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This Week in iQ Trivia – 17 October 2020

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

There were some accidental insults.

Take the day off, it’s essential workers only.

Your beer belly and gray hair make you look distinguished

When is the baby due (I’m not pregnant)

You and your mother look like sisters

You are smarter than you look

It’s good for a first draft

You’re pretty on the inside

You’re pretty when you put in the effort

You look great in that mask

You remind me of someone I hate

You Look Too Young To Be A Doctor

That’s the fastest I’ve ever had.

Brave of you to wear horizontal stripes

That’s an… interesting look

Has anyone ever told you you look like Robert Englund who played Freddy Krueger?

This dinner’s so good, the dog loved it

You’d be much prettier if you smiled more

You’re doing well with your prosthetic leg (I have no prosthesis, just arthritis)

I don’t care what everyone else says, you’re awesome

Do you want the pensioner’s discount

I love you almost as much as my dog

That was pretty smart coming from you

You’re welcome ma’am

You’re so brave to do karaoke, I couldn’t embarrass myself singing in front of people like that

You’re a good driver for a woman

Someone offered me money because he thought I looked homeless

You look like a software developer

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Hairy Masculinity

Caffeinated Gladys

Sweaty Opera House

Lasagna Baby

Testicular Octogenarian

Randy Harbour

Murky Thesaurus

British Angel

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A team heard about one second of terrible audio of one of our music questions when we had a technical glitch, and asked if they could lock in their answer for a bonus point before we played it… and they were right.

The theme to Rocky was cited as “the wake up early and drink raw eggs” song.

A couple of players showed a frankly impressive amount of knowledge on whether or not Michelangelo’s David was circumcised.

And one of our hosts marked a gambler’s question wrong, with the result that a team that should have come last didn’t. As a result, for the first time ever, we are having TWO special last place subjects next week.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 10 October 2020

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

How did things backfire? This is how things backfired.

Having to explain that you’re not that kind of doctor during an in-flight emergency

Move to Melbourne for the night life

The pull out method works

Decided to hand feed my bats at the wet market.

Finally lost my virginity, got the clap.

Mistaken chairs for stairs and broke my rib

Enrolled in an arts degree for 2021

Gave a fake number, guy called my phone in front of me and my phone didn’t ring

Cruise holiday… on the Ruby Princess

Petting an excited dog with a full bladder and an open mouth.

Gave a guy a fake number, he called me so I would have his (right in front of me)… my phone didn’t ring

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Luscious Bird

Miseducated Tasmania

Peanut Butler

Papa Snowflake

Unforgettable Bubbles

Ambiguous Supreme Court

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team couldn’t remember the name of Tenzing Norgay, who climbed Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary, so they described him as “the Buzz Aldrin of Mount Everest.”

The Faroe Islands were mistakenly called the Pharaoh Islands.

And finally, we got a call on Thursday evening from one of our venues that the host for one of their other pubs wasn’t able to make it… so we sent them a host and pulled off a quiz on less than one hour’s notice.

We really are that committed to making sure nobody goes without trivia for even a single week.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 3 October 2020

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

You had a lot of suggestions for muck up day pranks.

Write a fake list of muck up day challenges and send to the media to discredit your school

Attend school like nerds

Hold the school formal on the Ruby Princess

Steal mum’s benzos

Replace sugar for salt in the teacher’s lounge

Pingers in the park

Filling a room with balloons

Placed signs redirecting classes all over the school

Sh!t on the floor

Tell everyone Trump has the rona

Bleaching penises in the school carpark

Putting a teacher’s car on the roof

Gladwrapping toilets

The Harbour Bridge is still technically a stock route

Leave my car alone! Signed: A teacher

Sell the school

We went to public school and couldn’t afford to take chances with the law

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F*cked New York

Pokey Ogre

Biiiiig Jelly

Anime

Erect Milkshake

Cheesy Gangsta

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team answered a question on historical Mongols with Genghis Hahn. Which would look something like this.

After playing a Matchbox 20 song, one team answered that the song was titled “A monstrosity that you forced us to listen to.”

Sports team in Dallas include the Rednecks, the Scorpions, and the Minimen.

Naomi Osaka was dubbed “that tennis player who beat Serena Williams.” Which isn’t ACTUALLY wrong.

A bonus question at an online show saw a flood of answers come in including Mogadishu and 71.4, which didn’t make much sense when the question turned out to be about the most frequently played word in Scrabble.

And a question on the homeland of the family of Jon Voight led to someone saying The Voightican City.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 26 September 2020

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

We’ve brought back the jackpot, and two teams wasted no time in winning.

TEAM NAMES

You had plenty of complaints about how iQ Trivia wasn’t fair.

The host’s butt is too nice

Third place doesn’t get a prize but seventh does

The NBN is so slow, it’s hard to cheat

You asked a question on a subject that we chose that we didn’t know

It’s not fair we have to come up with a team name every week

Where are all the cat questions?

It’s not fair that I did the homework question wrong.

