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Weekly Blog wk23 2024 – including a FREE Manchester themed quiz
May
the Weekly Blog wk23
There’s is a fab Manchester 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
No major mid-week football on TV this week
Manchester 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 is the name of the large shopping centre in Manchester city centre, built in phases between 1972 and 1979 at a cost of £100 million?
2 HM Prison Manchester is better known by what name?
3 Which town in Greater Manchester has been home to the world pie eating championships since 1992?
4 Which famous female political activist was born in Moss Side in 1858?
5 Which Manchester band took their name from the World War 2 slang term for a military brothel for German officers on leave?
6 Located in Manchester, what is the name of the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?
7 Which fruity soft drink was created in Manchester by John Noel Nichols, in 1908?
8 Which big name cereal brand has a factory in Trafford Park?
9 The world’s only swing aqueduct at Barton carries which canal over the Manchester Ship Canal?
10 How long is Manchester’s famous curry mile? Quarter of a mile, half a mile, three quarters of a mile or one mile?
This week's favourite one-liner
I never believed my dad was stealing from his job as a road worker. But when I got home, all the signs were there.
This week in History
02 June 1835 PT Barnum and his circus began their first tour of the United States.
02 June 1910 Rolls Royce co-founder Charles Rolls became the first to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
02 June 1953 The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey.
02 June 1962 Ray Charles released a cover of Don Gibson’s ‘I Can’t Stop Loving You’.
02 June 1976 Lester Piggott won his 7th Derby.
03 June 1937 The Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson.
03 June 1976 Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ went gold.
03 June 1988 ‘Big’ starring Tom Hanks was released.
03 June 2012 The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II took place on the River Thames.
03 June 2016 Muhammad Ali died.
04 June 1896 Henry Ford had a successful test run of the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile.
04 June 1913 Suffragette Emily Davison ran in front of King George V’s horse at The Derby and died four days later.
04 June 1977 JVC introduced their VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago.
04 June 1984 Bruce Springsteen released his seventh studio album ‘Born in the USA’.
05 June 1956 Elvis Presley first performed his new single ‘Hound Dog’ on TV scandalising the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
06 June 1901 James Braid won the first of 5 British Open titles.
06 June 1972 David Bowie released ‘The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’.
06 June 1998 ‘Sex and the City’ starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon made its TV debut.
06 June 2014 Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas were divorced.
07 June 1654 Louis XIV was crowned King of France.
07 June 1975 Sony launched Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.
07 June 1982 Priscilla Presley first opened Graceland to the public.
07 June 2016 Amber Rose and rapper Wiz Khalifa were divorced after 2 years of marriage.
08 June 1949 George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ was published.
08 June 1984 ‘Ghostbusters’ opened at cinemas across the UK.
08 June 1999 Rupert Murdoch divorced Anna Torv after 31 years.
WHO’S CELEBRATING? This week’s birthdays
Carole Baskin 63
Robert Englund 77
Iggy Azalea 34
George Ezra 31
Liam Neeson 72
Tom Jones 84
Bear Grylls 50
Nancy Sinatra 84
Johnny Depp 61
Michael J Fox 63
Faith Evans 51
Elizabeth Hurley 59
Ryan Thomas 40
Peter Dinklage 55
Hugh Laurie 65
Bjorn Borg 67
Anna Kournikova 43
Natalie Portman 43
Mick Hucknall 64
Maxi Priest 63
Kelly Jones 50
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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 letter would you put in front of number one to make it disappear?
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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.
