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This Week in iQ Trivia – 10 February 2023

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

Three Brits got a question on British demographics. Big surprise.

Knowing about Californication paid off.

Was it a lucky guess on German cities? Maybe. But it still counts.

TEAM NAMES

There were a lot of clever sports team names.

Kansas City Taylor Swift Boyfriends

Tasmanian Siblings

Boston Irish Stereotypes

Northern Beaches NIMBYs

Cairns Skin Cancer Patients

Canberra Public Servants

PWC Tax Evaders

Glebe Greenies

Melbourne Hookturns

Melbourne Aussie Rulers

Parramatta Punch Ons

Canberra Penis Owls

Ulaan Baatar Cavalry

Vatican City Pedophile Hiders

Penrith Eshays

West Coke Eagles

St Kilda Wooden Spooners

LA Fakers

Canadian Nice Guys

Bryon Bay Influencers

Somalia Pirates

Male Matildas

TriviArt

Abstract Owl

Mashed Inn

Itchy Baby

Banjo Bees

Curly Spoon

Amphibious Slut

Fresh Travesty

Renaissance Pocahontas

Book Illusion

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked whether people would rather have no thumbs, or only thumbs, one team based their decision on what option would make lifting a pint glass easier. They had their priorities straight.

What question did Elmo ask that went viral? “Where the bad bitches at?”

What ship did Jason take to search for the Golden Fleece? The Titanic.

A lot of teams were absolutely certain that Dawson’s Creek was set in North Carolina. Some were so certain they were almost smug about it. And then they came undone when they realised that we didn’t ask where Dawson’s Creek was filmed, but where it was set.

The Smith Family currently leads the quarterly tournament with 301 points off 4 wins.

Team Wins Score
The Smith Family 4 301
4 Go Crazy 4 287
Menace to Sobriety 4 277
Ted’s Team 3 230.5
Cuck 3 224.5
forrestj7 3 219
Tribe 3 214.5
The Good Dragons 3 214.333
Leader Hosen 3 194
Superstars of Yacht Rock 2 151
Team OG 2 148
Spongebob 2 146
Foxalottle 2 145.5
Summer Hill Seven 2 143
Taco Monsters 2 126
WHA 2 110

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 3 February 2023

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

Weird insults are more fun than weird compliments.

If you were a spice you’d be flour

You look like you listen to Joe Rogan & Andrew Tate

I hope your wife brings a date to your funeral

You have a face like a half sucked mango

You make me look intelligent

You speak French like a Spanish cow

You’re baby’s so cute, he doesn’t look a thing like you

As interesting as a butter knife

Are you sure your nose goes with that face

You’re why the gene pool needs a lifeguard

You should use glue instead of chapstick

You’re the reason we know God has a sense of humour

You’ve got less brains than JFK

TriviArt

Hobbiton Gorilla

Hilarious Table

Morose Salad

Blacksmith Pepper Pixel

Statue

Stretchy Brazil

Bogus Geometry

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We asked about Australian Prime Ministers and got answers of Steve Irwin & The Stingray.

The number of days since Jimmy Carter was President was estimated within less than 100 out of nearly 16,000.

On the other hand, one team thought there were 205 goals kicked in the 2023 AFL Grand Final. That’s a LOT of goals.

Perhaps the most creative answer we’ve gotten in the categories bonus round for things in the sky beginning with the letter S… Snakes on a Plane.

And here’s where we stand in the quarterly tournament.

Team Wins Total
Ted’s Team 3 230.5
The Smith Family 3 225
Cuck 3 224
4 Go Crazy 3 213
Menace to Sobriety 3 210
Team OG 2 148
The Good Dragons 2 146
forrestj7 2 141
Tribe 2 140.5
Leader Hosen 2 137
WHA 2 110

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 27 January 2023

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

Whether they actually knew how badly the Rabbitohs did over about 40 years, they won a jackpot for getting the number of wooden spoons right.

TEAM NAMES

You’ve gotten some weird compliments.

