Monthly Archives: June 2018

This Week in iQ Trivia – 16 June 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

There wasn’t much to it, but these three won first place and a jackpot with their knowledge of cold war conflicts.

TEAM NAMES

Here are your modified celebrity names.

Dick Cage

Huge Jackman

Bilbo Bagpuss

Quiztina Aguilera

Robert DeFaro (instead of DeNiro)

Malcom Turdbull

Tom Wanks

TRIVIART

Book Car

Russian Man

Banana-ey Beermat

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team had to convince one of their players that Winston Churchill had never been President of the United States.

A new player had to be reminded to use her inside voice when she boldly shouted out “China” when asked whether China or Europe had more people.

Someone noted that when we asked for the biggest country in the EU beginning with D, we hadn’t specified a language, and went with Deutschland.

When presented with a picture of Edward Norton in Birdman, one team answered that it was “the crappy movie where Edward Norton plays a theatre actor.”

See you next week.

Interesting Question of the Day – 15 June 2018

We’re going to give you dictionary definitions of one word movie titles.  Name the movies.

Belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing. (1979)

Something that serves to warn or remind. (2000)

City and port on the Atlantic in western Morocco. (1942)

A sensation of motion in which the individual’s surroundings seem to whirl dizzily. (1958)

A subdivision of a company sized military unit normally consisting of two or more squads. (1986)

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

This Week in iQ Trivia – 9 June 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

They won an early jackpot.

They won a bigger jackpot (with plenty of coins.)

And they won first place AND a jackpot of $213.

TEAM NAMES

Here’s how your wishes would backfire.

I wished for big boobies and got two birds

I wanted to get high and then got stuck on the ceiling.

I wish to be first in the class at everything… first to get kicked out of school, get kicked out of home, get divorced, become homeless, die a painful death…

I wished for luscious hair and my pubes grew two metres

I wish for invisibility… stay invisible forever

I wish to win the lottery and it was the draft lottery

I wished I could fly… turned into a bee

I wished for a healthy kid and got a baby goat

I wished for a nice ass… and got a donkey

I wished upon a star and my feet got burned

I wished upon a fallen star and now the dinosaurs are tar

I wished to get laid and turned into an egg

I wished for a big dick and Barnaby Joyce appeared

TRIVIART

Explosive George

Annoying Flamingo

Dirty Rainbow

Epic Kumquat

Thirsty Mouse

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One of our teams knew they wouldn’t be able to use their first place prize, and donated to another team of first timers who were blown away by the community spirit of our Thursday show.

A team of newbies asked if they were allowed to look up a geography question on Google maps… OF COURSE YOU CAN’T LOOK UP A GEOGRAPHY QUESTION ON GOOGLE MAPS!!!

We listed a number of Wikipedia categories including “Australian test cricket captains” & Twins.  Various teams guessed they all applied to “cricket”, “sports”, and “Australia.”

When we mentioned the Rio Olympics, one team asked if we meant summer or winter.

Two teams asked us to adjudicate a tiebreak as they had both won one leg of their trivia competition, and we dusted off an old lightning round and set to separating them.

And two of our hosts in Canberra got some pretty good reviews on a recent Reddit post.  Though one team mentioned that being friends with the host didn’t help at all.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 3 June 2018

Make a wish.

Now twist it.

If your team name tells us how common wishes would backfire, you will get a bonus point.

I wish I was rich… your name is legally changed to Richard.

I wish to lose weight… your legs fall off.

I wish to be able to stop time… you can’t start it again.

I wish to live forever… you live in constant agony unable to die.

Anything that explains the drawbacks of wishes will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.