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

We had what we hope will be an annual tradition of Champions League Trivia, pitting the strongest teams from all the iQ Trivia shows across Sydney against each other.

And it was Team Bagpuss (who somehow manage to awkwardly shoehorn the name “Bagpuss” into their team name every week regardless of the theme) who came out ahead, which means they get a year’s worth of bragging rights. (And you just know they’re going to take advantage of that!)

They also built themselves a trophy, the Bagpuss Finger.

WINNERS

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

JACKPOTS

These three came is second last, but knew enough about Latin languages to be the only one to get the jackpot question.

These folks had a great night, winning first place in the quiz, and taking home the jackpot for knowing a lot about Vice Presidents.

TEAM NAMES

Here were the many ways in which you were technically correct… the BEST kind of correct.

Everyone who plays trivia will die

It’s possible to live the rest of your life without eating or drinking

Tonight’s winner will be the fourth worst team

There is only one white guy on our trivia team

Jesus is on our side (because one of our teammates is LITERALLY named Jesus)

If you don’t count athletes, I’m the strongest man alive

E ≠ mc³

Technically, the three of us have won as many world wars as Germany

Team Bagpuss are the F*cking Best

Many Electrician’s Hands Make Light Work

A Tomato is a Fruit

Instan Coffee is not Instant. You still need to wait for the kettle to boil.

There are at least two people in Canada

Bill is a top bloke

Technically, Bill is Judging us All

Every Book is a Children’s Book if the Kid can Read

Most People Voted for Hillary

Peter Dutton IS a Human Being

This is a team name

Technically we’re all dying

Most humans have seen the inside of their mum’s vagina

Anything is a Dildo (if you’re brave enough)

Everything in the universe is either a potato or not a potato

TRIVIART

Engorged Rabbit

Voluptuous William

Promiscuous Watch

Moist Fish

Fierce Frog

Unscrupulous France

Loose Piano

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When they couldn’t think of the title of the film Role Models, one team gave us a surprisingly detailed description of the plot.

Two Jewish players were filled with self-loathing when they couldn’t remember kvetch as a Yiddish word for habitual complaining.

One of our players proudly proclaimed “finally being from Adelaide is paying off!”

And our favourite wrong answers of the week was one of our players being asked in a lightning round what MSG stood for, and took a chance with Mono Saturated Goodness.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

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

JACKPOTS

No jackpots were won this week, but a question on the largest city in France’s Occitanie region was the source of a lot of entertainment. One team correctly wrote Toulouse, only for the team member tasked with delivering the answer to change it to Lyon en route to our host. Another wrote Noumea, which, being in New Caledonia is certainly in the FAR south of France. And one final team failed to get the answer, despite the fact that one of the team members was FROM Toulouse.

TEAM NAMES

Here were your suggestions for funeral music. We will not be consulting you for musical advice for solemn occasions.

We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together

Highway to Hell

Death and All His Friends

Am I Ever Going to See Your Face Again

Somebody I Used to Know

Like A Virgin

No Air

Death Ding Dong The Witch is Dead

The Benny Hill Theme

Gagged, Shagged, Body Bagged (which this team assured us is an actual song title, and not what they got up to on the weekend.)

TRIVIART

Crunchy Phone

Clean Spider

Messy Tire

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When asked for the line that follows “all that is gold”, one team gave us the entire poem, and got a bonus point.

One team guessed that Tinsel and Tuberculosis were chemical elements containing the letter T.

Perhaps thinking there was a gap in the market, one team guessed that a British luxury brand was devoted to making designer eye patches.

One of our players was simultaneously proud of getting the right answer to a question on Schapelle Corby’s new song, and ashamed that they knew the answer in the first place.

And when asked for the largest cities in Russia, one team speculated that Washington might now qualify as Russian territory.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

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

JACKPOTS

These guys are counting their cash after demonstrating their knowledge of Deal or No Deal prizes.

And these guys got the right answer for the wrong reason, but still got it right and won nearly $200.

TEAM NAMES

You had plenty of obvious predictions for 2018.

The mass extinction of avocados

Vladimir Putin is “re-elected” President

Trump legalises gay marriage, weds Kim Jong-un

Australia will suck at the Winter Olympics

Australia wins gold at the Commonwealth Games

It rains

It ends Dec 31^st

Dan will shout “your mum” during trivia

Cher delights Sydney’s gays at Mardi Gras

Kanye assassinates Trump to claim presidency

NRL player gets in trouble for off field misconduct

Peter Dutton vilifies non-white people, reveals lizard form

We will not win in trivia in 2018

Beer will help us win trivia

Privileged white men will be angry

The Royal family becomes slightly less inbred

TRIVIART

Smoky Glass

Ugly Mum

Standing Table

Plaid Elephant

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When they couldn’t remember the title of the movie Big, one team gave it as “that movie where Tom Hanks makes a wish on a Zoltar machine and then turns into an adult overnight.” They could remember the name of the machine that grants wishes, but not the three letter title of the film.

Someone guessed that the greatest achiever of the Boxing Day Test wasn’t Alastair Cook who was either at the crease or in the field for every delivery, but the beer cup snake in the stands.

