We tested the concept from October to December at a handful of venues and it has worked well, but now we are planning to expand it across all of our quizzes.

The idea is that the winning team at every venue gets their score entered onto a leader board.

At the end of the quarter, whatever team has the highest cumulative score among all their wins, wins.

It’s only the winning team who gets their score entered. If you come second, your score doesn’t go on the board.

You can go to more than one quiz in a week, but you only get one score every week. So if you go on Tuesday and win with 65 points, and then win again on Wednesday with 68 points, only your Wednesday score counts.

If you want to complain that it’s easier to win at a venue with fewer teams… well, that’s probably true. Also, we don’t care. There will be no handicapping of scores. If you want to win by going to a smaller venue, there’s nothing stopping you.

We plan to post the leader board at the end of every week so you know where you stand.

Keeping track of team names may be a bit tricky given that team names change every week, so if you want to compete, you’ll need to give us a way to identify you. The answer sheets are being updated to make a space for you to enter an identifier you can use at all quizzes right next to your final score. (It can be the name of a team member, a team nickname, or anything that is unique to your team.) That way your host can send a photo of the winning score & your tournament team name so we can update our records. (If you are in the running to win the tournament we will also have to be able to contact you, preferably by e-mail.)

In the unlikely event of a tie on cumulative points at the end of the tournament, the team with the highest score on a single quiz will win.

Have an interesting tournament.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 6 January 2023

January 6, 2024Uncategorizedtrivia, triviart, week in reviewiqtrivia

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

You’ve had some really awful house guests.

Claims Emily Post Says Foot Rubs From The Host Are Just Good Manners

The couch is uncomfortable. I’ll take your bed.

Peed on the floor

Mormons.

Clipping toenails at the dinner table.

Where’s my dinner?

They watered our fake plants.

This Sandwich is Delicious, now you should make yourself one

TriviArt

Clown Zoo

Salty Cowboy

Decaf Pickle

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Words beginning with BO, one player guessed Bong, and Bondage. Which might say a thing or two about them.

On an alphabetical list of Rugby World Cup playing countries, we had to explain that Bangladesh has never been to the Rugby World Cup.

When asked when the actress who played the grandmother in Titanic was born, we had guessed ranging from 1876 to 1973. Which would have made her either 24, or 121 years old when they film was released.

And a Scotsman failed to recognise Auld Lang Syne being played on bagpipes. He’s a bad Scotsman.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 31 December 2023

December 31, 2023Uncategorizedteam name bonus point, triviaiqtrivia

The holiday season is wrapping up, and you may have had house guests staying with you.

For your team name, we want to know about the most audacious or entitled house guest you ever had.

Thanks for letting me stay. By the way, I don’t believe in wearing clothes at home.

My mother in law decided I was staying up too late.

I lost the key you gave me, so I changed the locks.

The air conditioner works better if you run it while you’re out and leave the windows open.

Any ridiculously entitled house guest behaviour will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 30 December 2023

December 30, 2023Uncategorizedtrivia, triviart, week in reviewiqtrivia

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

It may have been luck, but this team who finished second last took home the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

A lot of you had a pretty lacklustre Christmas.

I’m not sure that’s gravy

Sunny the dog ate an entire Toblerone

Ran out of alcohol

Alcoholic aunt

Exploding turkey

Granddad set fire to the turkey

Dodgy prawns

Boardgame blowout

My Trump loving family showed up

Cat sh!t on the Xmas tree

TriviArt

New Years Eve – Goulburn Style

Fuzzy Viking

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When presented with five 50/50 choices, the best any team did at one quiz was two. Just two. Statistically, that’s worse than random chance, and that’s the best anyone did. One team got zero out of five.

When given a question about Ritalin, one team reacted in such a pronounced way that we thought something was up. Turns out half the team was currently ON Ritalin.

And one team argued for a VAR decision when they claimed to have said USA in the bonus round. We didn’t hear it, nobody in the room heard it, and all the gaslighting in the world isn’t going to make us think you said it when you didn’t.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 24 December 2023

December 24, 2023Uncategorizedteam name bonus point, triviaiqtrivia

So by the time you’re at trivia, another Christmas will have passed.

We want to know how someone ruined it.

My niece gave my dog chocolate

A backyard cricket dispute resulted in stitches

My conspiracy theorist uncle decided to drop in unannounced

A power cut on Christmas eve meant the food for Christmas lunch was ruined

Any story about what ruined a perfectly good Christmas will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 23 December 2023

December 23, 2023Uncategorizedtrivia, triviart, week in reviewiqtrivia

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

They’re all taking money into the holidays.

TEAM NAMES

You remade a lot of Christmas movies from the point of view of a minor character.

Why is the Prime Minister at my kids nativity?

Why is the Prime Minister trying to bang his staff?

