If you won, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.

JACKPOTS

We nearly gave away a jackpot on a question on Austrian scientists, but someone guessed that the namesake of Mach numbers was Ernest Mach, rather than Ernst Mach. (They ever wrote down Ernst, before crossing it out and going with Ernest.)

TEAM NAMES

Most of you offered a lot of assistance to aliens looking to abduct you. Here’s what you suggested would work to get you in a trap.

Limited stock of a cheaper item at Aldi

Bottomless beer & crosswords

Unlimited wine

Mustard & hot sauce

Sour straps

Haloumi

Something shiny

An infusion of wormwood with powdered root and asphodel

Tom Waits on a unicycle (for some reason)

Unlimited Air Miles

Free wi-fi

Never having to hear Ed Sheeran again

Free probing

A will to live

Hanging out with Mulder

Unlimited trivia wins

Stable government

Affordable housing

And one team responded with… SCREW YOU AND YOUR BONUS POINT iQ TRIVIA! There’s no way we’re helping you with the alien invasion of Earth!

NOTE TO ALL TRIVIA PLAYERS: iQ Trivia Pty Ltd is entirely run by and for humans

TriviArt

Unsanitary Pressure

Purple Elephant

Bouncy Dart

Horny Garlic Bread

Washing Raccoons

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When one host came down with tonsillitis, we arranged a fill in on 60 minutes notice.

We asked for countries within 1,500km of a famous site in India, and one team forgot to say India, despite us giving fairly obvious hints.

Zooey Deschanel of New Girl was described as “the sister of that chick from Bones”, which wasn’t exactly what we were looking for, but which wasn’t actually incorrect.

Upon hearing a song by N’Sync, one team answered that it was “The Backstreet Boys” or N’Sync which are basically the same band.

The name of Thor’s hammer was given as “Ron Jeremy.”

And for Melbourne Cup day, one of our shows increased the number of gambler’s questions from one to four. Australians, it seems, really like to gamble.

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.

JACKPOTS

They knew a lot about Egyptian ports.

They were tremendously quick with math.

And they made an educated (also lucky) guess about Iranian politics.

TEAM NAMES

Here’s your unusual sexy Halloween costumes, based on your recent Google searches.

Sexy climate protesters

Sexy Human Rights Commission

Sexy Sydney weather

Sexy radiator parts

Sexy 2012 Mitsubishi Triton

Sexy pyrolytic ovens

Sexy housesitting in the ACT

Sexy Squidward

Sexy how to survive when working with dangerous materials

Sexy back stretches

Sexy Department of Foreign Affairs

Sexy things to do in Nashville January 2020

Sexy Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

Sexy Trump allegations

Sexy Bridge Climb for tourists

Sexy Swedish Prime Ministers (the homework question)

Sexy TV characters who never appear on screen (the special subject)

Sexy how to cheat at trivia

Sexy Bill from iQ Trivia

Sexy iQ Trivia host address

TriviArt

Wobbly Mustard

Sweet Capsaicin

Zesty Blizzard

Asexual Protein

Fluffy Tram

Fuzzy Fans

Frozen Skyscraper

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team continued to sing the title of a song we played for several seconds after the music stopped, and then failed to answer with the name of the song. Meanwhile every team around them got it.

The Murray and Darling rivers both flow into Sydney’s Botany Bay, according to one team.

Someone guessed that the slave trade became illegal in America after the Concorde first flew.

To complement the A-League, apparently there is a women’s competition called the Double D League.

And one player singlehandedly ran through half of the final round of our lightning round, earning a round of applause from the whole room.

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.

JACKPOTS

They came in first and made a sufficiently educated guess on post-communist European Prime Ministers.

They turned their knowledge on French colonial history into cash.

And they knew what they needed to know about African languages (and got both of the other questions too, so there were covered regardless of what happened.)

TEAM NAMES

You’ve got some odd habits if your team names are anything to go by. (Almost as odd as our hosts.)

Rotating dishes so they don’t feel left out.

I can’t leave the house if I hear a crow. I need to wait until I hear another bird.

I watch every movie with the subtitles on.

I eat the biscuit end of a Maxibon first.

Prefer Pepsi to Coke.

I still look for monsters under the bed.

When I go to sleep I have to have all my limbs under the covers so the monster under the bed can’t get me.

I always stop the microwave with 1 second remaining.

I like Cheezels in ice cream.

Secret cake eaters at midnight

I have long nipple hair. No seriously, it’s really long.

I drop my short & undies at a urinal.

I wash my hands after rooting.

I don’t walk on cracks.

I save the napkins at cafes to clean my toilet with.

I’m not comfortable with shark toys in the bath.

I like the smell of petrol.

I only poo at work on the government dollar.

All the furniture must align with the floorboards.

Practice emergency stops in the rain so everyone else has to practice too.

