Someone Using Barack Obama's Name and Image Won HQ Trivia
If you've been playing HQ, the app that livestreams a trivia game to your phone two times a day (on weekdays; once a day on weekends), you may have noticed a familiar name and face on the winner board after Wednesday night's game: Barack Obama.
Out of the 91 trivia game winners, who split the $2,000 cash prize for a grand total of $21.98, players noticed that one particular HQtie who conquered 12 savage questions had the username "Obama" along with an image of the 44th President of the United States as their profile pic. Okay, so there's no indication that this person is actually Obama. After all, if the former POTUS were spending his post–White House life playing trivia games on his iPhone (which no one would judge him for) there's no guarantee that he would use his real name and photo. But to be fair, Obama would objectively be a strong HQ competitor if he felt compelled to spend his afternoons and evenings answering 12 questions with a 10-second time limit — he did graduate from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Plus, it's nice to imagine Sasha and Malia introducing everyone's favorite dad to Quiz Daddy aka HQ host Scott Rogowsky.
What we do know is that Obama spent his first year out of office vacationing in Palm Springs, California, and the British Virgin Islands with Richard Branson, only to be deeply missed by many a Twitter user back home. The former president has also been hanging out in New York City, drinking lattes and wearing chic leather jackets — basically living his best life. And though Obama mostly kept to himself over the past year, his first post–White House interview just recently aired on Netflix as the first episode of David Letterman's My First Guest Needs No Introduction. Good news: He still makes the best dad jokes.
So if you are enjoying the responsibility of a normal, nonsecure iPhone for the first time, Mr. President, let's get down to the nitty gritty. See some very confused and delighted HQtie reactions to the potential, albeit unlikely, HQ Obama sighting, below.
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