A newspaper is printed on several sheets of paper and then folded down the middle. Each sheet of paper therefore contains four pages.
Your newspaper has 28 as the back page, but you notice that a sheet is missing. One of the missing pages is 8. What are the other three missing pages?
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Imagine three sealed envelopes.
One contains a cheque for $10, one contains a cheque for $100, and one contains a cheque for $1,000.
Envelope A says: A has more money than B. Envelope B says: B does not contain $10. Envelope C says: C has less money than B. The message on exactly one of the envelopes is a lie.
Where is the $1,000?
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We’ve just had another Australia Day, and so we’re going to have Australian themed team names this week.
From the Big Banana, to the Big Merino, to the Big Prawn, Australia has a lot of big things.
This week we want you to suggest another big thing Australia should have.
Big Nanny (for the nanny state)
Big Negatively Geared Investment Property
Big Revolving Door (of Prime Ministers)
Big Pretentious Hipster
Anything suggesting a new Big Thing for Australia will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
Here’s what you may have missed this week at iQ Trivia.
First of all, we have a new winner of the iQ Trivia Champions League.
And one of this week’s teams tied the record score at an iQ Trivia quiz, with 80 points.
Of course, they used their team name to heap scorn on the music bonus round, and then proceeded to get 5/5 on it.
From now on, if you’re going to slag off one of our bonus rounds, you had better have the good grace to fail at it.
WINNERS
If you won, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.
JACKPOTS
One team misspelled a region of Italy by a single letter & missed out on the jackpot. We confirmed the spelling, and they were one letter off on the English spelling, and a different letter off on the Italian spelling.
TEAM NAMES
We hope you’re all being good, because your versions of hell would be horrible.
Being stuck on an endless escalator with everyone standing on the right
Adam Sandler movies on an eternal loop
A never ending team meeting
The Kardashians being there
Sitting in a dentist’s chair in slight discomfort for all eternity
Coming in second at trivia every week
Trivia with only sports questions
Trivia with only music questions
Not having a pen at trivia
Being in a circumcision room with Edward Scissorhands
A spiky pineapple up the butt
Being a single woman in Braddon during Summernats
Cricket on Channel 7
Endless bus rides with Scott Morrison
Always having popcorn in your teeth
It’s 2018 again
Every morning you go to make a cup of tea & someone has used the last of the milk
Being Andrew Broad’s sugar baby
Phil Collins on a continuous loop
Barbie Girl on a loop
TriviArt
Loquacious Sun
Cluster of Fornicating Mountains
Juicy Beard
Smelly Cassowary
Sweaty Intestines
Spicy Dolphin
Serendipitous Post Office
INTERESTING MOMENTS
One team vandalised the Wikipedia page of Jonathan Thurston when the homework question asked for his middle name. It didn’t stay vandalised for long though, and everyone came up with the right answer in the end.
When we asked a question on Irish singers, we informed the crowd that Conor the Irishman at the bar was happy to give you the answer if you bought him a drink.
We asked what animal’s name is derived from Latin for hairy cat, and one team went with Platypus, because “plaity” describes a way you can wear your hair, and “puss” means cat.
When we asked one team to choose between two options on a 50/50 question, one player sagely noted “it’s definitely the first one… or the second.”
We allowed an Italian man named Marco to pronounce the names of Italian seasons, as his Italian pronunciation was marginally better than ours.
See you next week.
Which of the dots on the map below represents Broome?
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On this map of Australia, what colour dot marks Rockhampton?
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What Big Thing has been edited out of this photograph?
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Imagine you’ve died & gone to hell.
And it turns out that the devil has created a personal hell just for you.
For a bonus point this week, tell us what happens there.
Being trapped in a room with someone eating potato chips loudly.
Everything you say or do offends someone.
The only thing you ever have to drink is room temperature beer, but you can never get drunk.
There’s always someone silently looking over your shoulder while you’re on the internet.
Anything that describes your personal hell will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
Here’s what you may have missed this week at iQ Trivia.
WINNERS
If you won, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.
JACKPOTS
It was a big week for jackpots, with five going off. That’s a record for one week.
Both of these teams won their Monday jackpot after getting first prize.
The won a jackpot on account of knowing a lot about TS Eliot.
He knew a lot about Greek words & insects.
They benefited from having an Indian on the team when we asked about Indian languages, and won well over $200.
TEAM NAMES
Everyone is a snob about something. Here’s what you are snobs about.
If you say “expresso”, switch to tea
Actually it’s pronounced mo-ett
T20 Cricket is just Aussie baseball
Mocha is not coffee
Vegemite is not Marmite
Airplane food is NOT food
Communications co-ordinator is NOT a real job
If it doesn’t take 3 cops to arrest an old Asian dude, are you even a police force?
No spoilers
Trivia team names
Trivia vouchers should be usable on trivia night
If you can’t put together IKEA furniture, don’t consider yourself a Swede
I do law
My family only drive BMWs
I’m not paying cheap dollars to drink shit
The Irish could have had something other than potatoes
Just because it’s black & white doesn’t mean it’s good
Ban Comic Sans
TriviArt
Depressed Viking
Exuberantly Moist Apple
Israeli Giraffe
Porous Lady Gaga
Bootylicious Goat
Fizzy Cricket Bat
INTERESTING MOMENTS
Most of our players, it would seem, are worse at mathematics than primary school students in China, as a simple math problem given to Chinese pre-teens caused immense difficulty & frustration.
The blokiest team in one venue were thrilled that we asked a question on Gilmore Girls.
We asked if Bob Marley & Hitler were ever alive at the same time, and one team said yes, because there is no evidence that Hitler is dead. They were right, though not for the right reason.
When we asked people about the relative speed between a cricket delivery & Usain Bolt, an entire room full of trivia players spontaneously transformer into Stephen Hawking doing advanced calculus.
And a team of Doctor Who nerds will not soon live down failing to recognise David Tennant.
See you next week.
In the mid 1970s, a disruptive 15 year old student pulled a knife on a teacher in Newcastle, England.
The teacher punched him out.
Who was the teacher?
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