Team Bagpuss goes to the same pub every Tuesday to listen to some Canadian bloke.

We won last week but didn’t claim our prize.

We Facebook stalk the trivia host.

TriviArt

Stinky Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Handsome Gravel

Unimpressed Impression

Gloomy Pub

Yellow Candle

Dancing Marshmallow

Gloopy Aadrvarks

Delusional Dice

Educated Flamingo

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A team made up of two Mongolians, a Chilean, and their English language teacher chanced across a show that happened to have a question on the Mongolian flag, and another on the top level internet domain of Chile. We don’t think we can calculate the odds of this happening. Maybe you can.

We were actually asked the question “are you sure Andorra is still in Europe?” Well, unless if has been plucked out of the Pyrenees in the last couple of hours… yes we are sure.

One team attempted to use Russian in their TriviArt entry, but it turns out our host is fluent. Our hosts are pretty sharp.

One of our hosts asked a question about quotes from Braveheart, and was asked to do them in an accept. Noooooooope!

Someone who got a jackpot question wrong asked us WHY Trevor Noah wasn’t on Saturday Night Live. Well… if you want to know you can probably get better results by asking the makers of Saturday Night Live rather than a random Australian trivia host.

See you next week.

If you won, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.

TEAM NAMES

You suggested a lot of good Australian cultural icons for inclusion on coins.

A is for Alf Stewart

B is for Banana Republic

B is for Big Kev

B is for the Big Merino

B is for Bogans

B is for Budgie Smugglers

B is for Bunnings

C is for Casual Racism

C is for Clive Palmer (the Fatty Mc F*ckhead)

C is for a Cuppa

D is for Daryl Kerrigan

D is for Dingo’s Taking Babies

D is for Democracy Sausages

E is for Egg Boy

G is for Goon of Fortune

I is for Ice Addiction

I is for Ivan Milat

K is for Kath & Kim

L is for the Lighthouse from Round the Twist

M is for Melbourne Trams

M is for Merv Hughes

P is for Pavlova

R is for Refugee Camps

R is for Rolf Harris

R is for Russell Coight

S is for Schapelle Corby

S is for Sharon Strzelecki

S is for the Stingray that killed Steve Irwin

T is for Tim Tams

U is for Uggs

V is for VB

W is for Woolies Mud Cake

TriviArt

Thirsty Boat

Suspicious Hippopotamus

Fruity Alien

Slow Fork

Spotty Church

Beautiful X-Rays

Prickly Saint Petersburg

INTERESTING MOMENTS

The Thai bar staff at one venue new SHOCKINGLY little about Thailand.

We were looking for the most common word ending with IAN, and got some very odd guesses, including complain, which has the wrong order of letters, comedian, Asian, Canadian, and lesbian, before someone came up with Christian. Perhaps our players just aren’t that pious.

When asked how long it would take to fall from the Harbour Bridge, one team guessed 31 seconds… which wouldn’t even be true if you had a parachute.

Someone who was out of trivia ideas guessed that Tony Abbott was the leader of Libya, and Brett McKenzie did a stint as Prime Minister of New Zealand.

We had an argument over whether or not ice hockey is a real sport. (For the record, IT IS!)

When we gave PRO BEATNIK as an anagram of a Keanu Reeves film, one team came up with a long list of possible anagrams including OPT IN BREAK, but still couldn’t get Point Break.

And someone concluded that Barack Obama played the lead role in Black Panther.

See you next week.

If you won, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.

JACKPOTS

This guy won a jackpot all on his own.

They knew enough about the Velveteen Rabbit to win cash.

These two won a jackpot, but only because another team got the answer right before crossing it out and spelling it wrong.

TEAM NAMES

We suggest you don’t try to develop these products, because nobody would buy them.

British currency

Coriander cordial

Water soluble condoms

Chili flavoured hemorrhoid cream

Nose hair growth tablets

Jalapeno tampons

All natural sandpaper sex toys

Non-alcoholic tequila

Balsa wood cricket bats

Have You Bought a Freezer but Have No Way of Melting All that ICE? We have the product for You! Introducing THE PATENTED ICE-MELTER!

Magic Johnson’s sperm

George Pell’s innocence

Clive Palmer weight loss pills

Clive Palmer, gigolo

Clive Palmer blow up dolls

Rolf Harris tribute band tickets

A book of wise words from Donald Trump

Trump self tanning system

A night with Kyle Sandilands

Halal pork

Air-conditioning for a motorbike

Preowned parachute, never opened

Second hand syringes

Eau de bin chicken

Warm beer

Stubby warmers

A pint of Foster’s

TriviArt

Smelly Cat

Pulsating Bat

Drunk Drunkard

Sweaty Weet-Bix

Fruity Big Ben

Dumb Tree

Slimy Spoon

Spicy Scotland

Terrifying Phone

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One of our teams who wasn’t able to come back to use their winnings made a point of spreading it around to the other teams.

