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Weekly Blog wk52 – includes a FREE Cats themed quiz
Dec
the Weekly Blog wk52
Meow! There is a FREE Cats 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 26 Dec
12.30 Newcastle v Nottingham Forest
3.00 Bournemouth v Fulham
3.00 Sheffield United v Luton Town
5.30 Burnley Liverpool
8.00 Manchester United v Aston Villa
3.00 Dundee v Celtic
Wed 27 Dec
7.30 Brentford v Wolverhampton
7.30 Chelsea v Crystal Palace
8.15 Everton v Manchester City
7.45 Aberdeen v Motherwell
7.45 Rangers v Ross County
Thu 28 Dec
7.30 Brighton v Tottenham
8.15 Arsenal v West Ham United
Cats 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 In the stories of Alice In Wonderland, which cat disappeared, leaving behind only it’s smile?
2 Bengal, Malayan and Siberian are species of which big cat?
3 Petra, Humphrey and Wilberforce are all former pet cats of which famous address?
4 Which sign of the zodiac is represented by a member of the cat family?
5 In which film were the only survivors of the spaceship Nostromo, Ripley and a cat called Jones?
6 One of the many bad reviews for the 2019 film musical ‘Cats’ said “This was the worse thing to happen to cats since… what?
7 Jess is the name of whose black and white cat?
8 What type of cat is referred to in the expression ‘Not enough room to swing a cat’?
9 What was the name of the white cat that starred in the Kattomeat TV ads?
10 Which 1983 horror novel by Stephen King, later adapted into two films of the same name, featured a cat called Church?
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This week's favourite one-liner
Nelson was 5’4” tall. His statue in Trafalgar Square is 16 feet tall. That’s Horatio of 3 to1
This week in History
1065 Westminster Abbey was consecrated.
1759 Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and started brewing Guinness.
1923 BBC began using Big Ben’s chimes.
1953 The first TV detector van, used to track down users of unlicensed TV sets, were introduced.
1963 Beatlemania started in the US with the release of ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ and ‘I Saw Her Standing There’.
1966 Jimi Hendrix wrote ‘Purple Haze’ backstage at the Upper Cut Club, London.
1968 Frank Sinatra first recorded ‘My Way’.
1973 ‘The Exorcist’ starring Linda Blair had its premiere.
1977 ‘Star Wars’ made its film debut.
1982 TIME’s Man of the Year was a computer.
1985 Michael Harrison made the first British mobile phone call to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
1999 The Euro was introduced in eleven member nations of the European Union.
2004 9.3 magnitude earthquake created a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people.
2012 NASA unveiled plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid in 2025.
2013 Michael Schumacher suffered a massive head injury whilst skiing in the French Alps.
2016 Carrie Fisher died.
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WHO’S CELEBRATING? This week’s birthdays
Jade Thirlwall 31
Jared Leto 52
John Legend 45
Maggie Smith 89
Sienna Miller 42
Adam Peaty 29
Jude Law 51
Ted Danson 76
Ellie Goulding 37
Tiger Woods 48
Sir Alex Ferguson 82
Val Kilmer 64
Ben Kingsley 79
Jack Wilshere 32
Denzel Washington 69
Anthony Hopkins 86
Janet Street-Porter 77
Nigel Kennedy 67
Jeff Lynne 76
Joe Root 33
Andy Summers 81
Ben Kingsley 80
Steve Bruce 63
Lars Ulrich 60
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 comes in different sizes but is always only a foot long?
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