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

You had a lot of firm views on what new rules we should have in society.

Aussie Aussie Aussie is banned

Trial by rugby

Vegemite for breakfast

Lamingtons for all

White chocolate is chocolate

All politicians must work for minimum wage

Section 124 – The right to use your phone in trivia

You don’t quarantine, you don’t play the Australian Open

Australia Day is on any day but 26 January

Don’t feed the drop bears

Onion goes under snags

Free tomato sauce on your banh mi

Don’t drive more than 10km/hr under the speed limit

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Strong Australia

Bulbous Fish

Turgid Truck

Lactating Bernie

Lazy Drop Bear

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Every quiz gets edited before it gets delivered to make sure everything is up to date and accurate. But they day after we edited a quiz, one of the questions on the highest ever score in the Big Bash League became inaccurate. Luckily, one of our hosts, all of whom tend to take accuracy in trivia pretty seriously, spotted the error and we fixed it.

A group of international players learned how important it is to avoid drop bears when visiting Australia.

We asked an audio question about a clip from a Nicolas Cage film. Every single team mistook it for the same Keanu Reeves film. (Does anyone care to guess what the films were?)

See you next 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

You ruined (and in some cases improved) a lot of pairings and groups.

Hall & Oatmeal

Fleetwood Smack

Tegan and Sara Palin

Queen Elizabeth of the Stone Age

Josie and the Pussycat Dolls

Kath and Kim Kardashian

Backstreet Boys II Men

Angus & Emma Stone

Bud Abbott & Elvis Costello

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife

Santa Claus and Rudolf Hess

Penn and Bank Teller

Marky Mark and the Brady Bunch

Donald Duck and the Republican Party

Sonny and Chair

Sting & Steve Irwin

Harry Styles and the Chamber of Secrets

Tony Soprano and Dawn

Batman and Robin Hood

Batman and Robin Williams

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Bouncy Alcohol

Shimmery Magpie

Snazzy Taylor Swift

Running Pirates

Presidential Schadenfreude

Fingerpainting Playtpus

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Countries that border Germany? Someone said Prague loud enough for the whole room to hear.

We asked about who declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and someone answered with their own name. Well, we can’t immediately prove that you’re wrong.

There was a long debate about the differences between turtles and tortoises, and we still don’t know what they are.

See you next 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

You lot are apparently pretty good at a lot of unusual things.

Being late

I can name 17 Roman Emperors

I can tell the difference between butter and I can’t believe it’s not butter

I can play music by ear

I can roll my tongue

Pooing

Best Procrastinators… will tell you why tomorrow

Awkward silence

Minesweeper Champions

We come up with the best team names

Drink driving (which we DO NOT endorse)

Winning Trivia (which we DO endorse)

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Fruity Trivia

Delicious Ewe

Things we’d like to see in 2021

Classy Bumrock

Radical Pili-Pala (Welsh for butterfly)

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We had a guess that the Supremes were led by Bob Ross. That would have been a very different band!

Another team who had chosen Fun With Flags as their special subject racked their brain but couldn’t recall the country that had a flag identical to Haiti’s, so they answered with “oh crap, I looked this up and now I can’t remember!”

One team got too clever. They answered a question about 2001: A Space Odyssey with “David Bowman”, but we asked for the name that was blanked out, which was Dave. Strict, sure. But when it comes to a tie breaker, that can matter.

And we had to break a couple of ties. One came down to the spelling of Patton Oswalt versus Patton Oswald, and one came down to providing the additional information of the last name of Elaine Benes rather than just Elaine. Sometimes it really does get that close.

See you next 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

These two knew just enough about John Goodman films, and nobody else did, so they won cash.

TEAM NAMES

You rewrote a lot of Christmas songs.

Nood King Wenceslas

Fark! The herald angels sing

Lust Christmas

A Christmas Carot

Shite Christmas

Dick the halls

Deck the balls

Jingle bells cock

Jingle balls

Jingle Bills

Single bells

I saw mommy killing Santa Claus

I saw mommy dissing Santa Claus

The 12 dads of Christmas

Away in a banger

All I want for Christmas is poo

The Christmas bong

Rudolf the LED nosed reindeer

Zod rest ye merry gentlemen

And several teams opted for All I wank for Christmas is you

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Oozing Beach

Excellent Pill

Juicy Earth

Obese Table

Contagious Cheese

Inexpensive Santa

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One of our online trivia hosts was told their voice was “very soothing” and “good for ASMR”.

The Dubliners are an Irish folk band. Someone mistook them as The Canberrans.

