This Week in iQ Trivia – 22 February 2025

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

WINNERS

JACKPOT

A few weeks after seriously messing up a wrong answers only bonus round, one of their players came up with a correct guess on Texan cities and they took home their first ever jackpot… and spent it all in about 20 minutes.

TEAM NAMES

You renamed a lot of places.

United States of Absurdistan

Adequate Britain

Melbourne Emo Sydney

Scotland: The British Expansion Pack

Gulf of Distraction

New Zealand Australia’s 7th State

Aging Zealand

Punchbowl is now Toiletbowl

Norway but it’s called “what an Australian says when they’re in disbelief”

Kingbeyan

South Korea is the normal one

Despotic People’s Republic of Korea

Festive Season Island

Greenland is Mar-a-Igloo

Bosnia and They/Themzegovina

The Australian Ocean

TriviArt

Beer Party

Frog Plunge

Pre Season

Forgetful Pineapple

Sharp Tonsils

Yoga Parmagiana

Penguin Crip Walk

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We quoted Sam Kerr’s statement after her acquittal, and someone thought it was Donald Trump. Ohhhhhh dear. Not even close!

When we played It’s A Wonderful Life, one player who is about 50 years younger was thrilled, noting that it’s his favourite movie and that he can’t watch it without breaking down. So much for “before my time”.

What’s the national anthem of Australia? We had guesses of Down Under by Men at Work, and You’re the Voice by John Farnham.

And we still have one team that has won every week and leads our quarterly tournament.

Team Wins Score Average
Masterminds 7 525 75.00
6 Go Crazy 6 467 77.83
Smith Family 5 374 74.80
Diversity Council 5 370 74.00
Al’s Team 4 310 77.50
Leader Housen 4 267 66.75
Richard Gere Appreciation Society 3 231 77.00
Timothy Soup 3 228 76.00
Midwives and Friends 3 223 74.33
Ted’s Team 3 210 70.00
Thor’s Thundercats 2 154 77.00
Bandits 2 152 76.00
Whale Emoji 2 152 76.00
Leon and Val 2 136 68.00
Smash Bros 2 134 67.00
Flat Girthers 2 129 64.50
Senator Roney 1 84 84.00
Mark Cuckerberg 1 79 79.00
Fish and Friends 1 78 78.00
The Nag’s Head 1 78 78.00
The Day After The Day After Tomorrow 1 77 77.00
Joe Allergic to Protest the Hero 1 76 76.00
Flash Red Ponies 1 73 73.00
Mara’s Angels 1 73 73.00
Spongebob 1 73 73.00
The Lucky Baby 1 73 73.00
Tournament Name 1 73 73.00
Foxalotl 1 72 72.00
Julius Caesar 1 72 72.00
Forward to the past 1 71 71.00
Jeremy’s Iron 1 71 71.00
NBA 1 71 71.00
Bagpuss 1 70 70.00
New Years Trivolution 1 70 70.00
Rani 6pm 1 70 70.00

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 16 February 2025

So the Trump administration has sought to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and Google and Apple are falling in line. (Though apparently a lot of users of Google Maps are reporting Gulf of America as misspelled.)

For the record, if you call it Gulf of America at iQ Trivia you WILL be marked wrong.

Now for your team names this week, we want you to look at a map and suggest another name change.

Pizza Hut Presents The Gulf of America

New Mexico is now Slightly Used Mexico

Since Trump like putting his name on things, every state, county, and city in America is now called Trump

New Zealand is Temu Australia

Red, White, and Blue Land, not Greenland

Sydney to Sadney

Russia = North Ukraine

Any renamed places will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 15 February 2025

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

WINNERS

TEAM NAMES

You put a lot of films in the future tense.

The boy will wear striped pyjamas

10 things I will hate about you

Honey I will blow up the kid

I will be legend

Everything everywhere about to happen

Debbie will do Dallas

Forward to the past

The day after the day after tomorrow

Nemo will be found

The land after time

The princess widow

It’ll go in 60 seconds

Saturday the 14th

I will be a teenage werewolf

Elon & Trump are going to frame Roger Rabbit

Django rechained

Shawshank will be redeemed

X-Men: Days of future future

When will I kill Bill

The devil might wear Prada

Tomorrow when the war will begin

Dude, where will my car be?

The way we’re going to be

12 soon to be angry men

Austin Powers: The spy who will shag me

I will find out what you’re going to do next summer

The Emperor’s next groove

We’re considering purchasing a zoo

When will I lose this guy? In 10 days

TriviArt

Mischevious Eel

Superbowl Monday

Goalkeeper Desk

Furious Mushroom

Super Bowl

Dirty Bike

Mojito Pope

Dizzy Cephalopod

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Someone mixed up the psychological horror thriller Hannibal with Pingu.

When asked to name a body part beginning with L, one player froze up and couldn’t think of anything for about 20 seconds, despite the fact that he was breathing with this body part, and standing on two of them.

And we have new leaders in our quarterly tournament, though this week they were playing in another city.

Team Wins Score Average
Masterminds 6 442 73.67
6 Go Crazy 5 389 77.80
Smith Family 5 374 74.80
Al’s Team 4 310 77.50
Diversity Council 4 293 73.25
Timothy Soup 3 228 76.00
Midwives and Friends 3 223 74.33
Ted’s Team 3 210 70.00
Leader Housen 3 194 64.67
Richard Gere Appreciation Society 2 152 76.00
Whale Emoji 2 152 76.00
Leon and Val 2 136 68.00
Smash Bros 2 134 67.00
Flat Girthers 2 129 64.50
Senator Roney 1 84 84.00
Mark Cuckerberg 1 79 79.00
Fish and Friends 1 78 78.00
The Nag’s Head 1 78 78.00
The Day After The Day After Tomorrow 1 77 77.00
Thor’s Thundercats 1 77 77.00
Joe Allergic to Protest the Hero 1 76 76.00
Flash Red Ponies 1 73 73.00
Spongebob 1 73 73.00
The Lucky Baby 1 73 73.00
Tournament Name 1 73 73.00
Foxalotl 1 72 72.00
Julius Caesar 1 72 72.00
Bandits 1 71 71.00
Forward to the past 1 71 71.00
Jeremy’s Iron 1 71 71.00
NBA 1 71 71.00
New Years Trivolution 1 70 70.00

See you next week.