Tag Archives: interesting questions

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 26 November 2023

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.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 25 November 2023

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.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 19 November 2023

We noticed recently that NCIS is expanding to Sydney.

How they propose to have American military police solving crimes in Australia we haven’t figured out yet.

For your team name this week, we want you to suggest case in your local area for them to solve.

Avocados scanned as apples.

Manhunt after someone got away with to paying for five minutes parking.

A tenant is suspected of killing their landlord, but it could be one of the five other people crammed into the unit.

Three people are pursued for jaywalking at 3am with no traffic around.

A Newtown hipster crosses the Harbour Bridge and is reported missing.

What really happened at Engadine Maccas?

Any petty local crimes for NCIS to investigate will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 18 November 2023

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 cash and a partially used gift card.

Everyone got a chemistry question wrong. Everyone but the winners.

TEAM NAMES

What stupid things have you been arguing about?

Lord Palmerston! Pitt the Elder!

How to open a car door.

Should we gamble 1 or 5?

Could God kill himself?

Can the Xenomorph from Alien kill Macbeth?

Who would win a fight between Colonel Sanders and Ronald McDonald? (Which we have asked as a dilemma question)

The Nature of the disgusting goop on the 3rd stall of the women’s toilet

Chardonnay or Latte?

Are jeggings jeans?

Is a zebra black & white or white & black?

Anything that happens in an IKEA

Is water wet?

How many toddlers can you take in a fight?

What is the definition of a horse?

What constitutes and “argument”?

Is lava dry or wet?

Would you love me if I was a worm?

Pineapple on pizza?

Is cereal soup?

Is a hotdog a sandwich?

Can white chicks have dreads?

Toilet paper. Over or under?

How many fruits are required for it to be a fruit salad?

Can a cheetah compete for South Africa in the Olympics?

What’s more useless, a jelly pickaxe or a chocolate tea pot?

TriviArt

Fishing Penguin

Returning a ring in Middle Earth

Mellifluent Pig

Sticky Tangelo

Intellectual Washington

Subpoenaed Deer

Simpsons Toes

Rotund Animal

Wiggles Igloo

Shiny Wombat

Toxic Bear

Alligator Theremin

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We overheard that one of our teams, disappointed at not winning, was planning on holding interviews for new players to fill in the gaps in their knowledge.

Some people who were not playing but listening in were pleased to get a question on Charles Dickens, saying it was because they knew him when he was alive.

One team argued about the number of Lunar Roving Vehicles on the moon, claiming that they were pretty sure Wakanda sent one too.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 12 November 2023

This week we’re getting stupid.

For your team name, we want to know the dumbest argument you’ve ever had.

Whether an apple could beat an orange in a fight.

If you listen to an audiobook, can you say you read the book?

Can a dog ride a horse?

If a wolf kills a deer, is it murder?

Any ridiculous arguments will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 11 November 2023

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 can probably figure out what all of these made up terms mean.

Knowledge tournament

Big metal dealie you use to dig food

Danger noodles

Sky water

Cow juice

Hand heat shield

Time tellers

Disco chickens

Fizzy hops juice

Beer is happy water

Pass the box of wiener covers

Pointy stabby utensil

It’s on the tip of my mouth flapper

Shave your lip caterpillar

The plane station

Pasta cake

Carpet sucking machine

Hand shoes

Foot fingers

Can you put on the water cooker

TriviArt

Lemon Elephant Eggs

Duck Fashion Show at the Melbourne Cup

Discombobulated Pineapple

Burly Sportsball

Succulent Glove

Bullish Bartender

Slimy Belconnen

Calm Pollen

Victorious Gargoyles

Scandinavian Brain

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We found out that our trivia was sufficiently interesting that a player put away their sewing to focus on the questions.

One player was so thrilled to hear Hamilton, Jamiroquai, and Crazy Rich Asians that she shook with glee on each of those audio clues so much that we thought she might be having a seizure.

And we had a record performance in a lightning round. After being the last player standing at the letter M in round 3, he proceeded to answer the final 13 letters perfectly to complete the lightning round.

We’ve seen that before, but at a time when we allowed a lot more passing, and in that case they only had to answer three more questions at the end.

The entire room, even people who weren’t playing trivia, ERUPTED in applause when Andy nailed the last question.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 5 November 2023

Have you ever forgotten the word for something and had to come up with something else to call it?

