This week we’re having fun with famous quotes.
For your team name, we want you to take a well known quote & attribute it to someone else.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Lee Harvey Oswald
You’ve got to ask yourself one question, do I feel lucky? Well do you punk? – Gandhi
If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best. – Stalin
Any mis-attributed quote 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, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.
JACKPOTS
They were justifiably confident on their knowledge of American Psycho and won $147.
They knew just enough about Italian geography to win.
And one more team won their jackpot because one of their opponents was one letter off so they were the only team to get it exact. They offered to donate it back for another question, which neither team got. That’s how much they like trivia. They gave up cash just to hear more questions.
TEAM NAMES
You came up with plenty of inappropriate places for Instagram photos.
Josef Fritzel’s basement of fun
Taking selfies with Khoshoggi all over Istanbul
The tomb of the unknown selfie
During a colonoscopy
Boris Johnson’s apartment
Death row
The morgue
Auschwitz
Ground Zero
Jihadi training camp
Manus Island
Hanging out at Aokigahara (Japanese suicide forest)
Your grandma’s funeral
On the killing fields
A hostage situation
The Lindt Cafe
The Engadine Maccas
TriviArt
Flamboyant Lion
Insidious Banana
Perfumed Cul de Sac
Livid Cheese
INTERESTING MOMENTS
We asked what was right next to Deep Space Nine in the Star Trek universe, and one team, not knowing their Star Trek, went with Deep Space Eight.
In addition to your back, one team answered that you would find the “Dimples of Venus” on the face of Venus Williams.
Worf from Star Trek was described as “that Klingon dude with the weird shit on his forehead”.
And when we were looking for famous Shirleys, one team ran out of Shirleys and started guessing “Shirlize Theron” and “Shirquille O’Neal”.
See you next week.
Hotel Sidi Driss is located in Matmata, Tunisia.
It is renowned as a filming location for what film?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
What do Chai Tea, Naan Bread, Panini Sandwiches, Sahara Desert, and Sharia Law have in common?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
This is Eddie Gaedel, the shortest player ever to play Major League Baseball.
How tall was he?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer within 1 inch or 3 cm wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
Following the release of a documentary on Chernobyl, the maker of the documentary has gone on the record asking people not to take tourist photos in Chernobyl.
For your team name this week, we want you to suggest other inappropriate places for happy holiday photos or sexy Instagram shots.
My grandmother would have wanted me to twerk at her funeral
Look, it’s Auschwitz, not Auschwitzland.
Anything that is an inappropriate setting for smiling or sexy photos will get a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
Here’s what you may have missed this week at iQ Trivia.
WINNERS
If you won, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.
JACKPOTS
A lot of teams really seemed to know a lot about ancient Greece and square numbers.
TEAM NAMES
Here’s some older celebrities that you want to fight.
Get out of my room dad!
NASA, for the round earth conspiracy.
I will fight you George Pell.
I’ll kick your arse, Sir Paul McCartney!
I want to fight Sean Bean and I hope the screenwriters kill him off.
George Clooney – The Fight for Amal
We’ll knock Bryan Cranston out twice.
Fight me, Jon Bon Jovi!
Fight me, Ellen Degeneres!
Simon & Garfunkel tag team.
Come at me, Nic Cage!
Luke, I am your daughter (Mark Hamill).
Spar with Roseanne Barr.
Angela Merkel’s Purple Nurple.
I’d like to punch Kevin Spacey.
Team Bagpuss (Born 2005) wold like to fight ACTUAL Bagpuss (born 1974).
People who don’t appreciate Spongebob.
Putin you in your place.
Mad Max ain’t shit, bring on Mel Gibson.
Jeff Bezos deserves a good slapping.
Betty White’s going down.
Bruce Willis will die hard with my foot in his ass.
Hey Marvin Gaye, Let’s get it on!
TriviArt
Dignity
French Sausage
Ugly Lemur
Janky Ferret
Conspicuous Wine Bottle
Pulsating Spain
Matthew Hunter
INTERESTING MOMENTS
A team including a math teacher got a jackpot question on square numbers wrong.
A team with a real life Italian failed to remember that Rome is a national capital beginning with R.
We asked a question on the NRL logo, and 30 seconds later the logo was on the screen of one of the TVs. Some people still got it wrong.
After remarking that our questions are tough to cheat on even if you wanted to, we gave one team a dispensation to ask “Hey Siri, what was the heaviest team in the 2015 Rugby World Cup?” Yeah, Siri didn’t know that one.
One team guessed that Uber was planning to trial not aerial taxis, but “ethical business practices”. Come on! Try to be realistic!
And the best wrong answer of the week was from a team who knew nothing about cricket, and guessed that the most common bowler/wicker keeper pairing in Australian cricket history was “c Dundee b Irwin”.
See you next week.
Why was this trading card of C3PO pulled from further print runs?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
A match in the top division of Belgian Rugby in 2015 resulted in a record scoreline.
How many tries did the winning team score?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer within three tries wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
A 2017 study determined that homes on streets with embarrassing names (like Butt Street, Wanke Road, or Fanny Avenue) sold for less than similar homes on neighbouring streets.
How much less?
The first new player to comment on the website within 2% of the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.