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.

Spider President: Caught in a Web of Lies

Toys R Us

Trivia At the Old Canberra Inn: Drinks on Joe

Nestle Now Child Labour Free

April Tools

Trump’s Golden Lavatories

Trump’s Tampons – By Cunts, For Cunts

JACKPOTS

It was a big week for Jackpots.

These guys came nowhere near winning on the quiz, but still won a jackpot of $42 dollars on their very first time at iQ Trivia. We’re pretty sure this kind of thing will happen again.

Knowing about Austrian Geography also helped these guys win $240 dollars after it had been building up for a long time.

And watching a lot of David Attenborough documentaries made these guys $99.

TEAM NAMES

We had plenty of April Fool’s themed team names.

Free Tap Beers At The Old Canberra Inn

Cocaine Filled Oreo’s

Toothpaste Filled Oreo’s

Canberra Sheep Dog Trials: 7 Found Guilty

Joy buys all teams at iQ Trivia Beer for one night

Fair Dinkum Flood Insurance

Maccas new vegan burger – Braddon only

Rodin’s Trump

Kraken Discovered In Lake Burley Griffin

Team Bagpuss Decides NOT to Gamble Five Points

Drinking Is Good For You

I am Pregnant

Google Gnome

Trump Resigns Citing Inability to Implement Agenda

McDonald’s Now Serving Burgers with Real Beef

Honey I Want a Divorce

You ARE the Father

Inflatable Dartboard

Australia Day Moved to May 8

Trump Impeached following Merkl Pussy Grab

Russian Spy Network Exposed by Putin’s Lover – Melania T

Wallabies Beat the All Blacks

and Australian Government Suddenly Remembers they Represent the People

TRIVIART

Pregnant Rocket

Purple Toast

Hateful Mate

Expired Stall

Wet Tent

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Several teams thought that the first name of Superintendent Chalmers from the Simpsons was Super Nintendo.

The team who guessed that Hugh Hefner had donated money to save the “Great North American Tit” from extinction.

Guessing that Burn for You by INXS is actually titled “I’ve Got Big Hair and a Synth.”

Guessing that the role of Hagrid in Harry Potter was originally going to be played by Daniel Radcliffe (which would have made for one hell of a twist), or Scarlett Johanssen (which would have been a very different film.)

Adding the fact that Georgia O’Keeffe was the one who painted “those weird vagina flowers.”

Asking a question about the Cronulla Sharks logo while the TVs were showing NRL news, and having every team yell at Cooper Cronk to get off the screen so they could show a recap of Cronulla’s latest match.

PROUD MOMENTS

The moment when your encyclopedic knowledge of The Gilmore Girls finally pays off on an audio question.

A new player from France doing a celebratory dance when asked to spell the word “rendezvous.”

Being the only team to recognise a famous line from The Importance of Being Earnest, AND reciting the dialogue word for word.

HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS

The team whose had a phone out and in use during the jackpot round defending themselves by saying they were only on Snapchat. (PUT YOUR DAMN PHONE AWAY FOR 60 DAMN SECONDS!

The team who guessed that what Sean Connery, George Costanza, Peter Garrett, and Dwight Eisenhower had in common was being men.  (If you don’t have our answer, your answer had better be both correct AND interesting.)

The team who were confused when we asked about the average number of shoes owned by Australian women, claiming it was impossible to know because they don’t all have the same number.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.

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.

Adele Dazeem

Bagpuss Baggins

Captain Cooked

Corey Bacardi

Would Edward Woodward Wed Edward Woodward’s Wood?

Urethra Franklin

JACKPOTS

Two teams nearly won the same jackpot on the subject of Edward Scissorhands, but one team didn’t listen to the person who knew, and the other.

At another show, one team got the first two jackpot questions right along with another team, and then knew the answer to the final question but misspelled Savile Row.

TEAM NAMES

We had plenty of misspelled celebrity names.

Margaret Hatcher

Reese Withouterspoon

Vladimir Poutine

Ellen Degenerate

Margot Gobbie

Jesus Crossed

Pelvis Presley

Fondald Trump

Britney Tears

Kayne Pest

Salma Kayak

Rolf Harass

Teresa Maybe

Kim Jong-healthy

TRIVIART

Horny China

Chewy Peas

Polish Legs

Red Padlock

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One of our hosts being induced to sing one of the audio clips rather than playing it again.

