Monthly Archives: May 2017

Interesting Question of the Day – 29 May 2017

What are the original titles of the following “super abridged” literary classics?

Marooned Boys are Terrible at Everything Except Killing Each Other

Old Ladies Convince a Guy to Run Scotland

Dublin something something something run on sentence

Guy Attacks Windmills – Also, He’s Mad

The first new player to comment on the website with all the correct answers wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 28 May 2017

It’s important to tell the truth.

But it can be fun to be deliberately misleading.

For your team name this week, we want you to tell us something that is technically true, but wildly misleading.

I am undefeated in heavyweight boxing.

I have an above average number of hands.

Almost all car accidents are caused by drivers who have a license.

Bill Gates and I have a combined net worth of over $10 billion.

I was once the youngest person on earth.

Anything like the above examples will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 27 May 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.

JACKPOTS

Spelling Shirley MacLaine’s name wrong cost these guys a jackpot of well over $100.

TEAM NAMES

Hollywood may be coming to you for ideas on remakes of films from the perspective of other characters.

I accidentally left my child at home. Turns out he’s a sociopath (and subscribes to castle doctrine.)

Titanic -There’s room for two on that door

KRRROAGH! Star Wars from Chewbacca’s perspective.

Honey the Kids Blew Up the Death Star

Draco Malfoy and the Day my Father will Hear About

Tyler Durden is a Nutjob

I go on a legitimate hunting trip and some army dudes try to spoil my fun – Predator

A guy in the forest kisses a dead body while seven guys watch

Frenchie: Beauty School Dropout

Jaws: I’m Hungry

Alien: Just trying to have dinner and they shoot me out the airlock

Ellen Ripley 3

I had a really weird dream on a plane trip – Inception

Hey Daniel San, that was an Illegal Head Kick

We never asked to be brought back from fossilised mosquitoes anyway

My Damn Rebellious Teenage Mermaid Daughter

TRIVIART

Sh!tty Bar

Sadistic Pickle

Yellow Prize

Angry Fish

INTERESTING ANSWERS

Arguing that trains should be considered as “passenger vehicles”.

Claiming that Plutonium is used as a fertiliser because Homer used it on the Simpsons.

A native Italian speaker answering a question on the building materials used by the Three Little Pigs in Italian. Yes, we gave a point for “paglia” instead of straw.

One of our player earning the right to be smug for a year by smashing the gambler’s question.

Half a dozen players miming the bass line of Give It Away by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 21 May 2017

We’re accustomed to thinking about films from the point of view of the main character.

This week we want you to think about films from the point of view of other characters.

It can be the villain, a sidekick, or a minor character in the background, but if you make your team name a film title from the point of view of someone other than the main character, you will get a bonus point.

Judas Superstar

Ferris Bueller’s Flagrant Truancy

The Ungrateful Humans who Aren’t Content to Live in a Computer Generated Utopia

Some Muscular Austrian Dude Left me Paralysed

Give it Back you Thieving Bastards: The Sauron Story

That Famous Potter Kid Keeps Breaking Rules and Getting People Killed

Gaston: I’m Gonna Rescue Belle After she got Kidnapped by that Hairy Dude in the Castle

Some Guy Slept With my Fiance on our Way Home from Europe and now he’s Frozen

Shot After Trashing a Starbucks: The Robert Paulson Story

Damn! Those WE’RE the Droids I was Looking For!

Anything like the above will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 20 May 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.

Make up numbers to help make rich white men richer

If it fits

I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavatory

Helping people who can’t do stuff, do stuff

Selling pornography under the guise of literature

Underwater ceramic technician (dishwasher)

Mortician: I molest corpses and dress them up

JACKPOTS

These two teams knew enough about snooker players and the cast of Mighty Ducks to win hundreds of dollars worth of sweet jackpot cash.

TEAM NAMES

You were pretty blunt about what you do for a living.

Performing double entry services for payment (accountant)

I guess when you die (actuary)

Blankly looking at spreadsheets figuring out how to fit Bagpuss into a trivia team name

Playing with yeast

I get paid to tell people they’re wrong – Lawyer

I try to find things that don’t exist

Shaving bitch’s buttholes (dog groomer)

I look at runny poo

I try not to electrocute myself

Steal people’s money and give them dead birds

I make pretty pictures and tell likes for a living – Marketing

I get paid to draw pretty pictures of buildings that rarely get built

I hope people’s doctors try to kill them – Medical malpractice lawyer

We serve bread and wine for breakfast

TRIVIART

Athletic Pig

F*cking Berry

Gone Bush

Underwhelming Cow

Silent N

INTERESTING ANSWERS

Instead of answering “Christopher Reeve”, answering “that quadriplegic horse guy.”

Instead of answering Destiny’s Child, answering “Beyonce and those two other chicks.”

Instead of answering Lori Petty, answering “that crazy blond from Orange is the New Black.”

Instead of answering Jon Lovitz, answering “the chubby Jewish guy from Saturday Night Live who also had a guest role on Friends.”

HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS

An Indian guy arguing that India is not part of Asia.

The lawyer who didn’t know what “de facto” meant.

Trying to bribe one of our hosts with an Oporto voucher.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.