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

A lot of teams really seemed to know a lot about ancient Greece and square numbers.

TEAM NAMES

Here’s some older celebrities that you want to fight.

Get out of my room dad!

NASA, for the round earth conspiracy.

I will fight you George Pell.

I’ll kick your arse, Sir Paul McCartney!

I want to fight Sean Bean and I hope the screenwriters kill him off.

George Clooney – The Fight for Amal

We’ll knock Bryan Cranston out twice.

Fight me, Jon Bon Jovi!

Fight me, Ellen Degeneres!

Simon & Garfunkel tag team.

Come at me, Nic Cage!

Luke, I am your daughter (Mark Hamill).

Spar with Roseanne Barr.

Angela Merkel’s Purple Nurple.

I’d like to punch Kevin Spacey.

Team Bagpuss (Born 2005) wold like to fight ACTUAL Bagpuss (born 1974).

People who don’t appreciate Spongebob.

Putin you in your place.

Mad Max ain’t shit, bring on Mel Gibson.

Jeff Bezos deserves a good slapping.

Betty White’s going down.

Bruce Willis will die hard with my foot in his ass.

Hey Marvin Gaye, Let’s get it on!

TriviArt

Dignity

French Sausage

Ugly Lemur

Janky Ferret

Conspicuous Wine Bottle

Pulsating Spain

Matthew Hunter

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A team including a math teacher got a jackpot question on square numbers wrong.

A team with a real life Italian failed to remember that Rome is a national capital beginning with R.

We asked a question on the NRL logo, and 30 seconds later the logo was on the screen of one of the TVs. Some people still got it wrong.

After remarking that our questions are tough to cheat on even if you wanted to, we gave one team a dispensation to ask “Hey Siri, what was the heaviest team in the 2015 Rugby World Cup?” Yeah, Siri didn’t know that one.

One team guessed that Uber was planning to trial not aerial taxis, but “ethical business practices”. Come on! Try to be realistic!

And the best wrong answer of the week was from a team who knew nothing about cricket, and guessed that the most common bowler/wicker keeper pairing in Australian cricket history was “c Dundee b Irwin”.

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 more than any other team about mountain warfare in the 60s and won cash.

TEAM NAMES

If you ever go to hell, here’s what you’d be thinking.

Donald, is that you?

Where are the damn Nazis?

Awww, I forgot to pack the marshmallows.

Tell chef Ramsay I want my steak medium rare.

This is going to chafe.

Where’s the lube?

All my favourite people are here!

Why didn’t I forward that chain letter?

This is like working for the Guardian

Where are my virgins?

Jesus it’s hot down here.

But I’m Buddhist.

Mother Theresa?

There’s a lot of priests here.

Nice to see you Cardinal Pell.

TriviArt

Salacious Old Canberra Inn

Smoking Elephant Smoker

Villainous Aardvark

Munted Alpaca

Pregnant Uluru

Suspicious Burrito

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We had a record low score of 17 from one team who thought the American flag had 5 stars on it.

Another team missed out on a prize by one point after answering that Jamie Foxx starred in Philadelphia. They went as far as to interrupt the answers to insist they were right before having to climb down when they realised Denzel Washington is a different actor to Jamie Foxx.

When we played an instrumental version of Someone Like You by Adele, one team continued singing after the music stopped. (Well, that is if you consider randomly crooning “YOOOOOOOOOO” out of tune to be singing.)

One venue played Material Girl by Madonna two minutes after we asked a music question on the same song. (We’re pretty sure everyone already knew the answer, but maybe someone finally put it together with help form the venue.)

And one team concluded that Tchaikovsky wrote the Super Mario Brothers theme.

Finally, one team yelled out the answer to one of our bonus questions, and another team wrote down what they yelled to get the point. The lesson here is… DON’T YELL OUT ANSWERS.

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.

We have a new record score, as this team hit 82.5.

