Nintendo America rented a warehouse in the early 1980s. What was their landlord’s name?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia quiz.
Nintendo America rented a warehouse in the early 1980s. What was their landlord’s name?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia quiz.
This week we’re putting you in the movies.
But not in a major role.
For your team name this week, we want you to tell us what role you would play if you were a minor background character in a film.
Depressed guy in corner
Guy who gets killed to show the situation is serious
Joyless neighbour who calls the police on underage teens
Pedestrian jumping out of the way of speeding car
Girl being catcalled by main villain
Any minor character you would be ideally placed to play 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 forgot to write down their team name on their jackpot answer sheet, so we made them declare that they were idiots who can’t follow simple instructions. But the win still counted.
TEAM NAMES
The next Olympics may have some unusual new events
Listening to your girlfriend describe her dream
Convincing people to join your MLM scheme
Precision Dishwasher Stacking
Finding your size at a samplemsale
Tight space parallel parking
Outpacing the mandatory drug testing unit
Speed CAPTCHA Responses
Fitted sheet folding
Drunk tongue twisters
Napping
Fastest U-turn at an RBT
Microwaving leftover pizza
Speed carrying all your groceries in one trip
Putting socks on toddlers
TriviArt
Big Bill
Star Olympics
Grandma Gravity
Ostrich Minion
Anti-Social Pangolin
INTERESTING MOMENTS
When we asked about how many Friday the 13ths there are in 2024, half the team methodically calculated things, and half just took a guess. And the results were about the same for both groups.
One team got every question in round 1 right, with the exception of the title of an Ariana Grande song, which they will remember until the day they die.
We had a team come all the way from Cronulla, and they got a question on Cronulla wrong.
Who was Prime Minister in 2001? Steve Irwin wasn’t it?
And our overall leaders in the quarterly tournament are steady, but we have new leaders on highest average.
Team | Wins | Score | Average |
Foxolotl | 4 | 297 | 74.25 |
Richard Gere Appreciation Society | 4 | 295 | 73.75 |
6 Go Crazy | 4 | 259 | 64.75 |
Smith Family | 3 | 223 | 74.33 |
Diversity | 3 | 220 | 73.33 |
Whale Emoji | 3 | 219 | 73.00 |
Spongebob | 3 | 207 | 69.00 |
Flashy Red Ponies | 3 | 191 | 63.67 |
Leader Housen | 3 | 189 | 63.00 |
Fish and Friends | 2 | 153 | 76.50 |
Bagpuss | 2 | 152 | 76.00 |
Here’s looking at you kid | 2 | 150 | 75.00 |
Tribe | 2 | 145.5 | 72.75 |
Mara’s Angels | 2 | 143 | 71.50 |
The Other Ted’s Team | 2 | 143 | 71.50 |
Menace to Sobriety | 2 | 141 | 70.50 |
The Clowns | 2 | 140 | 70.00 |
Thor’s Thundercats | 2 | 138 | 69.00 |
Pecans | 2 | 136 | 68.00 |
No Idea | 2 | 135 | 67.50 |
Captain Kathie’s Mandolin | 2 | 130 | 65.00 |
Val and Leon | 2 | 128.5 | 64.25 |
Taco Monsters | 2 | 126 | 63.00 |
Miniums | 2 | 124 | 62.00 |
Sigma | 2 | 120 | 60.00 |
See you next week.
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome is a disease characterised by having a heart that is too small.
It is sometimes called what syndrome?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia quiz.
What fast food comes in four shapes, specifically boot, bell, ball, and bone?
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Bananas are slightly radioactive because they are rich in potassium, some isotopes of which are radioactive.
How many bananas would you need to eat to get the amount of radiation exposure you would have gotten 1km from ground zero when the Hiroshima bombing took place? 5, 50, 500, 5,000, or 50 million?
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They keep adding new sports to the Olympics.
For your team name this week, we want you to think of a new activity that would make an amusing Olympic event.
Freestyle flatpack furniture assembly
Speed pillowcase changing
Getting a cat to take their medication
Catching a dropped phone
Any everyday activities turned into Olympic events 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.
TEAM NAMES
You came up with a lot of ways to make the Olympics more dangerous.
Gymnastics but the mats are Lego bricks
Dressage on a wild bull
Explosive discus
Upsidedown kayaking
Mocking Mohammad in the opening ceremony
Razorwire polevault
Trump shooting
Scoliosis weightlifting
Swimming in the Seine
Kiddiepool diving
Diving with jellyfish
Fencing with lightsabers
Poison arrow archery
Reverse archery
Blindfolded archery
Piranha polo
Equestrian water polo
Water polo but the ball is a toaster
TriviArt
Firehose Fashion
Moist Bronze Peas
Going for Gold
Gremlin Violin
Rainbow Ms Pacman
Aquatic Paris
INTERESTING MOMENTS
One team forgot to do their homework on early US Vice Presidents, so they just started listing names they could remember from Hamilton, and wound up getting three of them.
When we ask a bonus question about Belgian cities, it’s a lot easier to win when someone on your team is literally from the first city we mention.
And when presented with the letter R in out category bonus round, one team kept trying to make “roofies” work.
And we’ve got new leaders in our quarterly tournament, but it’s very close as two teams have four wins and the difference is only two points.
Team | Wins | Score | Average |
Foxolotl | 4 | 297 | 74.25 |
Richard Gere Appreciation Society | 4 | 295 | 73.75 |
Smith Family | 3 | 223 | 74.33 |
Diversity | 3 | 220 | 73.33 |
Spongebob | 3 | 207 | 69.00 |
6 Go Crazy | 3 | 196 | 65.33 |
Leader Housen | 3 | 189 | 63.00 |
Fish and Friends | 2 | 153 | 76.50 |
Tribe | 2 | 145.5 | 72.75 |
Whale Emoji | 2 | 143 | 71.50 |
The Clowns | 2 | 140 | 70.00 |
No Idea | 2 | 135 | 67.50 |
Captain Kathie’s Mandolin | 2 | 130 | 65.00 |
Flashy Red Ponies | 2 | 127 | 63.50 |
Taco Monsters | 2 | 126 | 63.00 |
Miniums | 2 | 124 | 62.00 |
Sigma | 2 | 120 | 60.00 |
See you next week.
When they launched the G6, Pontiac came up with one of the most memorable marketing stunts ever.
What did they do?
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Louis Saunders was a Christian minister in Fort Worth, Texas.
Whose funeral did he conduct in 1963?
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