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Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 11 August 2024

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.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 10 August 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

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.

Interesting Question of the Day – 5 August 2024

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?

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 in iQ Trivia – 3 August 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.

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.