One team guessed that the warning symbol below meant “cricket permitted” and another guessed that it meant “nangs.”

When asked about the 1976 film Carrie, one team asked us to spell Carrie because they thought it might have been about Kerry Packer. That would have been a VERY different film.

And one team speculated that this is a referee in the sport of competitive fisting signalling for more lube.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

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

One of our teams left before we could get a photograph, but their team name referred to their immense pride at being given a free peach while walking towards trivia, so we chose this photo. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that they woman in this photo was one their team.

TRIVIART

Saucy Elvis

Flagrant Balloon

Proposing Dog

Jumping Kipper

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Someone forgot to do their homework, and guessed that Jamie Oliver’s children were named Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, and Onion (which are all actually less ridiculous than the names he actually gave them.)

One of our hosts got engaged, and one of their teams of regulars speculated that it was his proposal and not two koalas fighting that stopped traffic in Adelaide.

And one team chose the team name Black Cocks (a reference to the New Zealand badminton team) not knowing that it technically fit the criteria for the team name bonus point of naming your proudest accomplishment from the previous year.

See you in 2018.

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

WINNERS

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

JACKPOTS

Two teams knew a lot about Italian airports, but only one had entered the jackpot round and took home the cash.

TEAM NAMES

TRIVIART

Red Argentina

Superfluous Tree

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team got a bonus point on question on the Beer Mile because they had successfully completed the Beer Mile. (That’s four beers and four 400m laps as fast as you can.)

When trying to name countries spelled using the letters NA, teams tried to get away with Espana, and Narnia, because we didn’t say the countries had to be spelled in English or be real.

As evidence that the more thinking you do tends to result in better trivia performance, we present the extensive notes taken by one of our winning teams trying to figure out the curlier questions.

One team was sufficiently invested in a question about how buttered toast falls, that they attempted to put their theories to the test by letting coasters fall to the ground.

Two guys from Sweden were able to guess two AFL Grand Final winning teams named after things that can fly. (And they did better than some of the Australians in attendance.)

And a team of newbies learned that you shouldn’t yell out the answer to a bonus question, because someone else is likely to write down the answer and beat you to the prize.

A number of venues are taking a break for Christmas next week, but if you need your trivia fix, Old Canberra Inn, The Horse, and the Bavarian Bier Cafe in Chatswood will be running next Tuesday, and The Oxford is still planning a show on Wednesday.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

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

 We didn’t ask why the shirts came off.

TEAM NAMES

Who is a badder bitch than Taylor Swift? Here’s what you thought.

Rosa Parks

Mother Theresa

Eve, the apple murderer

Sinead O’Connor (vs the Pope)

Betty White

The women who work at the Oxford on Wednesdays

Rob, naked on a wrecking ball

Emily, because she loves Bagpuss very much, even though he’s just a saggy cloth cat

The undemocratically elected Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Miss Piggy

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

Tilly Devine

Ellen Ripley

Kanye West

Queen Elizabeth II

Literally all women… ever

TRIVIART

Voluptuous Meow

Quick Fetus (this one done quickly, in just a few seconds)

Canadian Bee

Confused Beer

Loud Jump

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked about he largest countries beginning with the letter A, one team put Austria… twice.

A guy whose surname was Ford failed to name a racing team beginning with F that won the Bathurst 1000.

When being asked to give the surnames of five famous Rachels, one team tried their luck and put Smith five times… and got 0 out of 5.

A girl from Switzerland got a question about the largest city in Switzerland wrong.

One team got a bonus point for telling us that the word baroque is derived from a word meaning “misshapen pearl”, which did nothing to answer the question we asked, but which is interesting.

See you next week.

WINNERS

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

JACKPOTS

Once in a rare while your knowledge of south western English geography turns into cash like it did for this team. (Now you can put the jackpot towards your next holiday in Cornwall.)

These two came in last place in the quiz, but won the jackpot on a random guess. (Then they put $10 of their winnings into the pokies and turned it into $40.)

TEAM NAMES

Here are some of the things you thought should prevent you from sitting in Parliament.

Not knowing the words to Khe Sanh

If you don’t eat Vegemite on toast

Wanting to make a difference

Not knowing how to make fairy bread

Declining a Bunning’s snag

Not being part of at least one expenses scandal per year

Being Tony Abbott

No Poofters (said ironically by a team composed primarily of gay men)

Being unable to walk backwards in thongs

Not pretending you care about the Ashes

Questioning Shaun Marsh’s test selection

Saying “throw a shrimp on the barbie”

Wearing socks with thongs

Unless you can down a VB in under 3 seconds (so basically nobody but Bob Hawke)

If you use a knife and fork to eat a meat pie

TRIVIART

Fabulous Giraffe

Silky Blender

Ostentatious Snowman

Polyamorous Chair

Swinging Socks

Flying Beard

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When asked for a term beginning the the letter R that describes an old star that had used up all of it’s hydrogen, one team went with “rooted”, which is not technically wrong, and got a point.

