If you spell the word “socks”, you have said “that’s for sure” in what language?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 19 July 2023
In a study of hospital admissions in the Solomon Islands, are you more likely to be hurt by falling out of a coconut tree, or to be hit by a falling coconut?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 17 July 2023
Name the characters, and what would this group of ten of them be called?
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Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 16 July 2023
Think about how you might enter someone’s contact details into your phone.
Now think about the worst thing you could save them as, and make that your team name.
Terrible breath
My twin has me listed as spare parts
Stalker with no sense of boundaries
“Future wife” after one date
Do not answer
Any awkward ways to save someone in your phone will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
This Week in iQ Trivia – 15 July 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
Knowing about Bulgarian currency won them Australian currency.
TEAM NAMES
How would you make things fair?
Music questions are all from my playlist
Four team members or less
Divide score by number of team members
All answers must be in the form of a cartoon
Everyone has to get drunk at pub trivia
Only questions on Bagpuss and 90s Britpop
Only questions about The Office
No Harry Potter questions
No geography questions
Newcomers get 5 bonus points
No points for TriviArt
Worst TriviArt gets 10 bonus points
Let the German Chancellor also be President
Baby Boomers don’t get to vote
Sack the government and let the APS take over
If you sh!t yourself in a suburban McDonald’s you don’t get to be Prime Minister
Consultants on a public sector wage
Male birth control
Short people basketball
Boxing, but nobody is allowed to punch
Average people get to compete at the Olympics
The Snitch doesn’t end the game and is only worth 50 points
Ban New Zealand from international rugby
TriviArt
Holy Venus
Crocodile Chestnut Tea
Shake a Tail Feather
Saucy Automobile
French French Fries
Disappointed Toilets
Kawaii Car
INTERESTING MOMENTS
One of our hosts got plaudits on their German pronunciation of “schmetterling”.
On the other hand, one audience was amazed and borderline offended that one of our hosts couldn’t name a single Neighbours character.
Someone thought Jesse James’ first bank robbery in America took place in 1566.
One team guessed the film Madagascar in the first round, only for us to ask about the film Madagascar in the second half. Psychic!
We we’re pre-emptively asked to repeat question 28 right after we read question 27. Well, strictly speaking we can’t REPEAT question 28, because we haven’t ASKED question 28.
And someone at a corporate show being staged for a logistics company asked us how far 2,000km was. Apparently he’s new.
See you next week.
Interesting Question of the Day – 14 July 2023
Don Bradman scored 29 centuries in test cricket. How many countries did he score a century in?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
Interesting Question of the Day – 12 July 2023
Titanic broke box office records. What calendar day was its highest grossing day?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 10 July 2023
What shouldn’t you leave for Santa’s reindeer?
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Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 9 July 2023
There’s been a lot of talk about fairness this past week for some reason.
And this week we want you to join in that discussion.
Whether you want to change the rules of sport, or life, or trivia, or anything you choose, we want you to make things “fair”.
Or preferably, fair only to you.
The next FIFA World Cup should be played on a hill
No quiz questions on anything before 2000
The electoral college
Any rules to tilt things in your favour will get a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
This Week in iQ Trivia – 8 July 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
Czech soccer, Federal Elections, Canadian cities, Superbowls, and ex-Soviet dictators led to a lot of jackpots being won.
TEAM NAMES
There were a lot of team names renaming England for some reason.
England, the home of bad sports and being bad at sports
Whingeland
Whinging Pomland
The Cricket Whingers
Land of the the Eternal Whinger
Sookland
Isle of Scones
Colonisier Island
Greenland should swap with Iceland
Darwin, the city that disproves evolution
Land of Lucky McCatholics
Braai Nation
Baulkham Hills = Hillsong
Korea: The good one
North Korea REDACTED
Wine Wankers
Zimbabwe: Land of Millionaires
Not So South Sudan = Sudan
Can-boring
Beerlandia
Half and hour & 20 years behind Sydney
School shooting range
Maroubra: The Mount Druitt of the East
Italy: Land of hand gesticulations
People’s Republic of Empanadas
Sheep Land
Australia Lite
New ZeaLamb
Chur Bro Island
AFL City
Melbourne = Shelbyville
TriviArt
Sleepy Joe Biden Frying an Egg
Spritely Spiderman
Curly Camel
Sparkling Walrus
Backwards Salmon
Impatient Gherkin
Just Keep Walking
Obtuse Juice
Excited Trivia
Flamingo Rugby
Running Octopus
Adam Sandler Waterloo
Emu Library
INTERESTING MOMENTS
On a question about actors who played Presidents, one team guessed Tom Hanks for every film, and was wrong every time.
Countries that used to be part of Yugoslavia? Italy, Sweden, Scotland, Brazil, Colombia. Really?
We asked a homework question on top try scorers in Rugby, but one team answered with top point scorers, because they assumed that was the same thing.
On our bonus round, one team guessed it was William Shatner before finding out it was a comic book character armed with a hammer who was played by Chris Hemsworth.
See you next week.