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This Week in iQ Trivia – 23 November 2024

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.

JACKPOT

A lucky guess about London boroughs won $55.

TEAM NAMES

We hope none of you ever get into the business of creating new ice cream flavours.

Napalm

Night club floor

Toenail, blue cheese, and raisin

Sump oil sorbet

Chicken salt

Black pudding

Kimchi

Marmite

Tuna durian

Blood blood blood and bits of sick

Salt & vinegar

Salted earwax

Boob sweat

Coogee Bay Hotel Chocolate

Diddy’s baby oil

Alan Jones’ chocolate starfish

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Aardvark Button

Frozen Feet

Cricket Salt

Lucky Charms

Gorilla Juice

Orlando Bloom Umbrella

Orange Flying Squirrel

INTERESTING MOMENTS

If you’ve never watched the Simpsons, that’s not our fault. It’s one of the most popular TV series of all time, and we’re GOING to ask about it.

Using Shazam when we play an audio question? Yeah that’s cheating.

Audibly asking Siri about regions of France when we run the jackpot round, yeah that’s DEFINITELY cheating.

We played a Baa Baa Black Sheep… and one player demonstrated that it’s possible to twerk to it.

And our leaders are still one win clear at the top of the table.

Team Wins Score Average
6 Go Crazy 8 573 71.63
Leader Housen 7 483 69.00
The Smith Family 6 443 73.83
Diversity Council 6 422 70.33
Flashy Red Ponies 5 351 70.20
Al’s Team 4 294 73.50
Bagpuss 3 224 74.67
Bandits 3 220 73.33
Tribe 3 219.5 73.17
No Idea 3 216 72.00
Foxolotl 3 211 70.33
Smash Bros 3 201 67.00
Shannon and Co 3 197 65.67
Julius Caesar 2 153 76.50
James & the Quizzly Bears 2 152 76.00
Glee 2 151 75.50
Karen, Sharon, and Darren 2 147 73.50
Thor’s Thundercats 2 145 72.50
Menace to Sobriety 2 134 67.00

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 16 November 2024

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.

JACKPOT

After months, they finally took home a jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

You came up with plenty of election related films & TV series.

No Country for Young Women

The Lying King

Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue

Mr Grift goes to Washington

Mission Impossible: Elect a woman

Gerrymandering Maguire

How to lose an election lead in 10 days

Zack and Miri Make a Party Political Broadcast

The Princess and the Fraud

Veepers Creepers

What we do in the shadows of far right normalisation

Forrest Trump

Mulholland Drive to the Polls

Catch me if you candidate

The good, the bad, and the crossbench

Spongebob Swingstates

Orange is the new Barack

Tory Story

The Texas Voting Massacre

Fresh off the Vote

Das Vote

Voteback Mountain

Trump Wars: No New Hope

Lord of the Swing States

January 6th Sense

A Clockwork Orange Man

Vote Actually

TriviArt

Bubbly Architecture

Happy Dog

Slippery Microwave

Long Island Iced Tea Construction

Reserved Unicorn

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Right before one of our music questions, someone interrupted our host to ask if we were going to play the music before they had to guess. Yes, they thought this might be trivia for psychics.

One player really struggled with the idea of not shouting out answers. The whole room heard her suggestions for the first four questions clear as day before she figured out people could hear her.

We were also asked on the second question of the quiz if google was allowed.

And our leaders are still one win ahead in our quarterly tournament.

Team Wins Score Average
6 Go Crazy 7 502 71.71
Diversity Council 6 422 70.33
Leader Housen 6 415 69.17
The Smith Family 5 366 73.20
Flashy Red Ponies 5 351 70.20
Al’s Team 4 294 73.50
No Idea 3 216 72.00
Foxolotl 3 211 70.33
Smash Bros 3 201 67.00
Shannon and Co 3 197 65.67
Julius Caesar 2 153 76.50
Glee 2 151 75.50
Bagpuss 2 147 73.50
Karen, Sharon, and Darren 2 147 73.50
Thor’s Thundercats 2 145 72.50
Tribe 2 144.5 72.25
Bandits 2 143 71.50
Menace to Sobriety 2 134 67.00
La Francais 2 105 52.50
Give Lonnie a Pencil 2 98 49.00

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 9 November 2024

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 are some new ballot measures you would like to see voted on?

