What do the following people all have in common?
Mao Tse-tung’s third wife, blues guitarist Hound Dog Taylor, jazz pianist Hampton Hawes, actress Gemma Arterton, mathematic savant Zerah Colburn, cricket legend Gary Sobers, comedian Drew Carey, Hannibal Lecter (but only in the novels), Billy in animated series Adventure Time…
and this guy.
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Robert Mugabe was recently appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador by the World Health Organisation.
Sure he was stripped of the post in short order, but it got us thinking.
What other wildly inappropriate appointments could be made?
Making Harvey Weinstein a Goodwill Ambassador for Women’s Rights
Giving Hitler the Nobel Peace Prize
Naming Saudi Arabia to the UN Human Rights Commission… oh wait… they already did that.
Anything on the level of naming a genocidal dictator to any post involving the word “goodwill” will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
Here’s what you may have missed this week at iQ Trivia.
WINNERS
If you won this week, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.
JACKPOTS
This guy was part of a team that won a jackpot by not giving into panic when faced with a math question. Then he got all depressed when we forgot to take a photo on the night, so this is what he looks like now.
TEAM NAMES
Here’s what you want millennials to kill next.
Communicating by any means other than meme’s
Unsolicited dick pics
Themselves and their hopes and dreams
Dress codes at restaurants
Vegemite
The Member for Warringah
Capitalism
Taxis
Playboy
Being Vegan
Boomer’s savings
Trivia Nights
TRIVIART
Depressed Cat
Icy Glasses
Fast Beer
Hot Clock
Childish Wizard
INTERESTING MOMENTS
One team thought the famous photo of Nicky Winmar responding to racial abuse was actually him giving an anatomy lesson.
When asked to play an audio clip again, one of our hosts imitated the bass line from Radar Love.
Two teams tied for the closest guess on the length of time for the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait… with three days. How they both managed to guess the exact same wrong answer so far off the correct answer of 209 is beyond us.
When asked how many were killed by John Coffey in The Green Mile, one team argued it was -1, because he brought a dead mouse back to life.
We spotted two players whose native language was not English humming Rock the Casbah by The Clash into the Shazam app because they didn’t know the title.
See you next week for more iQ Trivia.
Aside from 742 Evergreen Terrace, what location has the most dialogue in the Simpsons over the course of the series?
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Outside of the Simpson family, and among female characters, which character from the Simpsons speaks the most over the course of the series?
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Outside of the Simpson family, which character from the Simpsons speaks the most over the course of the series?
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Millennials have been killing a lot of things recently.
So this week, we want you to suggest something you want this generation of murderers to kill next.
Cursive Handwriting
Breakfast Television
Talk Radio
The Diamond Industry
Recycled Think Pieces About Millennials Killing Things
Smashed Avo
Anything you’d like to see millennials kill will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
Here’s what you may have missed this week at iQ Trivia.
WINNERS
If you won this week, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.
JACKPOTS
These American students have been steadily improving their scores, and this week knew enough about Czech cities through a Czech classmate to win a jackpot.
And one their first visit to iQ Trivia, this group won both first place in the quiz (despite not knowing the homework question) and a jackpot by knowing about the Zika virus.
TEAM NAMES
You came up with a lot of pointlessly expensive products.
Saffron Pepper Spray
Truffle Infused Gold Flaked Caviar Tacos
Truffle Toothpaste
Golden Escalators (like the King of Saudi Arabia)
Fair Trade Ivory Handled Toothbrush
24 Carat Gold Spray Tan
24K Gold Dildos
Gold Q-Tips
Gold Loo Roll
Gold Leaf Vodka
Diamond Toothpicks
Gucci Leather Jogging Pants (which is apparently an actual product)
The NBN
Taxis
Smashed Avo
The United States Defense Budget
Rhinocerous Horn Cufflinks with WiFi
Jewel Encrusted Air Guitar
and perhaps the most extravagant of all… The Marriage Equality Plebiscite
TRIVIART
Judgemental Rib
Pretty Pi
Esoteric Tumbler
Smelly Hamburger
Horny Nation
INTERESTING MOMENTS
When they couldn’t come up with another national capital starting with W, one team wrote Moscow upside down.
When asked where in Australia the Fortescue River was, we had to remind one team that Florean Fortuescue’s Ice Cream Parlour is both fictional, and not in Australia.
One team didn’t know who the Socceroos were playing next until an ad for the next game came up on the TV.
On a jackpot question, one team guessed (we suspect facetiously) that the longest serving Prime Minister of Israel was Yassir Arafat.
When being asked to do some math and show their work, one team got every aspect of the question wrong but still managed to get the final answer right.
Someone mistook Fiddler on the Roof for The Princess Bride.
When we were listing film roles for a bonus question and looking for Steve Buscemi as an answer, two teams who hadn’t listened to the question rushed up to us with the answer Con Air.
The blokiest team in the place turned out to be the biggest fans of Meryl Streep’s performance in The Devil Wears Prada.
The biggest cheer of the week was for the team who came in last for the second consecutive week, and has become something of a specialist is choosing the last place subject.
And finally, when reading the answers we had some help with reading the names of four Chinese provincial capitals from someone whose Mandarin is considerably better than ours.
See you next week for more iQ Trivia.
To round out our week of film heroes and villains…
Who are the only two actors to appear on the list of both heroes and villains?
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On the American Film Institute list of Greatest Film Villains as published in 2003, how many of the top ten were played by women?
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