The band Train was described as “that band with Liv Tyler’s dad”, and “Oasis”.

One team got the titled of the 90s hit “Interstate Love Song” but couldn’t remember the name of the band. They wound up going with “F*ck! F*ck! F*ck! I know this band! Scott Weiland was the lead singer and they had hits with Plush and Vaseline!”

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.

JACKPOTS

After months of contributing to jackpots, they finally won one.

TEAM NAMES

Apparently we’ve got a lot of potential World Cup champions in a lot of unusual disciplines.

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory (from a team that was in first at halftime and came 7^th at the end)

Not securing a table at iQ Trivia

Losing 5 points on the gambler’s question at iQ Trivia

Coming 3^rd last rather than 2^nd last at iQ Trivia

Arguing over Google auto-complete questions

Wasting my time at the pub

Chronic alcoholism

Pleasing my fiancee sexually

Misunderstood dick pics

Sh!t trivia tea names

Burping the alphabet underwater

Making flimsy plans, and then bailing at the last minute

Sleeping

Spectating

Finding the right exit at Town Hall station

Overtaking people on the footpath

Finding free parking

TriviArt

Bovine Make Up

Cuddly Bandicoot

Beer Drinking Pig

Soft Balls

Moving Goon

Screwed Pub

Bendy Monster

Throbbing Straws

Feisty Boat

Estonian Fly Fishing

INTERESTING MOMENTS

After we asked a fairly straightforward math question, we had to explain to one team that 2+5=7. Because they weren’t convinced right away.

The Battle of Stalingrad was described by one team as “that battle where all those people died” which is actually a pretty apt description.

A surprising number of people didn’t put it together that the word “Australia” comes up frequently in the national anthem.

We had guesses about the speed of the fastest lifts in the world ranging from 8km/hr to 500km/hr. So, barely moving, or warp speed.

A team of Swedish people failed to recognise The Sign by Ace of Base.

And one new team forgot to do the homework question on Spanish language Nobel Laureates in Literature, so their answer was “Pepe Shakespeare, Maria Austen, Penelope Bronte, and Pablo Dickens.”

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.

JACKPOTS

Whether you knew about coins, ice hockey, or 1970s films, a lot of you won jackpots this week.

TEAM NAMES

North Korean television won’t be short of new programming if your team names are to be believed.

Farmer Wants a Nuke

So You Think You Can Defect

Reverse Gogglebox (think about it)

Pimp My Rocket

North Korea’s Next Top Missile

Seoul Survivor

Undercover Boss: Pyongyang

Who Wants To Be A South Korean

Dictator Wants a Wife

Keeping Up With the Kims

Kath & Kim Jong-un

Every Round is Final Jeopardy

The Big Bang Theory

Koreannation Street

Real Housewives of Kim Jong-un

Jailed at First Site

Strictly Comrade Dancing

The Only Way Is Pyongyang

The Apprentice: Dictators

I’m a Political Prisoner, Get Me Out Of Here

Pyongyang Rescue

16 and Defected

My Kitchen’s Bare But my Nation Still Rules

Say Yes To Duress

TriviArt

Frothy Cheese

Delicious House

Creamy Beard

Frozen Camel

Ridiculous Carrot

Wicked Tree

Saucy Potato

Jumping Witch

Black Clock

Sorry Watch

Sexy Table

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A man named John failed to guess that “John” was one of the most common words beginning with “JO”.

When we do a higher/lower round, like we did this week, we often like to start off with a really easy question to make sure everyone understands the concept. Well all week, we were amazed at the number of players who were eliminated by thinking the Wallabies had scored LESS than 250 points in ALL matches they have ever played against the All Blacks.

If asked to list a number of countries, we will just state for the record that those countries have to actually exist in the word at the moment. No listing countries that used to exist, unless we specify that’s what we’re looking for.

Also, for some reason, we had to clarify that you are NOT one of your own ancestors. (Unless you are using time travel to do things that are morally questionable and really, REALLY gross.)

We got a complaint that one of the picture questions was impossible, until we reminded them that it is quite difficult to get a picture question if you don’t look at the pictures.

When asked a question on movie math, one team guessed that Saving Private Ryan was released in 1989 (it was released in 1998), it was set in 1945 (it was set in 1944), and that the difference between those years was 54 years (it’s 44 years). But we were looking for the difference between the year it was released and the year it was set, which is 54 years. They got every aspect of the question wrong, then did the math wrong, and still got the final answer correct.

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

What team names can you use that other can’t?