Why has that creep been filming only Keira Knightley for the whole wedding?

My wife has been listening to those carol singers a long time

Why is that guy confessing his love on cards to a married woman?

Why is that miser always surrounded by singing Muppets?

Uncle Clark needs therapy

Bloody hell Clark, they’re only Christmas lights?

A Gruber kind of Christmas

Why is my husband crawling through the airducts again

Who is that guy yelling yippee ki yay m*therf*cker?

Will Ferrell needs to get off the escalator and let me shop

911, and elf is attacking a department store Santa

Gonzo’s Christmas Carol

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, but at least I don’t have to deal with ghosts

How do you forget your own kid?

That kid doesn’t realise he’s talking to a future President

I can’t believe I’m being outsmarted by someone named Kevin

If I have to deliver pizza to the McCallister house again I’m pissing on it

TriviArt

Magic Dinosaur

Beautiful Cow

Moist Anchor

Redundant Beans

Atomic Den

Superbly Kinky Reindeer

Lazy Santa

Lucky Mistletoe

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Cities with high NRL attendance? Adelaide, Sydney, Perth said one team who probably didn’t know what NRL is. When we suggested they change some, they scratched out Sydney.

One team forgot to do their homework on Swedish Prime Ministers so they guessed the names of ABBA members, and because Andersson is both a member of ABBA and a recent Prime Minister, they still got one.

You know that famous Dylan Thomas poem? “Do not go gentle into that good night. Take as many of the bitches down with you as you can.”

One player complained that in asking about high population Sydney suburbs, we didn’t count dead people. Because that’s a totally normal way to count population.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 17 December 2023

December 17, 2023Uncategorizedfilms, team name bonus point, triviaiqtrivia

It’s that time of year. It’s Christmas movie time.

For your team name, we want you to imagine what a minor character in a Christmas film is thinking.

I’m unemployed because a high flying businesswoman fell in love with a small town guy in a Hallmark movie and the company went out of business

I think something is going on at the McCallister house

Arrest that child running past airport security with no boarding pass

I didn’t even want to be at my husband’s Christmas Party at Nakatomi Plaza, and now I’m a hostage

Any Christmas films from the point of view of a background character will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 16 December 2023

December 16, 2023Uncategorizedtrivia, triviart, week in reviewiqtrivia

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

They knew enough about French soccer players to win $85.

They managed an educated guess about Australian generals.

They made an educated guess about Nobel prize winning writers.

TEAM NAMES

You made a lot of old movies a lot more PC.

James Bond stops forcing himself on lesbians

Frankly my dear, I value your opinion

Tropic Thunder, but only the credits

Sleeping Beauty is gently woken up rather than non-consensualyl kissed

Harry Potter and the Workplace Health and Safety Inspection

Dr Neurodiverselove

Michael Corleone finds a gun taped to a gender neutral toilet

Tarzan, Queen of the Jungle (pre-op)

Beauty don’t need no beast

No country for the patriarchy

Mother of the Groom

Men in Black Lives Matter

The visually impaired side

Physical Disagreement Hangout

White men CAN jump (and pass, and shoot too)

Star Special Military Operation

Differently abled and differently abler

Greta Gerwig directs Saving Private Ryan with Akwafina in the titular role

Lawrence of Arabia except a woman gets to speak

A Diverse Human Centipede

They’re the person

The Godmother

The Godperson

All the Presidents Individuals of Non-Specified Gender

Snow Black and the Seven Amtiracist People of Varying Stature

When Harry Met Harry

Romeo & Julian

Pocahontas but the white guy dies of pneumonia

Little Red Riding Hood couldn’t kill the wolf because it’s a protected species

Indiana Jones puts everything back

TriviArt

Jazz Sweets

Strange Short People

Old Leaf

Slippery Cow

Satan Sniff

Flaccid Vespa

Crazy Christmas

Stinky Tomato

Potatoey Potato

Pooh Tinsel

INTERESTING MOMENTS

After we mentioned there would be a question on wheat somewhere on the quiz, one team answered “wheat” no less than 6 times on the quiz, but unfortunately not where it would have been correct.

The special subject at one of our quizzes was intersectional feminism, and when we asked the first question, LITERALLY every person in the room was a man.

One team nearly left before the results. It’s a good thing they didn’t, because they won.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 10 December 2023

December 10, 2023Uncategorizedfilms, team name bonus point, triviaiqtrivia

A lot of old movies couldn’t be made now.

And this week you are going to be updating old movies to make them woke.

After being captured by Jabba the Hutt, Leia is dressed in a normal prison uniform

12 Rational Jurors who are racially and gender diverse

The original Mrs Von Trapp had access to birth control and didn’t have seven children

Mark Poppins

Any old movies made woke will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.