This Week in iQ Trivia – 25 May 2024

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 Harry Potter actors paid off.

And Mad Max locations are a useful nugget of information.

TEAM NAMES

Here’s what you claimed to have invented.

I invented this thing where a woman lives in my house and does the cleaning and emotional labour and call it marriage.

I invented risking money on the outcome of sport. It’s called investing in sport.

I put on baggy clothes and fell asleep. I invented PJs.

Stuck a fork in a toaster and created the perm

I put a meat cylinder in bread and called it a hot dog.

Tennis but on a table

Cheese on Toast

We started a fight in a pool and invented water polo.

White People Taco Tuesday

A guy escaped from his tomb. I call it Easter.

I had toast and invented breakfast in bed

I invented a country with Americans that people actually like. I call it Canada.

Sharing dumb facts about obscure topics. It’s called trivia.

TriviArt

Whiskey Tights

Tall Flower

Sexy Fish

Moist Feet

Sketchy Chocolate

Heavy Eiffel Tower

Magic Martian

Sad Pogo Stick

Squelchy Origin

Homesick Fire

Snoop Dogg Tennis

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We had a team from France, which meant one of our hosts spent a considerable amount of time translating questions into French.

One team was missing their Greek player on the night when we asked about Greek terms.

We asked what city It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is set in, and one team got it wrong.

A player from Colombia DIDN’T get Colombia as a South American country on the Pacific Ocean.

And our quarterly tournament winners are holding their position.

Team Wins Score
6 Go Crazy 7 511.5
Leader Housen 6 382
Superstars of Yacht Rock 5 362
Spongebob 5 354
Foxolotl 4 305
The Smith Family 4 298
Al’s Team 4 282.5
Cormac’s Angels 3 231
Mara’s Angels 3 228
Tribe 3 222
Wine not on 3 219
We’re Just Here To Have A Good Time 3 215
Time travel is not good for women 3 211
Team Knox 3 189
Bring a bucket and a mop 3 160

See you next week.