Christmas is going to be here before you know it.
But there is still time to tell people what you want for Christmas.
So this week we want you to complete the sentence “all I want for Christmas is…”
You can be sincere or cynical, but either way, if your team name is what you want for Christmas, you will get a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
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.
We didn’t ask why the shirts came off.
TEAM NAMES
Who is a badder bitch than Taylor Swift? Here’s what you thought.
Rosa Parks
Mother Theresa
Eve, the apple murderer
Sinead O’Connor (vs the Pope)
Betty White
The women who work at the Oxford on Wednesdays
Rob, naked on a wrecking ball
Emily, because she loves Bagpuss very much, even though he’s just a saggy cloth cat
The undemocratically elected Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Miss Piggy
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Tilly Devine
Ellen Ripley
Kanye West
Queen Elizabeth II
Literally all women… ever
TRIVIART
Voluptuous Meow
Quick Fetus (this one done quickly, in just a few seconds)
Canadian Bee
Confused Beer
Loud Jump
INTERESTING MOMENTS
When we asked about he largest countries beginning with the letter A, one team put Austria… twice.
A guy whose surname was Ford failed to name a racing team beginning with F that won the Bathurst 1000.
When being asked to give the surnames of five famous Rachels, one team tried their luck and put Smith five times… and got 0 out of 5.
A girl from Switzerland got a question about the largest city in Switzerland wrong.
One team got a bonus point for telling us that the word baroque is derived from a word meaning “misshapen pearl”, which did nothing to answer the question we asked, but which is interesting.
See you next week.
Samuel & Ronan Peterson were twins born in the very early morning of 6 November 2016 outside Boston. Why is there some “confusion” over which one is older?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
What Disney character is being described in the following passage? (It’s in the language that character would have spoken in real life.)
“His fist is iron, his opinion is always right, a wise ruler.”
“He’s far more brave than the brave ones.”
“He beats an army of knights, and he says send me more.”
“He’s…”
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
If it takes Donald Trump four seconds to type out a seven letter word and hit the space bar, and he chooses letters at random, and he never repeats a seven letter sequence, how long would it take for him to randomly type out the word COVFEFE?
The first new player to comment on the website within a year of the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
Last week a Twitter user challenged the internet to “Name a bitch badder than Taylor Swift.”
This week we want you do do the same.
If your team name makes reference to a woman badder than Taylor Swift, you will get a bonus point.
It can be someone you know, it can be someone from history, it can be someone famous or someone obscure. But if your team name refers to someone badder than Tay Tay, you will get a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
WINNERS
If you won this week, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.
JACKPOTS
Once in a rare while your knowledge of south western English geography turns into cash like it did for this team. (Now you can put the jackpot towards your next holiday in Cornwall.)
These two came in last place in the quiz, but won the jackpot on a random guess. (Then they put $10 of their winnings into the pokies and turned it into $40.)
TEAM NAMES
Here are some of the things you thought should prevent you from sitting in Parliament.
Not knowing the words to Khe Sanh
If you don’t eat Vegemite on toast
Wanting to make a difference
Not knowing how to make fairy bread
Declining a Bunning’s snag
Not being part of at least one expenses scandal per year
Being Tony Abbott
No Poofters (said ironically by a team composed primarily of gay men)
Being unable to walk backwards in thongs
Not pretending you care about the Ashes
Questioning Shaun Marsh’s test selection
Saying “throw a shrimp on the barbie”
Wearing socks with thongs
Unless you can down a VB in under 3 seconds (so basically nobody but Bob Hawke)
If you use a knife and fork to eat a meat pie
TRIVIART
Fabulous Giraffe
Silky Blender
Ostentatious Snowman
Polyamorous Chair
Swinging Socks
Flying Beard
INTERESTING MOMENTS
When asked for a term beginning the the letter R that describes an old star that had used up all of it’s hydrogen, one team went with “rooted”, which is not technically wrong, and got a point.
Someone thought the first convict from the First Fleet to be emancipated was emancipated in the 1990s rather than the 1790s, perhaps assuming that he was a vampire or a Highlander.
We asked about the number of actors who played the role of Pi in Life of Pi, and two teams guessed 3.14159.
As a reminder that looks can be deceiving, a conservative looking middle aged woman turned out to be a fan of Insane Clown Posse.
See you next week.
Elizabeth Thackery was born in 1767, and was sent to Australia after being convicted of theft. In what decade did she become the last member of the first fleet to die?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
When driving down a motorway, Dennis the Driver hits the brakes suddenly before accelerating and continuing on his way. The driver behind him also slows down, as does the driver behind him and so on.
How fast does this phantom traffic jam move backwards down the motorway?
The first new player to comment on the website within 5km/hr of the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
The Cavanagh Company is a family owned bakery in Rhode Island that has about 80% of the American market of their product.
What do they make?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.