Weekly Blog wk04 2025 – including a Australia themed quiz

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

Check out these great blog posts. Some great ideas, tips and tricks on promoting, your pub quiz.

How to Increase Trade in your Pub

Creating a Pub Quiz Checklist

How to Add Table Top Quiz Rounds to your Pub Quiz

The Biggest Pub Quiz Mistakes as a Host

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?

Click below to download a PDF of this page.

Make sure to check back next week for a brand new Weekly Blog post. In the mean while check out this week’s quizzes. Brand new quiz content all ready to download and use on your quiz event.

Mega Quiz 20
Mega Quiz 40
Mega Quiz 40
Table Top Quiz A
Table Top Quiz B
Table Top Quiz C

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