Monthly Archives: July 2018

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 29 July 2018

We recently came across a website called Please Fire Me.

We’re sure you’ve got plenty of annoyances at your job, and that’s the criteria for your team name this week.

Tell us what bothers you enough to make you want to get fired.

As an example, someone asked us where to put the answer to question six. When we mentioned the space next to the number six, they responded “but I’ve already put something else there.”

Anything that explains why you might want to get fired will get you a bonus point.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 28 July 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 people won jackpots. One of them got their answer in before we finished reading the question, and being newbies, mistakenly said the answer out loud. Luckily for them, nobody but the host heard them.

TEAM NAMES

Here’s some people who didn’t do what they’ve been accused of.

I spoke to the person using their phone and they said they weren’t cheating.

I spoke to Britney and she didn’t do it again.

Lindy Chamberlain: I spoke to the Dingo and he said he didn’t do it.

Principal Skinner: I spoke to Bart and he says he didn’t do it.

CNN: I spoke to Lance Armstrong and he says he didn’t do it.

Hitler? Holocaust? Wasn’t me.

I asked Gary Glitter and he said he didn’t do it (whilst nodding and licking his lips).

We asked Hillary about her e-mails and she said she didn’t do it.

And several teams going with: I spoke to Shaggy, and he said it wasn’t him.

TRIVIART

Grimy Cork City

Colourful Dog Chairs

Glorious Blackboards

Running Apple

Breadly Grass

Gardening Dildo

Bouncy Bathtub

Moist Queen

INTERESTING MOMENTS

What’s one of the key ingredients in a Margarita? Regret. That not the answer we had written down, but for one of our players it was very, VERY true.

An Irish team had a hard time forgiving themselves after getting a question on potatoes wrong.

The “last place” team at one venue turned out to be a guy from France who excitedly ran up to us and answered a question on the YouTube video about Charlie the Unicorn, quite unaware that a quiz was going on. We gave him an honorary two points.

One of our venues gave out bonus points if you turned up wearing onesies.

And one team turned up to a fully booked trivia night, had nowhere to sit, and waited until trivia was over, when we gave them the quiz that they missed. We were not going to deny them the quiz they waited for for so long.

See you next week.

Meet Your Hosts – Alison O’Grady

Ally started off playing iQ Trivia, before deciding she was sufficiently sarcastic to be able to come on as a host.

She comes to us from Sydney’s inner west – but insists she doesn’t eat her smashed avocado on toast at any “trendy” cafes.

Cheeky, with a side of geek (or that may be geek, with a side of cheeky…) her skills include poker playing, Uno, and staying undetected in her work as a spy.

You can find Alison hosting on Tuesdays at The Horse in Surry Hills.

Interesting Question of the Day – 23 July 2018

We came across a list of largest economies per unit of land area.  That’s the highest GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) per square kilometre of land area, and were not counting countries smaller than 30,000 sqkm, or about half the size of Tasmania.  (So Monaco at $3 billion per square kilometre is out.)

Name three of the five countries with the highest GDP per square kilometre.

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 22 July

You’ve probably heard that American intelligence agencies have been accusing Putin’s Russia of meddling in the 2016 Presidential election.

But after talking with Putin, President Trump decided his intelligence agencies were wrong and that Putin didn’t do it.

And so dozens of memes were launched.

For your team name this week, tell us about someone else who “didn’t do it.”

George W Bush: I spoke to Osama, he says he didn’t do it.

Poland 1939: I spoke to Adolf, he says he didn’t do it.

Luke Skywalker: I spoke to the Emperor, he says he didn’t do it.

Tell us who was doing the talking, and who they think “didn’t do it” for a bonus point this week.

Have an interesting week.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 21 July 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.

This team insisted on singing a victory song.

JACKPOTS

Knowing about Prime Numbers can win you cash like it did for these teams.

TEAM NAMES

Apparently Australia would win the World Cup in…

Lockout Laws

Offshore Detention

Having the most venomous creatures

Slowest Construction

Goon of Fortune

Shoeys

Casual Racism

Latent Racism

Bogan-ness

Calling everyone a c&nt and getting away with it

Taking Sickies

Being Sore Losers

Melanoma

Ball Tampering

Drunks Taking a Shopping Trolley Through the Maccas Drive Thru

TRIVIART

Sticky Spider Fishing off a Turtle

Pretty Pig

Dogs Attending Furry Convention

Sparkly Puddle

Crunchy Feet

Awkward Paddle Pop

Bongs on Magic Carpets

Green Stroke

INTERESTING MOMENTS

When we asked about the main Coles logo, one team looked across the street to a Coles sign… and got it wrong because what they saw was NOT the MAIN Coles logo. Don’t believe everything you see.

In response to a question on the spiky shoes used in ice climbing, one team made up primarily of people from Sweden gave us the answer in Swedish, and got a point because we checked and isbrodd was the RIGHT Swedish word.

We asked about the number of claps in the Friends theme tune, and all you could hear for the next couple of minutes was random outbursts of clapping.

After we played a the song “Boys Like You” which includes the lyrics “your friends will tell you stay away because I’ve slept around” one team guessed that one of the artists was Rolf Harris. (Note: The ruthless mockery of abusive asshats like Rolf Harris is ALWAYS acceptable.)

The Big Dipper was described as “that cosmic saucepan.”

One team speculated that King Francis I of France put the Mona Lisa in his bathroom, so he could have something to… shall we say… pleasure himself to. We bet you’ll never look at the Mona Lisa the same way again.

To answer a bonus question, one team guessed “about the size” knowing full well it was wrong, just so our host would say the words “it’s not about the size.”

When offered a beer or bonus point at one of our quizzes, one team asked if there was a third option, and if they could have a hug. And hugs were had.

See you next week.