the Weekly Blog wk47 2025
St Andrew’s Day is coming up and there is a free St Andrews Day 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
Mon 24 Nov (Premier League)
8.00 Manchester United v Everton
Tue 25 Nov (UEFA Champions League)
8.00 Chelsea v Barcelona
8.00 Manchester City v Bayer Leverkusen
8.00 Marseille v Newcastle United
Wed 26 Nov (UEFA Champions League)
8.00 Arsenal v Bayern Munich
8.00 Liverpool v PSV
8.00 Paris Saint-Germain v Tottenham Hotspur
Thu 27 Nov (UEFA Europa League)
5.45 Aston Villa v Young Boys
5.45 Feyenoord v Celtic
8.00 Nottingham Forest v Malmo FF
8.00 Rangers v Sporting Braga
Thu 27 Nov (UEFA Conference League)
8.00 Aberdeen v Noah
8.00 Strasbourg v Crystal Palace
St Andrew's Day 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 Scotland’s Winter Festivals are made up of three major national events. St Andrew’s Day is the first, Hogmanay is the second, what BN is the third?
2 Which Scottish mountain is climbed as part of the Three Peaks challenge?
3 Which Scotch whisky is named after the man who began to sell it in his grocer’s shop in Ayrshire in 1820?
4 Which drink is made in Scotland from girders?
5 Is Ardnamurch Point the most northerly, westerly, easterly or southernly point of mainland Scotland?
6 Kays of Scotland has been making which piece of sporting equipment in Mauchline, Ayrshire, since 1851?
7 In 1946, Butlin’s opened a holiday camp near which Scottish town, that was taken over in 1999 by Haven Holidays who renamed it Craig Tara ?
8 Was St Andrew born in Scotland?
9 More than 100 miles off the north coast of mainland Scotland, Lerwick is the capital and main port of which group of islands?
10 What name did the Romans give to Scotland?
This week in History
This week's favourite one-liner
I was thinking of buying Whitney Houston’s big old house in France, but… I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s chateau!
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)
Why is a Toblerone chocolate bar triangle shaped?
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