Monthly Archives: April 2018

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 15 April 2018

We’re having fun with literature this week.

For your team name we want you to add or subtract or change a letter in the title of a literary work.

Lord of the Zings

The Lion, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe

The Lust of the Mohicans

100 Bears of Solitude

The Man in the Tron Mask

Moby Duck

The Impotence of Being Earnest

50 Shades of Gay

Anything that changes one letter in a literary title will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 14 April 2018

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

These four came last in the quiz, but knew more about Sex and the City than anyone else and went home with the jackpot. (We’re always happy when people prove the jackpot round doesn’t require you to be a trivia expert.)

TEAM NAMES

P as in Pterodactyl (at one show, four teams came up with this one)

P as in Pfizer

P as in Psych

P as in Ptolemy

N as in Enchilada

N as in No Fibre to the Node

C as in Sea

R as in Architect

Q as in Quetzalcoatl

E for Longoria

T for Trump’s lawyer got raided by the FBI

D as in Dear John

T as in Thrombocytopenic

K as in Knob

P as in Phlegm

E as in Eucalyptus

X as in Xylitol

W as in Why

and the pick of the week… Y as in Dyslexic

TRIVIART

Smoky Amsterdam

Shiny Nun

Emu Immunity

Explosive Button

Sparkly Bear

Hard Plant

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One veteran team argued so much about a logic question that they forgot to write down a number of fairly obvious answers to a list question.

When asked if certain Australians they had never heard of were alive during WWI, one team of Irish backpackers just picked on answer for all five and got three right.

On the same question, another team posed the philosophical question of “what does it mean to be alive anyway?”

Instead of answering a question on serial killers with Ivan Milat, one team could only manage “the Wolf Creek dude.” Eh. Close enough. Let’s be frank. That was Ivan Milat really.

One team went into such depth on the special subject of Swedish Prime Ministers that they earned a bonus point for the sheer depth of their obscure knowledge and devotion to trivia.

Another team came with a player with a low platelet count, who still insisted on turning up for their regular weekly quiz.

Another team engaged in a long process of elimination on a question where they only had to eliminate one option.

When we asked about Australian apple varieties, one team went with iPhone 6 & iPhone 7.

An ICU doctor failed to get a question on facial muscles. (Well, we guess that doesn’t come up a lot with his patients.)

One of our teams gave us extensive information beyond what we asked for on British royals and on 18th century hymns rewritten as 70s tunes, and in the tradition of iQ Trivia, got bonus points for it.

And one team who hadn’t done the homework question on days of the week in Korean bought some drinks for a Korean couple who happened to be there, and this same Korean couple read out the answers a few minutes later.

And one of our players told their host after the show… “I really hate trivia but this was excellent.”

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 8 April 2018

Last week we heard someone make an unusual letter comparison.

For your team name this week, we want you to come up with a similarly unlikely way to describe a letter.

P as in Pneumonia.

K as in Knight.

Q as in Quran.

O as in Overwhelming sense of dread that my life is slowly slipping away and I’ll never achieve the things I always wanted to or find a sense of purpose among the deafening background noise of distractions that plague modern society.

Any unlikely way to describe a letter will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 7 April 2018

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.

TEAM NAMES

You’ve got a lot of sinister (and largely medical) jobs.

I deal with weed all day (Gardener)

I go to people’s homes and shatter dreams (NBN Installer)

I shoot horses (Race Broadcaster)

Putting other people’s money in a pile and skimming some off the top.

I sell women (HR)

I fuel alcoholism (Bartender)

I make people choose between their money or their house

I deem things to be correct (Trivia Host)

Dole Bludger

Doctors, your preferred drug dealers

Little human remover (Obstetrician)

I carefully document the way your grandparents are f*cked

Rectal invader (Proctologist)

I’ll put you on a hard table, penetrate you, and look inside (X-Ray Technician)

TRIVIART

Blind Boat

Anal Curtains (or is it Anal Kerr Tins?)

Bulbous Kiwis

Handsome Bollocks

Tumultuous Tegan

Fat Octopus

INTERESTING MOMENTS

A team full of scientists failed to name a single one of the first five elements ending in UM?

When naming countries beginning with the letter G, one team threw out Gryffindor.

Someone who couldn’t recall the title of Zombie by the Cranberries described it as that “IN YOUR HEAAAAAAAAD” song.

And two players tied the record for the furthest distance travelled to attend iQ Trivia by coming all the way from Sweden. We’re sure there was no other reason for travelling to Australia, and are currently considering setting up a Swedish subsidiary.

See you next week.

Interesting Question of the Day – 4 April 2018

You may have heard of the Mandela Effect, which is a collective false memory named for the legions of people who falsely thought Nelson Mandela had died long before 2013.

We’re going to give you five examples of the Mandela Effect.  For each, tell us which one is correct.

Does the Monopoly Man have a monocle or not?

Does Pikachu have black on his tail or not?

Is it Looney Tunes or Looney Toons?

Does the Coca-Cola logo have a dash high, in the middle, or is the dash a tilda?

Are the letters in the Volkswagen logo connected or separate?

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