People who use their phones at trivia should be locked up

Sending an e-mail at 4:59 on a Friday

Parmi or Parma

Slow walking is now a crime

Every quiz should have one question on Titanic

Freeze Paul McCartney

Pineapple on pizza is settled once and for all

All Canberrans get a free trip away during Summernats

America gets yeeted into the sun

No vaping in the moshpit

People with mullets must enact the same grooming technique for their whole body

Band train replacement buses

Hitting people who play videos on public transport without earphones with hammers is now legal

TriviArt

Shirt Debt

Spaghetti Samurai

Bendy Cat

Beyonce Trump

Irish Toilet

Boned Penguin

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One of our teams guessed at the fuel capacity of and Airbus A380 as 2 litres. Yep. A whole plane flies across the Pacific on less fuel than a 6 pack of beer.

And as long as we’re on the subject of numeracy, people thought a $1 coin made of pure gold would weigh 45kg.

Someone tried to make a case that lynching should be considered an indoor sport beginning with L.

Last week’s leaders are still on top, but there’s plenty of time left to go in our quarterly tournament.

Team Wins Score Average
6 Go Crazy 6 430 71.67
Diversity Council 5 357 71.40
Leader Housen 5 351 70.20
The Smith Family 4 292 73.00
Flashy Red Ponies 4 277 69.25
Al’s Team 3 217 72.33
Foxolotl 3 211 70.33
Smash Bros 3 201 67.00
Julius Caesar 2 153 76.50
No Idea 2 152 76.00
Glee 2 151 75.50
Karen, Sharon, and Darren 2 147 73.50
Thor’s Thundercats 2 145 72.50
Tribe 2 144.5 72.25
Bandits 2 143 71.50
Shannon and Co 2 135 67.50

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 2 November 2024

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.

JACKPOT

You can come last and then win the jackpot.

Knowing about the political career of Silvio Berlusconi paid off.

TEAM NAMES

You came up with a lot of mundane halloween costumes.

Woman who was told “you look really tired” when she didn’t put makeup on

Person pretending to text to avoid making eye contact

Man who missed his bus because it came early

Woman whose heel broke on her way to work

Guy trying to make it look like he’s not looking at a girl’s ass

Drag queen on their day off

Person with a loose sock that keeps slipping in their shoe

Woman who gets her hair done and tells the hairdresser she loves it and then cries in the car

Man waiting for a machine at the gym

Person in back seat trying to avoid a conversation with their Uber driver

Person who said the right answer but didn’t write it down

TriviArt

Cow Folktale

Dusty Lemon

Sand Anaconda

Spooky Pumpkin

Alpaca Wine

Bottled Pumpkin

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Churchill became Prime Minister, Hitler visited Paris, and John Lennon was born… in 1984.

A team that was mostly Hindu got a question on Hinduism wrong.

Who played President Franklin Roosevelt in Pearl Harbour? Meryl Streep. Yeah she’s got range, but does she have THAT much range?

A picture of a young Christopher Walken was mistaken for a picture of a young Morgan Freeman.

And we’ve got one team at the top of the table in our quarterly tournament.

Team Wins Score Average
6 Go Crazy 5 359 71.80
Diversity Council 4 287 71.75
Leader Housen 4 275 68.75
The Smith Family 3 218 72.67
Al’s Team 3 217 72.33
Foxolotl 3 211 70.33
Flashy Red Ponies 3 206 68.67
Glee 2 151 75.50
Karen, Sharon, and Darren 2 147 73.50
Tribe 2 144.5 72.25
Bandits 2 143 71.50
Smash Bros 2 138 69.00
Shannon and Co 2 135 67.50
Give Lonnie a Pencil 2 98 49.00

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 26 October 2024

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 are some scary Halloween costumes?