The pretentious Melburnians

Polish people are the best car thieves in the world

The pesky immigrants

I’m an immigrant and I’m stealing your job

A Jew, Kiwi, Indian, and Aussie walk into trivia…

Two skips & two wogs

Those tea drinking bastards

Those dumb male models

Huge bitch

IKEA furniture is sh!t

Auditors are incestuous

Lesbians make bad girlfriends

The Belgian colonial empire fans

Tall people are a pain in the neck

Yellow fever

Upper middle bogan

North shore snobs

A number of teams who went with “we suck at trivia”, and one went a step further, going with “we suck at trivia and self-deprecation.”

And there was only one team whose name we couldn’t read out in full, so we read it using some strategic rhyming… Team Bagpuss are Sucking Bunts.

TriviArt

Cool Barrister

Small Frog

Throbbing Dragon

Falling Al Qaeda

Dirty Lightsaber

Smug Snowy Caterpillar

Flakey Cars

Little Frog

Crunchy Clunky Trumpet

INTERESTING MOMENTS

The Mexican classic La Bamba was sung by Bumblebee Man from The Simpsons.

When we asked about the ironic death of a jockey, one team guessed that he broke his leg and had to be put down.

An engineer was tasked by his teammates with getting a math bonus question, and he failed. Like by orders of magnitude he failed. But every other team failed by more.

Someone suggested that being a trivia host was a way of weaponising autism. As we’ve got multiple aspies hosting, we often look at it as monetising autism, which is a team name we have used while playing trivia.

And someone tried to convince us that a question on a Spice Girls song was unfair, because HE HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE SPICE GIRLS! No. We’re not buying that.

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

You have some interesting alternate zodiac signs.

Swaggitarius

Saggy-Hairy-Arse

Matertua (Latin for “Your Mum”)

Megalodon

Triffid

Midichlorian

Squidward

Tortilla

Capri Sun

Koala

Stingy C*nt

Tuberculosis

Phallus

Inanimate Carbon Rod

Arachnid

Unicorn

Ted Cruz (because he’s the Zodiac Killer)

Bin Chicken

Bogan: Born under the southern cross with stubby ascending

TriviArt

Uninspired Wobbly Shirt

Electric Mustard

Bubbly Hammer

Purple Chip

Tired Hot Hologram

Bashful Boat

Smelly Matchbox

Prophesised Peanut

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When faced with a dilemma question on whether they’d be especially intelligent or especially good looking, one team made a point of “checking out” all of the other teams in an attempt to assess how serious they were about their appearance. (For the record, the room was unanimously in favour of being intelligent.)

We asked about letters that are not in the names of Australian states and territories, and a group in Canberra went with P, despite the face that they were IN the Australian Capital Territory and really should have known better.

We were all set to play a clip of Shut Up and Drive by Rihanna, when Shut Up and Drive by Rihanna started playing over the background music. So we swapped question 8 with question 18 and acted like that was the plan all along.

And one team came up to us just before we started reading out the answers to round two, because they wanted to change their answer to the gambler’s question. They went ahead and changed it from the right answer to a wrong answer, and that cost them a share of first place.

For the record… we have no qualms about letting you talk yourself out of a right answer.

And when we were short of a host because of a sudden illness and feared we might have to cancel a show, Blythe came through and made sure our long streak of never cancelling a show remained intact. And they players thought she did great.

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.

JACKPOTS

These three knew a lot about Tom Hanks roles.

TEAM NAMES

You had plenty of advice for Donald Trump concerning things be might want to buy.

Mexico… so he wouldn’t have to build a wall.

Westeros… we hear they have a good wall there.

The Great Wall

America… after forgetting where he’s from.

Opal Tower

A solarium

The Bahamas… the ultimate fixer upper

North Korea – the 51^st state

Buy Uluru from Pauline Hanson

Make Transylvania trans again

The Spaceship from Wall-E

The rights to OMC’s How Bizarre

Wakanda

WALLmart

The Virgin Islands

The North Pole

Mecca

CNN

Whatever the hell covfefe is

The Playboy Mansion

Stormy Daniels

The White House

A bigger swamp

And finally… the 2020 election.

TriviArt

Twisty Fire Hydrant

Running Car

Fisting Potato

Clucky Corn

Saucy Woman

Grizzly Bathroom

Furry Palace

Rusty Silverback Gorilla

Lucrative Disappointment

Sacred Burrito

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Someone from Croatia got a question on Croatia wrong, and cost their team a jackpot win.

The symbol in the centre of the Korean flag was described by teams as “a Tamagotchi”, and “the Pepsi logo”.

And not one, but TWO teams mistook this 1931 wedding photo for Prince Philip, with his son Prince Charles as the best man.

First of all, this predates Charles birth by nearly two decades, and second of all, it’s obviously Goebbels with Hitler as the best man. Whatever your views on the monarchy are, surely mistaking the heir to the throne for a megalomaniac, anti-Semite, and five time winner of the All Germany Stupid Moustache Competition misses the mark.

See you next week.