Someone who forgot to do their homework on patron saints of countries guessed that the answers were Saint Ratzinger, Saint Pell, Saint Abbott, and Saint Dutton.

We asked about classifications of endangered animals. VU apparently stands for “Very Ugly and not worth saving” and EW stands for “Ew, it’s been dead a while”.

See you next 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

Once in a while knowing about early 20^th century novels literally pays off.

TEAM NAMES

How is the customer wrong? This is how.

I ordered two large fries, and got a hundred little ones

I can’t believe you’re not just telling me the answers to the questions

You’re just faking a power outage so you don’t have to accept my gift card

Everyone knows coupons never expire

Are you seriously telling me I can’t reuse my airbag

The CD Rom is not a cup holder

The music at this heavy metal concert is too loud

There was no price tag, so I thought it would be free

This chili prawn linguine is too spicy

Tried to return tea that they purchased last week, the tea shop was next door

That’s not navy, it’s clearly junior navy

My name is Karen and I want to speak to the manager

Excuse me, this wine is flat. Ma’am, that’s moscato

My ice has turned to water. I demand a refund!

You can’t force me to wear a mask

Why can’t I bring in my dog? She’s 28 in dog years.

Maám this is a Target, you can’t return your child here

Why can’t I fax you money?

Sir you can’t return a condom, especially 16 years later

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Wet Saucer

Bubbly Penis

Poignant Moscow

Sexy You

Beer Label

Empty Fart

Ramone Lemonade

Blotchy Miscreant

Frosty Biker

INTERESTING MOMENTS

More than one team thought it was Jessica Biel rather than Jessica Tandy who starred in Driving Miss Daisy. That would have been a VERY different film.

We asked for Sydney suburbs beginning with T, and one player answered with Toowoomba.

We asked about the elements in petroleum, and had to explain to someone that water isn’t an element.

See you next 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

First place AND the jackpot.  That’s a pretty good night.

TEAM NAMES

We enjoyed hearing about your minor victories

Opal reader busted, free ride

Illegally parked, no ticket

Eating lunch in Hyde Park and not being attacked by an Ibis

We actually got a table at trivia

We found a pen before trivia

Bill asked a Spongebob question

A student called me a good teacher in front of my boss

Found $5 in a library book

Getting home on empty

Finding a parking spot right outside

Caught all green lights on the drive home

Getting No Red Lights Through Dee Why

Started a drag race and the other car stalled

It wasn’t a rash

I picked a fight with the Supreme Court and won

Oh good, it’s only three days past the expiration date

When the cookies stick together and your mum lets you have both

Barista made a Venti by mistake

Got two portions of jalapeno poppers after paying for one

Having a Karen want to complain to the manager about me, but I was the manager

Was praised by a customer I didn’t serve

I got ID’d at 38

I wasn’t charged for my chocolate

A delivery expected between 8-5pm comes at 8:01

Telling Bill to “f*ck your point, we’re Team Bagpuss” and getting a point anyway

2021 is coming

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Moist Dog

Flamboyant Toaster

Sloppy Frog

Boney Ibis

Paris

Fancy Horse

Serendipitous Wine

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We had a complaint that our trivia was way too hard… from someone who claimed they had never heard of the Beatles.

One team complained they couldn’t hear the questions during an online quiz, only to find out that it was because we weren’t talking.

And one team tried to argue that a four letter word that can come before saw, stand, wagon, width, and ying, was “hand”. Which only works if “handwagon” and “handying” are words. Honestly, we hope those AREN’T words.

See you next week.

If you won, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.

JACKPOT

These guys won their second jackpot in as many weeks by knowing about G.K. Chesterton novels.

They also finished in first place in the quiz.

Yes, you are allowed to hate on them a little bit.

TEAM NAMES

There were a lot of comparisons made.

Finding a needle in a strawberry

Finding a correct answer on our answer sheet

Finding a hard question at iQ Trivia (from a team that wound up NOT winning anything)

Finding a good trivia name among all the sh!t suggestions

Finding a brain in Newcastle

Finding a smile in a Uighur concentration camp

Like finding a liar in the White House

Finding a brain cell at a Trump rally

Finding a fraudulent vote in Pennsylvania

Finding Nemo in the East Australian current

Finding Private Ryan in Normandy

Finding a cloud in the Australian outback

Empty garbage bin in Canberra

Finding peace and quiet in 2020

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Fast Banana

Rapacious Afghanistan

Greedy Gorilla

Sydney

Tasty Florence

Wonky Telescope

Squishy Vegatation

INTERESTING MOMENTS

In a lightning round, we asked for something beginning with the letter I that you might buy in case you had a car accident or a health emergency… and someone said “icepack”. Which is not… wrong. It just indicates some unusual health priorities..