Your lips are nice, like Kylie Jenner before filler

You have surprisingly musical nostrils

Your cervix is the perfect size

Those are some wonderfully wide nostrils

You have cute ears

You have really cute kneecaps

I like your hair. It reminds me of Big Ben.

You have cute freckles on the surface of your face

You have the perfect length of teeth

You look like Owen Wilson

Are you Ben Elton?

Hey, you look like Nicolas Cage

My grandmother things you have great feet

TriviArt

Queensland Margarita

Thirsty Cup

Duplicitous Bagpipes

Kerfuffleish Osama Bin Laden

Scomo’s New Job

Silent Brew

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked about the number of holes in men’s belts, one player had his belt off within 3 seconds. He was suspiciously quick at getting his gear off.

When we asked teams to name five Australian cities, we had to explain that we didn’t want you to name one city five times.

A ballet beginning with G? How About Grease? And SB? Maybe Soulja Boy.

The Mario Puzo novel set in New York with the initials TG? The Grinch. And surely A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a less compelling title than All Them Girls Is Bangin’.

And Cuck is still leading our quarterly tournament with 3 wins in 3 weeks.

Team Wins Total
Cuck 3 224.5
Ted’s Team 2 152
The Smith Family 2 152
Team OG 2 148
Tribe 2 140.5
Leader Hosen 2 137
4 Go Crazy 2 135
Menace to Sobriety 2 134
WHA 2 110
TracyMorton 1 81
Thor’s Thundercats 1 78
Adam’s Team 1 77
China Shipping 1 77

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 20 January 2023

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

I bet you’re good at trivia

Damn! You look like you communicate your feelings in a healthy way

I bet you only give genuine compliments

You look like you have a good relationship with your father

Damn! You can parallel park on the first try

You look like you change your sheets everyweek

Damn! I bet you’re even woke when you’re asleep

You look like you donate to OzHarvest

Check out the intelligence on her

You look like you know how to change a tire

I bet you give up your seat to pregnant ladies on the bus

You look like you return your shopping cart

Damn! You look like you can fold a fitted sheet

Hey baby, are you O negative? Because you’d be a universal donor and should donate blood as often as possible, but it’s your choice

Hey baby, you look like you have your work/life balance in check

You look like you have your life in order

Damn girl, you look like one of those girls who goes to the grocery store and then when you get home, put all the stuff in small tupperware containers with little labels on them.

TriviArt

Pink Pelican

Adventurous Banana

Crispy Paris

Pretty Escalator

Hairy Tree

2024 Goals

Pizza Crossbow

Crunchy Unicorn

Whoopee Cushion Statue

INTERESTING MOMENTS

In reading out the answers we read out the two most common computer passwords, and distinctly heard one player say “hey that’s my password!”

When we asked about how many days had passed since the $1 coin was introduced, we got guesses ranging from 32 to 1 billion. So possibly last month, and possibly 2.7 million years ago.

Now, we’re hosting trivia in a bar. Alcohol is present. Enthusiastic gesticulating happens. But if you knock over drinks on to your answer sheets… twice… you might want to calm down.

And our quarterly tournament is continuing, with three teams leading as repeat winners at the top of the table.

Team Wins Total
Cuck 2 151
Team OG 2 148
WHA 2 110
Thor’s Thundercats 1 78
Adam’s Team 1 77
Canterbury Guys 1 77
The Smith Family 1 77
Ted’s Team 1 75
forrestj7 1 73
Mara’s Angels 1 72
Tournament Name 1 72
Whale Emoji 1 72

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 13 January 2023

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 picked the most American sounding nut they could to win a jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

Here’s your proposed new animal combinations.

Boa Constrictor Tortoise

Quokkadile

Frokkas

Cat Catfish

Giraffopotamus

Wallaquin

Porpoisaurus Rex

Zonkeys

Zebracoon

Ostatoo

Squizard

Platacats

Cockroach Anteater

Cockodiles

Lamblob Fish

Cockerocerous

Wolverpie

Grizzly Tits

Emunicorn

I tried to mix monkey and person and all I could come up with was AIDS

TriviArt

Pineapple Ghost

Crunchy Meatball

Porpoise Catapult

Jumping Boa Constrictor

Platypotamous Tennis

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team editorialised a bit and said that Macquarie & Westpac were in the business of stealing other people’s money.