It’s not fair that 1. Bill won’t give me two bonus points for making two complaints and that 2. As a result of me making two complaints Bill probably won’t even give me one bonus point

Spelling

More WAP (Cardi B) content next time

“It’s unfair that no matter how many beers you win at trivia, someone in your team always seems to knock them over”

I don’t care for pop culture

There are no questions on Charnwood.

Our host is an immigrant who is stealing our jobs.

Why do you never use Bill Cosby in audio questions?

The one time we get to pick the special subject, a global pandemic hits

The other teams have more players than me

It’s not fair others are smarter than us

Too many stupid music questions, not enough questions on Bagpuss

Not enough questions on Canada or The Simpsons

Why isn’t there more lesbian content?

It’s not fair you asked a question the other teams knew

You didn’t translate the entire quiz into French

Rugby Is For Hot Idiots (Stop Asking Questions about It!!)

You always ask questions about cricket… no one likes or watches cricket

We are millennials and therefore offended by everything.

Who is Harry Potter?

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Belligerent Sheep

Shiny Genius

Tepid Pop Star

Secret Squirrel

Rusty Tiger Boycott

Pompous Teacher

Pretentious Drop Bear

Circular Lamington

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When the Gaelic language was mentioned, we overheard one player ask “where is Gayland?”

We asked about the densest objects in the solar system, naturally someone had to chime in with “my boner”, only to be told that we were only looking for large objects.

We had complaints that we asked too many cricket questions, and then LITERALLY every team got a cricket question right.

And a question on lamingtons asked to an international audience inspired a player in Canada to attempt to make lamingtons between questions.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 19 September 2020

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

DON’T follow the advice from your team names.

You should totally hit on your boss.

That Police Horse Definitely needs a Pat.

I hear heroin is good for depression.

Go to that guy’s apartment and let him give you a tattoo.

Have a baby, that will fix everything.

Shoot yourself with small calibre bullets to get an immunity to larger ones.

Measure twice, cut once.

Become a teacher. Children are delightful.

Yes, you should have that extra beer at your work Christmas party.

Run upstairs while being chased by a killer.

Let’s do tequila shots.

Lick it.

The pullout method.

Drink and drive.

Pinning condoms.

Cruise ships are definitely NOT a floating sick bay.

Marry for love.

Go ahead and lick it.

Engage in an online chat with a sociopath.

Perhaps we should do something with injecting bleach.

Visit Adelaide.

Visit lovely downtown Portland.

Don’t wear a mask.

Poke the bear.

Try the chicken sashimi.

10 out of 10 would recommend the bat soup at Wuhan Wet Market.

Build a dinosaur zoo on islands with tropical storms and active volcanoes.

House prices only go up.

That combover looks good.

Do what the cops tell you and everything will be fine.

Listen to that Nigerian Prince.

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Fugly Trump

Athletic Dinosaur

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Wobbly Staple

Elegantly Wasted

Broccoli Dome

Soft Bridge

Randy Shaka

Fascist Kite

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we announced that a bonus question was about chemistry, one player chimed in that his years in a meth lab might finally pay off… and then he got it right.

One team gambled π÷2 points on the gambler’s question, and wound up with 47.429205 points.

When we announced that the next question was on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, one of our online players informed us that “we had a team member almost choke on her champagne she got so excited there.”

One team who knew nothing about sports teams based in Florida managed to guess the Miami Heat as a basketball team, and also went with the Miami Pugs, the Miami Dildos, and the Miami MILFs.

And someone caught a (not so) sneaky photo of one of our hosts doing our first show at Siren Bar in Gungahlin.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 12 September 2020

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

Misspelled book titles, you had plenty.

The Very Hangry Caterpillar

Of Lice and Men

Withering Heights

Atlas Hugged

The Lord of the Pings

A Tale of Two Kitties

The Lion, The Bitch and the Wardrobe

100 Bears of Solitude

The Holey Bible

Six Characters In Search Of An Orca

Frank Herbert’s Nude

The Catcher in the Wry

Shart of Darkness

The Diddler on the Roof

1985

Twitlight

The Art of the Steal

The Da Vinci Chode

The Adventures of Huckleberry Sin

The Boob of Mormon

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Despicable Game Show

Magnanimous Fish

Dorky Dynamite

Bee Positive

Lazy Rona Walk

Hangry Giraffe

Discombobulated Tyrant

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We were having a chat with one of our players who was an Italian immigrant, and as it turned out, the next question was a three point question on Italian words.

We found out that one of our players is related to either Bonnie & Clyde, or Charles Manson… but we never found out who.

And despite picking Hamilton as their special subject, one team admitted to never watching it. Perhaps they meant to in the last week. Never mind. “You’ll be back.”

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 5 September 2020

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

You made a lot of movie quotes medieval.

These are not the Druids you’re looking for

Is that a trebuchet in your pocket or are you happy to see me?