The team who asked if something was began with an M as in Masturbation or an N as in Necrophilia.  (Note: You may need more help that we can offer as trivia hosts.)

PROUD MOMENTS

One team was asked by his teammates “how the hell do you know that” when asked about the title of the Prime Minister of Ireland.

After answering a bonus question about alpacas, the entire room was given a lesson on alpaca terminology.

HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS

One team asking if they still get a point if they gamble zero on the gambler’s question and get it right. Do you understand the concept of gambling?

A room full of people who had to go through the higher/lower round three times when everyone was eliminated twice. Sometimes when we ask if someone wants to change, were doing so for a reason.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.

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.

Jack Black Sabbath

Nirvana Trump

Blinky Bill 182

Jack Black Eyed Peas

Lil Wayne Gretzky

JACKPOTS

Lil Wayne Gretzky also won $112 & €2 by knowing a little bit more about American Presidential Candidates than anyone else.

Another team missed out on about $200 by coming up with the answer “Smitherines” instead of “Smithereens”.  Spelling matters people!

TEAM NAMES

You came up with plenty of interesting band names this week.

Dalai Lama Del Rey

Alice Cooper Cronk

Wolfmother Theresa

Pink Floyd Mayweather

Blink 182-Pac

Adolf HitLaRoux

Roberto Duran Duran

The Rolling Emma Stones

Something for Cate Blanchett

Lil Kim Jong-un

The JK Rowling Stones

TRIVIART

Running Airplane

Invisible Air

Hairy Strippers

Stinky Umbrella

INTERESTING ANSWERS

One team pointed out that San Marino is so small, that the San Marino Grand Prix isn’t even held in San Marino, a fact which you can expect will be on a future iQ Trivia quiz.

When asked if anyone was still alive who was in Hitler’s bunker, one team argued that Hitler had a pet giant tortoise that is still alive aged well over 100. Seeing as we didn’t explicitly exclude animals and weren’t in a position to disprove them, we gave them a point.

HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS

Using Shazam on an audio question right under the nose of the host. Hey, we’re not blind. Also, you didn’t even get the correct answer.

The team who claimed that Australia’s Prime Minister in the early 1970s was GOTH Whitlam.

The founder of iQ Trivia messing up one of the bonus questions. Hey, nobody is perfect.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.

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.

I am shocked, shocked that trivia gets tough after five beers.

I am shocked that they don’t have 150 Lashes on tap.

I am shocked, shocked that my team won’t join me for three trivia nights in a row.

I am shocked, shocked that I shagged the quizmaster and still only came in second. (They were docked a point for having an untrue team name and still came in first.)

TEAM NAMES

When it came to feigning shock, you came through.

I’m shocked, shocked that the radiographer didn’t believe I fell on an 8 inch cucumber.

I’m shocked, shocked that the new host isn’t bald.

I’m shocked, shocked that we gambled five points before we heard the question.

I’m shocked that if you turn up late you can’t get a table.

I’m shocked! Shocked when I stuck my fork in a power outlet.

I’m shocked, SHOCKED that the Eurovision contestant used both a wind machine and a key change.

You mean there’s cannibals on Cannibal Island?

I’m shocked, shocked that the bouncer asked to see my ID.

I’m shocked, shocked that trivia is not the national pastime.

I’m shocked, shocked at this nuclear winter after electing Trump.

I’m shocked that the casinos aren’t subject to the lockout laws.

TRIVIART

Smelly House

Wanking Watch

Aggressive Rainbow

Claustrophobic Dog

INTERESTING ANSWERS

The team who pointed out that we didn’t ask for the surname of Barney from the Simpsons in English, and so answered (correctly) in Spanish with Barney Gomez.

The couple from Finland who in addition to struggling with trivia in a foreign language claimed that New Zealand was one of the three largest islands in Australia. Meh, close enough.

The American team who patriotically claimed that the three types of blood cells in their bodies were red, white, and blue.

HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS

The guy who had to buy a drink for everyone on his team by dropping a question about scramjets that he really should have gotten.

The guy who was the only one in the room who recognised a PM Dawn song and was overruled by his teammates.

The team that complained that there weren’t enough sport questions, and then complained that baseball isn’t a sport.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.

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.

