the Weekly Blog wk04-2025
G’Day mate! It’s Australia Day this week, so there is an Australia themed quiz included. Welcome to WEEKLY BLOG, available online and as a pdf download that you can print and take with you. Packed with additional content to assist quiz hosts, DJs and presenters.
Mid-week football taking place this week

Mon 20 Jan
8.00 Chelsea v Wolverhampton
Tue 21 Jan
5.45 Monaco v Aston Villa
8.00 Liverpool v Lille
Wed 22 Jan
8.00 Arsenal v Dinamo Zagreb
8.00 Celtic v Young Boys
8.00 PSG v Manchester City
Thu 23 Jan
5.45 Hoffenheim v Tottenham
8.00 Manchester United v Rangers
Australia Themed Quiz
Each week there is a great themed quiz , so you can include an extra round or simply use as additional quiz content. The answers are on the PDF download, just click the download button at the bottom of this page.
1 Which mammal, native to Australia, gives birth to the smallest babies, relative to the adult’s size?
2 What is separated from Australia by the Bass Strait?
3 In 2011, Cadel Evans became the first Australian to win which sporting event?
4 Julia Gillard was Australia’s first female what? Was she the first female pilot with Qantas, Australia’s first female chief of Police, Australia’s first female darts champion or Australia’s first female prime minister?
5 The Hunter Valley is Australia’s oldest producer of what?


6 In 2006, the Australia Zoo in Queensland became the final resting place of which Australian?
7 Which O is the vast, remote arid area of Australia?
8 Australian cricket star, Shane Warne, made his TV acting debut with a cameo role in which soap?
9 Does the Great Barrier Reef lie off the north, south, east or west coast of Australia?
10 Australia competes against which country for Rugby Union’s Bledisloe Cup?
This week's favourite one-liner
Fact of the day! Kerry Katona doesn’t actually own a cat.
This week in History
19 Jan 1915 Georges Claude patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
19 Jan 1937 Howard Hughes set a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
19 Jan 1966 Indira Gandhi became the first woman prime minister of India.
19 Jan 1978 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW’s plant in Emden.
19 Jan 1983 The Apple Lisa lunched, the first commercial personal computer from Apple to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse.
19 Jan 1986 The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild.
19 Jan 1993 Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
19 Jan 2024 Japan became the fifth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon.
20 Jan 1887 The US senate allowed the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
20 Jan 1929 The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, ‘In Old Arizona’, was released.
20 Jan 1936 King George V of the United Kingdom died and his eldest son succeeds to the throne, becoming Edward VIII.
20 Jan 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in for his second terms as US President.
20 Jan 1961 John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the youngest man to be elected into office, and the first Catholic.
20 Jan 1972 Pakistan launched its nuclear weapons program.
20 Jan 1981 Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th US President.
20 Jan 2009 Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th US President.
20 Jan 2021 Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th US President and at 78 the oldest person to take office.
21 Jan 1911 The first Monte Carlo Rally took place.
21 Jan 1950 Acclaimed author George Orwell died.
21 Jan 1954 The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched.
21 Jan 1960 Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifted off with a female rhesus monkey on board.
21 Jan 1976 Concorde’s commercial service began with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
21 Jan 1981 Production of the DeLorean sports car began in Northern Ireland.
21 Jan 1981 Iran freed 52 US hostages held for more than 14 months.
22 Jan 1901 Edward VII is proclaimed King following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
22 Jan 1924 Ramsay MacDonald became the UK’s first Labour Prime Minister.
22 Jan 1927 Teddy Wakelam gave the first live radio commentary of a football match between Arsenal and Sheffield United.
22 Jan 1968 Apollo 5 was launched carrying the first Lunar module into space.
22 Jan 1970 The Boeing 747, the world’s first jumbo jet, began a commercial service with Pan American Airways.
22 Jan 1973 George Foreman beat Joe Frazier to become World Heavyweight Champion.
22 Jan 1984 The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer was introduced during the Super Bowl TV ads.
22 Jan 2001 The MMR triple vaccine was declared safe.
23 Jan 1571 The Royal Exchange opened in London.
23 Jan 1909 RMS Republic became the first ship to use the CQD distress signal.
23 Jan 1912 The International Opium Convention was signed at The Hague.
23 Jan 1967 Milton Keynes was founded as a new town.
23 Jan 1978 Sweden became the first nation to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to the ozone layer.
23 Jan 1986 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its first members. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
23 Jan 1989 Salvador Dali died.
23 Jan 2003 A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 was detected for the last time, but no usable data was extracted.
23 Jan 2020 China locked down the city of Wuhan to help control the city’s COVID-19 epidemic.
24 Jan 1908 The first Boy Scout troop was set-up by Robert Baden-Powell.
24 Jan 1961 Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller were divorced.
24 Jan 1961 A bomber carrying two H-bombs broke up in mid-air over North Carolina. One bomb remains lost.
24 Jan 1966 Sir Winston Churchill died.
24 Jan 1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi was found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since WWII.
24 Jan 1986 The Voyager 2 space probe made its closest approach to Uranus.
24 Jan 1989 Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy was executed.
25 Jan 1533 King Henry VIII married his second wife Anne Boleyn.
25 Jan 1858 The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn was played at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Victoria.
25 Jan 1890 Nellie Bly completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
25 Jan 1918 The Ukrainian People’s Republic declared independence from Soviet Russia.
25 Jan 1924 The first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix.
25 Jan 1961 ‘101 Dalmatians’ made its big screen debut.
25 Jan 1980 Mother Teresa was honoured with India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
25 Jan 1995 Eric Cantona kung fu-kicked a Crystal Palace fan on after being sent off.
WHO’S CELEBRATING? This week’s birthdays
19 Jan Dolly Parton 79
19 Jan Jenson Button 45
20 Jan Buzz Aldrin 95
20 Jan Tom Baker 91
20 Jan Paul Stanley 73
20 Jan Heather Small 60
20 Jan Sophie, Countess of Wessex 60
20 Jan Gary Barlow 54
20 Jan Kirsty Gallacher 49
20 Jan Will Young 46
20 Jan Owen Hargreaves 44
20 Jan Mark Wright 38
21 Jan Jack Nicklaus 85
21 Jan Billy Ocean 75
21 Jan Nicky Butt 50
21 Jan Emma Bunton 49
21 Jan Phil Neville 48
21 Jan Brian O’Driscoll 46
21 Jan Luke Littler 18
22 Jan Steve Perry 76
22 Jan Linda Blair 66
22 Jan Nigel Benn 61
23 Jan Andrei Kanchelskis 56
23 Jan Arjen Robben 41
24 Jan Ray Stevens 86
24 Jan Neil Diamond 84
24 Jan Aaron Neville 84
24 Jan Jools Holland 67
24 Jan Luis Suarez 38
25 Jan Xavi 45
25 Jan Alicia Keys 44

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THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR
Here’s one that made me laugh but didn’t make it onto this week’s quizzes and was left on the cutting room floor. (answer on the pdf download)
What was the name of the actor Raymond Burr’s brother who was a lumberjack?
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