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

Knowledge about Italian soccer paid off.

When you are an ex-bartender you’re going to have an advantage when we ask about liqueurs.

TEAM NAMES

How can we make the World Cup worse?

Put landmines on the field

Let Elon Musk buy it

Put the Trumps in charge

Have Indonesia host

No air-conditioning

More immigrant workers

The ball itself is a cup

Mandatory Diving

Russian Roulette instead of penalties

Square balls

Exploding balls

Concrete balls

Commentators have to talk like characters from “Allo Allo”

The whole match is golden goal

Mandatory Vuvuzelas

More ads

Soccer can’t get worse

Make me watch it

TriviArt

Furry Burger

Slippery Pizza

Hairy Curtain

Team Lasagna

Taking a Dive

Armadillo Bill

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team heard Gin & Juice by Snoop Dogg and thought it was Coldplay.

Who founded the House of Gucci? Lady Gaga. Well, she was in the film.

We asked about Star Wars quotes, and one team answered that all five were said by Han Solo. In fact, ZERO were said by Han Solo.

When we asked about famous cheating cyclists whose names are also medieval cavalry weapons, one team said Longbow Armstrong.

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.

JACKPOT

It was a good week for first place teams also taking out the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

What are you hoping Elon Musk takes over next?

Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign

Kanye’s Presidential Campaign

The Russian Federation

Fox News

Disney

Marvel Movies

Scammer Call Centres

The British Royal Family

The Catholic Church

Crown Casino

Tim Tam Special Flavours

Gazprom

The Federal National Party

One Nation

The NRA

The Proud Boys

The All Blacks

Tik Tok

TriviArt

Delicious Umbrella

Monday Bananas

Cringe Crab

Swimming Koala

Duplicitous Bird

Pretty Hard Coin Purse

Glorious Arsonists

Nebulous Beatnik

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A player who chose a fairly obscure last place subject got neither of the two on it questions correct. This is your opportunity people! You need to capitalise when it’s there.

When asked for countries beginning with A with a long life expectancy, one team said Australia… twice.

Who is this being hoisted on his teammates shoulders after winning the 1966 World Cup?

Ron Weasley.

The role of Niles on Frasier was played by Cuba Gooding Jr.

And the first word a lot of team came up with when asked for common four letter words beginning with HE was “hell”. Which might tell you something about our players.

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

What did you used to love that you now hate?

Myself

My father

KFC

Singing birthday cards

Breast milk

JK Rowling

Gum

Bunk beds

Sleeping on the sofa

Family holidays

Having Birthdays

Froot Loops

Snow

Waking up early

Channel Nine

Pulling all nighters

Taylor Swift

Disney

Test rugby

The Cosby Show

Rolf Harris

TriviArt

Aggressive Cow

Turgid Paper

Geriatric Marmalade Beard

Flying Brick

Cheese Pendulum

Sweaty Rock

Sanguine Penguin

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A quick note to everyone. Saying “I was gonna say that” is not the same as saying something.

Asking about countries that begin with M & end with O led one team to make up countries like Mogo & Madagascaro.

When we ask about the Nepalese name for Mount Everest, it helps to be on good terms with the Nepalese bartender.

We played “Shake your booty”. One team who was struggling came up with “Shake your butty”. Meh, close enough.

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.

JACKPOT

Knowing the periodic table really pays off.

TEAM NAMES

What did you used to hate that you now love?

My parents

Early bedtimes

Trips to Bunnings

Straight whiskey

Canadians

Alone time

The silent treatment

Baths

The Tamworth Country Music Festival

Women

Being choked by my daddy

Anal

Cancelling plans

Girls in Kindergarten

Tea

Broccolini

Olives

Grapefruit

Avocados

A damn good spanking

Abba

Books with kissing in them

Getting dropped off by your parents

TriviArt

Sexy Chicken

Spongy Cactus

Creepy Cat

Cheating Staphylococcus

Sparkling Snicky

Angry Ted

Salisbury Steak Cloud

Criminal Pot Plants

Inconceivable Couture

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We had someone who was literally IN a pub forget what a pub was in a lightning round.

And one team won the lightning round and got five on the gambler’s question… and still finished last.

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.

JACKPOT

They won a jackpot at their first show with what they described as a Slumdog moment.

TEAM NAMES

Here’s hoping none of you get to come up with potato chip flavours.

