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The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
Warning: This weeks team names are likely to be depressing.
For a bonus point this week, tell us a story.
A sad story.
And do it in just six words.
“We all want to forget something.”
“Who hurt you?” “My own expectations.”
“Burned the haystack. Found the needle.”
“Got to the pub. No beer.”
Any sad story in six words will get you a bonus point.
(Don’t worry, next week will be a lot happier.)
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
They knew enough about Swedish royalty, and almost screwed themselves over by changing their answer, but managed to hold off snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
They won a jackpot on only their second attempt, which means they’re likely to have high (and possibly unrealistic) hopes about whether they’ll be able to maintain their winning rate.
TEAM NAMES
How to describe the election with film titles?
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Trainwreck
Dick
A Few Good Men
The Empire Strikes Back
Great Expectations
Idiocracy
The Big Short
The Benchwarmers
Fear and Loathing in the Lower House
Scott Morrison Versus the World
Murdoch: The Phantom Menace
An Inconvenient Truth
No Country For Old Men
Die Hard
Groundhog Day
There Will Be Blood
Alien Versus Predator
Dumb and Dumber
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
TriviArt
Frigid Lampshade
Greasy Shovel
Gentle Member
Uber Mensch
Fat Bumbag
Dildoey Oranguntan Cheese
Creepy Balloon
INTERESTING MOMENTS
When putting events in order, someone concluded that American women got the right to vote while Genghis Khan was alive. Meh. What’s 700 years of history?
A Belgian player who knows nothing about Australian sport, managed to ace an Australian sport question ENTIRELY by good luck. THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T LEAVE THINGS BLANK PEOPLE!
We gave one team an anagram of Joe Pesci, and they could only managed “Joe Spice”, who they argued was the 6th Spice Girl and a secret ingredient in KFC.
And someone argued that our Gambler’s question was wrong. A few minutes later, one of their teammates came back to note that we were in fact correct all along, and that their teammate was an idiot. Yeah, we’re pretty diligent.
The election is over.
You probably have some feelings about it one way or the other.
For your team name this week, we want you to use a film title to describe how you feel about the election.
The Great Escape
12 Angry Men
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Usual Suspects
Apocalypse Now
Inglourious Basterds
Any film title that describes how you feel about the election 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
They knew a lot about electricity, and won cash.
TEAM NAMES
Here’s how you changed song lyrics.
I’m to sexy for my yurt
Little red courgette
Goodbye aubergine
Baby got crack
I got 99 problems but the rich ain’t one
I was made for loving poo
Everything I do, I do it for Prue
Christians let us all ring Joyce
Blue seal in the sky with diamonds
It’s a long way to the shops if you want a sausage roll
Apple bottom beans
Who lives in a pineapple by royal decree
Ilya’s mom has got a lacy thong
Lets get quizzical
The logical thong
Rap cod
Smack my twitch up
Highway to smell
Stairway to Devon
We will wok you
Don’t go Jason Waterfalls
Come on baby light my spire
I will let you down, I will make you curt
Hit me scabies one more time
TriviArt
Hairy Book (with actual hair from every team member)
Ferocious Shirt
Smashing Cones
Oily Flute
Irish Grief
Flowery Trump
INTERESTING MOMENTS
Abdul, one of our regulars, chose to have his birthday at trivia.
He had also chosen the special subject of his own birthday, which naturally, he and his friends aced.
When we asked for the most spoken language beginning with the letter B, more than one team answered “bullshit”. They’re not wrong.
We had to explain to one team that England does not begin with an I. (Well not in English.)
While we were doing a lightning round, one team was trying to photograph the answers off our answer sheet. For that, we assessed a penalty that left them with the lowest score ever at iQ Trivia, which was -1.
And in the same lightning round, one player dropped the ball on a question he really should have known. After the show we found out from his boss that next week he’s having his annual performance review, and that his mistake would be brought up. Yes, iQ Trivia is apparently branching off into HR consultancy.
See you next week.