Monthly Archives: August 2017

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 13 August

Anyone can make a team name out of a movie title.

We want you to do twice as much this week.

This week you will be taking two movie titles and combining them.

Dude, Where’s My Fair Lady

The Man in the Iron Man Mask

Ocean’s 300

12 Angry Men in Black

The Empire Strikes Back to the Future

Marley and Me Make a Porno

Anything that combines two film titles into one will get a bonus point.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 12 August 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

Here’s what you wanted to bet on on The Bachelor.

She refuses the rose: 100-1

Nip slip: 1-1

The Collective IQ of all Contestants is greater than 50: 100-1

Team Bagpuss will skip trivia for The Bachelor: 10-1

Budget cuts at Channel Ten: 10-1

Me Watching the Bachelor: 1,000-1

Someone Says Something Intelligent: 5,000-1

I won’t be able to turn off the episode: 50-50

The Bachelor gets involved in an orgy: 3-7

The Bachelor gets struck by lightning: 6,250:1

Osher & Matty Start a Family: 5-1

One of the girls is a guy: 69-1

The Bachelor falls in love with his reflection: 1-10

TRIVIART

Flying Chair

Pretty Pumpkin

Running Cafe

Large Tomato

Circular Pickle

Clumsy Whale

INTERESTING ANSWERS

The room full of Australians who didn’t know about Launceston being the first city to be lit with hydroelectricty, when a random guy from Thailand did.

The team who answered a question on a poet quoted in Dead Poet’s Society as “a dead poet” rather than Walt Whitman, and got a point anyway because Walt Whitman is in fact dead, and the answer was technically not incorrect.

One team got a point for describing Yankee Doodle as “the song where the guy puts a feather in his cap and calls it macaroni.”

One team described the cast of Mythbusters as moustache guy, glasses guy, Asian guy, guy who hurts himself, and token hot girl.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 6 August 2017

You may or may not have been watching the Bachelor, but either way you can choose the right kind of team name this week.

There are betting markets open for which of the girls will win The Bachelor, but we want you to come up with other things to bet on.

If your team name offers odds on things that may or may not happen on The Bachelor you will get a bonus point.

There is a gratuitous cleavage shot 1-1000

One of the girls gets a reality series within 6 months 2-1

Actual catfight 10-1

Minor disagreement gets edited by the producers to make it look like an actual catfight 1-10

The couple breaks up within a year but use the fame they attained on the show to further their own careers – Even

Anything that gives odds on events on The Bachelor will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 5 August 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 came in last place but still knew enough about 90210 to win the jackpot.

These guys knew enough Mexican history to win a jackpot on their first show ever.

And these guys won both first place AND the jackpot. They had a pretty good night.

TEAM NAMES

Here you are putting a positive spin on a bunch of nasty characters.

Stalin brought incarcerated people into the workforce

Stalin reduced obesity

Judas was doing God’s work

Darth Vader offered his son a position in the family business

Cruella De Ville had great fashion sense

Ivan Milat: Australia’s first (and best) Uber drive

Ivan Milat always picked up hitchhikers

Ivan Milat increased tourism into Belanglo State Forest

Justin Beiber gets fat people dancing

Joseph Heiter (the Human Centipede guy): Bringing people closer together

Saruman: Making white the new black

Rolf Harris – Kind to animals

Sylvester really loved Tweety, but struggled with demonstrating his affection

School shooters get a lot of kids out of having to do their homework

Genghis Khan was a good father

Jeffrey Dahmer – Paleo before it was cool.

The Boogeyman: Keeping children safely tucked in bed since the dark ages

George Pell: Providing Sex Education to Children

Eddie Obeid boosted the Sydney property market

And finally…

Bill’s not such a dick because he finally put the Team Bagpuss team name on This Week in iQ Trivia

TRIVIART

Clever Phone

Yellow Yoda

Melting Iceman

Sexy Cheese

Sweaty Rose… There once was a stripper named Rose, who sweat from her tits to her toes.  She was paid by the hour, and named after a flower.  She’s the wettest of all of the hoes.

INTERESTING ANSWERS

We had to clarify that the sun is not a planet.

Someone thought that Donald Trump’s office is octagon shaped. (Wishful thinking perhaps?)

They team who wasn’t actually playing but assured us they had gotten almost everything right anyway. (Definitely wishful thinking?)

The girl on one team whose teammates didn’t believe her on a question about who Disney’s Aladdin is designed to look like. But on the upside, now she gets to feel smug for at least a week.

And finally… One of our regulars lost a bet last week over one of our questions, and had promised to get a tattoo.

She did it.

That subtle “gt” stands for garbage trash because she thought a Cranberries album was a Garbage album.

Now we’re instituting a new policy.

If you get a tattoo based on one of our questions, we will buy you a drink.

See you next week for more iQ Trivia.