So by the time you’re at trivia, another Christmas will have passed.
We want to know how someone ruined it.
My niece gave my dog chocolate
A backyard cricket dispute resulted in stitches
My conspiracy theorist uncle decided to drop in unannounced
A power cut on Christmas eve meant the food for Christmas lunch was ruined
Any story about what ruined a perfectly good Christmas will get a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
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
They’re all taking money into the holidays.
TEAM NAMES
You remade a lot of Christmas movies from the point of view of a minor character.
Why is the Prime Minister at my kids nativity?
Why is the Prime Minister trying to bang his staff?
Why has that creep been filming only Keira Knightley for the whole wedding?
My wife has been listening to those carol singers a long time
Why is that guy confessing his love on cards to a married woman?
Why is that miser always surrounded by singing Muppets?
Uncle Clark needs therapy
Bloody hell Clark, they’re only Christmas lights?
A Gruber kind of Christmas
Why is my husband crawling through the airducts again
Who is that guy yelling yippee ki yay m*therf*cker?
Will Ferrell needs to get off the escalator and let me shop
911, and elf is attacking a department store Santa
Gonzo’s Christmas Carol
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, but at least I don’t have to deal with ghosts
How do you forget your own kid?
That kid doesn’t realise he’s talking to a future President
I can’t believe I’m being outsmarted by someone named Kevin
If I have to deliver pizza to the McCallister house again I’m pissing on it
TriviArt
Magic Dinosaur
Beautiful Cow
Moist Anchor
Redundant Beans
Atomic Den
Superbly Kinky Reindeer
Lazy Santa
Lucky Mistletoe
INTERESTING MOMENTS
Cities with high NRL attendance? Adelaide, Sydney, Perth said one team who probably didn’t know what NRL is. When we suggested they change some, they scratched out Sydney.
One team forgot to do their homework on Swedish Prime Ministers so they guessed the names of ABBA members, and because Andersson is both a member of ABBA and a recent Prime Minister, they still got one.
You know that famous Dylan Thomas poem? “Do not go gentle into that good night. Take as many of the bitches down with you as you can.”
One player complained that in asking about high population Sydney suburbs, we didn’t count dead people. Because that’s a totally normal way to count population.
See you next week.
It’s that time of year. It’s Christmas movie time.
For your team name, we want you to imagine what a minor character in a Christmas film is thinking.
I’m unemployed because a high flying businesswoman fell in love with a small town guy in a Hallmark movie and the company went out of business
I think something is going on at the McCallister house
Arrest that child running past airport security with no boarding pass
I didn’t even want to be at my husband’s Christmas Party at Nakatomi Plaza, and now I’m a hostage
Any Christmas films from the point of view of a background character will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
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
They knew enough about French soccer players to win $85.
They managed an educated guess about Australian generals.
They made an educated guess about Nobel prize winning writers.
TEAM NAMES
You made a lot of old movies a lot more PC.
James Bond stops forcing himself on lesbians
Frankly my dear, I value your opinion
Tropic Thunder, but only the credits
Sleeping Beauty is gently woken up rather than non-consensualyl kissed
Harry Potter and the Workplace Health and Safety Inspection
Dr Neurodiverselove
Michael Corleone finds a gun taped to a gender neutral toilet
Tarzan, Queen of the Jungle (pre-op)
Beauty don’t need no beast
No country for the patriarchy
Mother of the Groom
Men in Black Lives Matter
The visually impaired side
Physical Disagreement Hangout
White men CAN jump (and pass, and shoot too)
Star Special Military Operation
Differently abled and differently abler
Greta Gerwig directs Saving Private Ryan with Akwafina in the titular role
Lawrence of Arabia except a woman gets to speak
A Diverse Human Centipede
They’re the person
The Godmother
The Godperson
All the Presidents Individuals of Non-Specified Gender
Snow Black and the Seven Amtiracist People of Varying Stature
When Harry Met Harry
Romeo & Julian
Pocahontas but the white guy dies of pneumonia
Little Red Riding Hood couldn’t kill the wolf because it’s a protected species
Indiana Jones puts everything back
TriviArt
Jazz Sweets
Strange Short People
Old Leaf
Slippery Cow
Satan Sniff
Flaccid Vespa
Crazy Christmas
Stinky Tomato
Potatoey Potato
Pooh Tinsel
INTERESTING MOMENTS
After we mentioned there would be a question on wheat somewhere on the quiz, one team answered “wheat” no less than 6 times on the quiz, but unfortunately not where it would have been correct.
The special subject at one of our quizzes was intersectional feminism, and when we asked the first question, LITERALLY every person in the room was a man.
One team nearly left before the results. It’s a good thing they didn’t, because they won.
See you next week.
A lot of old movies couldn’t be made now.
And this week you are going to be updating old movies to make them woke.
After being captured by Jabba the Hutt, Leia is dressed in a normal prison uniform
12 Rational Jurors who are racially and gender diverse
The original Mrs Von Trapp had access to birth control and didn’t have seven children
Mark Poppins
Any old movies made woke will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
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 the cringiest thing you’ve done to impress a crush?