JACKPOTS

Whether they knew the answer to our question on the flag of the Northern Territory or they just got lucky, this team won cash.

They knew a lot about South American politics, and pigs.

And they knew a lot about eggs… and New Orleans.

TEAM NAMES

Happy stories in six words. This is what you came up with.

Game of Thrones with decent writers

Emailed African prince, received billion dollars

Found 50 bucks on the footpath

Yay! Monday is a public holiday

We found a cure for depression

The postman’s been, great, no bills

Watched the game, my team won

Congratulations, you won this week’s Powerball

Cold drink after a hard day

Exquisite ball tampering, not in cricket

Full of tequila and bad ideas

I drank beer and felt happy

Had sexy dreams, they became reality

Bill smirked at our shitty drawing

Bill gave us a bonus point

Election result overturned by the AEC

We got a massage in Bangkok

We finally won the trivia jackpot

I award Claudia six free drinks

My brother came to the quiz

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Gyrating Blender

Furry Weight

Weird Nipple

Hairy Catamaran

Frothy New Mexico

Shady Unicorn

Smooth Vatican

Dopey Palm Tree

Charming Gazelle

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team had trouble figuring out where the Gulf of Finland was, and a team made up entirely of Brits had apparently never heard of Sheffield.

When they forgot to do the homework question on actors who played the role of Pi in Life of Pi, two teams tried their luck with Peter Pi-per, Popeye, and Pi-thagorus.

One team mixed up Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with The Silence of the Lambs. We would kind of like to see those movies combine.

And a drunk douchecanoe twice yelled out the answers to questions we asked, so we came up with alternate questions on the spot & told him to shut the hell up. Attention douchecanoes… we have a microphone and we will use it to turn a room full of trivia patrons against you.

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.

This team tied the all time record for iQ Trivia of 80 points.

JACKPOTS

It was their first time, and they won the jackpot (though as they handed in their answer they said “we know it’s wrong” so we’re not going to let them brag about it.)

TEAM NAMES

Sad stories in six words. You had them.

Love you Jack, I’m so cold.

Sit down, we need to talk.

Milo amnd Otis killed 12 cats.

Sydney house prices. Sydney house prices.

President Donald Trump (only needed three.)

Zero days since our last incident.

My ex took my sex toys.

Alzheimer’s advantage, new friends every day.

No confidence vote. New Prime Minister

Scott Morrison in charge of Australia. I told you this would happen.

Oh no, Ilya is hosting trivia.

Mrs Popov give birth to son.

Stupid f*cking music round? Bagpuss sad.

Bill hates our long team names.

Warm beer, cold chips, no sauce.

She asked “is it in yet?”

A good night with Bill Cosby.

Watched Game of Thrones season 8.

I’m at the Occidental on Tuesday.

Year of trivia, never won once.

Lost trivia on the gambler’s question.

Every moment I live is agony.

My back hurt. Now I’m addicted.

And one team went for something that was legit sad… Ambulance leave owner’s dog sitting alone.

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Miraculous Tambourine

Strong Santa

Sodden Charlemagne

Slender Giraffe

Sloppy Flamingo (NSFW)

Wonky Barbecue Sauce

Healthy Chicken

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A random passer-by passed through our quiz and started singing along with Cab Calloway.

When we asked a science fiction question, one player looked at her teammates and said “Come on nerds. Why do you think we brought you here?” Clearly it was to come up with answers like “Marty McJedi.”

Someone recognised a song being sung by Fred Astaire, but thought it was sung by Avril Lavigne… somehow.

And in front of a room full of colleagues, an accountant failed to accurately calculate how many doughnuts you would have left if you had a dozen and ate 12. She may already have been fired.

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 took first place in the quiz, and then allowed another team to choose the jackpot subject as they’ve never won when choosing the subject themselves… and then they won the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

You have some frankly ridiculous fears… and maybe a few reasonable fears.

