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This Week in iQ Trivia – 11 May 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

Knowing about bright stars really helped them.

And we got a reminder that precision is important in the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

Gwyneth Paltrow may be trawling our trivia nights for possible products.

Sparkling water bidet

Diamond Bidet

A house in Vaulcluse

Gianni Versace Sandlewood Scented Hemorrhoid Cream

Apple’s Afterbirth Face Mask

Submarine Controlled with a Playstation Controller

Solid Gold Drinking Straws

Solid Gold Chris Martin

Joe’s Bath Water

Rose Gold Butt Implants

Baby Blanket made of Swarovski Crystals

CBD Vaginal Falvoured Gummies in the shape of Gwyneth

Herpes by Gwyneth

White Rhino milk cleanser

Lube that guarantees your kids get into private school

Platinum HDMI cables

Cat hair dog sweater

Tears of Orphans

TriviArt

Leprechaun Pasta

Furry Phone

Voluptuous Mother

Dense Jupiter

Lively Barrel

Tremendous Box

Gorilla Mullet

Slippery Cruise Ship

Emu Squeeze

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We asked about people who walked on the moon, and one player was absolutely certain that Mark Watney was one of them… only to find out shortly thereafter that not only had Mark Watney not walked on the moon, he wasn’t even real. He was Matt Damon’s character in The Martian.

One team mistook Mr Darcy for Mr Bean. That would have been a very odd literary choice.

One team knew the answer to four out of the five bonus round questions right, but when we asked for the role of Ken, they wrote down the film of Barbie. Which is a reminder to listen to the damn question at all times.

And our leaders maintained top spot in our quarterly tournament, one win clear.

Team Wins Score
6 Go Crazy 5 361
Leader Housen 4 261
Cormac’s Angels 3 231
Mara’s Angels 3 228
Wine not on 3 219
Superstars of Yacht Rock 3 218
Spongebob 3 217
Al’s Team 3 205
Bring a bucket and a mop 3 160

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 5 May 2024

Recently we asked a question about ridiculous products sold on Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website goop.com.

We were going to make up some additional ridiculous products to throw into the mix as red herrings, but we couldn’t come up with anything sillier than what Gwyneth is already selling.

So maybe you can do better.

If your team name is a ridiculous product that might be sold to people with more money than sense, you will get a bonus point.

A smartphone case held by a Buddhist monk as he achieved enlightenment

Solid gold corn cob holders

Diamond encrusted toothbrushes

A coffin Gwyneth Paltrow herself slept in

Any unnecessarily extravagant products will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 4 May 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

Knowing Greek doesn’t come in handy often, but it does in trivia jackpots.

Being a navigator in the navy really pays off when we ask a jackpot question on fathoms.

TEAM NAMES

We won’t be incorporating any of your terrible trivia questions.

If I have one cow, how many cows do I have?

What is the highest number?

Who is Bruce Willis’ favourite hairdresser?

Where is Harold Holt?

How many films does Tom Cruise run in?

What is the IQ of a rubber duck?

What colour socks was Lincoln wearing when he was shot

How many Biebers to reach the moon?

What is the meaning of life?

What is my mother’s maiden name?

What significant sporting event took place on 31 February 1983?

How many members are in the Fantastic Four?

What is the average number of letters in a Welsh town?

Is water wet?

How long is 60 seconds?

How many colours in yellow?

How many darts does it take to pop an inflatable dartboard?

How long does it take to get milk?

What city are the Canberra Raiders based in?

On what date did that thing happen?

On a scale of 1-10, what is the capital of France?

Did OJ do it?

TriviArt

Sparkle Waste

NBN on the Moon

Pickled Plate

Fluffy Ball

Bubbly Armadillo

Ostentatious Football

Bodacious Apple

Restless Rabbit

Communist Mario

Impressionist Canada

Orwellian Bagel

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One player had been carrying around the Welsh origins of the word penguin for twenty years before it finally paid off on a bonus question.

Teams that have won the NRL Minor Premiership and the Grand Final in the same year? How about Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin?

And when we ran the categories bonus round, we had guesses for the category of “things that are sticky” including oil, and hand lotion. Yeah, those things are the opposite of sticky.

Our quarterly tournament is still going, with one team a win clear in first place.

Team Wins Score
6 Go Crazy 4 281
Cormac’s Angels 3 231
Superstars of Yacht Rock 3 218
Spongebob 3 217
Leader Housen 3 202
Foxolotl 2 154
Met-C 2 152
The Smith Family 2 150
Mara’s Angels 2 149
Time travel is not good for women 2 145
Shannon & Co 2 143.5
The Fellas 2 143
Whale Emoji 2 142
Wine not on 2 141
Richard Gere Appreciation Society 2 140.5
Thor’s Thundercats 2 139
Al’s Team 2 136
Tuxedo 2 135
Team Knox 2 132
Val & Leon 2 128
S Club 7 2 124
Bring a bucket and a mop 2 105

See you next week.

Interesting Question of the Day – 29 April 2024

In a 2009 Duke University study, subjects were given 20 math problems to solve in 5 minutes. Then they were given the answers, asked to put their scores through a shredder and report how many they got right to be paid for each correct answer.

The catch is, there papers weren’t shredded.

The average number of correct answers was 7. What was the average number people reported?

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