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

WINNERS

It was a great day for this team, as they won the jackpot a few minutes after putting up a record score of 88 points.

They got nearly every point it was mathematically possible to get. Team name bonus, three bonus questions, 5 on the gambler’s, TriviArt bonus points. But even still, they got no points in the lightning round.

TEAM NAMES

We’ve got a new Pope, but you had plenty of speculations about who wasn’t getting the job.

Peter Dutton (probably the most popular choice)

Voldemort

Clive Palmer

Cardi(nal) B

JD Vance – Pope killer

Dua Lipa

Kim Petras – The throat GOAT

Anyone who rejects the validity of the 1958 papal conclave

Schapelle Corby

Germaine Greer

Pauline Hanson

Harvey Weinstein

Barack Obama

John Wick

Tom McCarthy – Director of Spotlight

Diddy

Stormy Daniels

Stanley Tucci

George Pell

TriviArt

Albo Post Election

Spectacular Champ

Tower Blame

Mashed Potato

Beautiful Birthday Cake

Sock Puppet Conclave

Philanthropist Predator

Popcorn Bob

INTERESTING MOMENTS

The guitarist Carlos Santana was listed as Carlos Sultana.

Someone mistook Lou Bega’s Mambo Number 5 for Bob the Builder’s version.

We mentioned Potassium had the symbol K in a lightning round, after we had already asked a question about Potassium’s symbol during round 2… and some teams still didn’t get it after the whole room heard the answer.

And with their record score, Diversity Council moved into first place on highest average, with Bagpuss ahead of the pack by a win in the overall quarterly tournament.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

TEAM NAMES

You’re dubious experts in a lot of things.

I’ve seen Conclave, now I can perform an exorcism.

I watched Conclave. Can I be Pope?

I’m a man so I can explain things to women.

I ran for the bus, so I’m Usain Bolt

I read Harry Potter, now I’m a wizard.

One showbag & I’m an Easter Bunny

Just put out a cigarette, call me a firefighter.

I’ve seen Drive to Sruvive, I could beat Max Verstappen.

Golf cart to F1.

I ate hummus, now I’m an Israeli citizen

Learned law from watching Suits.

Team Bagpuss are experts in “the pussay”

I’ve watched Fox News, I should be Secretary of Defence.

I play trivia, so I can host it.

I shaved my head, now I’m a trivia host.

I’m a fat f*ck with a mining company so I’m qualified to run the country.

TriviArt

Conclave

Mindful Ute

Tall Pope

Twilight Gulf

Polling Day

Peter Dutton Matador

Yo Yo Whip

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team got literally every available point in the first round, with the exception of misreading how likely it was for our host to have touched a dog in the last 24 hours.

When asked to name cast members from The Fast and the Furious, one team listed Vin Diesel three times out of five, and then continued to put Vin Diesel as their answer to four more questions in the half.

Countries with long life expectancies that start with A? How about Angola & Afghanistan?

And there’s just a seven point gap at the top of the table.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

JACKPOT

Having a Maltese person on your team comes in handy when we ask about Maltese food.

TEAM NAMES

You gave a lot of films stress.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of El Salvador

Kill Billions

Finding Nemo’s Remains

127 Hours on the Toilet

The Shawshank Indictment on Additional Charges

Illegal Alien Kane

A Star is Stillborn

The Fury of Music

The Sound of a Chainsaw Massacre

All Hectic on the Western Front

Marly and Me and my Therapist

Honey I Decapitated the Kids

Start Wars

Cloudy with a chance of meth heads

Dances With Werewolves

The Wasp Movie

Hitler’s List

Schindler’s Hit List

Pocahontas: The Guilt of a Genocide Survivor

Headless in Seattle

The Villainous Mr Ripley

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but the Oompa Loompas form a Union

The OJ Simpson’s Movie

Ferris Bueller’s HR Meeting The Day After the Work Christmas Party

TriviArt

Zesty Computer

Frisbee Wine

Succulent Bird

Temporary Hat

Space Dodos

Pompous Brick

Depleted Uranium Cocktail

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We had team guess that Tim Cahill’s 50 goals represent 91% of all goals ever scored by the Socceroos. That would mean one player in 14 years scoring 50, and the rest of the team over more than a century scoring just 5.

And nobody has a perfect record anymore, but there are still plenty of teams in the hunt in our quarterly tournament.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

JACKPOT

They knew the length of a year on Mercury pretty close, but their love for multiples of 11 actually won them the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

You relaxed a lot of films.

