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This Week in iQ Trivia – 18 February 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

Knowing about Chairman Mao really paid off.

TEAM NAMES

There are a lot of romcom tropes that don’t hold up in the real world.

Flopping your stupid Hugh Grant fringe around

Chasing your girlfriend through airport security post 9-11

Geeks don’t get cheerleaders

Glasses make you unattractive

Manic Pixie Dreamgirls (it’s just bipolar)

50 Creepy Dates

Trying to date someone with amnesia should be a crime

Tricking someone who has lost their memory

Public Makeups

Don’t stare across the bar. It’s creepy

Pursue her until she says yes

Stalking sweethearts

Catfishing isn’t cool

Surprise kisses

Throwing pebbles at windows

Your serenades are embarrassing

Serenading someone outside their window will just cause a noise complaint

Singing outside your window with a boombox

Pump the brakes John Cusack

Using title cards to try to shag your friend’s wife

Black people exist in real life

Kissing in the rain is just wet on the outside and the inside

Kissing in the rain leads to hypothermia

An engagement ring in champagne ruins both

Everything in Love Actually

TriviArt

Androgynous Pickle

Broken Heart

Clueless Affair

Sloppy Moat

Cupid Has Bad Aim

Cubist Pride

Fluffy Glasses

Overworked Peppercorn

Slippery iPad

Romantic Fish

INTERESTING MOMENTS

There was definitely some collusion at work on a dilemma question when the whole room seemed to agree that having no internet for a year was better than never being able to take an airplane again.

When you can’t think of any NFL teams, you make some up. Like the Orlando Octopi, the Wyoming Widowers, the New York Nancies, or the Boston Buttholes.

Who held the NBA scoring record before Lebron James? “That really tall guy named Jafar”.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 12 February 2023

It’s Valentine’s Day this week, and we’re going to have fun with romantic comedies.

For your team name, we want to you to come up with a rom com cliché that doesn’t work in real life.

If you sneak into her house and fill it with flowers, you’re going to get arrested

Interrupting someone’s wedding to declare your love makes you look like a sociopath

She’s your ex for a reason, so maybe leave her alone

Any unrealistic romantic trope will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 11 February 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 keep winning their own money back.

Knowing about Californication actors paid off.

Getting an anagram about Carrie Bradshaw won them enough money to make a happy face with it.

TEAM NAMES

How to de-pluralise a film?

Monopussy

Indiana Jone

Ocean 1

A single dalmatian

The Avenger: One War

Just Me because Marley died at the end

A thing at a place at one time

The Taking of Pelham 1

Inglourious Basterd

The man who stared at a goat once

Spongebob Squrepant

The Addam Family

Cat

Car

A plane, a train, and an automobile

A single person likes it hot

A single good fella

Fish of Rock

1 (not 300)

Meet an individual Focker

No Country for Old Man

Snow White and a Dwarf

Risky Ferret

Happy Foot

1 Fast 1 Furious

Harry Potter and the Chamber of One Secret

The Lord of the Ring

One Shade of Grey

One Angry Man

Lion and Prejudice

TriviArt

Surreptitious Pergola

Frivolous Cappuccino

Large Crackling

Iconic Randy Dribble

Sweaty Ferris Wheel

Punch Drunk

Voluptuous Uncle

Cloud Poop Tree

Velociraptor Moustache

Psychedelic Clownfish

Political Pachyderm

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One of our gambler’s questions was decided because a critical mass of teams assumed every team would take the money under any circumstances, no matter how ridiculous. It was a moment of pure game theory.

A question on the Mona Lisa’s hands had literally every team doing a Mona Lisa impression.

What war was the film War Horse set in? Star Wars. You remember all those horses in space, don’t you?

How far is the closest black hole to us? Penrith, apparently.

See you next week.