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, whether you were answering questions on Australian actors…
or German states.
We gave away a lot of cash.
TEAM NAMES
You proposed a lot of new World Cup team names.
The Spanish Inquizitors
Italy: The Drama Queens
Holland: The High Scorers
The Panama Hats
The Mexican Standoffs
Hungry Like the Wolf
Brazilian Landing Strips
Australia: Playback Bufferers
Australia: Back before the postcards arrive
The French Kisses
France: The Vertigos
The French Deep Sea Divers
France: Les Cheats
Sweden: The Flat Packers
The Swedish Allen Keys
Columbia: The White Liners
TRIVIART
Bearded Football
Puffy Barcelona
Boozy Celery
Moist Train
Singing Mountains
Posh Penguin
INTERESTING MOMENTS
We put another entry in our catalogue of bizarre things heard out of context at trivia, when one of our players boldly said “I am ALL about testicles.”
Jonah Hill was described as “that guy who looks like Seth Rogen but he’s not Seth Rogen.”
When we asked for the largest countries spelled using the letter T, one team cited Tonga, and claimed that the people themselves were the largest.
We asked if there were more Americans or Canadians in Sydney, and one team answered with Canadians, because we didn’t specify which Sydney, and there is a Sydney in Canada.
When one team couldn’t recall the title of 10 Cloverfield Lane, they gave us the following exhaustive description of the plot. “It’s a movie about a guy who saves a girl he crashed into because there is a plague outside, but then she thinks he actually attacked a young girl and she escapes after making a suit from a shower curtain and then it turns out it was an alien attack. Please give us a point.”
A team asked if they would still get a point after they crossed out a correct answer and replaced it with a wrong answer. Given that they came in first anyway, they didn’t need it in the end.
We had to explain to a number of teams that New Orleans is not a US state.
And one team put together an effort involving three team members that made it right through an entire lightning round, with the last player up demonstrating knowledge of everything from the Dude’s drink of choice in The Big Lebowski to the formula for Zinc sulfate.
See you next week.