Monthly Archives: February 2017

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 12 February 2017

Valentine’s Day is this week. Some people like it, some people don’t, some people think it’s a rubbish made up holiday.

This week, for your team name, we want you to come up with alternative Valentine’s Day poetry. We will even get you started.

Roses are Red…”

You can do the rest.

Anything that finishes the poem will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in Trivia – 11 February 2017

Here’s what you may have missed this week at iQ Trivia.

WINNERS

If you won this week, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.

Pinocchio: Fake it till you make it.

Johnny Depp goes to Vegas in a stupid hat and has a quiet time compared to Team Bagpuss

Aladdin: A beautiful princess gets catfished

Trainspotting: Maybe heroin doesn’t agree with me

JACKPOTS

After building for a long time, a record jackpot of $426 and 25 Baht was won at The Orient on Thursday.

One of our players has a Slovakian wife, and knew that Sněžka sounded either Czech or Slovak, but since he hadn’t heard of it, concluded that it was the highest point in the Czech Republic.

And that’s all it took. Out of 16 teams, only one got it right and won the cash.

TEAM NAMES

There were heaps of great team names badly describing movie plots.

Doctor Strange: House MD the Prequel

Jaws: Trigger happy American slaughters endangered marine creature

The Wizard of Oz: Foreign girl aids Glinda’s coup by assassinating her political opponents

Frozen: A teenage girl throws a tantrum because she has to take off her gloves

Liar Liar: The Donald Trump Story

The 40 Year Old Virgin: My autobiography

Beauty and the Beast: Farm girl wishes epic library owner would wax

Beauty ant the Beast: Stockholm syndrome really does work

Terminator: He comes back

The Muppets: A horny frog tries to fuck a pig in every movie

Napoleon Dynamite: Secretly Deranged & likes to dance like a chicken

Titainc: It sinks

Narnia: A kid comes out of the closet

Bridget Jones: 1 diary, 1 baby, who’s the daddy?

Star Wars: Incestuous boy goes on a space odyssey to discover his evil origins

Finding Nemo: Single dad takes advnatage of mentally handicapped woman.

Lord of the Rings: Tiny man burns ring

The Big Lebowski: The importance of a rug that ties the room together

Snakes on a Plane: An existential analysis into the impact of reptile smuggling upon modern aviation

TRIVIART

Flaming Pig

Flipped Table

Sultry Table

Charming Cat

INTERESTING ANSWERS

The team that answered a question about Hebrew days of the week by removing the vowels, just like in Hebrew.

PROUD MOMENTS

The team being so committed to winning that they pop next door to Officeworks when their pen dies.

The team turning up 15 minutes late, but still winning the prize for second last.

HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS

The team who gave us a Nash equilibrium explaining who you should always gamble 5 points on the gambler’s question, and then getting the gambler’s question wrong.

The team that was flagrantly googling answers right in front of us. Really? At least go to the toilets if you’re going to cheat.

Have an interesting week.

Interesting Question of the Day – 8 February 2017

On Monday we found out that you can’t burn calories just by digesting celery.  It doesn’t have “negative calories.”

Ice water, on the other hand, does have negative calories.  It has zero calories and your body will burn calories warming it to body temperature.

If you made no other changes to your diet, how many litres of 3 degree ice water would you have to drink to burn enough calories to lose 1kg of fat?

The first new player to comment within 20 litres of the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 5 February 2017

This week we are looking at film descriptions.

Specifically, we want your team name to badly explain a film plot.

Beauty and the Beast: Stockholm Syndrome Works

Harry Potter: Noseless Adult has an Unhealthy Obsession with a Teenage Boy

Lord of the Rings: Nine Hours of Walking to Return Jewellery

Star Wars: Whiny Farmboy Becomes a Terrorist

Anything that badly describes a film plot will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

Week in Review – 4 February 2017

Here’s what you may have missed this week at iQ Trivia.

WINNERS

Here are some of our winner this week just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.

Team Bagpuss: Dry January was a Yuge Success

We Will Win (who didn’t get the team name bonus point because their team name ceased to be an alternative fact and became and actual fact.)

TEAM NAMES

Here are some Alternative Facts that the new Presidential administration can champion.

Chicken is Vegan.

Sydney is Freezing.

I’m not drunk, I’m alternative sober.

Soup counts as a meal.

Hugh Hefner Likes Men.

Trivia Newton John is a perfectly legitimate trivia team name.

Bob is the worst at trivia.  He always loses. We always beat him. (Actually they did beat him this time.)

This is not a sentence.

2+2=5.

We don’t drink.

Pauline Hanson Enjoys a Snack Pack.

Mexico will pay for the wall.

Politicians are awesome.

TRIVIART

Fast Flag

Bloody Tinder

Rejected Tomato

Ecstatic E

INTERESTING ANSWERS

Quagmire from Family Guy is “That Giggidy Giggidy Guy.”

Kings X is a Sydney neighbourhood using the letter X.

Someone who couldn’t remember the title of the film Enemy At The Gates, but answered “That movie where Jude Law played Soviet sniper Vasili Zaitsev in the Battle of Stalingrad and had the sniper duel with Ed Harris.”  Knowing all that is more interesting than just answering the question.

PROUD MOMENTS

A team of newbies coming from last place at halftime to first place due to a near perfect second round.

HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS

When someone guesses 100 million and we say that’s not it, take our word for it.  Don’t guess 100 million again, especially not when you only get one guess.  The answer probably hasn’t changed in the last ten seconds.

Have an interesting week.