In January, a scene from Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story in which Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson fight about their failing marriage became the go-to template for expressing disagreement online. What, in their loquacious, highly actorly row, did Driver’s character identify as his real betrayal of his wife? He slept with another woman 
He enjoyed a joke with another woman He valued his career above his wife’s
 He did not want to move to Los Angeles A video of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gave birth in February to a new meme in which people amended his statement, “I am once again asking for …” to make their own requests. What was Sanders asking in the original clip? Your financial support
 You to vote out Trump
 Billionaires to pay more tax
 Elizabeth Warren’s support In March, rap-rock titans Rage Against the Machine tweeted an important exception to the anti-state sentiment of their song Killing in the Name, saying: “On this occasion, it’s best you do what they tell ya.” What was the government instruction? Maintain a minimum distance of two metres
 Follow the food pyramid
 Wear a seatbelt
 Wash your hands with soap In April, images to show “nature is healing” in the absence of people went viral on social media as a heartwarming upside of lockdown. Unfortunately, nearly all of them were fake news. Which one wasn’t? Swans and dolphins returned to the Venetian canals
 Elephants broke into a village in Yunan province to gorge on corn
 Mountain goats ran riot through a Welsh town
 A family of boars roamed the quiet streets of Bergamo In May, original prankster Elon Musk and self-described ego-death survivor Grimes claimed to have named their baby daughter X Æ A-12 – for the couple’s favourite unknown variable, the elven spelling of Ai (meaning “love and/or artificial intelligence”) and their favourite aircraft. How, for the Ai of god, is it pronounced? “X, A, I”
 “X-Ash-Archangel”
 “Ki-Ai-L”, like “Kyle”
 No one knows. Not even her parentsIn a viral interview with GQ, the actor Robert Pattinson shared his ambitious concept for “a pasta which you can hold in your hand”. He dubbed it piccolini cuscino, or little pillow. How might one go about making it? Microwave cooked penne, cornflakes, cheese slices, sugar and sauce; spoon into a hollowed-out burger bun
 Fill a muffin tray with spaghetti, tinned chopped tomatoes and cheese; bake for 20 minutes
 Stuff a giant gnocchi with cheese
 Make a loaded pasta bake and serve in slices
 In July, a video of hyper-realistic cakes – made to resemble a banana, a coconut, a loo roll and a shoe – went viral with the caption: “These are all cakes.” For weeks afterwards, nothing you saw on the internet could be trusted to definitely not be cake. But who was especially enraged by the “Is it a cake?” meme? Anti-obesity campaigners who calculated the cakes’ average calories
 An artisan cronut-maker who said they had lost business as a result
 An online community of people who really hate fondant
 The writer of a viral opinion piece who blamed the meme for his trust issues In August, the actor Reese Witherspoon made a meme representing each month of this harrowing year with one of her roles. If January was perky, polished Elle Woods from Legally Blonde, which character summed up Witherspoon’s state of mind from June to September? 
Elena Richardson in Little Fires Everywhere, out for revenge
 Madeline Mackenzie mid-breakdown in Big Little Lies
 Grimy-faced Cheryl Strayed, hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in Wild
 Elizabeth in Just Like Heaven, who is literally a ghost In September, a video of a man blissfully longboarding along a highway, set to Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams, went viral on TikTok. What beverage was he chugging as he went? La Croix
 Cranberry juice
 Fiji Water
 Budweiser In October, a UK government advertisement suggesting people working in the creative industries might like to retrain was scrapped after being roundly derided online. According to the tagline, whose next job could be “in cyber” (they just don’t know it yet)? Fatima the ballerina
 Padma the poet
 Nadia the painter
 Varsha the actor