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

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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.

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

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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.

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 only $26 but a win is a win.

TEAM NAMES

What are the characters in your favourite songs doing now?

Stacy’s Mom is serving a sentence for sexually assaulting a minor

Stacy’s Mom has an Only Fans

Stacy’s Mom is now experiencing a geriatric pregnancy

Stacy’s Mom is still a MILF

Stacy’s Mom binge watches Netflix

I finally banged Stacy’s Mom

Jenny got an unlisted number

Benny & the Jets are excited for their first day at SpaceX

Uptown Funk is now giving it to you

Ms Jackson still rejects your apology

Mack the Knife became a surgeon

Roxanne is installing LED lights

Sweet Caroline is not so sweet

Mr Roboto got an AI upgrade and is taking over the world

Madonna is NOT a virgin

Hotel California is closed for renovations

Billie Jean ghosted me

Billie Jean is hunting for a baby daddy

The Girl from Ipanema is now announcing floors in lifts

Dancing Queen is a double amputee

Major Tom is debunking moon landing conspiracy theories

Eleanor Rigby had a big funeral but didn’t invite the Beatles

Eleanor Rigby has taken on a new job as head of Cuban intelligence after faking her death and defecting to the Soviets.

Tiny Dancer was crushed underfoot

Baby Shark filed a lawsuit to end their conservatorship

Annie is not ok

Gina quit the diner and is now working on the docks after Tommy was crushed by a shipping container

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Sleepy Toilet

Sonorous Vents

Dog Surfing

Alligator Smith

Trainwreck Television

Sustainable Dodo

Christmas Hanger

Endangered Mel

Mafia Star

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked about the number of holes on belts, someone on every team removed their belt. Yes, we effectively invented strip trivia.

One player’s initial guess on a language question was shot down as ridiculous by his teammates, before several hints led them back towards the fact that he had been right all along. Smugness ensued.

When we played a song by the Cranberries, one team answered that it was titled “the one that isn’t Zombie.”

A question on actors in Home Alone resulted in answers of Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci… and “the other guy”.

See you next week.

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

So what do you think is un-Australian?

It’s McDonald’s not Maccas

It’s shrimp not prawns

Pavlova is from New Zealand

The English cricket team is great

Fosters Fan Club

Paying for Wilson’s car park

Bunnings is sh!t

Sobriety

Corey Worthington

Scomo

Pauline Hanson

Working on a public holiday

Working through a smoko

Beetroot doesn’t belong on a burger

I hate Aeroplane Jelly

Tim Tams are toxic

Lamingtons are overrated

Gatekeeping the Australian identity

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Annoying Horse

Sparkling Haggard Koala

Spiky Belts

Flatulent Cabbage

Australia Day in Goulburn

Sausage Passion

Running Banana

70s Herpetology

INTERESTING MOMENTS

This is George Gregan.

This is George Brandis.

Someone mixed them up.

We had a margin of victory of 24 points. Which might be a record.

And one team promised if they won that they would sing their team name… and then they did. So we got to hear what the opposite of the Aeroplane Jelly advert sounds like.

See you next week.

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)

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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.

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

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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.

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

Getting the jackpot on an educated guess about Australian cricketers still counts.

TEAM NAMES

You came up with plenty of 2023 movies.

The 2023 Year Old Virgin

2023 Jump Street

2023 Men and a Baby

2023 Days of Summer

Close Encounters of the 2023^rd Kind

2023 First Dates

2023 Pounds

Blade Runner 2023

13 Going on 2023

2023 Monkeys (with typewriters)

2023 Dresses

Se2023en

2023 Dalmatians

2023 Fast 2023 Furious

How to Lose a Guy in 2023 Days

2023 Men and a Baby

Snow White and the 2023 Dwarves

You Only Live 2023 Times

Oceans 2023

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Democratic Funnel

Fluffy Lobster

Controversial Geese

First World Snowman

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked about Australian cities ending with G, we had to clarify that they had to be ACTUAL cities rather than made up cities, and that you couldn’t just accidentally misspell a real city. Sydneyg? No.

One team had a long & involving argument about whether or not they should take a beer or a bonus point after a question. They argued about that more than any of the actual questions.

And when they forgot to do their homework on Japanese mountains, one team guessed at Kilimanjaro.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

It’s not as much fun winning a jackpot when it’s the first week, but a win is a win, especially when you also come in first in the quiz.

TEAM NAMES

You came up with a lot of awful Christmas gifts.

A date in Romania with Andrew Tate

Garlic Candy

A heater in Africa

Used Underwear

A gym membership

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Ukrainian Mountain

Figgy 2022

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We saw a 6 year old girl try in vain to convince her parents that she knew an answer, when she DID know the answer.

One team chose the special subject and came first this week, in spite of not getting one of the questions on their own handpicked subject.

One team translated every question into Korean for one of their parents.

See you next week.

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

First place and the jackpot is always a good result.

TEAM NAMES

So many Christmas lyrics make no sense

He sees you when you’re sleeping? He’s violating your right to privacy.

Frosty the Snowman (you don’t say meaty the human)

Silent Night isn’t silent because people are singing

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire is how the fire alarm goes off

I’m dreaming of an all inclusive Christmas

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas sounds a bit racist

What the hell is “gay apparel” anyway?

Mistletoe is not consent

Santa Baby?  Santa is not your sugar daddy

Gravy made from just flour, salt, water, and tomato sauce would taste sh!t

10 drummers is 10 too many

He’s making a list that he couldn’t eve check once

Nobody wants figgy pudding

Who plays a drum for a newborn child?

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Beautiful Gnocchi

Okonomiaki Orifice

Sad Milk

Riding Reindeer

Reindeer Cracker

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One of our teams assembled with one player having come to trivia on crutches, and another wearing a profoundly ugly Christmas sweater in Sydney in December.

One team won a prize, but realised they would rather choose the last place subject, so they swapped their prize for the subject. In a few weeks we will see if that transaction paid off.

And we asked a dental question, and one of our players who is actually a dentist was sweating on getting it right. Luckily he did, so we guess he gets to continue practicing dentistry.

See you next week.