We asked about Jains, as in the religion, and had to explain that it’s not a religion for people named Jane.

And our quarterly tournament is off and running. Here’s where we stand after one week.

Team Wins Total
Cuck 1 78
The Smith Family 1 77
Horsefly 1 76
Ted’s Team 1 75
Whale Emoji 1 72
Luke’s Mates 1 70
Menace to Sobriety 1 69
We’re just here to have a good time 1 69
Leader Hosen 1 67
4 Go Crazy 1 67
Tara Causer 1 64
WHA 1 52

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 6 January 2023

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 some really awful house guests.

Claims Emily Post Says Foot Rubs From The Host Are Just Good Manners

The couch is uncomfortable. I’ll take your bed.

Peed on the floor

Mormons.

Clipping toenails at the dinner table.

Where’s my dinner?

They watered our fake plants.

This Sandwich is Delicious, now you should make yourself one

TriviArt

Clown Zoo

Salty Cowboy

Decaf Pickle

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Words beginning with BO, one player guessed Bong, and Bondage. Which might say a thing or two about them.

On an alphabetical list of Rugby World Cup playing countries, we had to explain that Bangladesh has never been to the Rugby World Cup.

When asked when the actress who played the grandmother in Titanic was born, we had guessed ranging from 1876 to 1973. Which would have made her either 24, or 121 years old when they film was released.

And a Scotsman failed to recognise Auld Lang Syne being played on bagpipes. He’s a bad Scotsman.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 30 December 2023

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 may have been luck, but this team who finished second last took home the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

A lot of you had a pretty lacklustre Christmas.

I’m not sure that’s gravy

Sunny the dog ate an entire Toblerone

Ran out of alcohol

Alcoholic aunt

Exploding turkey

Granddad set fire to the turkey

Dodgy prawns

Boardgame blowout

My Trump loving family showed up

Cat sh!t on the Xmas tree

TriviArt

New Years Eve – Goulburn Style

Fuzzy Viking

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When presented with five 50/50 choices, the best any team did at one quiz was two. Just two. Statistically, that’s worse than random chance, and that’s the best anyone did. One team got zero out of five.

When given a question about Ritalin, one team reacted in such a pronounced way that we thought something was up. Turns out half the team was currently ON Ritalin.

And one team argued for a VAR decision when they claimed to have said USA in the bonus round. We didn’t hear it, nobody in the room heard it, and all the gaslighting in the world isn’t going to make us think you said it when you didn’t.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 23 December 2023

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’re all taking money into the holidays.

TEAM NAMES

You remade a lot of Christmas movies from the point of view of a minor character.

Why is the Prime Minister at my kids nativity?

Why is the Prime Minister trying to bang his staff?

Why has that creep been filming only Keira Knightley for the whole wedding?

My wife has been listening to those carol singers a long time

Why is that guy confessing his love on cards to a married woman?

Why is that miser always surrounded by singing Muppets?

Uncle Clark needs therapy

Bloody hell Clark, they’re only Christmas lights?

A Gruber kind of Christmas

Why is my husband crawling through the airducts again

Who is that guy yelling yippee ki yay m*therf*cker?

Will Ferrell needs to get off the escalator and let me shop

911, and elf is attacking a department store Santa

Gonzo’s Christmas Carol

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, but at least I don’t have to deal with ghosts

How do you forget your own kid?

That kid doesn’t realise he’s talking to a future President

I can’t believe I’m being outsmarted by someone named Kevin

If I have to deliver pizza to the McCallister house again I’m pissing on it

TriviArt

Magic Dinosaur

Beautiful Cow

Moist Anchor

Redundant Beans

Atomic Den

Superbly Kinky Reindeer

Lazy Santa

Lucky Mistletoe

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Cities with high NRL attendance? Adelaide, Sydney, Perth said one team who probably didn’t know what NRL is. When we suggested they change some, they scratched out Sydney.

