Tag Archives: films

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 7 May 2017

Watching a movie the way it’s meant to be watched? Bah!

This week we want you to watch a movie backwards.

If your team name is the plot of a movie shown in reverse, you will get a bonus point.

Superman: A caped superhero kidnaps people and flies them into life threatening situations.

Titanic: A submarine surfaces and saves drowning people. In the end, Leonardo DiCaprio loses a card game.

127 Hours: A one armed man finds a severed arm and attaches it.

Saving Private Ryan: A bunch of soldiers ditch Matt Damon and then leave France.

Armageddon: A group of astronauts build an asteroid in space, then watch it fly away.

The Shawshank Redemption: A man drives from Mexico to break into prison through a sewer pipe.

Ghostbusters: A group of hotheads go around releasing ghosts to terrify people.

Cinderella: An uppity woman learns her place.

Godzilla: A giant lizard rebuilds Japan then moonwalks into the sea.

Any film plot in reverse will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 5 February 2017

This week we are looking at film descriptions.

Specifically, we want your team name to badly explain a film plot.

Beauty and the Beast: Stockholm Syndrome Works

Harry Potter: Noseless Adult has an Unhealthy Obsession with a Teenage Boy

Lord of the Rings: Nine Hours of Walking to Return Jewellery

Star Wars: Whiny Farmboy Becomes a Terrorist

Anything that badly describes a film plot will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 8 January 2017

This week we are having fun with movie titles for your team names.

Specifically, we want you to add the letters “ing” to the title of an existing film to make a new film, and tell us what it’s about now.

Kindergarten Coping – It WAS a tumour

Das Booting – A German man starts up his computer

Dude, Where’s my Caring – A stoned man wakes up to find he REALLY doesn’t care about anything anymore

Schindler’s Listing – In war torn Europe, Oskar chooses to rent out his spare room on Airbnb

Full Metal Jacketing – Two Marines go clothes shopping

Speeding – Keanu drives too fast and his license is suspended

The Fellowship of the Ringing – A support group for sufferers of tinnitus

The Fasting and the Furious – This time Gandhi is SERIOUSLY pissed off

The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttoning – Two hours of an old man trying to get his shirt on

Ironing Man – Tony Stark gives up the life of a wealthy superhero to becomes a house husband

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stoning – Harry goes back in time and is killed for being a wizard

Chitty Chitty Bang Banging – The same film, but now it’s porn

Anything like the above will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week

Interesting Question of the Day – 21 December 2016

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 film about five high school students in detention on a Saturday, and starred Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, and Anthony Michael Hall.

Of the five teenagers, how many were actually teenagers during filming?

The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.