Related to a recent team name theme, this week we want to know who would be the WORST person to represent our planet to visiting aliens.
Ellen Degeneres
Kevin Spacey
Any of the Kardashians
James Corden
Gwyneth Paltrow
Jake Paul (if you don’t know who he is, you are luckier than we are)
Amber Heard
Dr Phil
Any Social Media Influencer
Tell us who would make the worst impression on aliens for a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
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 were glad to have an Italian on the team when we asked a question about Italian cheese.
TEAM NAMES
You made some innocent movies scary.
Nightmare on Sesame Street
Dismembering Sarah Marshall
Lara Croft: Womb Raider
Fileting Nemo
Weekend at Chuckies
The Princess Corpse Bride
Boss Baby Massacre
Midsommer’s Night Dream
Epstein’s Princess Bride
Cloudy with a Chance of Zombies
The Blind Side where Monsters Hide
Babe 3: Silence of the Pigs
Stranger Skins
28 Days of Summer
The Saw Cinq Redemption
Psychoklahoma
Die-tanic
Finding Nemo’s Killer
Field of Nightmares
Crazy Rich Zombies
Driving Stakes Through Miss Daisy
TriviArt
Halloween Koala
Goulburn Halloween
Crumbly Chef
Sympathetic Dinosaur
Prejudiced Cannibal Pumpkin
Hand to Hand Euclid
INTERESTING MOMENTS
Shakespeare plays beginning with M, how about Momeo & Juliet… and The Mandalorian.
We asked about alcohol, and two teams ordered a drink to “buy” the answer.
See you next week.
Halloween is coming up, and we’re going to be messing around with movie titles.
Specifically, we want you to take a non-scary movie, and make it scary.
The Dark Nightmare Rises
ITception
Back to Friday the 13th
World War Zootopia
The Night of the Living Dumbo
Beauty and the Babadook
Any non scary movies that you can make scary will get a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
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 remembered that Nicholas Hoult played Marcus Brewer in About a Boy, because one of their friends had a bowl cut when the movie came out, and still bears the nickname “Marcus”.
TEAM NAMES
Who would you want to represent our planet to aliens?
Ripley
Sigourney Weaver
Danny Lim the Sign Guy
Mr Rogers
Captain Planet
Early 2000s Kanye
Dennis Rodman
Meryl Streep
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Napoleon Dynamite
Penny Wong
Healthy Harold
Lebron James
John Stamos
Not the French
X Æ A-12 Musk
Boris Johnson
Joe Rogan
Mel Gibson
Clowns
Julia Roberts
Amal Clooney
Kath & Kim
The Ghost of Steve Irwin
Judy Dench
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Mark Hammil
The Head of Lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss
The iQ Trivia Guy
We don’t have a leader – we’re an anachro-syndicalist commune, we take turns to act as a sort of ‘executive officer for the week”
TriviArt
Mellifluous Spatula
Magnificent House
Squared Circle
Uncopyrightable Contraceptive
Grizzled Bilby
Take Me To Your Leader
Crying Mushroom
Cruise Ship Octopus
Excited Bridge Queen
Noir Mr Rogers
INTERESTING MOMENTS
A typo of what we expect was “self defence” came out as “elf defence”.
One team mixed up Bring It On with 1917. Which is a tough mix up to make.
See you next week.
Here’s the situation.
Aliens have come to Earth. They approach you and ask to be taken to the leader of the planet.
Who is going to make the best impression?
Dolly Parton
A Golden Retriever
Keanu Reeves
Ned Flanders
The Dalai Lama
Tell us who would make the best impression on aliens for a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
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
First place and a jackpot.
TEAM NAMES
We’re kind of surprised so many of you are employed when we hear stories like this.
Worked in cyber security at Optus
I thought the student was giggling. He was having a seizure.
Locked a kid in a safe deposit vault
Signed “♥ Always” on work e-mails
Company wide reply all with dietary requirements
Jokingly suggested Squid Games as team building exercise, and it ended up on the agenda
Didn’t mute airpods when went for a wee
Crashed a million dollar drone
I left my Porsche keys in Mrs Glick
Ran the robodebt program
I called my boss dad
Accidentally left he shark tank open
Hid sandpaper in my underpants
Customer requested no prawns, I put prawns in
Chef served pork to Muslims
I’m a trivia host who read the answer when reading the question
Sent my clients legal secrets to opposing counsel
I went on holiday while the country was on fire
TriviArt
Naughty Possum
Stoned Hornet
Cosmonaut Five
Peculiar Xylophone
Workplace Stuffup
Faulty Covfefe
Angry Hamburger
Nerdy Leaf
Spicy Mike Tyson
Muppetational Camp
INTERESTING MOMENTS
One team settled an argument over a question with a thumb war.
When trying to answer a literature question, we overheard one team say “Don Quixote or something”. The answer? “Don Quixote.” Their answer… nothing.
We asked a question about the Hittite Empire, and one team cheered very loudly and with great pride after choosing the right option. You know, as if they knew.
One team mistook a picture of a young Lily Allen for Dave Grohl.