Unsalted Potato

Burnt Hair

Egg Salad & Raisin

Vegemite & Chocolate

Cucumber

Century Egg

Day Old Clams

Wombat Poo Cubes

Licorice

Butterscotch Lutefisk

Bin Chicken

Venomous Snake

Soylent Green

Surströmming

Clam Juice

Mustard & Vegemite

Durian & Wasabi

Cinnamon & Chocolate

Peanut Butter & Toe Jam

Oysters & Champagne

Strawberries & Cream

Earl Grey

Listerine

Musk of Elon

Donald Trump Hair Dye #2

Hangover Breath

Ass

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Vagina

TriviArt

Scrumptious Chinchilla

Beautiful Library

Tandoori Network

Delirious Battleship

Gangster Potato

Explosive Pterodactyl

Regional Apple Food

Sunny Cashew (a two parter)

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A team of players from India cursed themselves for not getting Bangladesh as a country that is spelled with the letter G.

One new team learned why you don’t yell out the answer to a bonus question, when they yelled out Neil Patrick Harris, but didn’t write it down, and the team next to them did.

When asked about religious populations, one team guessed that there were 3 billion Jews in the world. In other news, apparently Kanye West was at one of our quizzes.

And one team who ALWAYS gambles 5 on the gambler’s question forgot to wager 5. They got the question wrong & should have lost, but their screw up wound up working for them as they won by 3.

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.

JACKPOT

They won a jackpot because they recalled an obscure scene from The Office.

As soon as they chose “teams” as the topic, we were pretty sure they were going to win the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

Who would be the worst at representing us to aliens.

Kanye West (a LOT of you went this way)

Andrew Tate

Any random billionaire

Gwyneth Paltrow

James Corden

Rolf Harris

Putin

Pauline Hanson in a Burqa

Hanson (Pauline or the band)

Ted Cruz

Rudy Giuliani

Clive Palmer

Tony Abbott in his budgie smugglers eating a raw onion

Liz Truss

Kevin, the guy who cooks fish in the office microwave

Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in P5000 Powered Work Loader

The bloke who pissed off the SCG roof

Nelson Muntz

The Tiger King

Everyone’s drunk uncle

Michael Cera

Adam Sandler

Tom Cruise

Sigourney Weaver

Real estate agents

TriviArt

Papaya Tango

Fabulous Whitney

Short Vagina

Spring has not quite sprung

Unsinkable Margarita

Mullet Fart

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked about rugby union clubs, we got guesses including the Canberra Raiders and the Brisbane Broncos. Nope. Wrong code.

A DJ & producer whose name comes from a name the lowest level of Buddhist hell… Calvin Harris.

Who coached the New England Patriots? Emperor Palpatine.

We asked about coastal countries in Europe, and had to talk one team out of saying Switzerland and Austria.

One a bonus question while looking for a US state, we gave hints that it was a northern state, that borders Canada, and begins with the letter M. We still went through several guesses, including some states that were guessed at three times, before we finally gave the hint that it started with M and ended with innesota.

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.

JACKPOT

They were glad to have an Italian on the team when we asked a question about Italian cheese.

TEAM NAMES

You made some innocent movies scary.

Nightmare on Sesame Street

Dismembering Sarah Marshall

Lara Croft: Womb Raider

Fileting Nemo

Weekend at Chuckies

The Princess Corpse Bride

Boss Baby Massacre

Midsommer’s Night Dream

Epstein’s Princess Bride

Cloudy with a Chance of Zombies

The Blind Side where Monsters Hide

Babe 3: Silence of the Pigs

Stranger Skins

28 Days of Summer

The Saw Cinq Redemption

Psychoklahoma

Die-tanic

Finding Nemo’s Killer

Field of Nightmares

Crazy Rich Zombies

Driving Stakes Through Miss Daisy

TriviArt

Halloween Koala

Goulburn Halloween

Crumbly Chef

Sympathetic Dinosaur

Prejudiced Cannibal Pumpkin

Hand to Hand Euclid

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Shakespeare plays beginning with M, how about Momeo & Juliet… and The Mandalorian.

We asked about alcohol, and two teams ordered a drink to “buy” the answer.

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.

JACKPOT

They remembered that Nicholas Hoult played Marcus Brewer in About a Boy, because one of their friends had a bowl cut when the movie came out, and still bears the nickname “Marcus”.

TEAM NAMES

Who would you want to represent our planet to aliens?

