Monthly Archives: March 2018

This Week in iQ Trivia – 17 March 2018

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 four finally won $130 that had been building up for a while.

These four cashed in when one of them read an article by a Swedish medical schools the same day we asked a question on that same Swedish medical school.

This lot continued the week of winning jackpots.

We weren’t able to build up the jackpot at The Crown, because one of our teams won it at our first show there.

TEAM NAMES

Here are the myriad of ridiculous marketing claims you made.

Kosher Bacon

Chakra Cleansing Cocaine

Cruelty Free Crops

Scrotum free cereal

Honest Politicians

Gluten free Blockchain

Clean coal

Meat free tofu

Oxygen – 100% fat free, gluten free, cruelty free

Paleo Bread

Edible Tide Pods

Nutella: Less sugar than pure sugar

TRIVIART

Spicy Beer

Hairy Glacier

Excruciating Grass

Rectal Memes

Breathtaking Ship

Dreamy Umbrella

INTERESTING MOMENTS

Teams suggested a group of ponies should be called a “prance” or a “sparkle” of ponies.

A number of players who worked with mortgages for a living came nowhere near correctly answering a bonus question on the chance of mortgage defaults.

One team misheard our instruction to list the oldest and the newest out of a set of bridges, but more than redeemed themselves by naming all of the bridges in order of age.

A man visiting from India confirmed the meaning of the Indian expression “prepone” when nobody believed our host.

We turned around a row of crisp packets so people couldn’t cheat on the colours of crisp packets.

We asked a question on someone searching for lookalikes of Barnaby Joyce & Vikki Campion to make porn, and someone guessed that the lookalikes were of Donald Trump & Stephen Hawking. This is the most appalling thing to happen at iQ Trivia in quite a while.

One of our teams did an extensive proof, far beyond what was required by a simple math question.

A number of teams guessed that the element named for Marie Curie’s homeland was Plutonium. For the record, she was from Poland, not Pluto.

One team complained that we never asked questions on opera. We then asked a question on opera, which they got wrong.

One player demonstrated her devotion to the trivial arts by turning up despite a broken foot.

See you next week.

This is iQ Trivia… NOT IQ Trivia Live

Earlier this week we started getting dozens of Facebook likes from India.

In fact, this week is already the biggest week in the history of the iQ Trivia website, and it’s only Thursday, and a lot of those hits are from India.

We weren’t sure what to make of it, but it turns out that someone has started an app in India where you answer questions and win money.

We’ve had a few complaints that payments haven’t been coming through, a five star review saying how much fun we are, and Wednesday’s Interesting Question of the Day was first correctly answered by someone named Hitansh Munjal.  (Hitansh, if you identify yourself to us tonight at our first show at The Crown in Surry Hills you’ll have a drink coming your way.

So for the record, if you’ve come here looking for IQ Trivia Live hosted by Shilpa Shetty Kundra and Rohit Roy, you can find them here.

If you’re looking for Australia’s Most Interesting Trivia (that will under no circumstances give you Rupees for answering questions), then you’ve come to the right place.

Have an interesting week!

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 11 March 2018

Recently someone was hawking organic water.

We hope the marketing geniuses who came up with that come to trivia this week, because we are giving out a bonus point if your team name is a ridiculous marketing claim.

Gluten free petrol

GMO free water

Free range wheat

Pretty much anything that mentions crystals or toxins or chakras

Any marketing claim that approaches this level of silliness will get a bonus point.

And just to make sure our trivia doesn’t leave anyone out, this week’s quizzes will be gluten free!

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 10 March 2018

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 two came in last place in the quiz, but knew enough (or guessed well enough) on Indian food to win other people’s money in the jackpot.

TEAM NAMES

There were plenty of warnings you thought shouldn’t be necessary

Hot Lava. No Swimming.

Don’t iron while wearing shirt

Please do not drink toilet water

This beef is not vegan friendly

Don’t aim fireworks at people

Tuna may contain fish

Don’t eat packing peanuts

Lady boys may contain traces of dick

Drag Queens may contain nuts

Objects may be smaller than they appear online

Excessive consumption of water or alcohol may lead to drowning

Pavlova may contain eggs

Don’t eat your answer sheet

Employees must wash hands

Viagra: Not for use by children

Nurofen for Children: Keep out of reach of children

When a jar of peanuts says “may contain nuts”

Suppository not to be taken orally

TRIVIART

Claustrophobic E

Equinine Frog

Squiggly Horse

Necrophiliac Carrots

Brown Marilyn Monroe

Underwhelming Shit

Confused Manchester

INTERESTING MOMENTS

We overheard one player say “well I’ve got one question right, and I’m going to coast on that for the rest of the night.” EXACTLY the correct reaction two questions in.

A team of drunk English tourists came in last place, but not before earning themselves a bonus point for singing John Denver’s “Take Me Home Country Roads.”

When asked for the new Deputy Prime Minister, one team responded with “definitely not Barnaby Joyce” which is technically correct.”

Instead of bone spurs in his heel, one team guessed that Donald Trump was medically ruled of of the draft for Vietnam because his hands were too cartoonishly small to hold a gun.

Doctor Who actor Matt Smith was identified as “that Skynet guy from Terminator Genisys.”

When asked for the author and book a literary quote came from, one team hedged their bets and said JK Rowling’s The Art of War.

A visiting tourist from West Virginia recognised a number of towns and cities as being from his home state, told one of the teams that was playing, who dutifully donated their free beer to him.

And one British team was struggling with some of the Australian content on one of our quizzes, so instead of naming the four most recent Australian Prime Ministers with an H in their surname, we allowed them to give us the last four British Prime Ministers with an H in their name (and then proceeded to look up the answer ourselves.)

See you next week.

Interesting Question of the Day – 7 March 2018

We’re going to give you five names and five occupations.  Match the names to the occupation that has a disproportionally high number of practitioners with that name.  (We’re using a 2015 analysis from America.)

The names are: Abigail, Hugo, Jeff, Travis, and Vanessa

The occupations are: Car Salesman, Graphic Designer, Librarian, Meteorologist, and Photographer.

The first new player to comment on the website and match them up correctly wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.