Nobody can get sauce out of the bottle like Trump (shown here celebrating after winning on a question about Starbucks.)

Nobody knows bankruptcy like Donald Trump

Nobody Bags Puss like Donald Trump

I’m the least racist person ever. (Actual quote)

Trump: Good at being a troll doll

JACKPOTS

These guys won $65 by knowing that India detonated its first nuclear weapon in 1974.

That’s 3,300 Rupees.

TEAM NAMES

Not sure if we’re going to get some angry tweets from the White House over these.

Biggest trivia win since Ronald Reagan

Nobody “knows” Ivanka better than Donald

Nobody tweets like Trump

Nobody grabs them by the pussy like Trump

Nobody does watersports better than me

Read my book, “Art of the Squeal.” Nobody squeals like me, not even pigs. Believe me

Nobody, nobody is more humble than Donald Trump. Donald Trump is so humble he never refers to himself in the third person

Nobody holds baby’s tiny hands like I do

No one is better than me at using the First Amendment

Nobody’s better at tax returns than me

Nobody know alternative facts better than we do

Trump is better at fistplay than anyone else

Nobody is better at spray tanning than I am

No one inherits money better than me

TRIVIART

Active Chicken

Explosive Calcutta

Hairy Beer

Flamboyant Kermit

Jewish Buttplug

Scintillating Beard

PROUD MOMENTS

The native Kannada speaker from southern India, who finally turned his first language into free beer.

The “Technically Correct” award this week goes to the guy who pointed out that because a crossbow was used, Tywin Lannister was killed by a bolt and not an arrow.

The team who turned up at halftime, and still managed to take home the prize for coming in second last.

HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS

A guy who couldn’t remember the name of the antagonist in Beowulf saying “Dammit! What’s the point of taking studying literature if I can’t remember this?”

The team who insisted on one question being asked four times, leading our host to publicly declare that the next person who asked for it to be read out would get punched in the face. Nobody asked again.

The team that tried to abuse the gambler’s question by gambling NEGATIVE five points. (Nope. It doesn’t work that way.)

The team that was in the middle of the room flagrantly googling answers. If you’re going to cheat, at least pop into the toilets to use your phone.

Five people charging up to out host on a bonus question, only to find out that JFK was NOT the first person murdered live on television.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.

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

WINNERS

Here are some of our winner this week just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.

Team Bagpuss: Dry January was a Yuge Success

We Will Win (who didn’t get the team name bonus point because their team name ceased to be an alternative fact and became and actual fact.)

TEAM NAMES

Here are some Alternative Facts that the new Presidential administration can champion.

Chicken is Vegan.

Sydney is Freezing.

I’m not drunk, I’m alternative sober.

Soup counts as a meal.

Hugh Hefner Likes Men.

Trivia Newton John is a perfectly legitimate trivia team name.

Bob is the worst at trivia.  He always loses. We always beat him. (Actually they did beat him this time.)

This is not a sentence.

2+2=5.

We don’t drink.

Pauline Hanson Enjoys a Snack Pack.

Mexico will pay for the wall.

Politicians are awesome.

TRIVIART

Fast Flag

Bloody Tinder

Rejected Tomato

Ecstatic E

INTERESTING ANSWERS

Quagmire from Family Guy is “That Giggidy Giggidy Guy.”

Kings X is a Sydney neighbourhood using the letter X.

Someone who couldn’t remember the title of the film Enemy At The Gates, but answered “That movie where Jude Law played Soviet sniper Vasili Zaitsev in the Battle of Stalingrad and had the sniper duel with Ed Harris.”  Knowing all that is more interesting than just answering the question.

PROUD MOMENTS

A team of newbies coming from last place at halftime to first place due to a near perfect second round.

HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS

When someone guesses 100 million and we say that’s not it, take our word for it.  Don’t guess 100 million again, especially not when you only get one guess.  The answer probably hasn’t changed in the last ten seconds.

Have an interesting 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.

Predator

These guys for the second week in a row at the Old Canberra Inn

Boycott Fantastic Beasts

Trump to the Future II (in a VERY close contest.)

TEAM NAMES

With Trump supporters promising to boycott the new Star Wars film, we asked you to suggest other films for them to boycott as anti-Trump propaganda.

