Name the country from the flag, and which one is correct?
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 17 November 2019
Whenever it’s International Women’s Day, you can be sure someone will ask why there isn’t International Men’s Day.
Well there is, and it’s this Tuesday on 19 November.
And for your team name this week, we want you to tell us the most stereotypically manly way you can think of to spend International Men’s Day.
Lift weights and work on a vintage car
Live four years less than a woman born the same year
Go to Bunnings to buy power tools I will never actually use
Shave and get drunk, because advertising assures me I’m already brilliant.
Any stereotypically manly way to spend International Men’s Day will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
This Week in iQ Trivia – 16 November 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
It took them two questions, but they took home the jackpot.
And they took first place, a jackpot, and were the sole dissenting voice in the dilemma question. You’re allowed to hate on these guys.
TEAM NAMES
You had a lot of examples of things that are shown in a wildly unrealistic way in films.
Jesus’ ethnicity
Sales assistants own warehouse conversions in Brooklyn
30 year old teenagers
I’ve just been shot, but yeah, I can scale a building
Walking away from explosions
Australian accents
Combustible cars
Nobody poos
Dying one day from retirement
Nobody says umm
Where is the paperwork
The representation of gender
Every sex scene
Sex – like seriously… no way in hell does it take the guy 0.2 seconds to get hard & manage to “slip it in” immediately into the girl, who, for some reason, is never wearing underwear
Literally everything in a Bollywood film
Slipping on a banana peel
Nobody solves crime in their spare time
Getting a parking spot every time
Tom Cruise’s Tom Hanks’ John Travolta’s sexuality
Everyone is white
Housing affordability
You can break a padlock by shooting it
White people always solve racism
TriviArt
Fabulous Pair
Windy Australia
Flamboyant Pork Belly Dildo
Painting Tomato
Funny Eggplant
Scary Banana
Saucy Hotel
INTERESTING MOMENTS
RuPaul was described as “that drag queen who features in Taylor Swift’s music video ‘You need to calm down’… which, as we confirmed, is correct.
On the other hand, one team described the discus as “that heavy frisbee thing”.
We hinted that there would be a “Butterfly” question. One team wedged “butterfly” into three answers, but not the one that actually applied to butterflies.
When looking for the most common words ending in “off”, we got a window into our teams, some of whom went with Hasslehoff, Smirnoff, and jackoff.
A new team misunderstood the gambler’s question, and thought you got an automatic five points for getting it right. NOOOOOOOOPE!
And a veteran team dropped the ball by misreading the homework question an giving us a list of Israeli Prime Ministers rather than Presidents.
See you next week.
Interesting Question of the Day – 15 November 2019
On Wednesday we asked about the origins of the Jamaican Bobsled team.
Their best performance was in the 1994 Winter Olympics. Where did they place?
The first new player to comment on the website with two places of the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
Interesting Question of the Day – 13 November 2019
The Jamaican Bobsled team famously competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Were the athletes in their crew Jamaican expats who had been living in Canada for many years, Jamaican sprinters cut from the Summer Olympic team, or Jamaican military personnel?
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
Interesting Question of the Day – 11 November 2019
A fan theory holds that The Walking Dead is a sequel to what other TV series?
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 10 November 2019
We’re dealing with films this week.
Specifically, with your team name, tell us what is always shown unrealistically in films?
Ugly people in movies are better looking than most people in real life.
Nobody ever says goodbye on the phone.
Shooting hundreds of bullets without having to reload.
When divorced couples get back together. Come on! You got divorced for a reason!
Silencers aren’t silent in real life.
Literally anything about hacking.
Anything that is wildly unrealistic about movies will get you a bonus point.
Have an interesting week.
This Week in iQ Trivia – 9 November 2019
If you won, here’s evidence just in case anyone doesn’t believe you.
JACKPOTS
We nearly gave away a jackpot on a question on Austrian scientists, but someone guessed that the namesake of Mach numbers was Ernest Mach, rather than Ernst Mach. (They ever wrote down Ernst, before crossing it out and going with Ernest.)
TEAM NAMES
Most of you offered a lot of assistance to aliens looking to abduct you. Here’s what you suggested would work to get you in a trap.
Limited stock of a cheaper item at Aldi
Bottomless beer & crosswords
Unlimited wine
Mustard & hot sauce
Sour straps
Haloumi
Something shiny
An infusion of wormwood with powdered root and asphodel
Tom Waits on a unicycle (for some reason)
Unlimited Air Miles
Free wi-fi
Never having to hear Ed Sheeran again
Free probing
A will to live
Hanging out with Mulder
Unlimited trivia wins
Stable government
Affordable housing
And one team responded with… SCREW YOU AND YOUR BONUS POINT iQ TRIVIA! There’s no way we’re helping you with the alien invasion of Earth!
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TriviArt
Unsanitary Pressure
Purple Elephant
Bouncy Dart
Horny Garlic Bread
Washing Raccoons
INTERESTING MOMENTS
When one host came down with tonsillitis, we arranged a fill in on 60 minutes notice.
We asked for countries within 1,500km of a famous site in India, and one team forgot to say India, despite us giving fairly obvious hints.
Zooey Deschanel of New Girl was described as “the sister of that chick from Bones”, which wasn’t exactly what we were looking for, but which wasn’t actually incorrect.
Upon hearing a song by N’Sync, one team answered that it was “The Backstreet Boys” or N’Sync which are basically the same band.
The name of Thor’s hammer was given as “Ron Jeremy.”
And for Melbourne Cup day, one of our shows increased the number of gambler’s questions from one to four. Australians, it seems, really like to gamble.
See you next week.
Interesting Question of the Day – 8 November 2019
Name the Best Picture Oscar winning film shown here at the 30 minute mark.
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.
Interesting Question of the Day – 7 November 2019
Name the Best Picture Oscar winning film shown here at the 30 minute mark.
The first new player to comment on the website with the correct answer wins a free drink at their next iQ Trivia show.