Weekly Blog wk06 2025 – including a football themed quiz

We all love a bit of footie and there is a free football themed quiz included this week. 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 3 Feb
8.00 Chelsea v West Ham United

Wed 5 Feb
8.00 Newcastle United v Arsenal

Thu 6 Feb
8.00 Liverpool v Tottenham

Football 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     European Champions, the England women’s football team go by which nickname?

2     Which footballer turned TV pundit is Frank Lampard’s cousin?

3     England’s most-capped footballer in the men’s game has scored how many goals during his international career?

4     What was the name of Celtic’s home ground before it was changed to Celtic Park?

5     Ella Toone and Chloe Kelly, the goal scorers in England’s win in the 2022 Euro Final, both play their club football in which city?

6     In which year was the first floodlit football match played at Wembley Stadium? Was it 1925, 1935, 1945 or 1955?

7     Who was the last male footballer to win the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year?

8      In which city would ‘The Owls’ play ‘The Blades’ in their local football derby match?

9      The face of which footballer appeared on 2.5million Newcastle Brown Ale bottles in 2006 to mark his retirement?

10    Which club currently has the youngest manager in the English Premier      League?

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This week in History

2 Feb 1814       The last River Thames frost fair came to an end.
2 Feb 1887       In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day was observed.
2 Feb 1901       Queen Victoria’s funeral took place at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor.
2 Feb 1922       Ulysses by James Joyce was published.
2 Feb 2004       Roger Federer became the No. 1 ranked men’s singles player, a position he held for a record 237 weeks.
2 Feb 1979       Sid Vicious died from a drugs overdose in New York.
2 Feb 1987       Peace envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped by a militia group in Beirut.

3 Feb 1959       Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and JP ‘The Big Bopper’ Richardson died in a plane crash.
3 Feb 1966       The Soviet Union made the first controlled landing of a space probe on the Moon.
3 Feb 1984       Doctor John Buster announced the first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
3 Feb 1995       Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle.

4 Feb 1944       The Daily Mail became the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic.
4 Feb 1971       Alan Shepard became the first to hit a golf ball on the moon.
4 Feb 1977       Fleetwood Mac released their 11th studio album ‘Rumours’.
4 Feb 2004       Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room.

5 Feb 1869       The largest gold nugget, called the ‘Welcome Stranger’, was found in Moliagul, Australia.
5 Feb 1907       Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland created Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic.
5 Feb 1919       Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and DW Griffith launched United Artists.
5 Feb 1924       The Royal Greenwich Observatory began broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
5 Feb 1939       Generalísimo Francisco Franco became the 68th leader of Spain.
5 Feb 1958       A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, georgia, and never found.
5 Feb 1969       The population of the USA passed the 200 million mark.
5 Feb 1971       Astronauts from the Apollo mission landed on the Moon.
5 Feb 1971       Judi Dench married Michael Williams.
5 Feb 1982       Laker Airways went bust.
5 Feb 1990       Rowan Atkinson married Sunetra Sastry in New York.
5 Feb 2020       President Donald Trump was acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
5 Feb 2020       Kirk Douglas died.

6 Feb 1819       Stamford Raffles founded Singapore as a British trading port.
6 Feb 1935       The Monopoly board game went on sale for the first time.
6 Feb 1948       Donald Bradman retired hurt in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia.
6 Feb 1952       Elizabeth II became Queen of the United Kingdom following the death of King George VI.
6 Feb 1958       Eight Manchester United players and 15 other passengers were killed in the Munich air disaster.
6 Feb 1959       Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
6 Feb 1988       Michael Jordan made his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
6 Feb 2005       Tony Blair became the longest-serving Labour PM, marking 2,838 days in the job.
6 Feb 2006       Stephen Harper became Prime Minister of Canada.
6 Feb 2018       SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch vehicle made its maiden flight.

7 Feb 1940       Walt Disney’s second full-length animated film, ‘Pinocchio’, has its premier.
7 Feb 1964       The Beatles landed at New York’s JFK airport, for their 1st US tour.
7 Feb 1969       The Who recorded ‘Pinball Wizard’ at Morgan Studio’s, London.
7 Feb 1979       Pluto moved inside Neptune’s orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
7 Feb 1984       Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L Stewart made the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
7 Feb 2005       Ellen MacArthur became the fastest person to sail solo around the world.

8 Feb 1926       Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio became Walt Disney Studios.
8 Feb 1960       The Hollywood Walk of Fame was founded.
8 Feb 1965       Motown Records released The Supremes’ single ‘Stop In the Name of Love’.
8 Feb 1968       ‘Planet of the Apes’ had its premiere in New York City.
8 Feb 1980       Angie Bowie divorced David Bowie after just under 10 years of marriage.
8 Feb 1983       Irish race horse Shergar was stolen.

WHO’S CELEBRATING? This week’s birthdays

2 Feb    David Jason 85
2 Feb    Ken Bruce 74
2 Feb    Duane Chapman 72
2 Feb    Erik Ten Hag 55
2 Feb    Michelle Gayle 54
2 Feb    Shakira 48
2 Feb    Jill Scott 38
2 Feb    Harry Winks 29

3 Feb    Warwick Davis 55
3 Feb    Amal Clooney 47
3 Feb    Sean Kingston 35

4 Feb    Alice Cooper 77
4 Feb    Oscar De La Hoya 52
4 Feb    Natalie Imbruglia 50
4 Feb    Rasmus Hojlund 22

5 Feb    Bobby Brown 56
5 Feb    Michael Sheen 56
5 Feb    Alison Hammond 50
5 Feb    Carlos Tevez 41
5 Feb    Cristiano Ronaldo 40
5 Feb    Neymar 33

6 Feb    Jimmy Tarbuck 85
6 Feb    Axl Rose 63
6 Feb    Rick Astley 59
6 Feb    Darren Bent 41

7 Feb    Terry Marsh 67
7 Feb    Mick McCarthy 66
7 Feb    Eddie Izzard 63
7 Feb    Chris Rock 60
7 Feb    Ashton Kutcher 47

8 Feb    Trinny Woodall 61
8 Feb    Curtis Pritchard 29

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)

If you spell “sitting in the tub” s-o-a-k, and you spell “a funny story” j-o-k-e, How do you spell “the white of an egg”?

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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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