Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 6 October 2024

This week we are looking for life hacks.

And we don’t mind if you get a bit unethical.

You can get anywhere if you wear a hi-viz vest

Buy one movie ticket, stay there all day

Fill a baby bottle with vodka & tell them your wife & kids are already inside the theme park

Become a real estate agent

Any life hacks of questionable ethics will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 5 October 2024

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 the jackpot meant they had a pretty good night.

TEAM NAMES

What would be on TV in hell?

The DVD symbol never quite hitting the corner

The moment of my conception

Your grandparent’s sex tape

The 24 hour Taylor Swift channel

Non stop Wiggles

Baby Shark

Friends

Gilmore Girls at double speed

Swans in the AFL Grand Final

The Bolt Report on repeat

Embarassing Bodies featuring me

Diddy tapes

Danoz Direct all day

Flay School

Deal or InferNo Deal

Real Housewives of the 4th Circle of Hell

TriviArt

Woody Toy

Cobra Women

Swan Dive

Pegasus Moo Deng

Tesla Fish

Oompa Loompa Timepiece

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team knew the answer to one of our jackpot questions, but weren’t sure how to spell Mississippi, and so they changed their answer to North Dakota. Yep.. They actually did that.

How do Shakespeare character most frequently die? Someone guessed AIDS.

European cities that hosted the Olympics? How about Beijing & Sydney.

And our final quarterly tournament for the year started.

Team Wins Score
Al’s Team 1 77
Spongebob 1 75
Shannon and Co 1 74
Leader Housen 1 72
Glee 1 72
Big Bang Theory 1 71
Foxolotl 1 70
Diversity Council 1 68
6 Go Crazy 1 67
Mad About You 1 67
The BGTs 1 65
Milf Manor 1 64
Horst’s Hermits 1 62
Flashy Red Ponies 1 61
Any Football Ever 1 59
Wisconsin 1 58
Give Lonnie a Pencil 1 48

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 28 September 2024

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 a big week for jackpots for teams who know about…

Sydney Sweeney

Trans-Tasman Cricket

70s Films

TEAM NAMES

What makes you feel old?

Literally anything on TikTok

The music at iQ Trivia

My knees

Joint pain

The midnight pee club

Hearing someone say I was born in the late 1900s

Leaving a voice mail

A colleague saying they were born after the Sydney Olympics

Hearing “no cap skibidi toilet” on a regular basis

Being hungover after one pint

Not getting asked for ID

Being called “sir”

Maroon 5 on the oldies station

Oasis getting back together

Skinny jeans

Asking “what are the kids wearing these days” at age 23

Legal adults who don’t know what 9/11 is

Hearing “you look really good for your age”

The Gen Z heart/hand symbol

Asking for a Gaviscon at pre-drinks

TriviArt

Parallellogram Smash

Moist Mouse

Furious Bullet Train

Sheepish Serpent

Rusty Asparagus

Balloon Dracula

Birthday Encyclopedia

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Sometimes when reading out letter, we give the letter in the phonetic alphabet. That’s helpful. Especially when we say “L as in Lima” and the answer is actually Lima.

We played a mashup including the Pornhub intro music, and someone thought it was Playschool. Nooooooope!

One two separate occasions, teams argued for 5 minutes over where to allocate their points in our bonus round, when not one of their answers was correct.

And after 13 weeks we have winners in our quarterly tournament, though it was really close.

It’s the Richard Gere Appreciation Society, taking first place and the highest average with an 80 point win in the final week.

Team Wins Score Average
Richard Gere Appreciation Society 9 666 74.00
Leader Housen 10 662 66.20
Flashy Red Ponies 10 661 66.10
Smith Family 8 591 73.88
6 Go Crazy 9 586 65.11
Diversity 7 508 72.57
Bagpuss 6 442 73.67
Foxolotl 6 437 72.83
Whale Emoji 5 353 70.60
Menace to Sobriety 5 334 66.80
Tribe 4 291 72.75
Spongebob 4 275 68.75
Thor’s Thundercats 4 274 68.50
Towelhead 3 226 75.33
We went to the dentist 3 221 73.67
Shannon & Co 3 218 72.67
Ted’s Team 3 217.5 72.50
Mara’s Angels 3 216 72.00
Captain Kathie’s Mandolin 3 199 66.33
Team Knox 3 192 64.00
Sigma 3 184 61.33
Fish and Friends 2 153 76.50
Here’s looking at you kid 2 150 75.00
Zed & Co 2 149 74.50
Al’s Team 2 146 73.00
Wine not on 2 146 73.00
The Other Ted’s Team 2 143 71.50
The Clowns 2 140 70.00
Julius Caesar 2 139 69.50
Trivia Minions of Doom 2 138 69.00
Pecans 2 136 68.00
No Idea 2 135 67.50
Wimbledon 2 132 66.00
Karen, Sharon and Darren 2 130 65.00
Val and Leon 2 128.5 64.25
Taco Monsters 2 126 63.00
Miniums 2 124 62.00

A new quarterly tournament begins next week. Make sure you include your tournament team name in the corner of your answer sheet every week so your winning scores are counted.

See you next week.