Could you get into Hogwarts? Take this quiz and find out.

If there was an entrance exam for Hogwarts, 

would you be able to pass it?

A Song Word Crossword

BBC children's programmes

Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben

Which programme is the oldest?

Conundrum

Venus

Venus is called the Evening Star and the Morning Star - True or False?

September Golden Nugget

Trivia questions

What name connects the winning horses, the Chase at Haydock on the 18th of August 1948 and palace gate Jack at Haydock on the 6th of October 1994?

Who was the first prime minister when the state of Israel was proclaimed in 1948?

A Muslim known as a Hafiz, what would that indicate or tell you about him?

Trivia Mixture

Name the superhero played by Paul Rudd

Star Wars first appeared in what decade?

Gareth Mallory is which Bond character?

Tom Hardy played which twins in Legend?

Michael Fassbender played which entrepreneur in a 2015 film?

Peter Capaldi is the 12th Doctor Who. Name the actor who played the previous incarnation.

Glastonbury was praised as a ‘festival of people, not governments or politicians’ by which spiritual leader?

Who made the following quote: I’ve had my right shoulder reconstructed, my right knee and left knee operated on and my thumbs hurt! 

True or False?

Thirteen days disappeared when the UK adopted the Gregorian calendar

T/F

An apple, onion and potato all taste the same

T/F

There are in excess of 15,000 different kinds of rice

T/F 

A P.S.A.L.M. February Golden Nugget

Pop Charity Records

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir’s A Bridge Over You secured the UK’s official Christmas No 1 spot.
Proceeds from the NHS choir’s single will go to health charities including Carers UK and Mind.

Another charity song released by Ferry Aid in 1987 made No 1 in the UK chart. However, what was the name of the song they covered?

Do You Know?

What are Pixy, Alfred and Farmingdale types of?

A Greek Mythology DYK?

Midas was given what by Apollo for judging Pan to be a better musician than him?

A Presidential DYK?

Gerald Ford is the only man to become Vice President and President of the USA without being elected to either post.

A fact that you will be itching to know

The flea belongs to the order Siphonaptera of which there are 1600 species.

Middle Ages

DYK?

In the Middle Ages, there was a job named, 'Groom of the King's Close Stool' given to one of his most trusted advisors. The groom wiped the King's bum.
In the Middle Ages, moss wrapped in a napkin was used as a sanitary towel.
In the Middle Ages, women were known to take extensive care of their skin washing their faces every day with urine because of its antiseptic qualities.

Can you work out this maths problem?

6+4 = 210

9+2 = 711

8+5 = 313

5+2 = 37

7+6 = 113

9+8 = 117

10+6 = 416

15+3 = 1218

DYK?

A garden snail would take 95 years to slide around the world. Garden snails move at a pace of ½" per second.

Polar bears can smell humans from 20 miles (32km) away.

A snail produces such a thick layer of slime that it could crawl over a razor blade without damaging itself.

Moles can dig 75' (22m) of tunnels in a day.

Each head of a rare two-headed snake can fight over food.

A Hamster is able to carry half its own body weight in food in its cheeks.

Using its antennae, a bee can locate an apple tree three miles (five km) away.

Bees cannot fly when it rains.

Net-casting spiders spin a web of thick silk which they use as a net to throw over their prey.

A.P.S.A.L.M. for January

Trivia Teasers

What stimulant is found in tea, coffee, pop and sweets?

A stinging jellyfish is also known as what?

Avant-garde describes someone who is:
(a) scandalous (b) cutting-edge (c) retro

A lexicographer edits what?

A shortage of haemoglobin causes what?