the Weekly Blog wk41-2025
Hands in the air! There is a free hands themed quiz 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

Thursday 9 Oct (UEFA World Cup Qualifiers)
7.45 Scotland v Greece
7.45 England v Wales (friendly)
Hands 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 ‘Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you’, are a few lines from which Karaoke favourite?
2 According to the proverb, you can’t shake hands with what?
3 The name of which hand-held percussion instruments derived from the Spanish word for chestnut?
4 The phrase, ‘to win hands down’, originated from which sport?
5 What colour are the hands on the clock of the newly refurbished Big Ben clock tower?


6 In which classic game are players required to place their hands and feet on vacant coloured circles?
7 In a standard pack of playing cards what do the Queens hold in their hands?
8 ‘Come and hold my hand I want to contact the living’ is the opening line to which Robbie Williams song?
9 Which island is credited with producing the world’s finest hand-rolled cigars?
10 In the film ‘Cool Hand Luke’, Paul Newman’s character bet he could eat 50 what in an hour?
This week in History

This week's favourite one-liner
Sad news about the Dutch guy who invented the inflatable shoe. He popped his clogs.
WHO’S CELEBRATING? This week’s birthdays

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)
In the UK, what were the two worse Winters?
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