the Weekly Blog wk17-2025
Around 50,000 runners will pound the streets of London next weekend for the 2025 London Marathon and there’s a FREE Marathon themed quiz you can include on your quiz. 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 21 April
8.00 Tottenham v Nottingham Forest
Tuesday 22 April
8.00 Manchester City v Aston Villa
Wed 23 April
8.00 Arsenal v Crystal Palace
Marathon 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 What colour line marks the 26-mile marathon route through the streets of London?
2 The Marathon chocolate bar changed its name to what in 1990?
3 Which one of the following has not been a sponsor of the London Marathon? Gillette, Cadbury, Nutrasweet and Flora?
4 First run in 1897, which city is home to the world’s oldest annual marathon?
5 Excluding the Olympic Games, in what year was the first London Marathon run?


6 In 490BC, Phidippides is reputed to have run between Marathon and which city?
7 The total distance of the marathon is 26 miles and how many yards?
8 The 2004 Olympic Games stadium in Athens, was named after which athlete who won the marathon at the first modern Olympics in 1896?
9 How many times do the runners cross the Thames in the London Marathon?
10 How many official world records were broken during last year’s London Marathon? Was it 4, 5 or 45?
This week in History

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great ideas, tips and tricks on promoting your pub quiz
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)
Why did the band A Flock Of Seagulls never play in the Middle East?
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