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

It was a big week for jackpots, with five going off. That’s a record for one week.

Both of these teams won their Monday jackpot after getting first prize.

The won a jackpot on account of knowing a lot about TS Eliot.

He knew a lot about Greek words & insects.

They benefited from having an Indian on the team when we asked about Indian languages, and won well over $200.

TEAM NAMES

Everyone is a snob about something. Here’s what you are snobs about.

If you say “expresso”, switch to tea

Actually it’s pronounced mo-ett

T20 Cricket is just Aussie baseball

Mocha is not coffee

Vegemite is not Marmite

Airplane food is NOT food

Communications co-ordinator is NOT a real job

If it doesn’t take 3 cops to arrest an old Asian dude, are you even a police force?

No spoilers

Trivia team names

Trivia vouchers should be usable on trivia night

If you can’t put together IKEA furniture, don’t consider yourself a Swede

I do law

My family only drive BMWs

I’m not paying cheap dollars to drink shit

The Irish could have had something other than potatoes

Just because it’s black & white doesn’t mean it’s good

Ban Comic Sans

TriviArt

Depressed Viking

Exuberantly Moist Apple

Israeli Giraffe

Porous Lady Gaga

Bootylicious Goat

Fizzy Cricket Bat

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Most of our players, it would seem, are worse at mathematics than primary school students in China, as a simple math problem given to Chinese pre-teens caused immense difficulty & frustration.

The blokiest team in one venue were thrilled that we asked a question on Gilmore Girls.

We asked if Bob Marley & Hitler were ever alive at the same time, and one team said yes, because there is no evidence that Hitler is dead. They were right, though not for the right reason.

When we asked people about the relative speed between a cricket delivery & Usain Bolt, an entire room full of trivia players spontaneously transformer into Stephen Hawking doing advanced calculus.

And a team of Doctor Who nerds will not soon live down failing to recognise David Tennant.

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 four either knew a shocking amount about alpine skiing at the Olympics, or they got lucky. Either way, they won cash.

TEAM NAMES

Films & TV series with an L added. Here’s what you came up with.

Harry Plotter

The LIT Crowd

Drivel

James Blond: Dye Another Day

Lice Age

Magic Milke

Lace Ventura

American History XL

The XL Men

XL Men Apocalypse

Spongeblob Squareplants

Lever After

Flight Club

The Princess Bridle

Mary Ploppins

Tiltanic

Sexy and the Clity

TriviArt

Funky Centrepoint Tower

Soggy Biscuit

Massive Tits

Princess Dragon Playing Polo

Simple Brick

Enchanting Pizza

INTERESTING MOMENTS

These guys argued for 20 minutes about who was to blame for their tragic loss. The consensus was it was the guy on the right.

We asked a bonus question on a mathematical problem which required a fair amount of calculation, and one team got it within a couple of seconds, leading us to conclude that they are either a mathematical savant like in Rain Man, or they had heard this question somewhere before. (Or they were very lucky.)

One of our regulars who rarely plays but always enjoys listening to the questions, sold his expertise on Australian music from the 80’s to a team of Swedes who were all born in the 90s.

One team developed the tactic of saying wrong answers loud enough for neighbouring teams to hear… before calling out a correct answer… which nobody used. Not even them.

We were asked if Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter series counted as human.

And a visiting Harvard graduate got a question on Harvard wrong… and may never live it down.

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

Knowing the capital of Burma (and how to spell it) got this team $170 of other people’s money.

TEAM NAMES

Here’s what you think Santa should bring naughty children instead of coal.

Herpes

Divorce

A Pitbull Album

Lynx Africa

An overripe avocado

Holiday homework

Brussel Sprouts

Vegemite

Cold Tinned Peas

Swift Backhands

A Signed Copy of Mein Kampf

Sack O’Crap

Nokia 3310

Nokia 5110

iPhone 4S

An unusable charger for your mobile phone

Reindeer Poo

A Fully Nappy

A Spanking

The game console nobody has

A Battery. Present not included

A dead puppy with a bow on it

Any of these unfulfilling toys

A lifetime membership in the Young Liberals

3^rd place in Trivia

The Truth About Santa

TriviArt

Bouncing Canberra

Drunk Santa

Running Sparkling Reindeer

Swarthy Rabbit

Extravagant Sponge

Iqbal’s Birthday

Footloose Straw

Woody Banana

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A last place team chose a specific season of the Bolton Wanderers Football Club as their special subject, and turned up the next week only to realise that they were off by one year and had chosen the wrong season.

We overheard someone say “he can’t be tall. He goes to the gym.” Because… going to the gym makes you short?

When we asked a dilemma question on whether people would accept $200,000 cash if it meant they had to leave the country immediately for one year, two players started leaving the room before we finished asking the question (and explained that nobody was getting any cash.)

And it was a big week for birthdays among our players, with multiple people choosing to celebrate by arguing with their friends, and winning in the process. We even threw in a bonus lightning round for one of them.

Most of our shows will be taking a couple of weeks off, with the exception of The Crown in Surry Hills on Thursday which will be the only place to get your trivia fix for the next two weeks.  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 first time players knew enough about American mountains to take home a big pile of other people’s money.

