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This Week in iQ Trivia – 11 February 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 keep winning their own money back.

Knowing about Californication actors paid off.

Getting an anagram about Carrie Bradshaw won them enough money to make a happy face with it.

TEAM NAMES

How to de-pluralise a film?

Monopussy

Indiana Jone

Ocean 1

A single dalmatian

The Avenger: One War

Just Me because Marley died at the end

A thing at a place at one time

The Taking of Pelham 1

Inglourious Basterd

The man who stared at a goat once

Spongebob Squrepant

The Addam Family

Cat

Car

A plane, a train, and an automobile

A single person likes it hot

A single good fella

Fish of Rock

1 (not 300)

Meet an individual Focker

No Country for Old Man

Snow White and a Dwarf

Risky Ferret

Happy Foot

1 Fast 1 Furious

Harry Potter and the Chamber of One Secret

The Lord of the Ring

One Shade of Grey

One Angry Man

Lion and Prejudice

TriviArt

Surreptitious Pergola

Frivolous Cappuccino

Large Crackling

Iconic Randy Dribble

Sweaty Ferris Wheel

Punch Drunk

Voluptuous Uncle

Cloud Poop Tree

Velociraptor Moustache

Psychedelic Clownfish

Political Pachyderm

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One of our gambler’s questions was decided because a critical mass of teams assumed every team would take the money under any circumstances, no matter how ridiculous. It was a moment of pure game theory.

A question on the Mona Lisa’s hands had literally every team doing a Mona Lisa impression.

What war was the film War Horse set in? Star Wars. You remember all those horses in space, don’t you?

How far is the closest black hole to us? Penrith, apparently.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 4 February 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

It was only $26 but a win is a win.

TEAM NAMES

What are the characters in your favourite songs doing now?

Stacy’s Mom is serving a sentence for sexually assaulting a minor

Stacy’s Mom has an Only Fans

Stacy’s Mom is now experiencing a geriatric pregnancy

Stacy’s Mom is still a MILF

Stacy’s Mom binge watches Netflix

I finally banged Stacy’s Mom

Jenny got an unlisted number

Benny & the Jets are excited for their first day at SpaceX

Uptown Funk is now giving it to you

Ms Jackson still rejects your apology

Mack the Knife became a surgeon

Roxanne is installing LED lights

Sweet Caroline is not so sweet

Mr Roboto got an AI upgrade and is taking over the world

Madonna is NOT a virgin

Hotel California is closed for renovations

Billie Jean ghosted me

Billie Jean is hunting for a baby daddy

The Girl from Ipanema is now announcing floors in lifts

Dancing Queen is a double amputee

Major Tom is debunking moon landing conspiracy theories

Eleanor Rigby had a big funeral but didn’t invite the Beatles

Eleanor Rigby has taken on a new job as head of Cuban intelligence after faking her death and defecting to the Soviets.

Tiny Dancer was crushed underfoot

Baby Shark filed a lawsuit to end their conservatorship

Annie is not ok

Gina quit the diner and is now working on the docks after Tommy was crushed by a shipping container

TriviArt

Sleepy Toilet

Sonorous Vents

Dog Surfing

Alligator Smith

Trainwreck Television

Sustainable Dodo

Christmas Hanger

Endangered Mel

Mafia Star

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked about the number of holes on belts, someone on every team removed their belt. Yes, we effectively invented strip trivia.

One player’s initial guess on a language question was shot down as ridiculous by his teammates, before several hints led them back towards the fact that he had been right all along. Smugness ensued.

When we played a song by the Cranberries, one team answered that it was titled “the one that isn’t Zombie.”

A question on actors in Home Alone resulted in answers of Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci… and “the other guy”.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 29 January 2023

We’re dealing with people in songs this week.

Think about the people in one of your favourite songs, and tell us what you think they’re doing now.

Sk8er Boi attempted a career in the UFC and is now hawking cryptocurrencies

Roxanne transitioned from turning on the red light to campaigning against sex work

Jolene lost her flaming locks of auburn hair when she developed alopecia

Major Tom is still floating in a tin can

Any update on the life story of someone in a song will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 28 January 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

So what do you think is un-Australian?