Renters who know their rights

An unannounced phone call – Gen Z

Magpies – Australians

Green flags – Girls with daddy issues

Songs released since 2000 – Some trivia players

The sun to gingers

Unions – Jeff Bezos

Apples – scary to doctors

Boundaries – Indian parents

Medium density zoning – NIMBYs

Facts – MAGA voters

Black Ariel

Condoms – Men

Consent laws – Bruce Lehrman

P. Diddy’s home videos

P. Diddy

TriviArt

French Pumpkin

Blueberry Physiotherapy

Tormented Troll

Smooth Goblin

Hindu Steve

Black Widow Jeopardy

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We were reminded that many people struggle with quantities, when someone guessed that one serving of Vegemite was 50g. That’s a serving of Vegemite about the size of a Mars bar.

What does the R in NRL stand for?  National.

Beginning with K what kills Superman? Ketamine.

We overheard this… “Well I answered the question right. I just didn’t listen to the question.” Yes, they were right about a question we didn’t ask.

One of our team argued about whether Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for The Shining or Chinatown. Thirty minutes of discussion and they were both wrong.

And our quarterly tournament has a new leader.

Team Wins Score Average
6 Go Crazy 4 287 71.75
Al’s Team 3 217 72.33
Diversity Council 3 215 71.67
Foxolotl 3 211 70.33
Flashy Red Ponies 3 206 68.67
Leader Housen 3 202 67.33
Glee 2 151 75.50
Tribe 2 144.5 72.25
The Smith Family 2 143 71.50
Give Lonnie a Pencil 2 98 49.00
James & the Quizzly Bears 1 81 81.00
Julius Caesar 1 79 79.00
Nag’s Soup 1 78 78.00
Tournament Name 1 77 77.00
Karen, Sharon, and Darren 1 76 76.00
Making Phone Calls 1 75 75.00
Spongebob 1 75 75.00
Miles 1 74 74.00
No Idea 1 74 74.00
Shannon and Co 1 74 74.00
Bandits 1 73 73.00
Basketball 1 71 71.00
Big Bang Theory 1 71 71.00
Thor’s Thundercats 1 71 71.00

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 19 October 2024

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.

JACKPOT

The won first place with a huge score, and then got not one but TWO questions in the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

Your minor changes to place names were major.

Asstralia

Snotland

Pewcastle

Tireland

Pornland

Potland

United Kinkdom

Cashville

Mami

C*nterbury

Semen

Ouranus

Chino

The Sutherland Shite

Sexico

Wollonbong

The Vatican Tity

F*ckland, NZ

TriviArt

Salty Priest

Phantom Dynamite

False Spring

Ibis Lifeguard

Fantastic Pylon

Tire Fence

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team started playing their daily Worldle game as they were waiting for the final scores to be calculated, and they were shown a silhouette of South Korea 20 minutes after we asked a question about a silhouette of South Korea.

South Africans who have won the Nobel Peace Prize? Not Oscar Pistorius or Elon Musk as some teams guessed.

One team with a real live Greek person was the only one to get a question on Greek mythology wrong.

And we’ve got three teams at the top of the table in our quarterly tournament.

Team Wins Score Average
6 Go Crazy 3 216 72.00
Foxolotl 3 211 70.33
Flashy Red Ponies 3 206 68.67
Glee 2 151 75.50
Al’s Team 2 144 72.00
Diversity Council 2 144 72.00
Leader Housen 2 142 71.00
Give Lonnie a Pencil 2 98 49.00
Julius Caesar 1 79 79.00
Nag’s Soup 1 78 78.00
Tournament Name 1 77 77.00
Karen, Sharon, and Darren 1 76 76.00
Spongebob 1 75 75.00
Shannon and Co 1 74 74.00
No Idea 1 74 74.00
Bandits 1 73 73.00
Tribe 1 72 72.00
Basketball 1 71 71.00
Big Bang Theory 1 71 71.00
Thor’s Thundercats 1 71 71.00
The Smith Family 1 70 70.00

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 12 October 2024

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.

JACKPOT

To win a jackpot you need knowledge. Or you need to be lucky.

They managed an educated and lucky guess on the Berlin Wall, and then a second lucky guess on Star Trek and won over $200 on the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

You were full of unethical life hacks

Shopping with grandpa’s disabled parking sticker

Moving in with your grandparents and blaming their Alzheimers for their misappropriated funds

The cheapest electricity is your neighbours

Travel everywhere by courtesy bus

Prepaid Opal cards at the airport

Use a mannequin to drive into the carpool lane

Be a girl and go on dates to get free meals

Just steal from Woolies

Using Costco samples as your main source of protein

Release your gases to clear the masses

Wanking on the bus gets you two seats

TriviArt

Cold Pickle

Unreliable Beelzebub

Fired Pineapple

Auld Paper Coins

Poodle Bong

May be an image of text

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team brought a furry teammate. Not sure how helpful she was, but she was a very good girl.

