Monthly Archives: February 2018

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 11 February 2018

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Recently someone posted on YouTube a video detailing 10 dubious reasons not to visit Australia.

Some Australians have reacted.

This week, for your team name, we want you to come up with an actual reason people shouldn’t visit Australia.

The cost of living is insane

Magpies

Lockout laws

Skin cancer

Ridiculously slow internet

Casual racism

Not so casual racism

Hipsters

Half of the country is on fire

Anything that is a plausible reason not to visit Australia will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 10 February 2018

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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

It was a big week for jackpots.

This team won first place and a pile of cash.

They knew about Jodie Foster films.

These two got a pile of other people’s money for their sporting expertise.

And the Canadian in this group got the biggest winning margin in AFL Grand Final history. He didn’t get it within the acceptable two point margin we specified, he got it EXACT. How a Canadian beat a room full of Australians on this we will never know.

TEAM NAMES

There have been 52 Super Bowls and 45 Presidents. That means the Super Bowl has been around longer than American

Cryptocurrency is a great investment

The NBN will take only 3 days to install

What’s Obama’s last name?

I hear redback spiders make great pets

Where is the any key?

How many halves are in a football match?

According to my star sign…

Doesn’t anyone else think Vaseline tastes weird

Bowl underarm

How many points are Team Bagpuss gambling today?

Do you think they dye the harbour to get it that colour

How much is a $2 meal deal

Is the lunar eclipse during the day or the night

I’m not sure if I’m the mother of my child

Is weed vegan?

TRIVIART

Curly Anaconda

Pretty Ireland

Turgid Cuttlefish

Freaky Caterpillar

Filthy Noun

Burlesque Horse

Pompous Stethoscope

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Guesses for what ASXP stands for in terms of Australian political parties included the Australian Xylophone Party rather than the Australian Sex Party.

A room full of cricket fans all failed on a question on Don Bradman.

In inscription INRI on the cross at the Crucifixion stood for Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, but one team guessed it meant BRB LOL. (Yeah, that works.)

One team speculate that a sun protection company keeps you safe from the sun by giving you skin cancer, based on their theory that you can’t get skin cancer if you already have skin cancer.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 4 February 2018

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A little while back, one of our hosts overheard the following en route to a show.

“Oh yeah? Well if I’m so racist, why do I like Asian chicks?”

Well guess what random twit, you’ve inspired a whole week of team names at iQ Trivia.

This week we want your team name to be the dumbest thing you’ve overheard in conversation.

“I’ve never left Australia. I just took that trip to Bali last year.”

“The doctor said I need to get more iron, but I don’t want to eat metal.”

“If they keep building high rises, won’t the city tip over?”

“I heard about dinosaurs living millions of years ago, but there’s only been 2018 years.”

“What country is the Great Wall of China in?”

“Where do I put the answer for question 6?” (We’ve ACTUALLY heard this one.)

Anything that is stupid (and preferably unaware of just HOW stupid it is) will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 3 February 2018

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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

We can’t seem to build up a jackpot at the Oxford, because somehow, people keep winning it on the first try, this week with extensive knowledge of the theatrical career of Glenn Close.

TEAM NAMES

Here’s what you propose to put on television as part of the Slow TV movement.

Waiting in Line when Happy Hour is About to End

War & Peace: As Read by Prince Phillip

Watching a Bird’s Nest Waiting for Eggs to Hatch

The Road to Marriage Equality in Australia

The Australian Government Making Progress on Policy

The slow failure of the American state

Watching Water Freeze

Glacier Sprints

Team Bagpuss on a Wednesday After Trivia

Eye Test TV

Anything with Gwyneth Paltrow

Paralympics

Watching Water Evaporate

The NBN Rollout

The 830 Central to Circular Quay

Sydney Light Rail Construction TV

Sloth Erotica

Waiting for your girlfriend to choose where to go for dinner

TRIVIART

Beautiful Kimchi

Horny Squirrel

Salacious Whiskey

Breakdancing Lightbulb

Sparkly Cherry

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A team with a strong Scottish flavour insisted we not read the rest of the Gambler’s Question, because as soon as we mentioned Linlithgow, they knew what the question and answer would be. (They were also unimpressed with our host’s pronunciation of Linlithgow, and let him know it.)

The same team was similarly unimpressed when the host broke a tie on a dilemma question which went against them.

One team derailed a physics question on the number of tennis balls needed to stop the momentum of a charging Novak Djokovic by pointing out you only need to hit him with one, as long as it’s square in the balls. (How many other trivia nights wind up with questions than can be answered by hitting tennis players in sensitive areas?)

Another self declared tennis expert earned the scorn of his teammates for failing on a tennis question.

A team with a rather dark approach to trivia wasn’t sure when Anne Frank was born, but asked if they could answer when she died.

One team mistook Christopher Lee in his iconic role of Dracula for Count Chocula.

And one team rather cleverly argued that the Xenomorph from the Alien franchise is now technically a Disney Princess.

See you next week.