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Weekly Blog wk11 2024 – including a FREE 90’s Pop themed quiz
Mar
the Weekly Blog wk11
Hi there! There is a FREE 90’s Pop 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 11 Mar
8.00 Chelsea v Newcastle United
Tue 12 Mar
8.00 Arsenal v FC Porto
8.00 Barcelona v Napoli
Wed 13 Mar
7.30 Bournemouth v Luton Town
7.45 Dundee v Aberdeen
Thu 14 Mar
5.45 Rangers v Benfica
5.45 West Ham United v SC Freiburg
8.00 Brighton v Roma
8.00 Liverpool v Sparta Prague
8.00 Aston Villa v Ajax
90's Pop 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 deodorant brand recorded a huge surge in sales when it was
featured in the title of a 1991 classic by Nirvana?
2. What does SWV stand for in the name of the 90s R&B trio?
3. Which singer has won several Grammy Awards, including ‘Album of the
Year’ for ‘Jagged Little Pill’ in 1995?
4. Melanie Jayne Chisholm found fame as a member of which band?
5. In 1997, which band’s, ‘Fat Of The Land’ album debuted at No.1 in more
than 20 countries including the UK and the US?
6. Who delivered the line “I get up when I want, except on Wednesdays,
when I get rudely wakened by the dustmen”? (in ‘Parklife’ by Blur)
7. Which one-hit wonder topped the Singles Chart in 1997 with ‘Your
Woman’?
8. How many solo UK No.1 singles did Bryan Adams have during the 90s?
9. What was the name of Green Day’s 1994 album that went on to sell over
20 million copies worldwide?
10. Which pop duo were ‘Sweet Like Chocolate’ in 1999?
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This week's favourite one-liner
My friend went bald several years ago but still carries that old comb with him… He just can’t part with it.
This week in History
10 Mar 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call.
10 Mar 1988 Prince Charles narrowly avoided death as an avalanche hit the royal ski party.
10 Mar 1997 ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ starring Sarah Michelle Geller made its TV debut.
10 Mar 2015 The family of Marvin Gaye won a record $7.3 million lawsuit for music copyright infringement against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and T.I.
11 Mar 1702 The Daily Courant, England’s first national daily newspaper, was first published.
11 Mar 1983 Bob Hawke was appointed Prime Minister of Australia.
12 Mar 1894 Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
12 Mar 1969 Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register’s Office in London.
13 Mar 1961 Pablo Picasso married his model Jacqueline Rocque.
13 Mar 1996 Sixteen children and their teacher died in the Dunblane massacre.
13 Mar 2019 Boeing grounded their 737 Max aircraft following the plane type’s second crash.
14 Mar 2017 Muirfield, the world’s oldest golf club, voted to admit women as members for the first time in its 273 year history.
14 Mar 2018 Stephen Hawking died.
15 Mar 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated.
15 Mar 1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage to the New World.
15 Mar 1820 Maine became the 23rd US state.
15 Mar 1964 Elizabeth Taylor tied the knot for the fifth time marrying Richard Burton.
15 Mar 1964 Jack Ruby was convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald.
15 Mar 1972 ‘The Godfather’ starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino had its premiere.
15 Mar 1985 symbolics.com was the first Internet domain name to be registered.
15 Mar 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
15 Mar 2010 Sacha Baron Cohen married Isla Fisher.
16 Mar 1872 The Wanderers FC won the first FA Cup.
16 Mar 1978 Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two off the coast of Brittany causing the largest oil spill in history at that time.
16 Mar 2012 Sachin Tendulkar became the first batter to score 100 centuries in international cricket.
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WHO’S CELEBRATING? This week’s birthdays
Tyrone Mings 31
Coco Gauff 20
Quincy Jones 91
Michael Caine 91
Billy Crystal 76
Will I Am 49
Paul Pogba 31
Rob Lowe 60
Bad Bunny 30
Carrie Underwood 41
Robin Thicke 47
Jodie Comer 31
Pete Doherty 45
Kurt Russell 73
Queen Latifah 54
Emma Willis 48
Bruce Willis 69
Glenn Close 77
Adam Clayton 64
Eva Longoria 49
Jasper Carrott 79
Liza Minnelli 78
Graham Coxon 55
Jack Harlow 26
Blu Cantrell 48
Phil Vickery 48
Penny Lancaster 53
Jimmy Nail 70
Theo Walcott 35
Ron Atkinson 85
Jeff Stelling 69
Peter Jones 58
Marvin Humes 39
Johnny Knoxville 53
John Barrowman 57
Bobby McFerrin 74
Danny Jones 38
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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)
Which word is always spelled wrong in the dictionary?
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