A question on annual spending per person at Woolworths supermarkets got guesses ranging up to $400,000. Hot damn! Inflation is really taking hold.

One team did the homework for the previous week, and it cost them a prize.

And we now have six teams on two wins in our quarterly tournament.

Team Wins Score Average
Glee 2 151 75.50
Foxolotl 2 150 75.00
Diversity Council 2 144 72.00
6 Go Crazy 2 143 71.50
Leader Housen 2 142 71.00
Flashy Red Ponies 2 140 70.00
Al’s Team 1 77 77.00
Tournament Name 1 77 77.00
Karen, Sharon, and Darren 1 76 76.00
Spongebob 1 75 75.00
Shannon and Co 1 74 74.00
Basketball 1 71 71.00
Big Bang Theory 1 71 71.00
Thor’s Thundercats 1 71 71.00
We used to be second 1 69 69.00
Mad About You 1 67 67.00
The Goose is Loose 1 67 67.00
Misappropriated funds 1 66 66.00
The BGTs 1 65 65.00
Milf Manor 1 64 64.00
Horst’s Hermits 1 62 62.00

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 5 October 2024

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.

JACKPOT

First place and the jackpot meant they had a pretty good night.

TEAM NAMES

What would be on TV in hell?

The DVD symbol never quite hitting the corner

The moment of my conception

Your grandparent’s sex tape

The 24 hour Taylor Swift channel

Non stop Wiggles

Baby Shark

Friends

Gilmore Girls at double speed

Swans in the AFL Grand Final

The Bolt Report on repeat

Embarassing Bodies featuring me

Diddy tapes

Danoz Direct all day

Flay School

Deal or InferNo Deal

Real Housewives of the 4th Circle of Hell

TriviArt

Woody Toy

Cobra Women

Swan Dive

Pegasus Moo Deng

Tesla Fish

Oompa Loompa Timepiece

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team knew the answer to one of our jackpot questions, but weren’t sure how to spell Mississippi, and so they changed their answer to North Dakota. Yep.. They actually did that.

How do Shakespeare character most frequently die? Someone guessed AIDS.

European cities that hosted the Olympics? How about Beijing & Sydney.

And our final quarterly tournament for the year started.

Team Wins Score
Al’s Team 1 77
Spongebob 1 75
Shannon and Co 1 74
Leader Housen 1 72
Glee 1 72
Big Bang Theory 1 71
Foxolotl 1 70
Diversity Council 1 68
6 Go Crazy 1 67
Mad About You 1 67
The BGTs 1 65
Milf Manor 1 64
Horst’s Hermits 1 62
Flashy Red Ponies 1 61
Any Football Ever 1 59
Wisconsin 1 58
Give Lonnie a Pencil 1 48

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 28 September 2024

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.

JACKPOT

It was a big week for jackpots for teams who know about…

Sydney Sweeney

Trans-Tasman Cricket

70s Films

TEAM NAMES

What makes you feel old?

Literally anything on TikTok

The music at iQ Trivia

My knees

Joint pain

The midnight pee club

Hearing someone say I was born in the late 1900s

Leaving a voice mail

A colleague saying they were born after the Sydney Olympics

Hearing “no cap skibidi toilet” on a regular basis

Being hungover after one pint

Not getting asked for ID

Being called “sir”

Maroon 5 on the oldies station

Oasis getting back together

Skinny jeans

Asking “what are the kids wearing these days” at age 23

Legal adults who don’t know what 9/11 is

Hearing “you look really good for your age”

The Gen Z heart/hand symbol

Asking for a Gaviscon at pre-drinks

TriviArt

Parallellogram Smash

Moist Mouse

Furious Bullet Train

Sheepish Serpent

Rusty Asparagus

Balloon Dracula

Birthday Encyclopedia

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Sometimes when reading out letter, we give the letter in the phonetic alphabet. That’s helpful. Especially when we say “L as in Lima” and the answer is actually Lima.