We asked about a three letter word and were looking for “LED”. One team came up with “LER”, and it fit all the criteria. We checked, and “LER” IS a word. It’s a personification of the sea in Irish mythology, and we gave them a point for it. They were technically right, even though we’re pretty sure they didn’t know that.

Three teams mistook a cropped photo of Posh Spice for a cropped photo of Michael Jackson. Have you ever seen them in the same place at the same time?

When we played She Bop by Cyndi Lauper, one team said it was “that song from the flashback in Never Been Kissed.”

One of our hosts was trying to give hints about a bonus question where the answer was Libya… and he said it was in Asia… because he mixed it up with Syria. Naturally, there were team names including “an American finding Libya on a map”, and “an American who knows geography”.

See you next 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

This lot knew about Filipino authors for some reason, and won cash.

Two teams knew the answer to a question on 1940s cinema, but only one of them spelled it right.

TEAM NAMES

You came up with a lot of half-assed excuses.

If we tested less we would have less cases!

I’d have done better in school if the kid beside me had tried harder.

I would have passed the test, if they asked questions about what I studied

We would have won if you only counted the legal votes

We would all be friends if we didn’t all date the same guy

I’d be married by now if only I had entered into a committed relationship and proposed to somebody in a public place

I’d get to be on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here if they were cool with Nazi imagery

We would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddlesome kids!

If Kelly was here we’d be doing better

We would win every week if it weren’t for the stupid f*cking music questions

We would have come up with the best team name if we were the only team

We would have done better if this wasn’t being held at a pub

We’d have won if our teammates hadn’t talked us out of the right answers

We would have won if you didn’t count the scores from the other teams

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Luminous Keg

Ignorant Garden

Saucy Octopus (NSFW)

Girthy Mollusc

Glittery Sloth

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When they couldn’t remember the name of Charlie Day from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, one team listed him as “the guy who was sexually harassed by Rachel from Friends in Horrible Bosses”, which is not technically wrong.

We had a team of Indian immigrants who knew very little about NRL clubs, so they came up with the Bondi Bandicoots, Gosford Gophers, Woy Woy Walruses, and Manly Manatees.

One player seemed quite distressed when we told him that “soups” was not one of the most common words beginning with SOU. He must REALLY like soup.

We had to explain to one team that this photo of Mohandas Gandhi was not Harry Potter.

Instead of “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”, one team guessed that it was “Bill and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Quiz”.

See you next 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

It’s not often that it pays off to know a bit of Sanskrit. But sometimes figuring out what films have titles with Sanskrit origins wins you cash.

TEAM NAMES

We heard a lot of pretty bad jokes.

Why don’t they sell aspirin in the Amazon? Because it would be economically unsound to attempt to establish a pharmaceutical distribution network in such a sparsely populated area.

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

Why did the man fall off his bike? Someone threw a brick at him.

What’s blue and smells like red paint? Blue paint.

What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? The Holocaust.

Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party? Because he doesn’t like crowds.

What did Batman say to Robin before he got in the batmobile? Get in the batmobile robin.

Knock knock, who’s there? A visitor, of course.

You know what makes me smile? My face muscles.

What do you call a joke that isn’t funny? A sentence.

A horse walked into a bar, was injured, and was later euthanised.

A man walked into a bar, and suffered a concussion.

How do you make an electrician sad? Kill his family.

How many Germans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One because they are efficient and have no sense of humour.

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Zesty Cat

Sticky Pangolin

Curious Milkshake

Demolition

Kiwi Chick

Sinister Canada

Voluptuous Leviathan

Zen Tuba

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Upon hearing the answer to a question on alternate names for Mount Everest, one player exclaimed to his teammate “oh you idiot! I TOLD YOU!” Which really is one of our favourite things to hear.

A surprising number of players at one show had to be reminded that Antarctica is not a country.

On a Google auto-complete question, one team guessed that common Google searches were “is semen good for your skin”, and more disturbingly, “is semen professional at an interview”.

An Irish player spend a good 20 minutes racking his brain trying to remember the name of “that posh twat who played Joffrey in Game of Thrones”.

A question about Jeopardy was answered in the form of a question.

And one team came in second place, but left before the prizes were awarded, so the third place team took their prize. Which is why you ALWAYS stay to the end of the show.

See you next week.