that with his song about the rain. What flavor was the rain he was talking about?
5. Singing about your favorite song of the week can bring successes and failures. What day of the week was Rebecca Black singing about in March 2011, when she became known across the internet?
6. To gain notoriety under both public scrutiny and the law, one needs to go no further than sampling from extremely obscure laws. Baauer did that with his "shaky" song released in 2012, but what neighborhood did this song come from?
7. Writing songs in another language can be confusing to some audiences, but for PSY, it helped catapult him to mainstream popularity with his song "Gangnam Style". What foreign language is "Gangnam Style" performed in?
8. Combining a public service announcement with a song will bring popularity in ways you'd never expect it. It gave moderate success to the Australian subway company Metro Trains when they produced "Dumb Ways To Die" in late 2012. In what Australian city was the song supposed to promote train safety?
9. A good way to have a breakthrough is to release your song without any attempt to become famous outside of your home country. Although a foreign song, Ylvis's animal-tinged single paved their way for an international breakthrough. What animal is the song dedicated to?
10. Building off existing trends is a great way to become popular. "#Selfie" was a viral internet hit based on a popular social activity. The group who created the song derives their name from what unhealthy activity?
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