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Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 26 June 2022

We’re at the end of Pride Month, so we have just enough time for this week’s team name theme.

We want you to make a movie or TV series gay.

The Lion Queen

The Big Bear Theory

Bi Hard

Ama-gay-us

Pride Green Tomatoes

The Mandalesbian

Cape Queer

Ferris Bueller’s Gay Off

Remember, this is meant to be lighthearted. It’s not meant to be an excuse to throw around a bunch of lazy slurs. And if you can’t think of anything, any film of TV series with “day” in the title gives you a pretty easy option.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 25 June 2022

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

These Star Wars nerds turned a question on Chewbacca into cash.

Winning with a lucky guess about vodka still counts as a win.

TEAM NAMES

You don’t have to change things much to ruin them.

Kentucky Boiled Chicken

Whitney Houston we have a problem

Alexander the Mediocre

Mothra Teresa

Marlin never finds Nemo and just goes home

Liceberg Lettuce

Garlic Bread and Butter Pudding

John McClane leaves his shoes on

Rice Noodle Bolognese

Adding bike lanes to the city

Pillow Fight Club

Spongebill Squarepants

John Wick got fuel the next day

The Red Hot Chili Lepers

Sydney Opera Louse

Straight George Michael

Iced finger bum

James and the Giant Eggplant

Thomas the Replacement Bus Service

TriviArt

Delicious Elephant

Flat Mummy

Distracting Sport

Spicy Donald Trump

Jealous Ice Cream

Folded Elephant

Militant Rats

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We tweaked a picture question of ex-military members who have moved on to new occupations to include one of our hosts. But nobody noticed that the sharp dressed Marine was the guy hosting the quiz they were at.

We asked a question to which the answer was Jonathan Thurston, and gave the hint that he was the same height as our host. Because why not be as unhelpful as possible?

On a question about the biggest countries in the EU, we reminded everyone that England wasn’t in the EU. And three teams still said England.

The last place subject was Colin Firth at one show, and one team watched Bridget Jones’ Diary in preparation that day, right before we asked a question on the scene that introduced Mark Darcy.

And a bonus question on the proportion of Australians approved of torture ended when the first team to guess got it exactly right. How someone became such an expert on torture, we didn’t want to know.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 18 June 2022

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

What’s legal but makes you look like a psychopath?

Knowing the age of consent in every country

Walking around the mall with a glass of milk

Stopping in the merge lane

Eating a banana sideways

Swinging on a swing at night

Sitting next to me on an empty train

Sock, shoe, sock, shoe

Kissing your parents on the lips

Changing your name to Hitler

Marrying your first cousin

Socks in the shower

High fiving the family at a funeral

Adults who love Minions

Being my autistic self in public

Owning a white van

Carpeting the bathroom

Pouring in milk before cereal

Putting Ketchup on Pizza

Carrying a shovel to the cemetery

TriviArt

Loose Scrotum

Bitter Car

Feral Berlin

Horny Jupiter

Effervescent Peru

Mischevious Ducks on Bicycles

Dysfunctional Putin

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we were asking a question about what a set of people had in common, someone guessed “they’re all white”, just as we rattled off the name of Nelson Mandela.

In addition to the marmalade sandwich the Queen supposedly keeps in her handbag, one team guessed that she also keeps bolt cutters for cutting brake lines.

After their teammate got a particularly obscure question, one player said their performance was both impressive and sad. Hey, impressive and sad is about 90% of our business!

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 12 June 2022

It’s time to get crazy.

For your team name this week, we want you to come up with something that is legal, but makes you look like a psychopath.

Not facing the door in a lift

Handing out candy the day AFTER Halloween

Laugh in a movie theatre when nobody else does

Holding eye contact for a few too many seconds

Anything that is perfectly legal but makes you look dangerously creepy will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 11 June 2022

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 either a lucky guess or expertise on iron ore exports that won them a jackpot. Either way, they walked out with $184.

TEAM NAMES

Here’s how not to enter a boxing match.

Loser

Big Girls Don’t Cry

Close to You by The Carpenters

Goodbye My Lover

Take My Breath Away

Touch Me (I Want Your Body)

Baby Got Back

Careless Whisper

Send in the Clowns

You’ve got a friend in me

Killing Me Softly

All Too Well (the 10 minute version)

I’m a Little Teapot

Silent Night

Dancing Queen

TriviArt

Spicy Teacher

Massive Glass Captain

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Bouncy Duck

Window Bears

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Guesses on how far the swaggie trudged to the Pub with No Beer in the Slim Dusty song ranged from 50 yards (which is not remotely remarkable), to 6,000 miles (which is the distance from Sydney to Perth and back… and then to Perth again.)