Someone thought the first convict from the First Fleet to be emancipated was emancipated in the 1990s rather than the 1790s, perhaps assuming that he was a vampire or a Highlander.

We asked about the number of actors who played the role of Pi in Life of Pi, and two teams guessed 3.14159.

As a reminder that looks can be deceiving, a conservative looking middle aged woman turned out to be a fan of Insane Clown Posse.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

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

JACKPOTS

When one person on your team is an expert on US Presidents, and another is a medical student, you’re likely to win a jackpot when the questions are on US Presidents and medication.

They managed to win first place, and because the only other team that knew the answer opted not to play, these guys also won the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

There were plenty of inappropriate quotation marks.

I “don’t” have syphilis

“Medical” marijuana for my “glaucoma”

I’m “not” a duel citizen

You’re “adopted”

Extra points will be given for particularly “interesting” answers

The “cool” kids

We’ll “take care” of you

She said “no”

Urinal cakes are not for “consumption”

Used mattress “gently soiled”

Netflix and “Chill”

Obama “wiretapped” my phone

We “love” iQ Trivia

Remedial Thai “massage”

TRIVIART

Indecisive Bridge

Dirty Platypus

Scrumptious Platypus (or was it Scrum Chess Platypus)

Punchy Lamp

Fancy Fire Truck

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We were asked to define the word “word”. By a linguistics student no less.

We asked what states Washington DC lies between, and one team answered New York and Florida. It doesn’t border either of those states, but it does technically lie between them. In this case, being technically correct got a point.

One (rather drunk) trivia interloper, perhaps unaware that a written quiz was being conducted, was about to say the answer to a question out loud, and every team who knew the answer simultaneously shouted her down.

When asked for a 10 letter synonym for thief that didn’t use any letters twice, one team came up with “kleptomani”. That’ll teach us for not saying it had to be an actual word in English.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

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

JACKPOTS

This guy won the jackpot singlehandedly. Yes, it can be done.

TEAM NAMES

You came up with plenty of fancy names for simple foods

Excretions From A Swarm Of Flying Poisonous Beasts On Grinded Wheat Yeast

Aged cheddar over angus beef, served on a seeded milk bun with tomato puree

Feathery bicep layered with milled wheat, submerged in pressed vegetable juices

Toasted variety of grains & seeds simming in low fat dairy fluid with a hint of chocolate (Coco Pops)

Deconstructed beef mince with crispy pastry and tomato jus (meat pie)

Nouilles dans le fromage fondu et le lait (Mac ‘n Cheese)

Group deconstruction buffet with airborne vegetables and everything else (Food Fight)

Crusted spelt mixed with exotic grains complimented with yeast infused spread

Slices of cloudlight artisan stonebaked Wonderwhite, layered with slatherings of farm fresh golden handchurned bovine lactal extract, adorned with multi-hued sucrose encrusted spheroids in their many (Fairy bread)

TRIVIART

Pretentious Bill

Prickly Palace

Ugly Rapscallion

Critical Match

Promiscuous Tree

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team offered to split the jackpot with one of our hosts if we gave them the answer. Yeah… we don’t do that.

Someone mistook David Gulpilil for Kanye West, and someone mistook Don Draper for Donald Trump.

When asked for a Shakespeare play beginning with the letter TTOTS, one team guessed The Tale Of Two Sities.

In addition to recognising the tune of the French national anthem, one player got a bonus point after singing the entire thing along with one of our hosts.

And two newbies recognised a map of Kent, but forgot to write that it was in England and missed out on a ridiculously easy point, but then wound up perfectly positioned to come in seventh to win a prize. (Sometimes laziness pays.)

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

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

TEAM NAMES

You had a lot of unpopular opinions

Vegan Bacon is better than regular bacon

Coriander should be added to everything

Marmite is nicer than Vegemite

Bunnings sausage sizzles are overrated

Politicians should be allowed to have dual citizenship

Speed Racer is the greatest film of our generation

Kim Jong-un has a great hairstyle

Yay for the No vote

I’m glad Apple got rid of the headphone jack

Godfather 3 is the best film of the trilogy

Vaccines cause autism, infertility, ADHA, AIDS, cancer, and the black plague

Nurses and teachers are overpaid

TRIVIART

Rambunctious Chair

Spikey Tower

Loud Camera

Basmati Potatoes (which was a lot less racist than it could have been)

Fabulous Microphone

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Teams cheered when we mentioned Hitler, and when we mentioned tse tse flies. (You don’t have to cheer for either of these things.)

We asked for a three letter word that starts a series of other words, and one team gave us TRI, which would have made triage, triask (which we presumed to be what you do when you ask something three times), trination, trined (which is actually the past tense of the verb “trine”), tripen (perhaps to make something into tripe), and triselfish (which could mean when you’re three times as selfish as normal.)

Denzel Washington’s role in the film Flight was described as Captain Snorty in the film I Crashed the Plane High but I Did it Well.

A team of Scots who worked behind a bar didn’t recognise a variety of Scottish alcohol.

A Lebanese man failed to answer a jackpot question on the capital of Lebanon.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.