Monthly Archives: July 2017

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 30 July 2017

Last week we took good people and made them sound evil.

This week it’s the opposite.

We’re taking bad people and making them look good.

If you team name puts a positive spin on someone bad, you will get a bonus point.

The Wicked Witch of the West just wanted her dead sister’s shoes back.

Stalin drastically reduced the obesity rate among his people.

Freddie Krueger was devoted to the dreams of children.

Jack the Ripper got countless prostitutes off the streets.

Sauron sought to unite all of Middle Earth.

Say what you want about Hitler, but he DID kill Hitler.

Anything that takes a villain and finds the positive side of things will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 29 July 2017

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 guys knew enough about the medal count of the French Olympic team over history to win $149.

These three knew the sixth most spoken language in the EU, and won $98.

And these two teams knew enough Latin to know about centripetal forces, but only one spelled it correctly.

TEAM NAMES

Here are the evil heroes you came up with.

Cinderella – A golddigger with delusions of grandeur

Barack Obama abandoned the American people when they needed him most

Barack Osama

Elon Musk: Killing Australian coal jobs

Lifeguards: Kissing unconscious people

The Tooth Fairy: Starting fights at hockey games

Lassie is a real bitch

Wonder Woman: Knocking off the entire gold bangle range from Lovisa

Cardinal Pell’s Lawyers

Mother Theresa: Sweatshop talent scout

Mother F*cker Theresa

Fred Swallows Foundation

Churchill – Mass murderer or troops

Gandhi: That dickhead who held up traffic

Gandhi: Poster boy for anorexia

Oskar Schindler: The Nazi who rounded up 100s of Jews

The Wiggles: Convincing children to play with hot starches, friends with knives, and dangerous creatures

James Bond: He takes your woman, destroys your town, crashes your cars, and makes terrible puns

And finally… there were those teams that referenced our hosts.

Joe the American who tortures us with inane questions every week.

Bill’s a dick because he never puts the Team Bagpuss team name on This Week in iQ Trivia. (Well you made it this week.)

Canadian interrogates Australians for two hours. (Who ever could THAT be about?)

TRIVIART

Kicking Hand

Running Pilgrim

Magnificent Car

Wild Ragamuffin (or in this case, Wilde Rags a Muffin)

Agnostic Elephant

Deaf Audience (when nobody in the audience suggested anything our annoyed host trolled the audience with this subject, and the audience trolled back.)

INTERESTING ANSWERS

When asked a question about the number of players on an indoor football team, asking if the goalkeeper counts as a player. (Of course they bloody do!)

The team that bought a drink for a Korean patron who wasn’t even playing trivia because we asked a question about Korean animal sounds.

The British team who insisted they be allowed to answer with the British Prime Minister instead of the Australian Prime Minister on a history question… and then getting it wrong anyway.

The team that bet Pi points on the gambler’s question, and wound up winning by 0.14159 points.

And the player who lost a bet on a question, and who apparently now needs to get a tattoo. By next week we will know if they’ve followed through.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.

Interesting Question of the Day – 26 July 2017

If the Millennium Falcon were travelling at 99% of the speed of light and crashed into a planet the size of Earth, how big would the crater be?

1km across, 10km across, 100km across, or would it blow a hole right through the crust and into the mantle?

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

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 23 July 2017

There are plenty of people who have done a lot of good in the world.

Well we’re not going to let them rest easy this week.

If you team name makes someone good look bad, you will get a bonus point.

Bruce Wayne is a billionaire who enjoy assaulting the mentally ill.

Peter Pan: A kidnapper builds an army of child soldiers.

Santa: A burglar who tempts children into sitting on his lap.

Three American military officers invaded Earth’s nearest neighbour in 1969 and left no survivors.

Inigo Montoya devoted his life to hunting down a physically deformed man and then killed him.

Anything that takes a hero and turns them into a villain will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 22 July 2017

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 some very firm views on what should be made illegal.

Children at weddings should be illegal

Children should not be allowed on airplanes

Saying Literally when you should say Figuratively

Men in Lycra

Loud Chewers

Short Pours

Queue Jumpers

Jackpots

Not Keeping Left

Friday Afternoon Meetings

Taking calls on speakerphone without earphones

Charging more than $5 for a pint

Charging extra for tomato sauce with a meat pie

Having a Bunnings Sausage Sizzle when the Bread isn’t Buttered

Well Done Steaks

People who request Gluten Free food when they’re not Celiac

It should be illegal for any other team to win at trivia

TRIVIART

Pretty Bouncer – As judged by Kolo the Bouncer

Flying Chimpanzee

Frisky Coathook

Moist Elephant

Kinky Apple

INTERESTING ANSWERS

The “token guy” who was brought in to answer questions on sport but failed at all of the sport questions.

An entire room full of people comparing the proportion of circumcised and uncircumcised penises they have seen (as if what they’ve seen is a representative sample of genitalia worldwide.)

The team who gave us detailed instructions on how to perform a prostate massage… on the assumption that we really needed to know.

And finally, the team who came in last place at their first show, chose an advantageous special subject, and came storming back to win the prize for second in only their second quiz.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.