When did Visa first sponsor the Olympics? How about the Athens Olympics of 56 BC?

When we asked about the top billed actors in the live action Beauty and the Beast, one team answered with “that guy who was in Downton Abbey”. Sure enough, Dan Stevens was both Beast & Matthew Crawley. So they got a point.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 4 June 2022

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

Films & TV series you can eat or drink

The Shaw-lamb-shank redemption

The Soupranos

Casino Royale with Cheese

The King’s Peach

Stranger Wings

Terminator 2: Fudgement Day

Breaking Bread

Curb Your En-sushi-asm

Great Lasagna Escape

Throw Marmalade from the Train

Moby Spotted Dick

Clams Casino

Choc Top Gun

Steaks of Glory

Orange Pulp Fiction

Four Wings and a Fennel

Pan Fried Labyrinth

The Broth of Khan

Soy Story

My Big Fat Greek Salad

There will be blood sausage

Catch Me If You Canned Soup

How to Drain Your Flagon

The Rocky Road Picture Show

Bangers and M*A*S*H

Pappadum and Pappadummer

Priscilla Queen of the Dessert

The Figitive

Waffle Iron Man

Vegemitey Joe Young

A Few Good Gingerbread Men

TriviArt

Unelectable Biscuit

Rusty Words

Gone With the Wind Goulburn

Anxious Prawn

Alluring Quokka

Victorious Johnny Depp

Malicious Penguin

Lovecraftian Clown

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We have often noted the awkwardness of people cheering when they hear the name Hitler as an answer, because even though they’re only cheering that they got a question right, it still feels wrong to be cheering. So we were pleased to hear one audience boo Hitler instead.

A player turned up on crutches with back & neck pain, because he didn’t want to miss the show.

Our leaked current events question didn’t get through to one team, who guessed that instead of having his finger bitten off by a lion, a Jamaican zookeeper burned down the zoo while smoking a joint. Another thought he failed to qualify for the Jamaican bobsled team.

And one of our venues was named pub of the year. PIC. Is it any wonder when you have Australia’s most interesting trivia on your side?

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 29 May 2022

Last week we had fun with band names made edible.

This week we’re doing the same thing, but with movie & TV titles.

The Dark Chocolate Knight

Daredevilled Eggs

Citizen Sugar Kane

Lord of the Onion Rings

Mr Refried Bean

The Silence of the Lamb Shanks

The West Chicken Wing

Full Metal Jacket Potato

Any films or TV series made edible will earn a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 28 May 2022

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 diseases on The Simpsons paid off.

Who knows about pesto? THEY know about pesto. To the tune of over $300.

TEAM NAMES

Edible bands & musicians. You really came through.

Kebabba

David Baguetta

Peter, Paul, and Rosemary

Dim Sum 41

The Leeknd

Backstreet Boysenberries

Jamiroquiche

Durian Durian

Maxibon Jovi

Kylie Meringue

Sashimi Hendrixx

Baby Formulana Del Rey

Tim Tam Minchin

Boston Cream Pie

Bun DMC

Buns & Roses

Challah and Oates

(W)Ham!

The Meatles

Kendrick LCM Bar

Talking Head Cheese

Choc Top Hoods

Lady Baba Ganoush

R. E. M&Ms

Bruschetta James

Cold Cheezel

Kanyeast

Picnic! At the Disco

Frankfurt Valli and the Four Seasonings

Frankfurter Ocean

Michael Snackson

Celine Dijon

Kingsley’s of Leon

Fleetwood Big Mac

Food Fighters

Rib Eye Blind

Bread Zeppelin

Peanut Eminem

The Eleven Secret Herbs & Spice Girls

Pumpernickelback

Hall & Oatmeal

N.W.Aioli

Post Baloney

Paramoreo

Chili Eilish

Radiobread

TriviArt

Shaved William Wallace

Smelly French Fry

Angelic Beard

Shiny Bear

Sexy Flower

Erotic Aardvark

Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Tomato

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We had a player finally get a bonus question with the correct answer of “Denmark” after dozens of wrong guesses from all parts of the pub, despite the fact that she was wearing the word Denmark on her shirt. All she had to do was stand up and point to herself.

Who shot John Lennon? Lennon Harvey Oswald apparently.

What kind of lettuce is named for the way it was transported to market? Rocket thought one team. Well, that would explain the recent inflation.

See you next week.