Coming last at trivia

Clive Palmer becomes PM

Human eye contact

Beards

Velvet

Turtles

Being watched by a duck

My inner demons don’t like me

Not having a smartphone

Looking after primary aged kids at the beach

The only song on the radio is Love Shack by the B52s, forever

Walking over grates, uneven pavements, or sewer covers

My boyfriend kicking me in the face while we sleep, because, you know, we sleep head to toe, obviously

I cover my feet with a pillow at night so I don’t get stabbed

Trivia hosts

TriviArt

Crocodile Schnitzel

Swimming Pig

Artificial Noun

Fancy Host

Existential Bottles

Sweaty Bird Wine

Drunk Leonardo DiCaprio

Hungry Squirrel

INTERESTING MOMENTS

On a jackpot question about the timing of a WWI battle, one team went two years before the war began, and one team went 26 years after it ended (taking them right into World War II.)

We asked about the label on a bottle of Jack Daniels, and someone went to the bad and ordered a “Jack Daniels and… something.”

One team who doesn’t drink, up an DONATED their bar tab to another team that promised to give it a good home.

And we helped raise over $9,000 for the Steve Burroughs Foundation at a charity trivia night.

See you next week.

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

We started a new venue at the Bavarian Wetherill Park where this group celebrated a birthday with a win at trivia.

WINNERS

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

JACKPOTS

It was a big week for jackpots.

They answered a question about running, by running up their answer.

They soothed the pain of coming second by one point by winning $82.

And they made an educated guess about Icelandic history to win $118.

TEAM NAMES

We wanted to know you most out of character moment, and you delivered.

Sharon, a privileged white woman, went into target and did NOT ask to speak to the manager.

I’m in the public service and once I provided value for the taxpayer.

I’m an origami fanatic, but I scrunch my toilet paper.

I shushed someone at the movies.

I drank decaf coffee by choice.

I said no to ice cream.

Rob had sex.

Pulling out.

One time I was a less than ideal lover.

I didn’t watch Game of Thrones today.

I recommended Canberra to a friend.

I made small talk.

I played Mario Kart and didn’t pick Toad.

I kissed a girl and I liked it.

I broke a rib cage fighting.

I went to church and DIDN’T catch fire.

I once had to pay for dinner at the Horse because we didn’t win a voucher.

We got all the music questions right.

We picked beer instead of the bonus point.

We’re on time for trivia.

I killed a trivia host when our team lost.

We won at trivia – Actually, we docked this team a point, because they actually won at trivia, and therefore their team name WASN’T out of character for them and doesn’t qualify. (And they still won.)

TriviArt (WARNING… SOME OF THIS IS NSFW)

Vivacious Eggplant

Exceptional Turtle

Farting Buffalo

Lego Trampoline

Stringy Crimea

Chunky Beetle

Choking Helmet

Pretentious Tyrannosaur

Strong Waffle

Vulgar Traffic Lights

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We asked a question about a cube, and were asked to clarify if it had three or four dimensions. (Because apparently you can make cubes out of time.)

On a bonus question our hints had to get so obvious that he played Doctor Who, whose first name is Peter, and whose surname began with “C”. Fortunately we didn’t need to say it ended with “apaldi.”

Someone misremember the title of the song Secret Agent Man as Secret Asian Man.

Once again, as we have many times before, we had to remind a new team that when we ask a picture question, it REALLY helps to look at the picture. It’s pretty much impossible to get otherwise.

One team mistook Ving Rhames for Terry Crews.

Someone got a bonus point for a life sized drawing of Tyrion Lannister.

And finally, one team that had come in last place chose as their special subject the Game of Thrones episode that aired the day this week’s show was on. (Good tactic. Give everyone else very little chance to prepare.) Of course, that meant we might be giving out spoilers to those who hadn’t seen the episode yet. So when it was time to read the answers, we pointed out that the answer we read was not necessarily accurate. Then we deliberately read out a wrong answer.

See you next week.

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

JACKPOTS

This jackpot just seems to keep going off.

