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Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 6 April 2025

Stereotypes can be harmful.

But this week you’re going to be basing your team names on them.

We want you to make up a stereotype. Dara O’Briain is full of ideas on this.

Malaysians are extremely clean

Peruvians are good at chess

Latvians are afraid of cats

Iraqis are obsessed with skiing

Senegalese people have no sense of personal space

Now look, you can be hurtful with this, but it will be a lot more fun for everyone involved if you’re not. We’re looking for stereotypes that aren’t harmful and aren’t remotely based in truth.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 5 April 2025

Here’s what you may have missed this week at iQ Trivia.

WINNERS

JACKPOT

They didn’t think they were going to win, but they either knew a lot about African geography and human anatomy or they guessed well enough.

TEAM NAMES

What is a clear sign that someone is single?

Running trivia multiple times a week

Coming to trivia every night for 9 years

Can I interest you in my samurai sword collection

Wifey pillow

Sexualising characters from the Muppets

I’ve joined 7 run clubs

Antisocial engineers

Owning 20 cats

Staying home to wash my cats

Active World of Warcraft subscription

Spontaneous decision making

Paying for porn

Ramen for one

Never have to argue about what’s on TV

Table for one

Fridge with only a can of beer and a bottle of tomato sauce

Bachelor’s Handbag

Eating from the same pot you cooked in over the sink

Having a favourite time of day to go on Hinge

Sleeping in Star Wars themed bed sheets

Mid 30s, still sleeping on a bed with no frame

I get to sleep in a race car

One bedframe, one pillow

Mattress on the floor with unwashed sheets

TriviArt

Impeccable Apple

Chemical Tennis

Daylight Savings

Tarty Lego

Spaghetti Pistol

Petrified Chopsticks

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Who played Mr Miyagi in The Karate Kid? Danny Lim. You know, this guy.

Danny Lim: Beloved personality 'haunted forever', 'lucky to be alive ...

A team told us they couldn’t hear the audio for question 20… you know, the picture question.

We had perhaps the biggest spill on an answer sheet we’ve ever seen.  Did they literally run it under the tap in the kitchen?

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When asked to name the sports Australian Olympians competed, in, one team chose swimming for all five, when they knew it could only be right once.

And our new quarterly tournament is underway.

Team Wins Score Average
6 Go Crazy 1 82 82.00
Diversity Council 1 80 80.00
Bagpuss 1 79 79.00
Al’s Team 1 77 77.00
Timothy Soup 1 77 77.00
I Like Big Booms and I Cannot Lie 1 75.5 75.50
Write a Letter 1 75 75.00
Hinge Premium 1 75 75.00
The Goose is on the Loose 1 75 75.00
Bandits 1 75 75.00
Tullynessle 1 74 74.00
The Smith Family 1 72 72.00
Leader Housen 1 69 69.00
Divided Kingdom 1 64 64.00

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 30 March 2025

This week we want you to think of single people you know.

And for your team name, tell us what screams “I’m single”.

Being on a first name basis with the Uber Eats guy

Getting killed with rent because they assume two people are paying it

Never using brunch as a verb

Anything but curtains acting as curtains

Having a pile of clean clothes and dirty clothes on the floor and knowing which is which

My aunt after her third gin & tonic

Anything that is a clear marker of singlehood will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 29 March 2025

Here’s what you may have missed this week at iQ Trivia.

WINNERS

JACKPOT

Everyone else overestimated the difference between two Grey’s Anatomy actors, so they won $132.

TEAM NAMES

You came up with a lot of new colours named for places.

South African White (discontinued 1994)

Australian Budget Crimson

Black Mountain Peninsula Cubicle #4 Brown

Pompeii Ash-Grey

Spingfield Yellow

Bondi Tan

Bondi Burnt Orange

Orange Orange

Summernats Sunburn

El Dorado Gold

Mar-a-Lago Orange

Washington DC Baby Poo Brown

Washington DC Yellow

Prussian Blue Balls

Summer Hill Green

Sherwood Forest Green

Matchachusetts

North Shore Teal

Engadine Maccas Brown

TriviArt

Self Care Shrek

Spicy Dildo

Rodeo Clown

Big Banana

Safe Syphilis

Thor Bubble

Gonzo Text

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team was determined to come last, and was disappointed to get the first bonus question. (Don’t worry, they still came last.)