Pretended to like trivia (we had a LOT of these)
Pretended to like World of Warcraft
Feigned interest in Scientology
Pretended to like highland dancing
Pretended I liked Jordan Peterson
Faking an interest in Taylor Swift
Photoshopped Taylor Swift into my Spotify Wrapped
Spent $500 to dye my hair red
Went rock climbing even though I hate the outdoors
Drawn on abs
Introduced her to my waifu pillow
Learned how to speak Croatian
Moved to Vancouver
Told them I have Club Penguin membership
Started a beat box krew
Agreed to do a nude photoshoot
Put a guitar on display even though I don’t play guitar
TriviArt
Disco Infidelity
Monkey Dracula Roleplay Musical
Sloppy Rat
Historic House
Rotund Candy Cane
Crinkly Quorum
Sexy Table
Christmas Shopping
Marshmallow Hat
Furry Lamp
Postmodern Caterpillar
Limbo Clock
INTERESTING MOMENTS
Someone mistook a photo of Ryan Reynolds for “one of the hobbits”.
A country bordering Kuwait? How about Ku-nine.
One two separate quizzes we had a team get a perfect score in round one.
And one player’s first stop after flying into the country was to go to trivia. Jet lag and all, trivia comes first.
See you next week.
You’ve either done it, you’re going to do it, or you’ve done it and haven’t realised how cringy it was.
For your team name this week, we want you to tell us the cringiest thing you’ve ever done to impress a crush.
Pretended I liked Twilight.
Attempted a skateboard trick and wound up with a concussion.
Learned to speak Chinese. She was Korean.
Got a friend to punch me hard enough to give me a bruise so I could say I won a fight.
Any cringeworthy things you’ve done will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
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
They probably didn’t know for certain exactly how long Neil Armstrong spent in space, but they guessed it, and that was good enough.
TEAM NAMES
Bad trivia advice was everywhere.
Visit Canberra (from a team in Canberra)
Visit Adelaide (from a team from Adelaide)
Only children and the elderly swim between the flags
Hitchhiking to camp at Belanglo State Forest is the best way to get there
Don’t bother filling up before crossing the Nullarbor
By all means, feel free to feed the bears
Who needs travel insurance
Don’t miss Mount Druitt, the Paris of the west
Fly your drone in North Korea
Go to the Occidental and hang out with Team Bagpuss
Haggis tastes better rare
Go to the outback. A Dingo definitely won’t steal your baby
Bring your boogie board to Bali
“Você é péssimo no futebol” means “How do I get to the soccer stadium?” (Look it up in Portuguese.)
Buy everything the street vendors try to sell you
Wuhan has delicious bat soup
Bring your dildo to Dubai
Bali tap water tastes better if you don’t boil it
Arab Spring Break
Try attending iQ Trivia without booking
TriviArt
Hippo Petal Racecar
Sheep Shearing Festival
Silly Pickle
Sandy Lions
Pungent Chocolate
Bouncing Banana
Hybrid Insurance
Smelly Dog
Animals Playing Music
Edamame Cowboy
Noisy Burrito
Dimetrodon Bunnies
INTERESTING MOMENTS
One non player who was passing through the room while we played a Placebo song, and was so pleased he couldn’t contain himself.
Trotsky was killed with a leg of lamb.
See you next week.
There are a lot of tourists around these days, and this week your team name is going to give them some advice.
But not good advice. It’s a lot more fun to give terrible tourist advice.
So use your team name to suggest the worst places to go.
Thai prison are good for long term accommodation
Bringing a case of whiskey to Mecca will make you really popular
Haggling with that Mumbai street vendor over 20 cents is a good use of your time.
That Rio taxi driver is definitely reliable
They won’t mind if you take a little piece of the Mona Lisa
Any terrible travel advice will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
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
They won money for knowing about cider.
And they won for knowing about Mars.
TEAM NAMES
What crimes can NCIS Sydney investigate?
The case of the fairy bread with the missing sprinkles
Death by magpie
Millennial girl loses Birkenstocks on Bondi to Bronte walk
Poodle with a trust find
The case of the inappropriately filled wheelie bin
The really loud bang
Clive Palmer
Poo bags throwin in any old bin
Roofied shoeys
The five dollar flat white
The mystery of Sydney’s missing nightlife
Who is doing burnouts at 3am
TriviArt
Pink Stethoscope
Cricket Celebration
Hungry Pumpkin
Voluptuous Flashlight
Shrewd Shrew
Combined Football Fish
Bouncy Octopus
Wisdom Tooth
Platypus Anagram
Spicy Elephant
Yeehaw Grinder (this guy just happened to have these pics on his phone)
Broken Mermaid
Pentatonic Beach
INTERESTING MOMENTS
One team who didn’t read the news story we put on Facebook guessed that the Tasmania woman who couldn’t make it to work on time was delayed by her inability to get her driving gloves on over her six fingers.
We were treated to one player who couldn’t remember the title of Budapest by George Ezra doing an impression of the vocals for several minutes.
What did Taylor Swift’s band wear in the video for We Are Never Getting Back Together? Strap-ons. No, that’s the video you wanted to see for some reason. Perverts.
On a name the year bonus question, we had a Brazilian clue and a Greek clue, and neither the Brazilian player or the Greek player in the audience got the answer.
See you next week.