You’ve probably heard the Circle of Life, the opening song from the Lion King.
What do the opening lyrics mean?
If you speak Zulu it’s an easy one for you, but I suspect there are not a lot of native Zulu speakers among the fans of iQ Trivia.
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Where are the outer boots Neil Armstrong wore when he walked on the moon in 1969?
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The new Star Wars film will be released shortly, but not everyone is happy about it.
A number of people are calling for a boycott of Star Wars because they believe it to be anti-Trump propaganda.
Of course, if the Star Wars franchise is a dig at Trump and his supporters, surely other films are too.
So this week we want you to use your team name to suggest other films Trump supporters should boycott.
Boycott Indiana Jones: It’s left wing propaganda.
Boycott The Sound of Music: Crooked Maria should have been in jail.
Boycott ET: He was an illegal alien.
Boycott The Lion King: Scar was a great leader.
Boycott Harry Potter: Voldemort was ridding the magic world of immigrants.
Boycott Lord of the Rings: Make Mordor Great Again.
Anything like the above examples will get you 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.
Fidel Gastro
Adolf Hitler. Dog lover, painter, and advocate for healthy lifestyles.
Today we honour Emperor Palpatine. Visionary, uniter of worlds, champion of the common man against the corrupt Jedi Order. Lost too soon, an innocent victim of a family dispute.
JACKPOTS
No winners this week, but one team who had declined to play asked if they could pay up and enter after hearing the question. Answer: No you bloody can’t!
And this team came AGONISINGLY close to winning over $300, but the 1924 novel was “A Passage to India” not “Passage to India.”
Yes, on the jackpot round we really are that strict.
TEAM NAMES
On the theme of Trudeau Eulogies you came up with some pretty clever ones.
Hitler: The original fundraiser for Movember.
Hitler: One man’s vision to unite the globe.
Hitler: He did so much to advance science without harming a single animal.
Stalin thought the gulags were holiday camps.
Castro: He made one hell of a daiquiri.
Osama bin Laden: Loving brother & son, and hide & seek champion.
Mugabe’s Trillionaires
Ronald Reagan: The greatest actor who never won an Oscar.
Hannibal Lecter. Say what you will, but he had great taste in people.
RIP Jack Torrance: A loving family man, hard worker, and aspiring lumberjack.
Today we remember the witch in the gingerbread house, who always had a certain way with children.
Bill Cosby was a great man. He touched us all.
TRIVIART
Christmassy Trivia Host
Fidel Castro Madrid
Ginormous Elephant
Dirty Umbrella (by the way, someone NEEDS to make this movie!)
INTERESTING ANSWERS
The team that wrote several lines with accompanying drawings to explain why sound doesn’t travel in space rather than just saying “there’s no air.”
The team who lost five on the gambler’s question which dropped their score just far enough to put them in second last, and claimed that was their plan all the time.
PROUD MOMENTS
The guy who will be bragging for weeks about being the only one in the room to guess Birmingham as a city that has won a lot of English Football Titles.
HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS
The guy who got a bonus point for knowing more about Bridget Jones’ characters, and immediately felt bad for outing himself as a Bridget Jones fan.
The guy who panicked and said that Dymocks and Angus & Robertson sell beef.
The fact that we asked a question about when one of our venue’s started operating without realising it was written on all the menus.
One of our hosts saying “You know what, I’ll give you AIDS.”
Have an interesting week.
The 1966 FIFA World Cup Final was the most watched television broadcast in British television history with 32.3 million viewers.
What broadcast came in a close second with 32.1 million viewers?
(The same broadcast was also the most watched broadcast ever in Australia.)
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Are Uber users more likely to accept surge pricing if it is 2.0 or 2.1 times the usual fare?
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These unmarked maps are from the book City Maps: A Colouring Book for Adults.
Name the world cities from these unmarked maps.
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Fidel Castro died recently, and there were a variety of reactions.
One world leader who copped quite a bit of flak over his statement on the occasion was Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.”
Having glossed over Castro’s history of imprisoning or murdering people who didn’t see things his way, the #trudeaueulogies hashtag was born.
For your team name this week, we want you to come up with your own Trudeauesque eulogy.
Anything that glosses over the faults of someone who has passed 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.
You’re gonna need a bigger tinny.
You had me at G’Day
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a rat’s arse.
JACKPOTS
The Jackpot at the Paragon Hotel has been building up for weeks, and “Crikey! We need a bigger bloody tinny!” managed to correctly guess the amount of time Neil Armstrong spent in space to win $198. The fact that one of them had heard a podcast revealing this very fact earlier in the day can be taken as evidence that you should always pay attention to things you hear.
TEAM NAMES
On the subject of making movie quotes Australian, here’s what you came up with. (Naturally, these may be NSFW depending on where you work.)
A spoonful of bubbles makes the medicine go down.
Hasta la Vista, Cobber.
Oi cunt, where’s me ute?
A VB, shaken not stirred.
A census taker tried to test me. I ate his liver with some baked beans and a nice VB.
Cronulla: You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Oi, you feeling lucky cunt?
May the sauce be with you.
You’re a bogan Hazza.
Allen’s Snakes. Why did it have to be Allen’s Snakes?
Life is like a pack of TimTams.
and Strewth, no bloody drongo puts my missus in a corner!
TRIVIART
Furry Doctor
Smelly Chicken Nugget
Fast Chip
INTERESTING ANSWERS
Scott Cam being described as either “that fat bloke from the Mitre 10 ads” or “that chubby bloke who won the Gold Logie.”
The main characters in the Rush Hour Series were Detective Token Black Guy and Detective Slapstick Asian.
These guys who turned up late but were sufficiently moved to keep track of their answers using their phone.
HALL OF SHAME MOMENTS
The team who thought The Land Before Time was a documentary.
The Japan expert who didn’t recognise the Japanese national anthem.
See you next week!
The American flag is one of the most recognisable flags in the world, consisting of thirteen stripes and 50 stars on a blue field in the top left corner.
How many rows make up the 50 stars?
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