Monthly Archives: December 2017

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 31 December 2017

By the time you turn up to trivia, 2018 will have started.

And to mark the occasion we want your team name to be a prediction for 2018.

But we don’t want to tax you too much on this, so were looking for an obvious prediction.

More politicians will be taken down by dual citizen rules.

Another celebrity will be outed as a sexual predator.

Someone will get killed on Game of Thrones.

If your team name is an obvious prediction for 2018, you will get a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 30 December 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.

One of our teams left before we could get a photograph, but their team name referred to their immense pride at being given a free peach while walking towards trivia, so we chose this photo. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that they woman in this photo was one their team.

TRIVIART

Saucy Elvis

Flagrant Balloon

Proposing Dog

Jumping Kipper

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Someone forgot to do their homework, and guessed that Jamie Oliver’s children were named Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, and Onion (which are all actually less ridiculous than the names he actually gave them.)

One of our hosts got engaged, and one of their teams of regulars speculated that it was his proposal and not two koalas fighting that stopped traffic in Adelaide.

And one team chose the team name Black Cocks (a reference to the New Zealand badminton team) not knowing that it technically fit the criteria for the team name bonus point of naming your proudest accomplishment from the previous year.

See you in 2018.

Interesting Question of the Day – 29 December 2017

This question is about Oskar, who was on board the German battleship Bismarck when it sank in May 1941, then was aboard the British destroyer Cossack when it sank in October, and the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal when it sank the following month.

What is unusual about Oskar?

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

Interesting Question of the Day – 27 December 2017

A year long study published in 2014 aimed at determined that Wannabe by the Spice Girls was the catchiest song of all time (meaning people were able to identify it in the least time.)

Name one of the three artists who have songs that appear on the list of the catchiest songs twice.

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

This Week in iQ Trivia – 23 December 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

Two teams knew a lot about Italian airports, but only one had entered the jackpot round and took home the cash.

TEAM NAMES

TRIVIART

Red Argentina

Superfluous Tree

INTERESTING MOMENTS

One team got a bonus point on question on the Beer Mile because they had successfully completed the Beer Mile. (That’s four beers and four 400m laps as fast as you can.)

When trying to name countries spelled using the letters NA, teams tried to get away with Espana, and Narnia, because we didn’t say the countries had to be spelled in English or be real.

As evidence that the more thinking you do tends to result in better trivia performance, we present the extensive notes taken by one of our winning teams trying to figure out the curlier questions.

One team was sufficiently invested in a question about how buttered toast falls, that they attempted to put their theories to the test by letting coasters fall to the ground.

Two guys from Sweden were able to guess two AFL Grand Final winning teams named after things that can fly. (And they did better than some of the Australians in attendance.)

And a team of newbies learned that you shouldn’t yell out the answer to a bonus question, because someone else is likely to write down the answer and beat you to the prize.

A number of venues are taking a break for Christmas next week, but if you need your trivia fix, Old Canberra Inn, The Horse, and the Bavarian Bier Cafe in Chatswood will be running next Tuesday, and The Oxford is still planning a show on Wednesday.

See you next week.