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Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 10 November 2024

It’s been a big year for elections around the world.

This week, we want you to find a way to make a film of TV series about elections.

The Shawshank Election

Moneyballot

12 Angry Voters

Stranger Things candidates have promised

There Will Be Blood at the post election uprising

The Dark Knight Rises in the polls

Law & Order: Special Voters Unit

Barbielection

The Silent Majority of the Lambs

The Recount of Monte Cristo

Curb Your Enthusiasm because your preferred candidate is never going to get elected

Any electoral films or TV series will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 9 November 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.

TEAM NAMES

What are some new ballot measures you would like to see voted on?

People who use their phones at trivia should be locked up

Sending an e-mail at 4:59 on a Friday

Parmi or Parma

Slow walking is now a crime

Every quiz should have one question on Titanic

Freeze Paul McCartney

Pineapple on pizza is settled once and for all

All Canberrans get a free trip away during Summernats

America gets yeeted into the sun

No vaping in the moshpit

People with mullets must enact the same grooming technique for their whole body

Band train replacement buses

Hitting people who play videos on public transport without earphones with hammers is now legal

TriviArt

Shirt Debt

Spaghetti Samurai

Bendy Cat

Beyonce Trump

Irish Toilet

Boned Penguin

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One of our teams guessed at the fuel capacity of and Airbus A380 as 2 litres. Yep. A whole plane flies across the Pacific on less fuel than a 6 pack of beer.

And as long as we’re on the subject of numeracy, people thought a $1 coin made of pure gold would weigh 45kg.

Someone tried to make a case that lynching should be considered an indoor sport beginning with L.

Last week’s leaders are still on top, but there’s plenty of time left to go in our quarterly tournament.

Team Wins Score Average
6 Go Crazy 6 430 71.67
Diversity Council 5 357 71.40
Leader Housen 5 351 70.20
The Smith Family 4 292 73.00
Flashy Red Ponies 4 277 69.25
Al’s Team 3 217 72.33
Foxolotl 3 211 70.33
Smash Bros 3 201 67.00
Julius Caesar 2 153 76.50
No Idea 2 152 76.00
Glee 2 151 75.50
Karen, Sharon, and Darren 2 147 73.50
Thor’s Thundercats 2 145 72.50
Tribe 2 144.5 72.25
Bandits 2 143 71.50
Shannon and Co 2 135 67.50

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 3 November 2024

Americans are voting this week, and given that a lot of states are holding votes on specific issues, we thought your team name should propose something you think should be voted on.

Cybertrucks never have the right of way

Ordering a steak well done comes with a prison sentence

A declaration of war necessarily involves the two leaders of the country wrestling for it

A ban on using the word “moist”

Failure to give a courtesy wave after being let in to traffic results in a suspended license

Any proposed ballot measures you would like to see will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 2 November 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

You can come last and then win the jackpot.

Knowing about the political career of Silvio Berlusconi paid off.

TEAM NAMES

You came up with a lot of mundane halloween costumes.

Woman who was told “you look really tired” when she didn’t put makeup on

Person pretending to text to avoid making eye contact

Man who missed his bus because it came early

Woman whose heel broke on her way to work

Guy trying to make it look like he’s not looking at a girl’s ass

Drag queen on their day off

Person with a loose sock that keeps slipping in their shoe

Woman who gets her hair done and tells the hairdresser she loves it and then cries in the car

Man waiting for a machine at the gym

Person in back seat trying to avoid a conversation with their Uber driver

Person who said the right answer but didn’t write it down

TriviArt

Cow Folktale

Dusty Lemon

Sand Anaconda

Spooky Pumpkin

Alpaca Wine

Bottled Pumpkin

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Churchill became Prime Minister, Hitler visited Paris, and John Lennon was born… in 1984.

A team that was mostly Hindu got a question on Hinduism wrong.

Who played President Franklin Roosevelt in Pearl Harbour? Meryl Streep. Yeah she’s got range, but does she have THAT much range?

A picture of a young Christopher Walken was mistaken for a picture of a young Morgan Freeman.

And we’ve got one team at the top of the table in our quarterly tournament.

Team Wins Score Average
6 Go Crazy 5 359 71.80
Diversity Council 4 287 71.75
Leader Housen 4 275 68.75
The Smith Family 3 218 72.67
Al’s Team 3 217 72.33
Foxolotl 3 211 70.33
Flashy Red Ponies 3 206 68.67
Glee 2 151 75.50
Karen, Sharon, and Darren 2 147 73.50
Tribe 2 144.5 72.25
Bandits 2 143 71.50
Smash Bros 2 138 69.00
Shannon and Co 2 135 67.50
Give Lonnie a Pencil 2 98 49.00

See you next week.