Tag Archives: literature

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 27 March 2022

Our players are pretty diligent about doing their homework.

But with your team names this week, we want you to imagine not doing your homework.

We want you to do a book report, as if you didn’t read the book.

To Kill a Mockingbird is an instructional manual on getting rid of birds

1984 is book about Michael Jackson

The Grapes of Wrath is a science fiction story about grapes that become sentient and take revenge on humanity for eating them for years.

Oliver Twist is about a boy who starts a dance craze

Any book summaries of books you clearly haven’t read will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 31 January 2021

Think of your favourite book.

Now think of your favourite band.

Now combine them. That’s what we’re looking for in your team name this week.

One Hundred Years of Nirvana

War and Peace and the Cure

The Great Gaga

Pink Floyd and Prejudice

Catch U22

Adele’s Adventures in Wonderland

Any combination of a book title & a band or musician will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 15 April 2018

We’re having fun with literature this week.

For your team name we want you to add or subtract or change a letter in the title of a literary work.

Lord of the Zings

The Lion, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe

The Lust of the Mohicans

100 Bears of Solitude

The Man in the Tron Mask

Moby Duck

The Impotence of Being Earnest

50 Shades of Gay

Anything that changes one letter in a literary title will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 16 April 2017

Harry Potter is one of the most widely read book series in history, but it has virtually nothing to do with Australia.

This week we are going to fix that.

If your team name is the title of a Harry Potter book if it was set in Australia, you will get a bonus point.

Harry Potter and the Late Night Maccas Run

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Bourbon & Coke

Harry Potter and the Negatively Geared Investment Property

Harry Potter and the Dysfunctional Parliament

Harry Potter and the Flying Holden Commodore

Harry Potter and the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Pretentious Inner City Hipsters

Harry Potter and the Casually Racist Uncle

Anything that brings the Harry Potter books down under will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 16 October 2016

Shakespeare remains one of the most celebrated writers of all time, with a long list of plays and poems to his credit.

This week we want you to expand his literary repertoire by making it more “adult.”

adult-shakespeare-trivia

If your team name is the title of one of Shakespeare’s works altered to make it more risque, you will get a bonus point.

Ass You Like It

Titty Andronicus

King Rear

Anything like these will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.