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Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 13 August 2023

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We’re dealing with advice this week.

Bad advice.

Specifically, bad survival advice.

You need electrolytes, and there are plenty in sea water

Anything is edible if you’re hungry enough

Cutting a hole in your chest will let oxygen get directly into your lungs

Drink urine even though you’re body is trying to get rid of it

All mushrooms are fine

Any terrible survival tips will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 12 August 2023

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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

How did you argue that you won?

Add the number of beers consumed to the trivia score

We’ve been drinking all day so we should win

We would have won if we listened to the questions

Hillary won the popular vote

Everyone else is not me, therefore I win

Coming 7th is the real victory at trivia

Gambling -5 and intentionally getting it wrong

I passed my drivers test. The assessor was asleep

We would have won if we were younger

Music questions before 2000 don’t count

We should win the TriviArt because we’re the best at making Muppet porn

The dice would have fallen my way if it wasn’t for gravity

I would have won but I felt like losing

We are only technically wrong

The Ashes go to the team that has the most fun

We’re all winners because of friendship

I had the most hotdogs in me before I threw up

I put more answers so I should get more points

It’s not cheating, it’s winning

TriviArt

Crawling Pelican

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Quidditch

Sweaty Gall Bladder

Slippery Slide

Opera Bong

Delightful Locomotive

Alligator Trouble

Crunchy Drink

Impressionist Bucket

Happy Defenestration

Avian Underwear

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Half of the room loudly sang “I’ve been living next door to Alice”, not once, but twice when we asked for the next line.

We asked for baseball teams beginning with the letter R, and when one team realised we were looking for correct answers, they just wrote “correct” five times. Another team came up with the Rednecks and the Rambos.

Overheard at a quiz… “I know this song, I know this song!”

“What is it?”

“I don’t know.”

See you next week.

Interesting Question of the Day – 7 August 2023

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In a 2012 study, one group of teachers were promised a cash bonus if their students achieved a high enough test score, one group was given cash up front and were told they would have to pay the bonus back if their students didn’t perform well enough, and one group was given no bonus.

Which group performed the best?

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

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 6 August 2023

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This week we’re going to be messing around with definitions.

Specifically, and for no particular reason, we want you to redefine winning to suit you.

I wrote down the wrong answer, but I was thinking of the right answer, so I get credit

If they ignored the other guy’s votes, I would have won

That parked car hit me, so I should get my license

Any self-serving ways to redefine victory will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 5 August 2023

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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 lucked out on a question on shoes, but it still counts.

Knowledge of Italian companies paid off.

And 19th century Mexican history turned into cash.

TEAM NAMES

You came up with a lot of double features.

Beauty and the Cocaine Bear

The Fast and the Furious Case of Benjamin Button

Everything, Everywhere All at Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Dude, Where’s The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas?

The King Kong’s Speech

The Empire Strikes Back to the Future

Snatch Adams

Mean Girls Meet the Parents

Avatar: The Way of the Waterboy

Forrest Gump on a Plane

Nightmare on 34th Street

StarJaws

Shrekzilla

Stranger the Pulp Fiction

Schindler’s Basterds

Get Hard Die Hard

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Borat

The Hangover Games

The Virgin Suicides: First Blood

The Texas Chainsaw Shaft Massacre

The Sound of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

To Kill a 40 Year Old Virgin

Mad Babe

Indiana Jones and the Brokeback Mountain

A Nightmare on Elm Streetcar Named Desire

Scarfaceoff

Godfather of the Bride

The Sound of Pitch Perfect

From Russia With Love Actualls

The Curious Case of Sex in the City

Cloudy with a Chance of Sex in the City

10 Things I Hate About Nemo

10 Things I Hate About a Boy

TriviArt

Crispy Phalange

Australian Ashes

Voluptuous Celery

Prejudicial Glass

Burning Teacher

Backwards Badger Friction

Spongey Jamaica

Fellowship of the Castle

Juicy Friendship Smile

Outrageous Horse

Dad and Dave’s Musical

Commercial Bran

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Someone brought a note from his mum explaining his being late for trivia.

Someone got so excited about our questions so often, that it registered on her Apple watch as a workout.

African countries spelled with the letter Z? How about Moroczo, Zethiopia, and Chadz.

We had an engineer fail to get a pretty straightforward math question, because as he put it, he’s done with being tested on these things.

A player who was a big enough Radiohead fan to have a Radiohead album on vinyl with them at the quiz, didn’t get a Radiohead question.

And one team nearly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by listing five actors instead of five films.

See you next week.