TEAM NAMES

There were a lot of very practical minor superpowers.

India… a minor super power that is very useful in the real world.

Instant alcohol chillers

Ability to know when a parking inspector is within 300m of your car

Conjuring up the perfect comeback

Weather predicting boobs

Working for the ABC

Getting Netflix recommendations you actually like

The ability to do pivot tables

Turn water into wine

The ability to eradicate morning wood

Excellent team name generation skills

A super sense of dance

Always wake up well rested

Super quick digestion

The car park whisperer

Ability to never run out of toilet paper in a public restroom

Ability to always pick a ripe avocado

Fastest queue predictor radar

I can do all the cooking and cleaning just by looking at my boyfriend

And the most important minor super power of all… Always winning iQ Trivia

TriviArt

Tardy Owl

Lovely Turkey

Dank Potato Masher

Deep Fried Trivia Host

Easy Demon

Floppy Pen

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A guy in a suit identified himself as “the token white girl” of his team after getting a pop music question that stumped the ACTUAL white girls on his team.

One team guessed that PETA wanted to change the phrase “kill two birds with one stone” should be changed to “feed two vegans with one lentil”.

Two teams thought that the film “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” was “Catfishing in the Yemen.”

A Dutch woman on one team kindly helped us with the pronunciation of a Dutch word. But when we tried to repay the favour by asking a bonus question about the Dutch Prime Minister right next to her, she wasn’t paying attention and allowed one of her work colleagues to steal the point LITERALLY from under her nose.

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 proposed plenty of character swaps for films.

Priscilla: Queen of the Matrix

Agent Smith: Queen of the Desert

The Passion of Mad Max

Conan the Kindergarten Predator

Shrek Powers

Saving Private Woody

The God Focker

The Catwoman Diaries

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw’s Day Off

The School of Kung Fu Panda

The Danish and where to find them

Bagpuss was just a saggy old cloth cat but Amelie loved him very much

The Greatest X-Man

Zoolander at the Museum

The Cat in the Hat: The Cat who Shagged Me

Indiana Solo

There’s something about Princess Fiona

Qui Gonn’s List

Saving Private Bourne who is imprisoned in the Great Wall on Mars but escaped by Downsizing and Robbing a Casino with 10 Mates who are Puppets

TriviArt

Cranky Flyer

Beautiful Harry Potter

Slimy Lamp

Bizarre Helmet

Moist Towelette

Astronomical Bicycle

Slippery Pirates

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We played a clip from Kill Bill and one player insisted it was Babe: Pig in the City. That would have been a VERY different film.

On a math question involving children born on Modern Family, one team not only picked the correct number of children for each character we asked for, they named each individual child.

When we asked a question about red cars, one of our teams boldly proclaimed that “only bellends drive red cars”, not knowing that their host had driven a red car to trivia that night.

And when they found out that the special subject for their show was “submarines”, one team printed off the entire Wikipedia article on submarines.

All that reading, and it didn’t help them with a single question we asked.

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

One of our hosts won a jackpot on his night off… and then donated the money back.

This team also won, but they kept the cash.

TEAM NAMES

You proposed a whole lot of new sports.

Word fighting

Nice skating

Marital Arts

Phishing… for your passwords

Fisting… fishing with your fists

Crickets… it’s about as interesting

Tetnis

Tugby

Croquette… eating through tiny hoops

Lawn Fowls

Farts

Horse Back Biting

Snow Hoarding

Water Polio

TRIVIART

Burnt Bottle

Jumping Snail Tree

Shining Centrelink

Curly Guest

Kawaii Penis

Flamboyant Mountains

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team sang Johnny Cash lyrics loud enough for everyone nearby to hear the correct answer clearly.

We asked a current events question on the Canadian jewellery store employees who chased robbers off with swords. One team answered that they asked them to leave, which is technically correct in a manner of speaking, and is about the most stereotypically Canadian way to resolve such a dispute.

The last place subject at one show was Fruit Sodomy. (We’re pretty sure they were just throwing words together.) At one point, a David Attenborough nature documentary playing in the background mentioned an animal was “probing each fruit for ripeness.”

And one of our players appeared on Pointless, which aired just before their show. The bar was good enough to put it on the big screen.

Later on they won the Pointless jackpot.

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

The Wizard of Oz would have been a very different story if you were in it. Here’s what you asked for.

For Schapelle Corby to be the Bachelorette 2019

To redo 2016

A discernable waistline

An endless keg of cider

The ability to go back in time

More questions on wrestling & Star Trek

Tree fiddy

A six day weekend

A taco

The ability to apparate

More Dong (for when I visit Vietnam)

My virginity back

To grow a bigger penis

A butthole of lube that never runs out

The Scarecrow’s brain

A better trivia host (screw you guys!)

And then some of you were pure

Good health

World Peace

To meet Michael Jackson

TRIVIART

Pulsating Dancing

Bloated Ayers Rock

Beautiful Ejaculating Dog

Graceful Salt

Parched Jesus

Sleepy Sandwich

Sparkly Chair

Spicy Dick

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team couldn’t remember William H. Macy’s name, but they could remember half a dozen films or TV series he had been in, and listing them all was worth a point.

