Monthly Archives: May 2019

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 26 May 2019

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.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 25 May 2019

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.

See you next week.

Team Name Bonus Point – Week of 19 May 2019

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.

This Week in iQ Trivia – 18 May 2019

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.