Leave the crossbow, take the cannolli

Art Thou Feeling Fortuitous Rascal

We’re going to need a bigger moat

I grow weary of these matriarch buggering serpents, on this matriarch buggering flying contraption

I love the smell of Greek fire in the morning

I’ll be Bach

Yippee ki-yay, fornicator with child-bearers

On Wednesdays we wear ankle length tunics

Get in peasant, we’re going crusading

Draw me like one of your Aquitanian girls

She’s a full-on Bayeux Tapestry

You are a Virgin who can’t drive a carriage – “Clueless”

Doth thy cap to thine humblest of consorts

Art thou nay entertained

“I’ll be back” – Bubonic Plague

You’ve Got Chainmail

That be not a sword, THIS be a sword

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Moist Heart

Chocolatey Polar Bear

Devilish Gladys Berejiklian

Burning Apple

Treasonous Skylight

Goldblumesque Beard

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A question about spatial reasoning & dice resulted in someone building a model die out of paper.

When we asked a question about a flag, the only team to get it right had one player wearing a jacket festooned with dozens of flags.

We asked about unusual colours of Sephora lipsticks, and one player could provide evidence that she had all the colours we named.

A question on the fat content of a packet of Tim Tams resulted in guesses ranging from 3% to 800% of your daily recommended fat intake. So as far as you are concerned, they are either a health food, or they will cause a cardiac arrest if you look at them too long.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 29 August 2020

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

This your advice for your past selves…

Invest in Netflix, then chill

Start a toilet paper business

Stock up on hand sanitizer

Don’t eat the bat soup

Don’t date that douche

Scomo for pm, best odds

Think of advice for yourself

Pegging is really good fun

TikTok, Fortnite. Trust me

Buy some shares in Zoom

Do your overseas travel NOW

Get To Epstein Earlier

Make 1984 Fiction Again

Buy any stock April 2020

End it, end it now

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Psychadelic Tesla

Beer Dog

Gassy Whitney Houston

2020 Superhero

Coated Doctor

Snazzy Boomer

Cat Doll

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Quotes from when we played Radar Love by Golden Earring… “Oh my God, it finally pays off to know that song” – Anisa.

When answering a question on Disney films, one team put Snow White twice. Perhaps because they thought it was so monumental that it warranted a repeat. It was right, but only right once.

A question about the abolition of slavery prompted one player to say that getting rid of slavery was “political correctness gone mad”… sarcastically. Or at least we hope it was said sarcastically.

And someone who answered a question on the Oort cloud surrounding our solar system answered with a link to a paper they wrote about the Oort cloud. Sometimes a question really is made for you.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 22 August 2020

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

You’ve had to explain some spectacularly dumb things.

The morning after pill is not for hangovers

An unborn baby is called a foetus, not a faeces

Alaska is not an island

The data cloud is not in the sky

The milky way is on both sides of the earth

Having to awkwardly explain what a ‘spank bank is.

You can’t become a better person through massage

You can’t leave in the middle of class to go to Starbucks

King Kong did not create ground zero when he fell off the Chrysler building.

Bavarians, not Barbarians

Coronavirus wasn’t brought to Sydney by 5G

No !!! Hydrochloroquine is not a cure for COVID-19 !!!

Viruses Can Be Transmitted In Schools

There’s no such thing as diet water

How do you spell KFC?

How do you spell “the”?

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Old School Bathtub

Tumescent Mashmallow

Moist Badger

Inaudible Bookshelf

Bubbly Lulluby

Divine Furry

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A team of Scotsmen didn’t know that the “border” in border collie is the Scottish border.

We asked about the Vanessa Carleton song A Thousand Miles, and someone came up with 500 miles. Perhaps they thought Vanessa was only half as committed to their relationship.

After asking about common words ending in ITH, we had to explain that Smith is a word. “But it’s a proper noun” they said… yes… and it’s also a word.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 15 August 2020

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

We’ve got a lot of new sports teams.

Cronulla Narcs

Washington Foreskins

Canterbury Bullfrogs

Central Coast Marinaras

Canberra Faders

Canberra Graves

Newcastle Brets

Newcastle Fights

Edmonton Boilers

Detroit Dead Things

Saskatchewan Muff Riders

Oklahoma Mooners

Fremantle Fockers

The Green Bay Slackers

New York Dicks

The Orlando Tragic

Chicago Rubs

Manchester Shitty

West Coast Paralegals

Adelaide D’ohs

Adelaide Blows

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Forgetful Jenga

Latent Beer

Festering Tears

Wailing Murray-Darling

Juvenile Champagne

Debt Burdened Pickles

Snoopy Arch

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We asked about painters whose names became terms describing full figured women. The answer one team came up with? PicASSo.

At one show, EVERY team gambled five points, and EVERY team went with the same wrong answer. We may as well not have asked it at all.

We asked one of our picture questions, and one veteran team asked “are you going to play the clip?” No, you see, we play clips for the audio questions. For the picture questions you look at the pictures. In fact, it’s nearly impossible to get the picture questions if you don’t.

See you next week.