TEAM NAMES

You made a lot of petty complaints.

There are too many Japanese people in Japan.

The sumo wrestlers weren’t fat enough.

I went to Notre Dame and couldn’t see a thing.

None of the dinosaurs were alive.

Uluru. Red dirt everywhere, too many flies.

They wouldn’t let me into Cockington Green with my Godzilla costume.

I went to Bikini Bottom and got Krabs.

Sand in Hawaii.

Came to the famous Occidental Hotel and got our arse handed to us by Team Bagpuss.

Shibuya Crossing was too busy. P.S. I was late for my train and it didn’t wait.

Our hotel room had a king sized bed, and now I’m pregnant.

We visited Prada. There was nothing under $20. One star.

Went to the Heineken Brewery. All they served was beer.

Went to the Acropolis. It was in ruins.

The Louvre has too many paintings.

TriviArt

Hairy Bear

Selective Mussolini

Informative Starfish Beer

Fat Floss

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We consulted one of the Thai speaking members of the kitchen staff to be sure we didn’t accidentally mispronounce the name of a Thai Prime Minister.

The tallest building in Dubai is “The Big Burj” if one team is to be believed.

Literally every team was holding up their arms in the air, awkwardly trying to figure out whether a basketball hoop or a volleyball net was higher.

A few unimpressive attempts at sketching the Street’s Ice Cream logo wound up making it look remarkably like a pile of dog turds.

When we asked for the most common word ending in ZZ, one player kept insisting on “jizz”, saying it dozens of times. We had to point out that we repeatedly saying the word wouldn’t shift our numbers.

Someone else asked for clarification when we asked about the west coast of Canada, wanting to be sure that when we said the west coast we meant the one one the west side of the country rather than the east.

And one of our favourite things is seeing teams talk themselves out of correct answers. In that spirit, one of our teams got the right answer to a jackpot question, and then opted for something else.

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

Winning other people’s money by knowing about British royalty is better than winning the quiz.

TEAM NAMES

Not good deed goes unpunished, as your team names indicated.

I offered to remodel Notre Dame cathedral and accidentally burned it down.

Helped a friend move a sofa and put my back out.

Homeless man refuses tea, prefers coffee.

Gave money to a man who wasn’t homeless.

Offering to help on a project and the whole thing gets handed over to you.

Fed a duck bread and it drowned.

Tried to remove a virus from my dad’s laptop. It was porn.

I set up my friend’s wi-fi, now I have to do it every weekend.

Introduced cane toads to Australia.

I thought she needed mouth to mouth.

Team Bagpuss turns up to trivia every week and Bill still does the stupid f*cking music round.

Deafened by a friend we surprised with concert tickets.

Opened a door for an old lady and she slams it back in your face.

I helped an old lady cross the road & got hit by a car.

Loaned a friend a car and got it back with an empty tank.

We changed our trivia night for people who didn’t turn up.

When you give your friend a bite of your sandwich and they die of anaphylaxis.

Greeted a Korean woman by saying ni hao and they called me a racist.

TriviArt

Sexy Scotland

Floppy Popsicle

Fluffy Dave

Stiff Jesus

Squirmy Glasses

Squirmy Glasses

Mysterious Flamingo

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We had a number of team dancing to our music questions, one more than one occasion, at more than one quiz.

A team made up entirely of Swedish people were the first to get a bonus question about Ian Thorpe & Glenn McGrath. Swedes knew more about Australian sporting heroes than Australians. (Either that or they got lucky.)

We asked a question on AFL clubs, and one team objected on the grounds that they had never heard of the AFL.

After getting a bonus question on French literature, one player shouted “EXISTENTIALISM! POW! POW! POW!” We are pretty sure that exact combination of words has never been said in the history of mankind.

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

Just one win this week. But there will be plenty of chances to win next week.

TEAM NAMES

You customised a lot of move quotes.

That’s not a single origin espresso… THAT’S a single origin espresso!