We played a mashup including the Pornhub intro music, and someone thought it was Playschool. Nooooooope!

One two separate occasions, teams argued for 5 minutes over where to allocate their points in our bonus round, when not one of their answers was correct.

And after 13 weeks we have winners in our quarterly tournament, though it was really close.

It’s the Richard Gere Appreciation Society, taking first place and the highest average with an 80 point win in the final week.

Team Wins Score Average
Richard Gere Appreciation Society 9 666 74.00
Leader Housen 10 662 66.20
Flashy Red Ponies 10 661 66.10
Smith Family 8 591 73.88
6 Go Crazy 9 586 65.11
Diversity 7 508 72.57
Bagpuss 6 442 73.67
Foxolotl 6 437 72.83
Whale Emoji 5 353 70.60
Menace to Sobriety 5 334 66.80
Tribe 4 291 72.75
Spongebob 4 275 68.75
Thor’s Thundercats 4 274 68.50
Towelhead 3 226 75.33
We went to the dentist 3 221 73.67
Shannon & Co 3 218 72.67
Ted’s Team 3 217.5 72.50
Mara’s Angels 3 216 72.00
Captain Kathie’s Mandolin 3 199 66.33
Team Knox 3 192 64.00
Sigma 3 184 61.33
Fish and Friends 2 153 76.50
Here’s looking at you kid 2 150 75.00
Zed & Co 2 149 74.50
Al’s Team 2 146 73.00
Wine not on 2 146 73.00
The Other Ted’s Team 2 143 71.50
The Clowns 2 140 70.00
Julius Caesar 2 139 69.50
Trivia Minions of Doom 2 138 69.00
Pecans 2 136 68.00
No Idea 2 135 67.50
Wimbledon 2 132 66.00
Karen, Sharon and Darren 2 130 65.00
Val and Leon 2 128.5 64.25
Taco Monsters 2 126 63.00
Miniums 2 124 62.00

A new quarterly tournament begins next week. Make sure you include your tournament team name in the corner of your answer sheet every week so your winning scores are counted.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 21 September 2024

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.

JACKPOT

Knowing about national populations paid off.

TEAM NAMES

There was not a bit of truth in any of your team names.

The Prime Minister is secretly five identical middle aged white guys.

Al-Qaeda built the twin towers just to knock them down.

They put pineapple on pizza.

He lures children into his gingerbread house.

Voting Democrat causes cancer.

You really want three raccoons in a trenchcoat running the country? Look at their tiny hands!

They assassinated Mr Greedy.

Dinosaurs are in witness protection.

The Sydney property market is accessible.

The Female Orgasm

TriviArt

Amphibious Diet Pepsi

Feral Air

Holy Penis Owl

Discount Tombstone

Moo Deng Tetris

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked about a Jane Austen book, one player piped up and said “who is Jane Austen”. To which we responded “look, this question may not be for you.”

Our bonus round involved naming South American countries, and one Brazilian player pointed out that the bonus round was unfair in his favour… and then proceeded to get it wrong.

We asked about countries with stars on their flags, and one team said Japan, and we couldn’t really say they were wrong.

And there’s one week to go in our weekly tournament and it’s still close. There are four teams with a chance to win the top prize, and a few more in the running for the highest average prize.

Team Wins Score Average
Leader Housen 9 594 66.00
Smith Family 8 591 73.88
Flashy Red Ponies 9 586 65.11
Richard Gere Appreciation Society 8 586 73.25
6 Go Crazy 7 512 73.14
Bagpuss 6 442 73.67
Foxolotl 6 437 72.83
Diversity 6 436 72.67
Tribe 4 291 72.75
Whale Emoji 4 281 70.25
Menace to Sobriety 4 277 69.25
Thor’s Thundercats 4 274 68.50
Towelhead 3 226 75.33
We went to the dentist 3 221 73.67
Shannon & Co 3 218 72.67
Mara’s Angels 3 216 72.00
Spongebob 3 207 69.00
Captain Kathie’s Mandolin 3 199 66.33
Team Knox 3 192 64.00
Sigma 3 184 61.33

See you next week.