One team called themselves “am not coming last at trivia”… and then came last.

We had five teams within 2 points of first place at one venue, and the teams in 3rd & 4th both could have won if they had bet 5 on the gambler’s question like the first place team.

To answer a question on countries on the exact opposite side of the world from New Zealand, one player built a globe out of a napkin and then stabbed it.

And our quarterly tournament has wound up with Masterminds winning for the first time with a big effort and 11 wins out of 12 weeks.

Team Wins Score Average
Masterminds 11 824 74.91
6 Go Crazy 10 777 77.70
Al’s Team 8 603 75.38
Diversity Council 8 595 74.38
Smith Family 8 592 74.00
Leader Housen 8 537 67.13
Bandits 6 463 77.17
Timothy Soup 4 305 76.25
Thor’s Thundercats 4 300 75.00
Midwives and Friends 4 294 73.50
Richard Gere Appreciation Society 3 231 77.00
Fish and Friends 3 226 75.33
Whale Emoji 3 221 73.67
NBA 3 217 72.33
Julius Caesar 3 211.5 70.50
Ted’s Team 3 210 70.00
Flat Girthers 3 201 67.00
Divided Kingdom 3 192 64.00
Smash Bros 3 189 63.00
Tournament Name 2 143 71.50
Tullynessie 2 142 71.00
Bagpuss 2 138 69.00
TEA 2 137 68.50
Horst’s Hermits 2 136 68.00
Leon and Val 2 136 68.00
The goose is on the loose 2 133.5 66.75
Senator Roney 1 84 84.00
Mark Cuckerberg 1 79 79.00
Nag Soup 1 79 79.00
Bone Train 1 78 78.00
The Dads 1 78 78.00
The Nag’s Head 1 78 78.00
Terminal Ileum 1 77 77.00
The Day After The Day After Tomorrow 1 77 77.00
Joe Allergic to Protest the Hero 1 76 76.00
Fridge Magnet 1 75 75.00
Met-C 1 74 74.00
Flash Red Ponies 1 73 73.00
Mara’s Angels 1 73 73.00
Spongebob 1 73 73.00
The Lucky Baby 1 73 73.00
Foxalotl 1 72 72.00
Forward to the past 1 71 71.00
Jeremy’s Iron 1 71 71.00
Nag’s Head 1 71 71.00
New Years Trivolution 1 70 70.00
Rani 6pm 1 70 70.00
Badpussai 1 69 69.00
King Jade & Court 1 69 69.00
Scomo: I did not shit my pants 1 69 69.00
US Politics 1 69 69.00
Candle-Labia 1 68 68.00
Yellow Lamborghini 1 68 68.00
Luke’s Undies 1 67 67.00
Dispenser 1 65 65.00
Fam Bam 1 65 65.00
Golden Straightime 1 65 65.00
Marty Sheargold’s Matildas 1 64 64.00
ThiccTank 1 64 64.00
Dodds and Evens 1 63.5 63.50
Chocolate 1 62 62.00
Grape Shandy Dessert 1 62 62.00
Mareka et al 1 61 61.00
Creedence Bongwater Revival 1 60 60.00
Crevin 1 60 60.00
Nghi 1 60 60.00
David Attenborough hates nature 1 59 59.00
Good Will Hunted 1 59 59.00
Le Francais 1 59 59.00
Inky & the Brain 1 57 57.00
Stab Caesar 1 51 51.00
To Kill Another Mockingbird 1 50 50.00
Comfortably Mediocre 1 49.5 49.50
Debbie Does Christmas 1 48 48.00
The Local Winners 1 45 45.00
Barrcelona 1 44 44.00

See you next week.