Tepid Fuzz

The Good, the Glad, and the Ugly

The Good, the Good, and the Beautiful on the Inside

Florist Gump

Slow and Non-chalant

Slow and Amenable

The Slow and the Curious

Dances with Puppies

The Most Average Showman

Peace & Peace

Something, Somewhere, Some of the Time

Alice in Spaland

Die flaccid

Dante’s Hill

Maid on Melatonin

Mission Achievable

Lifeguards of the Caribbean

Notting Chill

Chill Bill

Mild Max: Friendship Road

Glad Max: Calm Road

The Grey Knight

The Well Fed Games

Cuddle Club

Rest Hard

Sleep Hard

TriviArt

Salty Beer

Potato Delivery

Election Poster

Happy Possum

Moose Doofus

Medieval Floss

Seussical Flatulence

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked a question about Olympic weightlifting, literally every team was miming the clean & jerk (with somewhat dodgy form).

One team won a quiz by a single point that they got because of cultural knowledge they picked up by watching the Simpsons.

When asked about Australian Prime Ministers, one team answered “Clive Palmer”. Don’t even joke about that!

And we’ve still got three undefeated teams in our weekly tournament.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

JACKPOT

Knowing about spied pays off.

TEAM NAMES

Stereotypes can be fun. You proved it.

Nerds are firecrackers in the bedroom

Lesbians all wear their keys on carabiners

Kiwis don’t like kiwifruit

Penguins are tax evaders

Canadians are way too aggressive

Souths supporters haven’t got their own teeth

Whinging Poms

Christians can’t get drunk

Tradwives shop at Aldi

Asians love pop quizzes

Canadians are bad at trivia

The English are just uncooked lobster

Perth people miss the rest of Australia

Musicians don’t have jobs

Autistic people are not good at trivia

Citizens of the Heard & McDonald Islands are very snappy dressers

Norfolk Islanders expect too much for their exports

Americans value democracy

Americans understand global trade

TriviArt

Studious Fascist

Insatiable Shoe

Unnecessary Tariff

Strong Poop

Boomer Tariff

Penguin Filibuster

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team made a stamp with their tournament team name on it.

Who starred in Spartacus and Some Like It Hot? Terry Crews? Ted Cruz?

And we’ve got seven teams with a perfect record in our quarterly tournament.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

JACKPOT

They didn’t think they were going to win, but they either knew a lot about African geography and human anatomy or they guessed well enough.

TEAM NAMES

What is a clear sign that someone is single?

Running trivia multiple times a week

Coming to trivia every night for 9 years

Can I interest you in my samurai sword collection

Wifey pillow

Sexualising characters from the Muppets

I’ve joined 7 run clubs

Antisocial engineers

Owning 20 cats

Staying home to wash my cats

Active World of Warcraft subscription

Spontaneous decision making

Paying for porn

Ramen for one

Never have to argue about what’s on TV

Table for one

Fridge with only a can of beer and a bottle of tomato sauce

Bachelor’s Handbag

Eating from the same pot you cooked in over the sink

Having a favourite time of day to go on Hinge

Sleeping in Star Wars themed bed sheets

Mid 30s, still sleeping on a bed with no frame

I get to sleep in a race car

One bedframe, one pillow

Mattress on the floor with unwashed sheets

TriviArt

Impeccable Apple

Chemical Tennis

Daylight Savings

Tarty Lego

Spaghetti Pistol

Petrified Chopsticks

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Who played Mr Miyagi in The Karate Kid? Danny Lim. You know, this guy.

A team told us they couldn’t hear the audio for question 20… you know, the picture question.

We had perhaps the biggest spill on an answer sheet we’ve ever seen.  Did they literally run it under the tap in the kitchen?

When asked to name the sports Australian Olympians competed, in, one team chose swimming for all five, when they knew it could only be right once.

And our new quarterly tournament is underway.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

JACKPOT

Everyone else overestimated the difference between two Grey’s Anatomy actors, so they won $132.

TEAM NAMES

You came up with a lot of new colours named for places.

South African White (discontinued 1994)

Australian Budget Crimson

Black Mountain Peninsula Cubicle #4 Brown

Pompeii Ash-Grey

Spingfield Yellow

Bondi Tan

Bondi Burnt Orange

Orange Orange

Summernats Sunburn

El Dorado Gold

Mar-a-Lago Orange

Washington DC Baby Poo Brown

Washington DC Yellow

Prussian Blue Balls

Summer Hill Green

Sherwood Forest Green

Matchachusetts

North Shore Teal

Engadine Maccas Brown

TriviArt

Self Care Shrek

Spicy Dildo

Rodeo Clown

Big Banana

Safe Syphilis

Thor Bubble

Gonzo Text

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team was determined to come last, and was disappointed to get the first bonus question. (Don’t worry, they still came last.)

