WEEKLY BLOG wk15. I’ve included a FREE Nineties TV Themed Quiz. Welcome to the 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 SPORT… taking place this week

Mon 12 April West Brom v Southampton Brighton v Everton

Tue 13 April Chelsea v FC Porto Paris Saint Germain v Bayern Munich

Wed 14 April Borussia Dortmund v Manchester City Liverpool v Real Madrid

Thu 15 April Manchester United v Granada Roma v Ajax Slavia Prague v Arsenal Villarreal v Dinamo Zagreb

QUIZ… Ninties TV Themed Here’s a real crowd pleaser, a nineties TV themed quiz you can add as an extra round.

1 'I’ll have a P please, Bob' was a classic line from which TV gameshow? BLOCKBUSTERS

2 “What’s your name and where d’ya come from” was a phrase often heard on which Saturday night show? BLIND DATE

3 In which year did 'Friends' make its TV debut? 1994

4 Which TV series was centred around the murder of the teenager Laura Palmer? TWIN PEAKS

5 Who played the outrageous Patsy Stone in ''?

6 Father Ted and Dougal attempted to enter which competition with their song 'My Lovely Horse'? EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

7 What colour spots did Mr Blobby have? YELLOW

8 What was the title of Ant and Dec’s parody version of 'Friends' on ‘SM:TV Live’? CHUMS

9 Which nineties TV series was set in Capeside, Massachusetts? DAWSON'S CREEK

10 Which actor, who died in 2019, starred in 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Riverdale'? LUKE PERRY

WHO’S CELEBRATING? This week’s birthdays

Jeremy Clarkson 61 Emma Thompson 62 Peter Davison 70 Dele Alli 25 Akon 48 Ritchie Blackmore 76 Brendan Urie 34 Victoria Beckham 47 Samantha Fox 55 David Letterman 74 Sean Bean 62 Matt Cardle 38 Andy Garcia 65 Bob Harris 75 Sir Frank Williams 79 Sarah Michelle Gellar 44 Emma Watson 31 Claire Sweeney 50 Peter Capaldi 63 Lisa Stansfield 55 Robert Carlyle 60 Joss Stone 34

ONE-LINERS Here’s a few one-liners I picked up this week.

For my next trick I will eat a percussion instrument in a sandwich… Drum roll please.

I’ve joined a dating site for arsonists. I got a match straight away.

Did you know that gullible isn’t actually in the English dictionary?

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

1865 US President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. 1912 RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. 1951 The Peak District became the UK's first National Park. 1953 The Royal yacht Britannia was launched by Queen Elizabeth II. 1954 Bill Haley and the Comets recorded 'Rock Around The Clock'. 1960 France became the 4th nuclear nation by exploding an atomic bomb. 1970 Apollo 13 delivered the "Houston, we have a problem" line. 1970 Paul McCartney released his first solo album 'McCartney'. 1974 Gary Player won the 2nd of his 3 Masters titles. 1976 Doris Day married restaurateur Barry Comden. 1980 'Kramer vs Kramer' won Best Picture at The Oscars. 1986 Spanish F1 Grand Prix was decided by 0.014 of a second. 1986 Desmond Tutu was elected the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town. 1988 Sonny Bono was elected mayor of Palm Springs, California. 1992 Euro Disney (Disneyland Paris) opened. 1992 'Superman' actor Christopher Reeve married Dana Morosini. 1994 Asteroid 7373 Takei was discovered and named after Star Trek actor George Takei. 1997 Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament. 2011 Christina Aguilera divorced music executive Jordan Bratman. 2011 'Game of Thrones', based on the fantasy novels by George RR Martin premiered on HBO. 2015 Andy Murray married Kim Sears at Dunblane Cathedral. 2019 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. 2019 Notre Dame cathedral was seriously damaged by a large fire.

THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR Here is a question that made me laugh but didn’t make it on to this week’s quizzes and was left on the cutting room floor.

What two words hold the most letters when combined? POST OFFICE