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This Week in iQ Trivia – 9 December 2023

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.

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TEAM NAMES

What’s the cringiest thing you’ve done to impress a crush?

Pretended to like trivia (we had a LOT of these)

Pretended to like World of Warcraft

Feigned interest in Scientology

Pretended to like highland dancing

Pretended I liked Jordan Peterson

Faking an interest in Taylor Swift

Photoshopped Taylor Swift into my Spotify Wrapped

Spent $500 to dye my hair red

Went rock climbing even though I hate the outdoors

Drawn on abs

Introduced her to my waifu pillow

Learned how to speak Croatian

Moved to Vancouver

Told them I have Club Penguin membership

Started a beat box krew

Agreed to do a nude photoshoot

Put a guitar on display even though I don’t play guitar

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Disco Infidelity

Monkey Dracula Roleplay Musical

Sloppy Rat

Historic House

Rotund Candy Cane

Crinkly Quorum

Sexy Table

Christmas Shopping

Marshmallow Hat

Furry Lamp

Postmodern Caterpillar

Limbo Clock

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Someone mistook a photo of Ryan Reynolds for “one of the hobbits”.

A country bordering Kuwait? How about Ku-nine.

One two separate quizzes we had a team get a perfect score in round one.

And one player’s first stop after flying into the country was to go to trivia. Jet lag and all, trivia comes first.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 3 December 2023

You’ve either done it, you’re going to do it, or you’ve done it and haven’t realised how cringy it was.

For your team name this week, we want you to tell us the cringiest thing you’ve ever done to impress a crush.

Pretended I liked Twilight.

Attempted a skateboard trick and wound up with a concussion.

Learned to speak Chinese. She was Korean.

Got a friend to punch me hard enough to give me a bruise so I could say I won a fight.

Any cringeworthy things you’ve done will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 2 December 2023

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 probably didn’t know for certain exactly how long Neil Armstrong spent in space, but they guessed it, and that was good enough.

TEAM NAMES

Bad trivia advice was everywhere.

Visit Canberra (from a team in Canberra)

Visit Adelaide (from a team from Adelaide)

Only children and the elderly swim between the flags

Hitchhiking to camp at Belanglo State Forest is the best way to get there

Don’t bother filling up before crossing the Nullarbor

By all means, feel free to feed the bears

Who needs travel insurance

Don’t miss Mount Druitt, the Paris of the west

Fly your drone in North Korea

Go to the Occidental and hang out with Team Bagpuss

Haggis tastes better rare

Go to the outback. A Dingo definitely won’t steal your baby

Bring your boogie board to Bali

“Você é péssimo no futebol” means “How do I get to the soccer stadium?” (Look it up in Portuguese.)

Buy everything the street vendors try to sell you

Wuhan has delicious bat soup

Bring your dildo to Dubai

Bali tap water tastes better if you don’t boil it

Arab Spring Break

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Hippo Petal Racecar

Sheep Shearing Festival

Silly Pickle

Sandy Lions

Pungent Chocolate

Bouncing Banana

Hybrid Insurance

Smelly Dog

Animals Playing Music

Edamame Cowboy

Noisy Burrito

Dimetrodon Bunnies

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One non player who was passing through the room while we played a Placebo song, and was so pleased he couldn’t contain himself.

Trotsky was killed with a leg of lamb.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 26 November 2023

There are a lot of tourists around these days, and this week your team name is going to give them some advice.

But not good advice. It’s a lot more fun to give terrible tourist advice.

So use your team name to suggest the worst places to go.

Thai prison are good for long term accommodation

Bringing a case of whiskey to Mecca will make you really popular

Haggling with that Mumbai street vendor over 20 cents is a good use of your time.

That Rio taxi driver is definitely reliable

They won’t mind if you take a little piece of the Mona Lisa

Any terrible travel advice will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 25 November 2023

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 won money for knowing about cider.

And they won for knowing about Mars.

TEAM NAMES

What crimes can NCIS Sydney investigate?

The case of the fairy bread with the missing sprinkles

Death by magpie

Millennial girl loses Birkenstocks on Bondi to Bronte walk

Poodle with a trust find

The case of the inappropriately filled wheelie bin

The really loud bang

Clive Palmer

Poo bags throwin in any old bin

Roofied shoeys

The five dollar flat white

The mystery of Sydney’s missing nightlife

Who is doing burnouts at 3am

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Pink Stethoscope

Cricket Celebration

Hungry Pumpkin

Voluptuous Flashlight

Shrewd Shrew

Combined Football Fish

Bouncy Octopus

Wisdom Tooth

Platypus Anagram

Spicy Elephant

Yeehaw Grinder (this guy just happened to have these pics on his phone)

Broken Mermaid

Pentatonic Beach

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team who didn’t read the news story we put on Facebook guessed that the Tasmania woman who couldn’t make it to work on time was delayed by her inability to get her driving gloves on over her six fingers.