It’s McDonald’s not Maccas

It’s shrimp not prawns

Pavlova is from New Zealand

The English cricket team is great

Fosters Fan Club

Paying for Wilson’s car park

Bunnings is sh!t

Sobriety

Corey Worthington

Scomo

Pauline Hanson

Working on a public holiday

Working through a smoko

Beetroot doesn’t belong on a burger

I hate Aeroplane Jelly

Tim Tams are toxic

Lamingtons are overrated

Gatekeeping the Australian identity

TriviArt

Annoying Horse

Sparkling Haggard Koala

Spiky Belts

Flatulent Cabbage

Australia Day in Goulburn

Sausage Passion

Running Banana

70s Herpetology

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Someone mixed up George Gregan & George Brandis.

We had a margin of victory of 24 points. Which might be a record.

And one team promised if they won that they would sing their team name… and then they did. So we got to hear what the opposite of the Aeroplane Jelly advert sounds like.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 22 January 2023

It’s Australia Day this week, and that means another lamb ad

This time they’re talking about things that are un-Australian.

For your team name this week, we want to know about other things that are un-Australian.

Hating the Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi chant

Not liking beer

I’m indifferent to ACDC

Marmite is better than Vegemite

Summer sucks

Whether you think being “un-Australian” is good or bad, making your team name something un-Australian will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 21 January 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

It was a good week for jackpots.

TEAM NAMES

How to rename nationalities?

Kiwis are the Aldi version of Australians

Scots are unintelligible Brits

Scots are ginger Englishmen

Scots are angry rangas in skirts

All humans are dry Atlanteans

Americans are bad spelers

Irish are Guinness Leprechauns

(You choose the country) are future Chinese

Chinese people are MSG peddlers (it’s ok, they were Chinese)

Egyptians are OG cat fetishists

The Dutch are bike ridin’ cheese wheelin’ tulip pickers

Argentinians are Germans in hiding

The Irish are tall Hobbits

Switzerland is more neutral Germany

Americans are metric denialists

Queensland is Australian Florida

Australians are professional swearers

Cheese eating surrender monkeys (we had several of these)

TriviArt

Resplendent Web Shooter

Moist Cake

Mangy Pig

2023 Hopes

Fire Liver

Gooey House

French Potatoes

Triceratops Ballet

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Beginning with Z, what is the currency of Poland? Zoloft.

Beginning with D, the term of French origin for the thing that changes gears on a bicycle? De-changer.

And spelling matters when you try to say nunchuks, but instead say nuncucks.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 15 January 2023

A little while ago we saw this.

This week we want to come up with other alternate names for nationalities.

Swedes are Ikea Vikings

Italians are Hand Talkers

Americans are Slightly Louder Canadians

Any alternative nationality will get you a bonus point.

Note: There’s going to be scope to be horrible with team names this week. Let’s try to keep things relatively harmless.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 14 January 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

How to quickly destroy your reputation?

Do a Shankar Mishra

Holiday in Hawaii duyring bushfires

Nominate Putin & Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize

Marry Meghan Markle

Write a whiny memoir

Add a 5% service charge to your bill

Wear blackface

Hiding pedophiles in the church and lying about it

Dressing your children in Balenciaga

Mastubation in public

Revive George Pell

Spread anti-vax propaganda

Be Kanye West

Hire Tony Abbott as your diversity & inclusion adviser

Invade Ukraine

Mistake the urinal for a bubbler

Using your phone during trivia

Go from first to last in iQ Trivia

TriviArt

Stupendous Train

Kwyjibo Rum

Bushy Sheep

Maple Cricket

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked about a picture on the wall of the pub as a special subject, there was a real stir of people trying to find a picture of Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin.

We thought one team might be overthinking a logic question. Their response? “That’s not possible.”

And one team came first on 79 points despite getting zero on the gambler’s question.  (Getting 6 bonus points through the quiz helped.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 8 January 2023

So Elon Musk’s reputation has taken some damage over the past few months.

But we think you can do better.

For your team name this week, we want you to think of a way to ruin your reputation faster than Elon.

Slap Chris Rock

Approach every decision by asking “what would Ellen Degeneres do?”

Get in a Twitter feud with a Swedish teenager for no reason and get my ass handed to me

Any way of rapidly ruining your reputation will get you a bonus point

Have an interesting week.