Being this is Vegemite, the most powerful spread in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question. “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya c*nt?

Go ahead punk. Make my dinner.

Go ahead punk. Onion my snag.

You merely adopted the depression. I was born into it, moulded by it.

Toto, we’re not in Africa anymore.

I love the smell of Guinness in the morning.

Yippee ki yay melon farmers!

Two flew over the cuckoo’s nest

Dazza, I’m ya pop.

Bend and dab.

On Wednesdays we wear pun t-shirts

Get in loser, we’re going to Uluru

Bagpuss we have a problem. Someone hasn’t put in for the jackpot round.

Houston, we have the answers.

There’s mother f*cking steaks on this mother f*cking plate!

There are good pubs, there are bad pubs, then there’s 50 feet of crap, then there’s the Orchard.

Of all the trivia nights in all the towns in the world, we walk into the Orient

Frankly mate, I don’t give a damn about the bloody federal election.

You had me at g’day.

Say “hello mate”, to my little friend!

The Wolf of Pitt Street

As god as my witness, I will never fly Tiger again!

You’re a trivia master Harry!

They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our BONUS POINT!

We’re just a trivia team, standing in front of a trivia host, asking him to give us bonus points.

What is this? A trivia team for ants?

I find your lack of correct answers disturbing.

It puts the lotion on its skin or else it has to do trivia again.

And perhaps the longest team name we’ve ever had at iQ Trivia… Papa Smurf didn’t create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel’s evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn’t happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don’t even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That’s what’s so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What’s the point of living… if you don’t have a Bunning’s sausage?

TriviArt

Toit Detective

Prickly Ballerina

Sweaty Milk

Lit Mess

Moist Television

Insatiable Echidna

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We overheard one team refer to the Easts Tigers Rugby League club. We didn’t say whether the answer was right or wrong, but we did say it was incoherent.

A team of Irish visitors who knew nothing about Natalie Joyce celebrating her split from Barnaby by getting into body building guessed that it was Brienne of Tarth who won medals at a recent body building competition.

And someone joined the jackpot round by accidentally (or perhaps intentionally) paying 20 Danish Kronor instead of $1.

The joke is on you. That’s worth over $4.

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 alcohol consumption in Australia (big surprise.)

They made an educated guess on Argentinian geography.

They won a jackpot on their knowledge of British history, and proceeded to donate their winnings to other teams and back to the jackpot for next week.

TEAM NAMES

People suck at everyday etiquette if your team names are to be believed.

Parking across two spaces.

Stay on the left of the pavement.

Asking the host to repeat a question before he’s finished reading the damn question.

Team Bagpuss would NEVER abuse the trivia host.

Don’t double dip your carrot in the hummus.

Wave your f*cking hand when I let you in.

Leaving pubes on the bathroom floor.

Standing too close on the train.

Enter the gate and THEN look for your Opal card.

Looking up from your phone when walking.

Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.

Playing music on your phone speaker on the train.

Chewing with your mouth closed.

Don’t microwave fish in the office.

Don’t mow you lawn on Sunday.

Don’t talk at the urinal.

Don’t fart on escalators.

Don’t fart in the lift.

Don’t cheat at trivia.

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Handsome Duck

Argumentative Houses

Stellar Trees

Irritated Ilya

Swiss Crab

Caressing Barbed Wire

Imaginative Elephant

Beautiful Execution

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Instead of answering that a song was Thank You by Dido, one team said it was “that song that was sampled on Stan by Eminem where she sings about how it’s the best day of her life.” We decided that was close enough.

Someone in a Lightning Round guessed that Australian soldiers are called “dingbats” rather than “diggers.”

We played a clip of the 90s dance hit “Move It Move It” and two teams answered that it was performed by “the guy who voiced King Julien in Madagascar.” We checked, and Sacha Baron Cohen actually did the vocals on the Madagascar version, which was sufficiently interesting and obscure that we deemed it to be worth a point.

See you next week.