the Weekly Blog wk06-2025
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?
This week's favourite one-liner
Why does my dog always think its for him when the doorbell rings?
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

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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)
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”?
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.