Here’s what you may have missed this week at iQ Trivia.

WINNERS

JACKPOT

Knowing (or guessing) when Confucius was born won them a jackpot.

Michelin starred restaurants let them make it rain with their jackpot winnings.

TEAM NAMES

What unhelpful advice did you have?

Stop buying smashed avo and buy a house

If you can’t afford to rent, just buy a house

If you’re homeless, just buy a house

Calm down

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps

Just get a job

Just use the force

It’s in the last place you left it

If you’re running late, get Scotty to beam you there – Captain Kirk

Got no money? Print some

If you’re poor, just be rich

Have you tried not being stressed

Telling your girlfriend to drink water when she has a headache

If you’re coming last at trivia, just answer more questions right

TriviArt

Superlative Picture

Naive Pizza

Alpaca Cannon

Studious Trees

Slimy Moose

Nasty Palindrome

Dynamite Cake

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We played a song on the harp, and asked who performed the original. Pretty straightforward. But then someone answered with the relatively obscure harp duo that performed the cover, which we’re pretty sure they got by looking it up. But either way, their answer was the cover artist not the original. The lesson here is, even if you’re cheating, you still have to answer the question we asked.

When asked if they’d rather losee the ability to understand English or the ability to understand sarcasm, one team noted that choosing to lose sarcasm was basically becoming autistic.

We often give leeway on a question if you put an answer in the wrong space. But when one team’s answer to a picture question about Iron Man was “Montana”, and their answer to a question on The Godfather was “poop”, and they stated that “woman” is a palindrome, our ability to grant leeway is somewhat limited.

After we played a song backwards, one team wrote their answer backwards. It took us a moment to figure out that PMUJ is JUMP backwards, and it was a risky proposition guessing that we would figure that out, but we appreciated it.

And our leaders have maintained their position at the top of the table.

See you next week.

Here’s what you may have missed this week at iQ Trivia.

WINNERS

TEAM NAMES

Chat GPT surely has some interesting origin stories for your made up idioms.

If you have a ladder, don’t swim in the ocean

A bird on the road keeps the doctor away

A watched stream never flows backwards

No skin off my teeth

When ants go to discos

It’s easier to scratch a dog than shake a cat

Like a frog with a tuxedo

The early bird gets its wings clipped

Too many cockroaches at the table

I wouldn’t hang my coat on that

A fool and his money are are a girl’s best friend

You don’t set mousetraps under a full moon

Eyeliner doesn’t make a polar bear a panda

Never trust a sailor with a purse made of bacon

TriviArt

Speedy Golf

Pineapple Blasphemy

Therapeutic Morgue

Shoe Phone

AI Meatball

Seismic Glasses

Limerick Poll

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked a question on brands of golf balls, one player suddenly became very interested in the golf that was on TV.

One player who had just returned from the bar was sent up to face the bonus round by a friend. Neither of them had the slightest idea what it entailed, and they wound up naming a grand total of zero artists who have recently won the Grammy for Best Record, instead of the 12 they were tasked with.

Jared Leto’s role in Fight Club was described as “dude who gets beat up”. Which, to be fair, is not entirely wrong.

We had a pregnancy announcement at one quiz, and a promise that if the baby comes on a Monday, they will be brought to trivia on the Tuesday to get them the best start in life.

And our leaders have maintained their spot at the top of the table.

See you next week.