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Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 5 May 2024

Recently we asked a question about ridiculous products sold on Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website goop.com.

We were going to make up some additional ridiculous products to throw into the mix as red herrings, but we couldn’t come up with anything sillier than what Gwyneth is already selling.

So maybe you can do better.

If your team name is a ridiculous product that might be sold to people with more money than sense, you will get a bonus point.

A smartphone case held by a Buddhist monk as he achieved enlightenment

Solid gold corn cob holders

Diamond encrusted toothbrushes

A coffin Gwyneth Paltrow herself slept in

Any unnecessarily extravagant products will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 4 May 2024

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.

JACKPOT

Knowing Greek doesn’t come in handy often, but it does in trivia jackpots.

Being a navigator in the navy really pays off when we ask a jackpot question on fathoms.

TEAM NAMES

We won’t be incorporating any of your terrible trivia questions.

If I have one cow, how many cows do I have?

What is the highest number?

Who is Bruce Willis’ favourite hairdresser?

Where is Harold Holt?

How many films does Tom Cruise run in?

What is the IQ of a rubber duck?

What colour socks was Lincoln wearing when he was shot

How many Biebers to reach the moon?

What is the meaning of life?

What is my mother’s maiden name?

What significant sporting event took place on 31 February 1983?

How many members are in the Fantastic Four?

What is the average number of letters in a Welsh town?

Is water wet?

How long is 60 seconds?

How many colours in yellow?

How many darts does it take to pop an inflatable dartboard?

How long does it take to get milk?

What city are the Canberra Raiders based in?

On what date did that thing happen?

On a scale of 1-10, what is the capital of France?

Did OJ do it?

TriviArt

Sparkle Waste

NBN on the Moon

Pickled Plate

Fluffy Ball

Bubbly Armadillo

Ostentatious Football

Bodacious Apple

Restless Rabbit

Communist Mario

Impressionist Canada

Orwellian Bagel

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One player had been carrying around the Welsh origins of the word penguin for twenty years before it finally paid off on a bonus question.

Teams that have won the NRL Minor Premiership and the Grand Final in the same year? How about Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin?

And when we ran the categories bonus round, we had guesses for the category of “things that are sticky” including oil, and hand lotion. Yeah, those things are the opposite of sticky.

Our quarterly tournament is still going, with one team a win clear in first place.

Team Wins Score
6 Go Crazy 4 281
Cormac’s Angels 3 231
Superstars of Yacht Rock 3 218
Spongebob 3 217
Leader Housen 3 202
Foxolotl 2 154
Met-C 2 152
The Smith Family 2 150
Mara’s Angels 2 149
Time travel is not good for women 2 145
Shannon & Co 2 143.5
The Fellas 2 143
Whale Emoji 2 142
Wine not on 2 141
Richard Gere Appreciation Society 2 140.5
Thor’s Thundercats 2 139
Al’s Team 2 136
Tuxedo 2 135
Team Knox 2 132
Val & Leon 2 128
S Club 7 2 124
Bring a bucket and a mop 2 105

See you next week.

Interesting Question of the Day – 29 April 2024

In a 2009 Duke University study, subjects were given 20 math problems to solve in 5 minutes. Then they were given the answers, asked to put their scores through a shredder and report how many they got right to be paid for each correct answer.

The catch is, there papers weren’t shredded.

The average number of correct answers was 7. What was the average number people reported?

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

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 28 April 2024

There’s an art to writing trivia questions.

This week you’re going to use your team name to have a go at it, but we only want terrible trivia questions.

Why?

What is the best colour?

How many of my cousins have a beard?

Who is the worst looking person to have walked on the moon?

What the hell are you looking at?

Any terrible trivia questions will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 27 April 2024

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.

JACKPOT

Living next to a Maltese bakery for years got them a jackpot on Maltese pastries.

TEAM NAMES

There’s a lot of bad advice in song lyrics…

Jump (we had dozens of variations on this)

All you need is love

They tried to make me go to rehab and I said no, no, no

I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more

Travel back in time to the 1830s

Come on Eileen

You can brush my hair, undress me anywhere

Everybody Wang Chung tonight

Wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy

Don’t worry, be happy

Don’t go chasing waterfalls

Send in the clowns

F*ck the police

Smack my bitch up

Run to the hills

Beat it

Sell the kids for food

Murder on the dancefloor

I’d catch a grenade for you

When I think about you I touch myself

Hips don’t lie

Don’t take no for an answer

Hit me with your rhythm stick

Shot through the heart and you’re to blame (is victim blaming)

I fell under a bus, I got hit by a train

Hit me baby, one more time

TriviArt

Enlightening Lemon

Hairy Beer

Feral Blancmange

Ugly Disease

Comma Deforestation

Dashing Stethoscope

Toxic Ex

Cheeky Shed

Play Doh Wheelchair

Photophobic Comedian

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One player got one look at one of our picture questions, and knew the answer, because it was a picture of a video game he had played earlier in the day.

We played an Ariana Grande song, and one team mistook it for Cannibal Corpse. You know, because they sound so familiar.

Beginning with O, what’s a group of peacocks called? An orgy. It’s wrong, but about half of teams went with it. Hey, if enough people use it, we can make it a thing.

And we’ve got two teams on three wins at the top of the table in our quarterly tournament.

Team Wins Score
6 Go Crazy 3 206
Leader Housen 3 202
Cormac’s Angels 2 155
Foxolotl 2 154
Superstars of Yacht Rock 2 152
Mara’s Angels 2 149
Time travel is not good for women 2 145
The Fellas 2 143
Whale Emoji 2 142
Al’s Team 2 136
Tuxedo 2 135
Team Knox 2 132

See you next week.