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This Week in iQ Trivia – 21 January 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

It was a good week for jackpots.

TEAM NAMES

How to rename nationalities?

Kiwis are the Aldi version of Australians

Scots are unintelligible Brits

Scots are ginger Englishmen

Scots are angry rangas in skirts

All humans are dry Atlanteans

Americans are bad spelers

Irish are Guinness Leprechauns

(You choose the country) are future Chinese

Chinese people are MSG peddlers (it’s ok, they were Chinese)

Egyptians are OG cat fetishists

The Dutch are bike ridin’ cheese wheelin’ tulip pickers

Argentinians are Germans in hiding

The Irish are tall Hobbits

Switzerland is more neutral Germany

Americans are metric denialists

Queensland is Australian Florida

Australians are professional swearers

Cheese eating surrender monkeys (we had several of these)

TriviArt

Resplendent Web Shooter

Moist Cake

Mangy Pig

2023 Hopes

Fire Liver

Gooey House

French Potatoes

Triceratops Ballet

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Beginning with Z, what is the currency of Poland? Zoloft.

Beginning with D, the term of French origin for the thing that changes gears on a bicycle? De-changer.

And spelling matters when you try to say nunchuks, but instead say nuncucks.

See you next week.

Interesting Question of the Day – 16 January 2023

Name the national capitals that share their names with the following things.

A bumbling TV detective played by Peter Falk.

The band that played Take My Breath Away.

A light brown coloured paper.

The prince who was married to Helen of Troy.

A British term for a waterproof boot.

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

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 15 January 2023

A little while ago we saw this.

This week we want to come up with other alternate names for nationalities.

Swedes are Ikea Vikings

Italians are Hand Talkers

Americans are Slightly Louder Canadians

Any alternative nationality will get you a bonus point.

Note: There’s going to be scope to be horrible with team names this week. Let’s try to keep things relatively harmless.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 14 January 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

How to quickly destroy your reputation?

Do a Shankar Mishra

Holiday in Hawaii duyring bushfires

Nominate Putin & Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize

Marry Meghan Markle

Write a whiny memoir

Add a 5% service charge to your bill

Wear blackface

Hiding pedophiles in the church and lying about it

Dressing your children in Balenciaga

Mastubation in public

Revive George Pell

Spread anti-vax propaganda

Be Kanye West

Hire Tony Abbott as your diversity & inclusion adviser

Invade Ukraine

Mistake the urinal for a bubbler

Using your phone during trivia

Go from first to last in iQ Trivia

TriviArt

Stupendous Train

Kwyjibo Rum

Bushy Sheep

Maple Cricket

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked about a picture on the wall of the pub as a special subject, there was a real stir of people trying to find a picture of Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin.

We thought one team might be overthinking a logic question. Their response? “That’s not possible.”

And one team came first on 79 points despite getting zero on the gambler’s question.  (Getting 6 bonus points through the quiz helped.

See you next week.