Instead of just answering a question on calculating the speed of light, a team not only got the right answer, they explained the science behind their answer with a formula & diagram.

And one team won despite getting zero out of five on the music bonus round. They weren’t shy in telling us what they thought of us.

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

We love when a team comes in last place at trivia, and then wins the jackpot. You see? It CAN happen!  And this was a team of JUST ONE PERSON!

TEAM NAMES

Superpower aren’t as useful as people think. Here’s you rationales for why.

I have X-ray vision but I keep walking into walls

X-ray vision would give everyone cancer

Flying without an airplane is cold

Superspeed: Can’t satisfy your girlfriend

I always know what’s going to happen and it’s boring

Super strength mean you’ll have to be abstinent

Super hearing would lead to tinnitus

Telekinesis: Getting hit when you daydream

The invisible man never gets noticed at the bar

Teleporting: Screw up your co-ordinates and wind up inside another person

No one wants to high five you when you have super strength

TRIVIART

Slack Puppy

American Pie

Vague Pikachu

Pole Dancing Chicken

Transparent Tree

Sloppy Bridge

Chicken Doing Standup Comedy

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A team consisting of four players, none of whom were from Australia & none of whom spoke English as their first language managed an impressive score of 59, and could have gotten more if they’d opted for points instead of beer.

We had to convince one team that Chittagong was not the second largest city in Australia. (Perhaps they thought we said Wollongong, though that would have been wrong too.)

Someone guessed that the animal used in a book to teach children the letter V, was “velociraptor.”

In a lightning round, one team of overseas visitors couldn’t think of the correct term beginning with D that was applied to Australian soldiers in WWI. All they could come up with was… dead. Which isn’t wrong for about 60,000 of them.

And one player brought a chair with them for the lightning round, as they expected to be there for a long time… only to be eliminated on the first question.

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

Who knows about fictional highschools attended by Kirsten Dunst? They do.

Another team chose a question on cricket, and these cricket fans leaped on the opportunity to take home some cash.

TEAM NAMES

You raised plenty of things that nobody cares about.

Hey everybody, these guys win trivia every week… see nobody cares.

I’m a vegan. Nobody cares.

Kylie Jenner is blah blah blah… who cares?

My dog died today… nobody cares.

Look we came up with a clever team name… oh look nobody cares.

Peter hates the team name… see nobody cares.

Jesus loves you. Nobody cares.

Australia has a new Prime Minister. Nobody cares.

Mark Latham is coming back to politics… see nobody cares.

Hye everybody, this guy ran a marathon… see nobody cares.

The house we inherited might only get us $1.67 million… see nobody cares.

Look what my child did… see nobody cares.

TRIVIART

Smoky Leprechaun

Peanut Butter Book

Smoking Apple Juice

Purple Lederhosen

Wry Bubblegum

Cantankerous Spiderman

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We found out that a new model of smart phone automatically detects music being played and displays the title & artist. So we will have to be ever vigilant on keeping phones out of sight.

One team successfully argued that hipsters & vegans are effectively the same thing.

When one player complained that a picture of Fidel Castro on The Simpsons wasn’t actually Fidel Castro, we pointed out that The Simpsons was NOT a documentary.

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

Here’s how you represented 2018 in Halloween costumes

Slutty climate change deniers

An offended millennial

Elderly royal with racially insensitive fashion accessory

Property prices

The ghost of Aretha Franklin

Locked filing cabinet – PMC edition

The Royal Nightmare – Harry, Megan, and the Fetus

Elon Musk sucking a dummy

Vacation on Manus Island

Tony Abbott in Paradise on Nauru

Kanye West

Bank executive

The Tangerine Tyrant

A caravan of migrants

An AR-15 and the American flg

Melania – blink if you need help

Fascism

Libspill

Pauline Hanson dressed as Donald Trump

Kim Jong-un & Trump having a big gay wedding in Sydney

Vladimir Putin dressed as a referee

Barnaby Joyce’s illegitimate child

A “totally harmless” strawberrs

TRIVIART

Fresh Pumpkin

Curious Glass Otter

Anguished Bucket

Erect Spoons

Blank Pug

Anvil and Accordion

Exxxtreme Fairness

Shiny Earlobe

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Some of out players attended their show on Halloween dressed as The Bride from Kill Bill and a kidnapping victim.

When they couldn’t remember the names of Dennis & Randy Quaid, one team desecribed them as “the dude from The Parent Trap” and “the stunt double for the guy who writes Game of Thrones.”

When they couldn’t identify a diagram of a Helium atom, we gave one team a hint that it was a gas and that it was one of the lightest elements. Their guess was “Iron”.

One team answered a jackpot question on Brownlow Medal winners with “me”. We said if they could prove that they were Tom Mitchell by producing their Brownlow Medal, we would give them the jackpot. They couldn’t, and we didn’t.

A photo of Inglourious Basterds was described as “a sappy rom com.” Now we aren’t going to judge you on what your players find romantic. Maybe you think killing Nazis is a great thing to do on a romantic night out. So we gave them a point (though they still came in last.)

See you next week.