the Weekly Blog wk49
This week there is a free TV Soaps quiz included. 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
Tue 3 Dec
7.30 Ipswich Town v Crystal Palace
8.15 Leicester City v West Ham United
Wed 4 Dec
7.30 Everton v Wolverhampton
7.30 Manchester City v Nottingham Forest
7.30 Newcastle United v Liverpool
7.30 Southampton v Chelsea
8.15 Arsenal v Manchester United
8.15 Aston Villa v Brentford
7.45 Dundee v Motherwell
7.45 Rangers v Kilmarnock
8.00 Aberdeen v Celtic
Thu 5 Dec
7.30 Fulham v Brighton
8.15 Bournemouth v Tottenham
TV Soaps 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 soap character has had twenty five girlfriends and three wives over the last sixty four years?
2 In 1989, which soap dropped the word ‘Farm’ from its title?
3 Which ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ judge played Harlow Robinson’s aunt Harriet in ‘Neighbours’ as the characters reunited in London to solve a family mystery?
4 Which former soap star had a 1991 chart-topper with ‘Any Dream Will Do’?
5 Which fictional area of London is a mix of Walthamstow and Stratford, the areas where TV soap creators Julia Smith and Tony Holland were born?
6 Which soap starring John Forsythe, Linda Evans and Joan Collins made its TV debut over 40 years ago?
7 The demise of May Hardman was which TV soap’s first death?
8 In 2021, which ‘Emmerdale’ character made soap history by becoming the first to get a covid jab?
9 Ray Quinn played Anthony Murray in which soap between 2000 and 2003?
10 Who played Beth Brennan in ‘Neighbours’ before quitting the soap to pursue her singing career?
This week's favourite one-liner
Apparently hippos swim and run faster than humans. So, if you are ever in a triathlon with a hippo, make sure you make the most of the cycling stage.
This week in History
1 Dec 1919 Lady Astor became the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat in the House of Commons.
1 Dec 1913 The Ford Motor Company launched the world’s first moving assembly line.
1 Dec 1953 Hugh Hefner published the first edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as their first centrefold.
1 Dec 1990 British and French workers meet in the middle of the Channel Tunnel under the English Channel.
1 Dec 1994 Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere announced they are separating.
2 Dec 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
2 Dec 1927 The first Model A Ford was sold. The price $385.
2 Dec 1971 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
2 Dec 1976 Fidel Castro became President of Cuba.
2 Dec 1988 Benazir Bhutto became Pakistan’s first female Prime Minister.
2 Dec 1995 Rogue trader Nick Leeson was jailed for six years.
3 Dec 1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduced the potato to England from Colombia.
3 Dec 1967 The first human heart transplant was performed in South Africa by Dr. Christiaan Barnard.
3 Dec 1994 Sony released the first PlayStation in Japan.
3 Dec 1999 NASA lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
3 Dec 2017 The first pizza party in space took place on the International Space Station.
3 Dec 2019 Spotify announced Drake as the most streamed artist of the 2010s with 28 billion streams and Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape Of You’ was the most streamed track of 2019 with 2.4 billion streams.
4 Dec 1791 The Observer, the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, was first published.
4 Dec 1954 The Burger King franchise opened their first location in Miami.
4 Dec 1961 The NHS made the birth control pill available to all.
4 Dec 1976 Elizabeth Taylor married for the seventh time.
4 Dec 2015 Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas were divorced after 19 years.
5 Dec 1766 Auctioneer James Christie held his first auction.
5 Dec 1872 The ship the Mary Celeste was discovered mysteriously abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean.
5 Dec 1958 The Preston By-pass, the UK’s first stretch of motorway, first opened to traffic.
5 Dec 2017 Russia was banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea over state-sponsored doping.
5 Dec 2018 Nelson Mandela died.
6 Dec 1897 London became the world’s first city to host licensed taxicabs.
6 Dec 1969 300,000 attended a free concert featuring The Rolling Stones in Altamont, California.
6 Dec 2005 David Cameron beat David Davis to become the new leader of the Conservative Party.
7 Dec 1703 Over 9,000 died in the Great Storm of 1703 after 120mph winds hit the UK.
7 Dec 1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attacked the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base killing 2,403 people.
7 Dec 1972 Apollo 17 the last Apollo moon mission was launched.
7 Dec 1979 ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’, the first of the series was released.
7 Dec 1995 The Grateful Dead broke-up following the death of Jerry Garcia.
7 Dec 1995 The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter after a six year journey.
7 Dec 2001 ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts had its premiere.
7 Dec 2017 Cristiano Ronaldo won his fifth Ballon d’Or equalling Lionel Messi’s record.
WHO’S CELEBRATING? This week’s birthdays
Catherine Tate 55
Andrew Flintoff 47
Nicki Minaj 42
Teri Hatcher 60
Kim Basinger 71
Scott McTominay 28
Tre Cool 52
Reece James 25
Jeff Bridges 75
Nicole Appleton 50
Donny Osmond 67
Judi Dench 90
John Malkovich 71
Susanna Reid 54
Nikki Sixx 66
Jermaine Jackson 70
Ben Shephard 50
Anthony Martial 29
Amir Khan 38
Eamonn Holmes 65
Ronnie O’Sullivan 49
Stan Boardman 87
Geoff Hurst 83
Amir Khan 38
Raheen Sterling 30
Marco Pierre White 63
Aitch 24
Jay-Z 55
Damien Rice 51
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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 is the main difference between an alligator and a crocodile?
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