Ripley

Sigourney Weaver

Danny Lim the Sign Guy

Mr Rogers

Captain Planet

Early 2000s Kanye

Dennis Rodman

Meryl Streep

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Napoleon Dynamite

Penny Wong

Healthy Harold

Lebron James

John Stamos

Not the French

X Æ A-12 Musk

Boris Johnson

Joe Rogan

Mel Gibson

Clowns

Julia Roberts

Amal Clooney

Kath & Kim

The Ghost of Steve Irwin

Judy Dench

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Mark Hammil

The Head of Lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss

The iQ Trivia Guy

We don’t have a leader – we’re an anachro-syndicalist commune, we take turns to act as a sort of ‘executive officer for the week”

TriviArt

Mellifluous Spatula

Magnificent House

Squared Circle

Uncopyrightable Contraceptive

Grizzled Bilby

Take Me To Your Leader

Crying Mushroom

Cruise Ship Octopus

Excited Bridge Queen

Noir Mr Rogers

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A typo of what we expect was “self defence” came out as “elf defence”.

One team mixed up Bring It On with 1917. Which is a tough mix up to make.

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.

JACKPOT

First place and a jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

We’re kind of surprised so many of you are employed when we hear stories like this.

Worked in cyber security at Optus

I thought the student was giggling. He was having a seizure.

Locked a kid in a safe deposit vault

Signed “♥ Always” on work e-mails

Company wide reply all with dietary requirements

Jokingly suggested Squid Games as team building exercise, and it ended up on the agenda

Didn’t mute airpods when went for a wee

Crashed a million dollar drone

I left my Porsche keys in Mrs Glick

Ran the robodebt program

I called my boss dad

Accidentally left he shark tank open

Hid sandpaper in my underpants

Customer requested no prawns, I put prawns in

Chef served pork to Muslims

I’m a trivia host who read the answer when reading the question

Sent my clients legal secrets to opposing counsel

I went on holiday while the country was on fire

TriviArt

Naughty Possum

Stoned Hornet

Cosmonaut Five

Peculiar Xylophone

Workplace Stuffup

Faulty Covfefe

Angry Hamburger

Nerdy Leaf

Spicy Mike Tyson

Muppetational Camp

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team settled an argument over a question with a thumb war.

When trying to answer a literature question, we overheard one team say “Don Quixote or something”. The answer? “Don Quixote.” Their answer… nothing.

We asked a question about the Hittite Empire, and one team cheered very loudly and with great pride after choosing the right option. You know, as if they knew.

One team mistook a picture of a young Lily Allen for Dave Grohl.

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.

JACKPOT

Knowing about Australian political history won them well over $200.

TEAM NAMES

You had a lot of fun with sports team names. Though sometimes we had to think about what the teams were called.

South Sydney Error Definition Not Found

South Sydney Rabbit Skinners

Dynamo Chicken Fillet Pounded and Rolled in Butter

San Antonio Bone Deformities

Chicago Male Bovines

Denver Small Pieces of Fried Chicken

LA Ships Built for Sailing

Eastern Suburbs Cocks

St George Mytical Fire Breathing Reptiles

Essendon Terrorists

The Australian Generation of Over 65s that Preceded Generation X

The Australian Highly Compressed Carbon

The Australia Hydrate Silica

The Minnesota Pillagers

San Francisco Gold Diggers

Harlem Lightbulb Pigs Feet

New York Men’s Baggy Kneed Breeches

North Melbourne Large Footed Marsupials

New York Really Huge People

Grater Western Sydney Beings with Human Form but Superhuman Strength and Size

The Dallas Dishonest People in Business

Parramatta Snake Like Fish

Parramatta Electric Sea Worms

Geelong Animals Worshipped by Ancient Egyptians

ACT Descendants of Escaped, Lost, or Broken Horses

Sydney Greater Than 5s, Less than 7s

Brisbane Aggressively Threatening Meow

Carlton Depressions

NSW Depressions

An Amorphous Blob of Every Person in Manchester

TriviArt

Moist Fish

Fizzy Dodo

Boisterous Bavarian

Goth Cheese

Frivolous Dreidel

Ghetto Butterfly

Giraffe Imposter

Slimy Pencil

Subversive Pies

King Poutine

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked about common words beginning with SPA, one team went with “spank”. We’re not judging, but we did think it was unusual that their mind went there right away.

On a picture question on big things, we had a picture of a “big thumb”. And one team failed to identify it as a thumb.

And if you’re going to cheat by looking up New Girl on your phone, you might not want to do it right in front of our host, and you might not want to continue the search while we are calling you out in front of everyone.

See you next week.