Fun Quiz

Fun Quiz: week 52

RND 1

New Year Resolutions Fill in missing words - Each dash is a letter

1. Loose the extra --- and get in -----
2. Start eating --------- food and live a ------ lifestyle
3. Get more ----- each day
4. Cut down on --------- drinks
5. Say no to ----------
6. Get out of ----
7. Save more -----
8. Earn more -----
9. Read more -----
10. Travel and explore the -----
11. Spend less time on tv and social -----
12. Drink more -----
13. Don’t buy things you don’t ----
14. Clean out your ---
15. Start a new -----
16. Pay off your credit ---- every month
17. Make your --- every morning
18. Talk less ------ more
19. Donate ------- you don’t wear
20. Reduce your -----

RND 2

1. A new £50 note entered circulation in June this year, which scientist is celebrated on the new note?
2. What sport did 13-year-old Sky Brown win an Olympic bronze medal in?
3. Which American pop star filmed herself singing ‘vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine’ in a bid to get more people to sign up for their jabs?
4. How many points did the UK get in this year’s Eurovision?
5. What animal represented the year 2021, according to the Chinese Zodiac?
6. How old was South London tennis star Emma Raducanu when she won the US Open this summer?
7. Captain Sir Tom Moore passed away earlier this year at the age of 100. How many laps did he walk around his garden in order to raise more than £30 million for the NHS?
8. Which 90-year-old Star Trek actor became the oldest man to travel to space this year?
9. Which pop band returned with a new album 40 years after their last new release?
10. What is the name of Daniel Craig’s final James Bond film, released this year?
11. What was the fastest-selling album of 2021?
12. Where in the world do they eat 12 grapes at each stroke of the clock until midnight?
13. Where in the world do they have a street party called Hogmanay until midnight, when everyone walks home to be the "first-footer" (the first person to cross the threshold of the home in the new year)?
14. Where in Scandinavia do they smash plates on a friend's doorstep to bring good luck over the next 12 months? (HINT: It's not Greece!)
15. Where in the world do they hang onions on their doors to symbolise rebirth and fertility? Greece , Switzerland , Croatia or Poland
16. Where in the world is it a custom to reflect on the past year while enjoying a bowl of hot soba noodles on NYE - with the noodles' thin shape and long length symbolising a long and healthy life?
17. Where in the world do they carry around an empty suitcase on December 31st in the hope of a new year filled with travel? Cuba ,Columbia, Czech Republic or Canada
18. Where in the world do men and women wear red undergarments on New Years Eve in the hope of bringing luck and success into the year ahead? Italy ,Belgium , France or Germany
19. Where in the world is it tradition for singletons to sleep with mistletoe under their pillow on NYE in the hope of soon meeting "the one"? Sweden, Netherlands ,Estonia or Ireland
20. Where in the world is it customary to watch something "drop" on NYE? Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or USA

RND 3

These pantomime characters have had all the vowels removed from their names. Can you spot who they are?

1. LDDN
2. BTTNS
3. SMPLS MN
4. MTHRGS
5. WSH WSH
6. BNZR
7. SNWWHT
8. PTRPN
9. WDWT WNKY
10. THG LYSS TRS
11. KNGRT
12. CNDRLL
13. RBNHD
14. BRNH RDP
15. DMTRTT
16. PRNCCHRMNG
17. PSSNBTS
18. SLPN GBTY
19. DNDN
20. DCKW HTTNG TN

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