See you next week.
Recently we saw a story about this mistake made by a street painter outside a school.
Or was it a shcool?
So for your team name this week, we want you to tell us about a screw up at work.
It turns out that family DIDN’T want their grandmother to be cremated
I accidentally charged a customer $200 instead of $2
Unplugged the freezer to plug in my phone charger
I should have checked that I spelled Santa correctly on that Santa’s Village sign
I allowed 10 million people’s personal details to be stolen
Any “you had one job” moments will get a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
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
Knowing about Australian political history won them well over $200.
TEAM NAMES
You had a lot of fun with sports team names. Though sometimes we had to think about what the teams were called.
South Sydney Error Definition Not Found
South Sydney Rabbit Skinners
Dynamo Chicken Fillet Pounded and Rolled in Butter
San Antonio Bone Deformities
Chicago Male Bovines
Denver Small Pieces of Fried Chicken
LA Ships Built for Sailing
Eastern Suburbs Cocks
St George Mytical Fire Breathing Reptiles
Essendon Terrorists
The Australian Generation of Over 65s that Preceded Generation X
The Australian Highly Compressed Carbon
The Australia Hydrate Silica
The Minnesota Pillagers
San Francisco Gold Diggers
Harlem Lightbulb Pigs Feet
New York Men’s Baggy Kneed Breeches
North Melbourne Large Footed Marsupials
New York Really Huge People
Grater Western Sydney Beings with Human Form but Superhuman Strength and Size
The Dallas Dishonest People in Business
Parramatta Snake Like Fish
Parramatta Electric Sea Worms
Geelong Animals Worshipped by Ancient Egyptians
ACT Descendants of Escaped, Lost, or Broken Horses
Sydney Greater Than 5s, Less than 7s
Brisbane Aggressively Threatening Meow
Carlton Depressions
NSW Depressions
An Amorphous Blob of Every Person in Manchester
TriviArt
Moist Fish
Fizzy Dodo
Boisterous Bavarian
Goth Cheese
Frivolous Dreidel
Ghetto Butterfly
Giraffe Imposter
Slimy Pencil
Subversive Pies
King Poutine
INTERESTING MOMENTS
When we asked about common words beginning with SPA, one team went with “spank”. We’re not judging, but we did think it was unusual that their mind went there right away.
On a picture question on big things, we had a picture of a “big thumb”. And one team failed to identify it as a thumb.
And if you’re going to cheat by looking up New Girl on your phone, you might not want to do it right in front of our host, and you might not want to continue the search while we are calling you out in front of everyone.
See you next week.
We’re getting sporty this week.
But we also want to be accurate.
So for your team names this week, we want you to replace a sports team nickname with the dictionary definition of their nickname.
The New Zealand Completely Unable to Reflect Lights
St Kilda People Canonised by the Catholic Church
The Boston Communist Foot Coverings
Any dictionary definitions of sports team nicknames will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
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
Knowing about German botanists & flowers won them $141.
First place and the jackpot makes for a good evening.
Ski resorts in Iran. You never know when obscure knowledge will pay off.
TEAM NAMES
You radically changed a lot of films.
Friends of the Dead with Benefits
Breakfast of the Dead at Tiffany’s
Striptease of the Dead
Avengers of the Dead
Mean Girls of the Dead
High School Musical of the Dead
All Creatures of the Dead, Great and Small
Alive of the Dead
Planet of the Dead Apes
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King of the Dead
Field of the Dead Dreams
Night at the Museum of the Dead
Cruel Intentions of the Dead
The Never Ending Story of the Dead
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas of the Dead
Babe of the Dead
The Sixth Sense of the Dead
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory of the Dead
Jaws of the Dead
Little Women of the Dead
Flubber of the Dead
The Castle of the Dead
Titanic of the Dead
Gone With the Wind of the Dead
The Land Before Time of the Dead
She Hulk of the Dead
The Internship of the Dead
Dead Poets of the Dead Societs
Debbie Does Dallas of the Dead
Deep Throat of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead of the Dead
When Harry Met Sally of the Dead
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves of the Dead
The Queen of the Dead
Terminator of the Dead
The Social Network of the Dead
3 Billboards of the Dead Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sex and the City of the Dead
Back to the Future of the Dead
TriviArt
Running Snail
Slimy Cats
Skanky Satellites
Threatening Ape Insurance
Ostentatious Anal Beads
Running Flowers
Insulted Boxing
Sprightly Cactus
Fast Jill
INTERESTING MOMENTS
After getting their answer sheet back for the second half, one team claimed there was nowhere to put their answers… because they hadn’t mastered the highly technical process of turning over their answer sheet to see the other side.
We asked about the largest Sydney suburbs beginning with RO, and one team asked if the population had to be alive. Because there are a lot of dead people in Rookwood Cemetary.
Instead of calling the people who carry a coffin pall bearers, one team called them ball bearers. Which is a VERY different thing.
When we asked a question about a medical procedure beginning with the letter V where a man is sterilised, one player laughed loud enough that everyone in the room heard. Because apparently vasectomies are hilarious.
See you next week.