We were treated to one player who couldn’t remember the title of Budapest by George Ezra doing an impression of the vocals for several minutes.

What did Taylor Swift’s band wear in the video for We Are Never Getting Back Together? Strap-ons. No, that’s the video you wanted to see for some reason. Perverts.

On a name the year bonus question, we had a Brazilian clue and a Greek clue, and neither the Brazilian player or the Greek player in the audience got the answer.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 19 November 2023

We noticed recently that NCIS is expanding to Sydney.

How they propose to have American military police solving crimes in Australia we haven’t figured out yet.

For your team name this week, we want you to suggest case in your local area for them to solve.

Avocados scanned as apples.

Manhunt after someone got away with to paying for five minutes parking.

A tenant is suspected of killing their landlord, but it could be one of the five other people crammed into the unit.

Three people are pursued for jaywalking at 3am with no traffic around.

A Newtown hipster crosses the Harbour Bridge and is reported missing.

What really happened at Engadine Maccas?

Any petty local crimes for NCIS to investigate will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 18 November 2023

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 won cash and a partially used gift card.

Everyone got a chemistry question wrong. Everyone but the winners.

TEAM NAMES

What stupid things have you been arguing about?

Lord Palmerston! Pitt the Elder!

How to open a car door.

Should we gamble 1 or 5?

Could God kill himself?

Can the Xenomorph from Alien kill Macbeth?

Who would win a fight between Colonel Sanders and Ronald McDonald? (Which we have asked as a dilemma question)

The Nature of the disgusting goop on the 3rd stall of the women’s toilet

Chardonnay or Latte?

Are jeggings jeans?

Is a zebra black & white or white & black?

Anything that happens in an IKEA

Is water wet?

How many toddlers can you take in a fight?

What is the definition of a horse?

What constitutes and “argument”?

Is lava dry or wet?

Would you love me if I was a worm?

Pineapple on pizza?

Is cereal soup?

Is a hotdog a sandwich?

Can white chicks have dreads?

Toilet paper. Over or under?

How many fruits are required for it to be a fruit salad?

Can a cheetah compete for South Africa in the Olympics?

What’s more useless, a jelly pickaxe or a chocolate tea pot?

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Fishing Penguin

Returning a ring in Middle Earth

Mellifluent Pig

Sticky Tangelo

Intellectual Washington

Subpoenaed Deer

Simpsons Toes

Rotund Animal

Wiggles Igloo

Shiny Wombat

Toxic Bear

Alligator Theremin

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We overheard that one of our teams, disappointed at not winning, was planning on holding interviews for new players to fill in the gaps in their knowledge.

Some people who were not playing but listening in were pleased to get a question on Charles Dickens, saying it was because they knew him when he was alive.

One team argued about the number of Lunar Roving Vehicles on the moon, claiming that they were pretty sure Wakanda sent one too.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 11 November 2023

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 can probably figure out what all of these made up terms mean.

Knowledge tournament

Big metal dealie you use to dig food

Danger noodles

Sky water

Cow juice

Hand heat shield

Time tellers

Disco chickens

Fizzy hops juice

Beer is happy water

Pass the box of wiener covers

Pointy stabby utensil

It’s on the tip of my mouth flapper

Shave your lip caterpillar

The plane station

Pasta cake

Carpet sucking machine

Hand shoes

Foot fingers

Can you put on the water cooker

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Lemon Elephant Eggs

Duck Fashion Show at the Melbourne Cup

Discombobulated Pineapple

Burly Sportsball

Succulent Glove

Bullish Bartender

Slimy Belconnen

Calm Pollen

Victorious Gargoyles

Scandinavian Brain

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We found out that our trivia was sufficiently interesting that a player put away their sewing to focus on the questions.

One player was so thrilled to hear Hamilton, Jamiroquai, and Crazy Rich Asians that she shook with glee on each of those audio clues so much that we thought she might be having a seizure.

And we had a record performance in a lightning round. After being the last player standing at the letter M in round 3, he proceeded to answer the final 13 letters perfectly to complete the lightning round.

We’ve seen that before, but at a time when we allowed a lot more passing, and in that case they only had to answer three more questions at the end.

The entire room, even people who weren’t playing trivia, ERUPTED in applause when Andy nailed the last question.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 5 November 2023

Have you ever forgotten the word for something and had to come up with something else to call it?

This week, we want you to make that your team name.

Call a hospital car

Pass me the food tweezers

Pick up a bread sword

That’s a really big milk moose

I could really go for a Jewish doughnut

I need a pregnancy detector

I’ll have a drunk white woman brunch cocktail

Any term to replace a word you forgot will get a bonus point

Have an interesting week.