This week, we want you to make that your team name.

Call a hospital car

Pass me the food tweezers

Pick up a bread sword

That’s a really big milk moose

I could really go for a Jewish doughnut

I need a pregnancy detector

I’ll have a drunk white woman brunch cocktail

Any term to replace a word you forgot will get a bonus point

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 4 November 2023

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 first place, then they won the jackpot, then they got booed. But in a good natured way.

TEAM NAMES

You had plenty of advice for horror movie characters.

For f*ck’s sake put the lights on

Mind your own business about what they did last summer

Don’t take the golden eye out of the unnaturally large holy woman’s skull

Service your car regularly

Winter custodian at the Overlook Hotel might sound like a cool job, but…

Don’t read the tome bound in human skin

Ditch the high heels

Be the killer

If you kill someone, tell the cops

Sprint in a zig zag

Maybe don’t live alone in the woods

Call the cops

Never follow the scary sound

Never split up to cover more ground

Garlic necklace

Nuke it from orbit

Don’t be Jamie Lee Curtis

Don’t go in there

Don’t get a job at the mechatronics place where 5 children were murdered

Don’t f*ck in the forest

Don’t skinny dip with friends at night in a remote lake

Don’t be black

Be white and a virgin

It looks dead but cut the head off anyway

Check the backseat

You already own enough creepy dolls

Burn all porcelain dolls

TriviArt

Verklempt Orange

Silly Sausage

Vegas Mashed Potatoes

Flailing Kangaroo

It’s Not Coming Home

Chonky Lizard

Filipino Barbie

Mummified Mermaid

Wombat Barnacle

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We asked for the European capitals represented by flags, and one team guessed Sydney.

Countries that border Romania? Bulgaria? Correct. Bolivia… nope.

Weight classes in boxing beginning with C? Surely Chonkyweight.

One team were such big Britney Spears fans, that they guessed “Oops I Did It Again” no less than 3 times, when we didn’t play it once.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 29 October 2023

It’s Halloween, so it’s time to think about scary movies.

Specifically, we want you to think about how characters in horror films could have made better decisions.

Maybe don’t pick up that creepy hitchhiker

Do a residential inspection before moving into a haunted house

Don’t split up to explore that cave

Bullets are cheap, so keep shooting the serial killer

Any advice on how to survive a horror film will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 28 October 2023

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 got a Saturday Night Live question & spelled it right, and won $172.

TEAM NAMES

Who has been lying about their identity?

Johnny Cash didn’t even produce any form of currency

Childish Gambino is quite mature

Megan Thee Stallion isn’t even a stallion

Cher is unlikely to let you touch her stuff

Yahoo Serious isn’t even serious

Glenn Close isn’t even close

Eminem isn’t even an M&M

Eminem does not melt in your mouth

Freddie Mercury is from earth

Frank Beard doesn’t have a beard

Brie Larson isn’t a piece of cheese

Madonna isn’t the mother of Jesus

George Bush isn’t even female pubic hair

Willem Dafoe is Bill the Friend

Nic Cage doesn’t actually live in a cage

50 Cent isn’t even 50

Dr Chris Brown isn’t even brown

AC/DC isn’t current

Stephen King isn’t royalty

Drake isn’t a duck

Richard Gere drives an automatic

Ryan Gosling isn’t a baby goose

Cannibal Corpse are neither

Adele isn’t even a computer

Jack Black isn’t black

Jack Black isn’t jacked

Mr T is more of a coffee guy

TriviArt

Muscle Lamington

Piss Up in Church

Deceased Yacht

Bushy Pumpkin

Lathered Knight

Yiddish Testimony

Enigmatic Phalanges

Toxic Tarantula

Egg Rendezvous

Swimming Park

Superfluous Santa

Woody Effervescent

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Asking a question about the average length of hugs, led to literally dozens of hugs as teams tested their theories.

Who walked into a shop in Busselton, WA last week? No it wasn’t Nicolas Cage, it was Harold Holt. You know, at the age of 115 after being declared dead in the 60s.

We asked how to spell semillon, and were glad to see the wine list didn’t include semillon.

When we asked about Robin Wright, one team said “I don’t even know who that guy is”. SO we explained that Robin Wright is a woman.

And one team did so well at our one second songs bonus round, that they handed their answers in after just two hearings… and got all five. That was worth a bonus point that vaulted them into winning a prize.

See you next week.