Boycott Robin Hood

Little Hands

Boycott Aliens: They’re black and they’re here illegally

Dumb & Dumber

Birth of a Nation: It isn’t racist enough (by the way, well done for knowing such an old film!)

La La Land: Trump doesn’t live in reality

Schindler’s List

TRIVIART

Divine Wine

Tasty Banana

INTERESTING ANSWERS

When dealing with nursery rhymes, one team recalled Georgie Porgie as… “Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie. Kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play, he kissed them too ’cause he was gay.”

HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS

The team that agonised and argued for three minutes about how much to wager on the gambler’s question they got wrong… before settling on five points.  Note to all: Generally speaking we WON’T talk you out of making bad decisions.

Have an interesting 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.

Fidel Gastro

Adolf Hitler. Dog lover, painter, and advocate for healthy lifestyles.

Today we honour Emperor Palpatine. Visionary, uniter of worlds, champion of the common man against the corrupt Jedi Order. Lost too soon, an innocent victim of a family dispute.

JACKPOTS

No winners this week, but one team who had declined to play asked if they could pay up and enter after hearing the question. Answer: No you bloody can’t!

And this team came AGONISINGLY close to winning over $300, but the 1924 novel was “A Passage to India” not “Passage to India.”

Yes, on the jackpot round we really are that strict.

TEAM NAMES

On the theme of Trudeau Eulogies you came up with some pretty clever ones.

Hitler: The original fundraiser for Movember.

Hitler: One man’s vision to unite the globe.

Hitler: He did so much to advance science without harming a single animal.

Stalin thought the gulags were holiday camps.

Castro: He made one hell of a daiquiri.

Osama bin Laden: Loving brother & son, and hide & seek champion.

Mugabe’s Trillionaires

Ronald Reagan: The greatest actor who never won an Oscar.

Hannibal Lecter. Say what you will, but he had great taste in people.

RIP Jack Torrance: A loving family man, hard worker, and aspiring lumberjack.

Today we remember the witch in the gingerbread house, who always had a certain way with children.

Bill Cosby was a great man. He touched us all.

TRIVIART

Christmassy Trivia Host

Fidel Castro Madrid

Ginormous Elephant

Dirty Umbrella (by the way, someone NEEDS to make this movie!)

INTERESTING ANSWERS

The team that wrote several lines with accompanying drawings to explain why sound doesn’t travel in space rather than just saying “there’s no air.”

The team who lost five on the gambler’s question which dropped their score just far enough to put them in second last, and claimed that was their plan all the time.

PROUD MOMENTS

The guy who will be bragging for weeks about being the only one in the room to guess Birmingham as a city that has won a lot of English Football Titles.

HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS

The guy who got a bonus point for knowing more about Bridget Jones’ characters, and immediately felt bad for outing himself as a Bridget Jones fan.

The guy who panicked and said that Dymocks and Angus & Robertson sell beef.

The fact that we asked a question about when one of our venue’s started operating without realising it was written on all the menus.

One of our hosts saying “You know what, I’ll give you AIDS.”

Have an interesting week.

It’s been a cracker of a week at iQ Trivia.

Team Names

On the theme of new slogans for the Melbourne Cup, we had plenty of promising candidates.

The race that keeps the nation in glue.

Gamble on tomorrow’s dog food.

The race that stops trivia.

The race to intoxication.

The best race you won’t remember.

First passed the pissed.

Two Jockeys, One Cup.

The Race that’s Better than the Race to the White House.

Accomplishment of the Week

This team went from coming in dead last to coming in a close second in a little over a month. It goes to show that the more you do iQ Trivia, the better you get at it (and the more you start to think like us.)  Also, checking out the study hints and doing the homework question helps.

Hall of Shame

Asking for spelling and openly typing it into Google as we’re right there.  (If you’re going to cheat, try to be a little bit subtle.)

Two separate people saying 173 divided by 173 equals zero.

The D in DIY stands for Driving.

TriviArt

Delightful Trivia Host

Nowhere does it say you have to do a drawing.  It’s the most interesting artistic rendation of the theme, and this certainly qualifies as interesting and artistic.

Salty Crane

Clinton and Trump seen here in bird form.

Pink Door

Next week we will have a whole new slate of interesting trivia to keep your mind occupied, and a brand new venue at Walt & Burley on Canberra’s Kingston Foreshore.

Have an interesting weekend.