Yearly Archives: 2017

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 3 December 2017

A lot of politicians have been brought down by Section 44 of the Constitution, and there has been talk of changing the constitution to remove the restrictions preventing dual citizens from sitting in Parliament.

We like to be helpful, so this week for your team name we want you to come up with something new to put into Section 44. Instead of being a citizen of a foreign country or having a criminal conviction or being bankrupt, what else should keep you out of Parliament?

Charging extra for tomato sauce on a pie

Owning more than one investment property

Not remembering Don Bradman’s batting average

Using the term “un-Australian” more than once a month

Anything that you think should stop someone from sitting in Parliament will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 2 December 2017

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

When one person on your team is an expert on US Presidents, and another is a medical student, you’re likely to win a jackpot when the questions are on US Presidents and medication.

They managed to win first place, and because the only other team that knew the answer opted not to play, these guys also won the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

There were plenty of inappropriate quotation marks.

I “don’t” have syphilis

Medical” marijuana for my “glaucoma”

I’m “not” a duel citizen

You’re “adopted”

Extra points will be given for particularly “interesting” answers

The “cool” kids

We’ll “take care” of you

She said “no”

Urinal cakes are not for “consumption”

Used mattress “gently soiled”

Netflix and “Chill”

Obama “wiretapped” my phone

We “love” iQ Trivia

Remedial Thai “massage”

TRIVIART

Indecisive Bridge

Dirty Platypus

Scrumptious Platypus (or was it Scrum Chess Platypus)

Punchy Lamp

Fancy Fire Truck

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We were asked to define the word “word”. By a linguistics student no less.

We asked what states Washington DC lies between, and one team answered New York and Florida. It doesn’t border either of those states, but it does technically lie between them. In this case, being technically correct got a point.

One (rather drunk) trivia interloper, perhaps unaware that a written quiz was being conducted, was about to say the answer to a question out loud, and every team who knew the answer simultaneously shouted her down.

When asked for a 10 letter synonym for thief that didn’t use any letters twice, one team came up with “kleptomani”. That’ll teach us for not saying it had to be an actual word in English.

See you next week.

Interesting Question of the Day – 27 November 2017

The Trump board game is a knock off version of Monopoly, but is far more confusing and dependant on dumb luck.  (It also more likely to make you hate the people you’re playing against.)

In place of the number six on the die, there is a T.

What happens when you roll a T?

The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 26 November 2017

Quotation marks can be a good way to express sarcasm or irony.

They are not meant to give emphasis to statements, but many people use them that way.

This week we want your team name to inappropriately use quotation marks.

I’m a “fully qualified” surgeon.

If you’re tired, you should have some “coffee”.

All our “sushi” is made “fresh”.

Welcome “President” Trump!

Shoplifters will be “prosecuted”.

Ladies” Toilet

Anything that misuses quotation marks like this will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 25 November 2017

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 won the jackpot singlehandedly. Yes, it can be done.

TEAM NAMES

You came up with plenty of fancy names for simple foods

Excretions From A Swarm Of Flying Poisonous Beasts On Grinded Wheat Yeast

Aged cheddar over angus beef, served on a seeded milk bun with tomato puree

Feathery bicep layered with milled wheat, submerged in pressed vegetable juices

Toasted variety of grains & seeds simming in low fat dairy fluid with a hint of chocolate (Coco Pops)

Deconstructed beef mince with crispy pastry and tomato jus (meat pie)

Nouilles dans le fromage fondu et le lait (Mac ‘n Cheese)

Group deconstruction buffet with airborne vegetables and everything else (Food Fight)

Crusted spelt mixed with exotic grains complimented with yeast infused spread

Slices of cloudlight artisan stonebaked Wonderwhite, layered with slatherings of farm fresh golden handchurned bovine lactal extract, adorned with multi-hued sucrose encrusted spheroids in their many (Fairy bread)

TRIVIART

Pretentious Bill

Prickly Palace

Ugly Rapscallion

Critical Match

Promiscuous Tree

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team offered to split the jackpot with one of our hosts if we gave them the answer. Yeah… we don’t do that.

Someone mistook David Gulpilil for Kanye West, and someone mistook Don Draper for Donald Trump.

When asked for a Shakespeare play beginning with the letter TTOTS, one team guessed The Tale Of Two Sities.

In addition to recognising the tune of the French national anthem, one player got a bonus point after singing the entire thing along with one of our hosts.

And two newbies recognised a map of Kent, but forgot to write that it was in England and missed out on a ridiculously easy point, but then wound up perfectly positioned to come in seventh to win a prize. (Sometimes laziness pays.)

See you next week.