We’ve all had moments where we forgot a word.
For your team name this week, we want you to tell us about a time when you couldn’t remember a word.
I called a protest an angry parade.
An oval is a rectangular circle.
I can’t find my hand socks… I mean gloves.
Look at all those… moo dogs… er… cows.
Any example of forgetting a word 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 had entirely the wrong thought process in the jackpot round. But they were wrong in such a way that they wound up getting the right answer in spite of themselves.
There are moments having an ex-girlfriend from Finland comes in handy. When we ask a jackpot question on Finnish alcohol and you win, that’s one of those moments.
TEAM NAMES
You proposed a lot of band mashups.
Florence and the Machine Gun Fellatio
The Moody Blues Brothers
Madonna-ha
Billy Ray Eilish
P!nk Floyd
Vanilla Ice Cube
The Bare Naked Pussycats
The Black Eyed Pussycat Dolls
Nine Inch Girls
Blood Sweat & Tears for Fears
Cold Play Chisel
Take That The Cure
The Red Hot Meat Loaf
Guns N Chili Peppers
Kiss the Beach Boys
Kiss Good Charlotte
The Beastie Boys II Men
Cardi Beatles
The Sex Wiggles
The Rolling Stone Temple Pilots
The Grateful Dead Kennedys
Kanye Westlife
Fleetwood Macklemore
30 Seconds to Panic at the Disco
Jackson Five Finger Death Punch
TriviArt
Terrible Moose
Kettles Playing Football
Mountainous Samurai
Bloated Elephant
Drunk Gold
Sparkly Wafflemaker
Flying Wine
INTERESTING MOMENTS
We asked about the two ways a rugby union team can get 8 points in a match, and one team who lacked rugby expertise went with “one try & one bribe of the referee”.
One player got personally offended on behalf of Julia Roberts when they found out how little she made for making the film Pretty Woman. Really, they ranted for a good three or four minutes.
When we showed a painting of the beheading of Marie Antoinette, one team guessed that it was Joan of Arc in the 1890s. Wrong method of execution, and off by well over 500 years. Another player who was overruled silenced the room by shouting “I TOLD you it was the 1790s.”
A player came in from Brisbane to attend one of our shows. (And possibly a little bit for visiting other people.)
And one player came back to iQ Trivia after a long stint overseas. After five years, one of the first things she did after coming back was to look up where her nearest iQ Trivia show was.
See you next week.
Marine Lance Corporal Darwin Judge was the last American serviceman to die in the Vietnam War, one day before the fall of Saigon.
Who was older? Lance Corporal Darwin, or the Vietnam War itself?
English police in Sheffield in 1997 staged a lineup after catching an offender who was 6’3” and black but they didn’t have any volunteers who looked like the man they caught.
What did they do for the lineup?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
The Wright Brothers flew for the first time in 1903.
Six years later, John Moore Brabazon flew what is believed to be the first flight with live cargo. What animal did he take with him on a flight?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
Think of a band.
Now think of another band.
Now combine those two bands.
That’s your team name this week.
Fallout Boy George
Simply Red Hot Chili Peppers
30 Seconds to Bruno Mars
Earth, Wham, and Fire
The Four ZZ Tops
The Beastie Boys II Men
Any combination of band names 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
Knowing (or guessing) about Census figures won them cash.
TEAM NAMES
We had a lot of historical mistakes in your team names.
Morgan Freeman ended Apartheid.
John Lennon started the Russian Revolution.
Jesus was white.
Tupac was white.
John Wilkes Booth shot JFK.
Stephen Hawking created the nuclear bomb.
Hitler led the Israelites out of Egypt.
Hitler discovered Australia.
Marty McFly invented rock n roll.
John Howard shat himself at Engadine Maccas in 1997.
Scott Morrison shat himself at Heathcote Maccas in 1997.
Lance Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon.
Michael Jackson walks on the moon.
Bush did 7/11.
Harry is Prince Charles’ son.
Gadigal tribe invites the English to take control of their land.
Private Trump wins Purple Heart in Vietnam.
NOTHING happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
TriviArt
Flamboyant Apples
Swimming Forklift
Thorny Dog
Fermenting Potato
Savage Caterpillar
Red Elvis
Strong Dog
Slimy Paris
Abstract Bucket
INTERESTING MOMENTS
We had to explain to teams that Russia is spelled with the letter A, and that Narnia is not actually a suburb in Sydney.
We asked a question about the Battle of Stalingrad, and were asked if the answer was “funny”. Funny. Stalingrad. Perhaps the first time those words were said together.
Most of the teams at one show thought that New Orleans was a state.
One player came out despite being sick, and concluded that trivia and beer improved their health.
There was yet another incident of players singing the answer to a music question, in this case the 1940s hit Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B.
And someone guessed that the film Blade Runner was based on the novel My Struggle by Oscar Pistorious.
See you next week.
According to a recent British study, wine glasses in 2000 average 300mL in volume.
What is the volume of an average wine glass in 2017?
The first new player to comment on the website within 20mL of the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
Name the city from this historical map.
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
Dan Cullen played against Bangladesh in 2006. (In a match in which Jason Gillespie scored a double century as a nightwatchman.)
What cricket record did he set in that test match?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.