One team forgot to do their homework on Swedish Prime Ministers so they guessed the names of ABBA members, and because Andersson is both a member of ABBA and a recent Prime Minister, they still got one.

You know that famous Dylan Thomas poem? “Do not go gentle into that good night. Take as many of the bitches down with you as you can.”

One player complained that in asking about high population Sydney suburbs, we didn’t count dead people. Because that’s a totally normal way to count population.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 16 December 2023

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 knew enough about French soccer players to win $85.

They managed an educated guess about Australian generals.

They made an educated guess about Nobel prize winning writers.

TEAM NAMES

You made a lot of old movies a lot more PC.

James Bond stops forcing himself on lesbians

Frankly my dear, I value your opinion

Tropic Thunder, but only the credits

Sleeping Beauty is gently woken up rather than non-consensualyl kissed

Harry Potter and the Workplace Health and Safety Inspection

Dr Neurodiverselove

Michael Corleone finds a gun taped to a gender neutral toilet

Tarzan, Queen of the Jungle (pre-op)

Beauty don’t need no beast

No country for the patriarchy

Mother of the Groom

Men in Black Lives Matter

The visually impaired side

Physical Disagreement Hangout

White men CAN jump (and pass, and shoot too)

Star Special Military Operation

Differently abled and differently abler

Greta Gerwig directs Saving Private Ryan with Akwafina in the titular role

Lawrence of Arabia except a woman gets to speak

A Diverse Human Centipede

They’re the person

The Godmother

The Godperson

All the Presidents Individuals of Non-Specified Gender

Snow Black and the Seven Amtiracist People of Varying Stature

When Harry Met Harry

Romeo & Julian

Pocahontas but the white guy dies of pneumonia

Little Red Riding Hood couldn’t kill the wolf because it’s a protected species

Indiana Jones puts everything back

TriviArt

Jazz Sweets

Strange Short People

Old Leaf

Slippery Cow

Satan Sniff

Flaccid Vespa

Crazy Christmas

Stinky Tomato

Potatoey Potato

Pooh Tinsel

INTERESTING MOMENTS

After we mentioned there would be a question on wheat somewhere on the quiz, one team answered “wheat” no less than 6 times on the quiz, but unfortunately not where it would have been correct.

The special subject at one of our quizzes was intersectional feminism, and when we asked the first question, LITERALLY every person in the room was a man.

One team nearly left before the results. It’s a good thing they didn’t, because they won.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 9 December 2023

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.

May be an image of 7 people and text

TEAM NAMES

What’s the cringiest thing you’ve done to impress a crush?

Pretended to like trivia (we had a LOT of these)

Pretended to like World of Warcraft

Feigned interest in Scientology

Pretended to like highland dancing

Pretended I liked Jordan Peterson

Faking an interest in Taylor Swift

Photoshopped Taylor Swift into my Spotify Wrapped

Spent $500 to dye my hair red

Went rock climbing even though I hate the outdoors

Drawn on abs

Introduced her to my waifu pillow

Learned how to speak Croatian

Moved to Vancouver

Told them I have Club Penguin membership

Started a beat box krew

Agreed to do a nude photoshoot

Put a guitar on display even though I don’t play guitar

TriviArt

Disco Infidelity

Monkey Dracula Roleplay Musical

Sloppy Rat

Historic House

Rotund Candy Cane

Crinkly Quorum

Sexy Table

Christmas Shopping

Marshmallow Hat

Furry Lamp

Postmodern Caterpillar

Limbo Clock

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Someone mistook a photo of Ryan Reynolds for “one of the hobbits”.

A country bordering Kuwait? How about Ku-nine.

One two separate quizzes we had a team get a perfect score in round one.

And one player’s first stop after flying into the country was to go to trivia. Jet lag and all, trivia comes first.

See you next week.