the Weekly Blog wk07
Hi there, It’s St Valentine’s Day this week and there is a FREE Love Is In The Air 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 12 Feb
8.00 Crystal Palace v Chelsea
Tue 13 Feb
8.00 FC Copenhagen v Manchester City
8.00 RB Leipzig v Real Madrid
Wed 14 Feb
8.00 Lazio v Bayern Munich
8.00 PSG v Real Sociedad
7.45 Aberdeen v Motherwell
7.45 Rangers v Ross County
Love Is In There Air 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 If Love is tattooed across the knuckles of one hand what is likely to be tattooed across the knuckles of the other hand?
2 According to the song what does love and marriage go together like?
3 Which sweet company make Love Hearts, Parma Violets and Drumstick lollies, to name a few?
4 ‘Je t’aime’ means I love you in which language?
5 Which US sporting show-piece usually takes place close to Valentine’s Day?
6 Which flowers are traditionally given in a symbol of love?
7 In which classic novel by Emily Bronte does Heathcliff fall in love with Catherine Earnshaw?
8 What is the name of the cruise liner in the classic TV series ‘The Love Boat’?
9 Which hit musical is the story of a bride-to-be and her bid to find her real father by inviting three of her mother’s former lovers to her Greek wedding?
10 Which song, that was a hit in three different decades, was inspired by Eric Clapton’s love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his good friend George Harrison?
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This week's favourite one-liner
My glasses keep steaming up, but I remain mistyoptic.
This week in History
11 Feb 1534 Henry VIII was recognised as supreme head of the Church of England.
11 Feb 1808 Jesse Fell burned anthracite on an open grate as an experiment to heat homes with coal.
11 Feb 1858 The first vision of the Virgin Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette at Lourdes.
11 Feb 1975 Margaret Thatcher replaced Edward Heath as leader of the Tory Party.
11 Feb 1976 John Curry won Britain’s first Olympic gold medal at the Winter games for 12 years.
11 Feb 1990 Nelson Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison after 27 years as a political prisoner.
11 Feb 1990 Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson in ten rounds to win boxing’s world Heavyweight title.
11 Feb 2012 Whitney Houston died.
12 Feb 1771 Gustav III became the King of Sweden.
12 Feb 1947 French fashion designer Christian Dior presented his first influential collection, named the ‘New Look’.
12 Feb 1963 Construction began on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
12 Feb 1993 Two-year-old James Bulger was abducted from a Shopping Centre in Liverpool.
12 Feb 2001 NASA landed the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft on an asteroid for the first time.
13 Feb 1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII was executed for adultery.
13 Feb 1974 Boxer George Foreman and Adrienne Calhoun were divorced after almost 3 years of marriage.
13 Feb 1978 Anna Ford became ITN’s first female newsreader.
13 Feb 2021 Former President Donald Trump was acquitted in his second impeachment trial.
14 Feb 1779 James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
14 Feb 1852 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children was founded in London.
14 Feb 1859 Oregon became the 33rd state of the USA.
14 Feb 1876 Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone, as did Elisha Gray.
14 Feb 1912 Arizona became the 48th state of the USA.
14 Feb 1929 Seven people died in what became known as the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
14 Feb 1946 The Bank of England was nationalised.
14 Feb 1978 The first “micro on a chip” was patented by Texas Instruments.
14 Feb 1984 Torvill and Dean famously performed to Ravel’s “Bolero” at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics.
14 Feb 1990 The Voyager 1 spacecraft took the photograph of the Earth that became known as Pale Blue Dot.
14 Feb 2003 Dolly the Sheep died.
14 Feb 2005 YouTube was launched by a group of college students.
14 Feb 2018 Jacob Zuma resigned as President of South Africa.
15 Feb 1923 Greece became the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
15 Feb 1965 Nat King Cole died.
15 Feb 1971 The UK and Ireland switched to decimal currency.
16 Feb 1659 The first known cheque was written. (for £400 and now on display at Westminster Abbey)
16 Feb 1923 Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
16 Feb 1959 Fidel Castro became Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
16 Feb 1982 Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett Majors were divorced.
17 Feb 1904 Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly” had its premiere in Milan.
17 Feb 1924 Johnny Weissmuller set a 100m world freestyle record of 57.4 seconds.
17 Feb 1959 Vanguard 2 the first weather satellite was launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
17 Feb 1972 British Parliament voted to join the European Common Market.
17 Feb 2002 Joan Collins married Percy Gibson at Claridge’s Hotel in London.
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WHO’S CELEBRATING? This week’s birthdays
Robbie Williams 50
Katie Hopkins 49
Aston Merrygold 36
Memphis Depay 30
Peter Gabriel 74
Becky Hill 30
Simon Pegg 54
Christian Eriksen 32
Edison Cavani 37
Matt Groening 70
The Weeknd 34
Ava Max 30
Amanda Holden 53
Valentino Rossi 45
Christopher Eccleston 60
Michael Jordan 61
Ed Sheeran 33
Paris Hilton 43
Billie Joe Armstrong 52
Dr Dre 59
John Travolta 70
Matt Dillon 60
Yoko Ono 91
Seal 61
Prince Andrew 64
Smokey Robinson 84
John McEnroe 65
Peter Hook 68
Sonia Evans 53
Kevin Keegan 73
Jane Seymour 73
Ali Campbell 65
Rebecca Adlington 35
Gary Neville 49
Jermaine Jenas 41
Prue Leith 84
Michael Buerk 78
Tony Iommi 76
Ray Winstone 67
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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 type of dog can sniff-out liquorice allsorts?
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