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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 2 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 probably didn’t know for certain exactly how long Neil Armstrong spent in space, but they guessed it, and that was good enough.

TEAM NAMES

Bad trivia advice was everywhere.

Visit Canberra (from a team in Canberra)

Visit Adelaide (from a team from Adelaide)

Only children and the elderly swim between the flags

Hitchhiking to camp at Belanglo State Forest is the best way to get there

Don’t bother filling up before crossing the Nullarbor

By all means, feel free to feed the bears

Who needs travel insurance

Don’t miss Mount Druitt, the Paris of the west

Fly your drone in North Korea

Go to the Occidental and hang out with Team Bagpuss

Haggis tastes better rare

Go to the outback. A Dingo definitely won’t steal your baby

Bring your boogie board to Bali

“Você é péssimo no futebol” means “How do I get to the soccer stadium?” (Look it up in Portuguese.)

Buy everything the street vendors try to sell you

Wuhan has delicious bat soup

Bring your dildo to Dubai

Bali tap water tastes better if you don’t boil it

Arab Spring Break

Try attending iQ Trivia without booking

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Hippo Petal Racecar

Sheep Shearing Festival

Silly Pickle

Sandy Lions

Pungent Chocolate

Bouncing Banana

Hybrid Insurance

Smelly Dog

Animals Playing Music

Edamame Cowboy

Noisy Burrito

Dimetrodon Bunnies

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One non player who was passing through the room while we played a Placebo song, and was so pleased he couldn’t contain himself.

Trotsky was killed with a leg of lamb.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 25 November 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 won money for knowing about cider.

And they won for knowing about Mars.

TEAM NAMES

What crimes can NCIS Sydney investigate?

The case of the fairy bread with the missing sprinkles

Death by magpie

Millennial girl loses Birkenstocks on Bondi to Bronte walk

Poodle with a trust find

The case of the inappropriately filled wheelie bin

The really loud bang

Clive Palmer

Poo bags throwin in any old bin

Roofied shoeys

The five dollar flat white

The mystery of Sydney’s missing nightlife

Who is doing burnouts at 3am

TriviArt

Pink Stethoscope

Cricket Celebration

Hungry Pumpkin

Voluptuous Flashlight

Shrewd Shrew

Combined Football Fish

Bouncy Octopus

Wisdom Tooth

Platypus Anagram

Spicy Elephant

Yeehaw Grinder (this guy just happened to have these pics on his phone)

Broken Mermaid

Pentatonic Beach

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team who didn’t read the news story we put on Facebook guessed that the Tasmania woman who couldn’t make it to work on time was delayed by her inability to get her driving gloves on over her six fingers.

We were treated to one player who couldn’t remember the title of Budapest by George Ezra doing an impression of the vocals for several minutes.

What did Taylor Swift’s band wear in the video for We Are Never Getting Back Together? Strap-ons. No, that’s the video you wanted to see for some reason. Perverts.

On a name the year bonus question, we had a Brazilian clue and a Greek clue, and neither the Brazilian player or the Greek player in the audience got the answer.

See you next week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 18 November 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 won cash and a partially used gift card.

Everyone got a chemistry question wrong. Everyone but the winners.

TEAM NAMES

What stupid things have you been arguing about?

Lord Palmerston! Pitt the Elder!

How to open a car door.

Should we gamble 1 or 5?

Could God kill himself?

Can the Xenomorph from Alien kill Macbeth?

Who would win a fight between Colonel Sanders and Ronald McDonald? (Which we have asked as a dilemma question)

The Nature of the disgusting goop on the 3rd stall of the women’s toilet

Chardonnay or Latte?

Are jeggings jeans?

Is a zebra black & white or white & black?

Anything that happens in an IKEA

Is water wet?

How many toddlers can you take in a fight?

What is the definition of a horse?

What constitutes and “argument”?

Is lava dry or wet?

Would you love me if I was a worm?

Pineapple on pizza?

Is cereal soup?

Is a hotdog a sandwich?

Can white chicks have dreads?

Toilet paper. Over or under?

How many fruits are required for it to be a fruit salad?

Can a cheetah compete for South Africa in the Olympics?

What’s more useless, a jelly pickaxe or a chocolate tea pot?

TriviArt

Fishing Penguin

Returning a ring in Middle Earth

Mellifluent Pig

Sticky Tangelo

Intellectual Washington

Subpoenaed Deer

Simpsons Toes

Rotund Animal

Wiggles Igloo

Shiny Wombat

Toxic Bear

Alligator Theremin

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We overheard that one of our teams, disappointed at not winning, was planning on holding interviews for new players to fill in the gaps in their knowledge.

Some people who were not playing but listening in were pleased to get a question on Charles Dickens, saying it was because they knew him when he was alive.

One team argued about the number of Lunar Roving Vehicles on the moon, claiming that they were pretty sure Wakanda sent one too.

See you next week.