One team called themselves “am not coming last at trivia”… and then came last.

We had five teams within 2 points of first place at one venue, and the teams in 3^rd & 4^th both could have won if they had bet 5 on the gambler’s question like the first place team.

To answer a question on countries on the exact opposite side of the world from New Zealand, one player built a globe out of a napkin and then stabbed it.

And our quarterly tournament has wound up with Masterminds winning for the first time with a big effort and 11 wins out of 12 weeks.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

JACKPOT

Having lived in Colombia comes in handy when you recognise the names of Colombian Presidents.

And when we give you 100km of leeway in getting the distance from Cairns to Perth and you’re off by just 64, that means cash.

TEAM NAMES

You renamed plenty of people and things in your life.

Cats: Furry alarm clocks with no snooze button

Cats: Microterrorists

Nurses: Overworked underpaid doctors

Older siblings: Mum & dad’s beta test

Eggs: The reason I’m not on holiday

Pregnant wife: Expensive slow cooker

Parasitic future stealers: Real estate agents

Husband: 2IC of menu ordering

Weather forecasters: Wild guessers

Funeral homes: Death party planners

My boss: Person who doesn’t know what I really think about him

My dad: Source of right wing propaganda

Parents: Mobile cash machines

Parents: The reason we’re in therapy

Boomers: Spenders of inheritances

Uber driver: My best friend & confident on a drunk night

Public servants: Fancy welfare recipients

Trivia host: Light of my life who asks interesting questions

TriviArt

Curly Shoe

Acting Cactus

Moist Cambodia

Tesla Graffiti

Polar Bear Hummingbird

Obtuse Carrot

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We asked a question about Eye of the Tiger, and it was as though a karaoke night spontaneously broke out as half a dozen teams tried to figure out how many times the word “tiger” comes up in the song.

We watched one team lock in an answer they had whittled down to a 50-50, then debate it for 10 minutes, before changing it… to the wrong answer.

And we had a changing of the guard at the top of our leaderboard.  With one week to go, it could still go either way.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

TEAM NAMES

You’ve given the Trump administration a lot of new ideas for woke things to ban.

Mansylvania

Rename the BIble as the STRAIGHTble

Dick van Dyke must change his name to Dick von Tradwife

People can no longer ride BIcycles

Ban all books with pronouns in them

Skittles are banned because they make you taste the rainbow

Queensland has to change its name

Eliminate windows because they promote transparency

Transformers are out

Black Friday is now Caucasian Friday

No more BI-weekly meetings

Stir fries banned because of the wok agenda

Homeless (She)lter

Department of Heteroland Security

ARABica beans changed to AMERICA beans

Roulette is easier to win when you get rid of the black spaces

Golden Straightime

TriviArt

Paddling through Cyclone Alfred

Sexy Dog

Freezing Sandwich

Elongated Bicycle

Aardvark Reaper

Blue Santa

Ginger Introvert

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We get that sometimes you want a question repeated. But you might want to wait until we finish the question instead of stopping us to ask for a repeat halfway through.

Similarly, if you want to complain about not being able to hear, it helps if you… how do we put this… shut the hell up when a question is asked.

One player didn’t listen to the jackpot question and only asked if they could change their answer after everything had been handed in. Cost their team over $100 cash.

And our leaders are still maintaining a 36 point lead as we approach the end of the quarter. There’s still plenty that can happen.

See you next week.

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

WINNERS

TEAM NAMES

You’ve got a lot of strange addictions (some of which are quite understandable, and some of which are just odd)

Warm paper

Plucking my nose hairs

Hoof trimming videos

Doomscrolling

90s police dramas

Hair eaters

Watching fail videos

Licking glue sticks

Double salted licorice

Eating dry Weetbix

Stealing pens from the quizmaster

Have a loud American yell at us on Tuesday nights

TriviArt

Royal Spiral Chromosome

Awesome Tree

Rainbow Twerking

Kitty Litter Key

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team complained about not getting credit for an answer with the argument “but that’s what we meant”. Uhhhhhh… no.

When we have to explain at length that NRL and AFL are different, we don’t hold out much hope for you getting a lot of correct answers on a sport question.

If we ask you to think of words that end with OOPS, complaining us that some words don’t end in OOPS is not a great criticism.

And we’ve had a change at the top of the table of our quarterly tournament.

See you next week.