Weekly Blog wk50 – includes a FREE Gaga Radio themed quiz

‘All we hear is Radio Gaga’ and there is a FREE Radio Gaga 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

Tue 12 Dec
8.00 FC Copenhagen v Galatasaray
8.00 Manchester United v Bayern Munich
5.45 PSV Eindhoven v Arsenal
8.00 FC Union Berlin v Real Madrid

Wed 13 Dec
8.00 Celtic v Feyenoord
8.00 Borussia Dortmund v PSG
8.00 Newcastle United v AC Milan
5.45 Red Star Belgrade v Manchester City
8.00 Royal Antwerp v Barcelona

Thu 14 Dec
8.00 West Ham United v SC Freiburg
8.00 Brighton v Marseille
8.00 Real Betis v Rangers
5.45 Union Saint-Gilloise v Liverpool
5.45 Zrinjski Mostar v Aston Villa
5.45 Aberdeen v Eintracht Frankfurt

Radio Gaga 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 national Radio station began broadcasting to the nation 56 years ago with Tony Blackburn hosting the first show?

2     The radio-code, ‘Wilco’, is an abbreviation of which two-word term?

3     Which sixties classic is playing on the radio when Bill Murray’s character wakes up each morning, in the film ‘Groundhog Day?

4     Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories are better known by what name?

5     Two songs from which musical took the two top places in a new Radio 2           poll of the UK’s favourite musicals?

6     In 2016, Western House, the home of BBC Radio 2 was renamed to honour which broadcaster whose career at the BBC spanned almost 50 years?

7     Which superhero is the alter-ego of radio news reporter Billy Batson?  

8     Which bank holiday shares its name with an international radio distress signal?

9     Which cooked meat shares its name with an amateur radio operator?

10    In 2021, the Queen congratulated which BBC radio show as it marked its 75th anniversary?

CLICK HERE for this week’s Quizzes – Brand new quiz questions and quiz game sheets… every week!

This week's favourite one-liner

Gary Barlow just blocked me on Instagram. Whatever I said whatever I did, I didn’t mean it.

This week in History

1800 Washington DC established as the capital of the USA.
1840 Napoleon Bonaparte received a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death.
1901 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal.
1903 The Wright brothers made the first motorised aircraft flight.
1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen’s expedition became the first to reach the South Pole.
1939 ‘Gone With The Wind’ starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh had its premiere.
1961 The Beatles signed a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein.
1962 NASA’s Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
1966 Walt Disney died.
1968 Peter Sellers divorced Britt Ekland.
1972 Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt became the last men to set foot on the Moon.



1989 ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy was released.
1989 ‘The Simpsons’ had its TV premiere as a fully animated series.
1991 Richard Gere married Cindy Crawford in Las Vegas.
1992 Princess Anne married Timothy Laurence.
1993 ‘Philadelphia’ starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington had its premiere.
1999 Linda Hamilton divorced James Cameron.
2008 Madonna divorced Guy Ritchie.
2009 ‘Avatar’ starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver was released.
2016 Zsa Zsa Gabor died.

GIVE THE WEEKLY GAME SHEETS AND WEEKLY PICTURE QUIZ A GO!
Click below and give them a go for FREE!

FREE Table Top Quiz

FREE Face Race Picture Quiz

WHO’S CELEBRATING? This week’s birthdays

Taylor Swift 34
Dick Van Dyke 98
Jennifer Connelly 53
Dionne Warwick 83
Jamie Foxx 56
Steve Buscemi 66
Miranda Hart 51
Michael Owen 44
Perri Kiely 28
Don Johnson 74
Brenda Lee 79
Jennifer Connelly 53

Zara Larsson 26
Pope Francis 87
Manny Pacquiao 45
Tom Walker 32
Billie Eilish 22
Christina Aguilera 43
Stone Cold Steve Austin 59
Steven Spielberg 77
Katie Holmes 45
Emily Atack 34
Zara Larsson 26
Frankie Dettori 53

Keith Richards 80
Bill Pullman 70
Bill Nighy 74
Dennis Wise 57
Tommy Steele 87
Simon Bates 77
Paula Radcliffe 49
Robert Lindsay 74
Benny Andersson 77
Daniel O’Donnell 62
Sara Cox 49

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)

If seven adults can eat seven cupcakes in seven minutes, how long would it take 30 adults to eat 30 cupcakes?



Click below to download a PDF of this page.

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.

Mega Quiz 20
Mega Quiz 40
Mega Quiz 40
Table Top Quiz A
Table Top Quiz B
Table Top Quiz C

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