From the Archives: Christmas carol quiz

I'm not sure if the videos still work as I am copying them across, but I thought I would post this as a lot of you may not have taken part in this last time when I posted it back on Christmas day 2011!  

Enjoy!


Missy asked me ages ago to post a vlog of me playing the flute- well, I didn't want to do this just for the sake of it (sorry! :-)  )  and felt very self-conscious about it, but when I was formulating my Christmas quizzes, I wanted to try a musical round.  I wanted my sister to be able to have a go at it (not in Northumberland) so I've posted it here so you could also have a go (much quicker than the other rounds).  This is my first vlog- please don't be too harsh on me- I wanted it to be a bit of fun and I hope you enjoy it too even though it makes me cringe to watch it!  Please let me know what you think of the quiz and if you did it, how many you got right if you did it!!  We did it on Christmas day and generally people did very well!

There are 15 questions, I play the first 4 notes of a carol or Christmas song and then you write down what carol you think it is!  Warning, there's nothing pop on here- as pop flute = meh! 

Here's part one - questions 1-8

 
Part 2:   Questions 9-13 

Part 3:  Questions 14-15

CBC's Pirates and Seafarers quiz evening- The answers plus a few highlights of the day

If you gave my Pirates quiz a go, here are the answers...

Fear not, if you missed it... go back to this post to try the questions.

I'll waffle for a bit so you can avoid seeing the answers...

I've been doing online training for school this week - we've been doing more courses. These are fairly mixed in terms of how I am getting on with these.

 For my school music lessons this week, I've decided to focus on the children experimenting with some fabulous music programs that are free online.  I've written explanations and ideas for how to use them which I've found to be good for me because I've discovered some new musical programs and it's made me think about ideas for how the children can use them to apply musical concepts and ideas such as exploring textures such as antiphony, polyphony, homophony and monophony but as well, enabling them to apply mathematical skills (lines of symmetry, factors, doubling and halving) to musical composing- I've been asked to set the teachers some CPD to do for music- I've asked them to research a composer who their children will study but I'd like them to explore one of the music programs which I know they could use cross-curricularly for Maths, so that's good. I'd be really happy if a teacher chose to use this in their maths lesson one time!

Highlights of the day:

• Family zoom quiz where I used the Google Doodle of the Theremin to play well-known tunes which they had to guess- everyone enjoyed it!
• Belgian Chocolate choux pastry buns
• Nettle soup with fried nettles on top
• Goat cheese on crackers.
• A quick walk round the fields full of Stitchwort.
• Hilarious Whatsapp banter with my family.
• Making Mr Pineapple and Kreeket dance to my Tonematrix music (one of the music technology programs I've been using)
• Listening to the dawn chorus.
• A fabulous omelette!

And here are the answers

Answers:

1. The Goonies

2. Treasure Island (Bonus Ben Gunn)

3. Grace O’Malley

4. Jules Verne

5. 15 x 20,000  / 5 + 2 = 60,002

6. “Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ” said Peter Pan. (0.25 per correct quote)

7. The Dawn Treader

8. Horatio Hornblower

9. The Napoleonic wars

10. Korngold (Errol Flynn)

CBC's Birthday Pirates and Seafarers quiz evening - Questions

I thought I'd share my quiz from CBC's Pirate Party Zoom quiz just

 in case you wanted to use them for a party or just have a go at 

seeing what you know!

I'll publish the answers another time!

Pirates and nautical based characters and stories.

1. One eyed Willy is a pirate in which film?

2. “Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese -toasted, mostly”  is a quote that comes from which  nautical-based story? Bonus  - which character says it?

3. Which real-life pirate was also known as “Granuaille,” or “bald,” for her habit of cutting her hair short ?

4. Who wrote the book which the sailor and pirate Captain Nemo appeared in?

5. Piratical arithmetic: Multiply the number  men on a Dead Man's Chest  x the distance that the Nautilus submarine travelled, divided by the number of Pirates of the Caribbean films and + the number of the King who commissioned the Spanish Armada (Remember BODMAS)

6. Complete the J.M Barrie quote:”________ star to the ______ and straight on till ____________.” said ___________

7. Name the famous Narnian ship.

8. Name C.S. Forester’s famous Captain.

9. Patrick O’Brian’s nautical books are set during which war?

10.  Which composer wrote the music for  film, The Sea Hawk? (bonus point if you can name who played the hero in this?

Answers to the Family friendly Isolation quizzes

Do you remember last week I shared my rounds for Zoom family quiz nights or just as something fun for you to do?  If you missed this, it is not too late to take part before seeing the answers

HEAD HERE to find the quizzes and stop reading!




Stop reading if you want to do the quizzes.










Have you stopped reading?













Last Chance....







Here are the answers to my quizzes


Logos quiz








2  Down the Tube Quiz answers

1. King’s Cross
2. Turnham green
3. Blackfriars
4. Parson’s Green
5. Mansion House
6. Burnt Oak
7. Chigwell
8. Borough
9. Barking
10. Maida Vale
11. Gants Hill
12. Victoria
13. Bond Street
14. Blackhorse Road
15. Elephant and Castle
16. Tower Hill
17. Snaresbrook
18. Swiss Cottage
19. Oxford Circus
20. Oval
21. Shepherd’s bush
22. Stamford Brook
23. Seven sisters
24. Chalk Farm
25. Old Street
26. Wapping
27. Angel
28. Gloucester Road
29. London Bridge
30. East Ham
31. Grange Hill
32. Neasden
33. Caledonian Road
34. Cutty Sark
35. Morden
36. Fairlop
37. Tooting Broadway
38. Boston Manor
39. Paddington
40. West Ham

3.  Numbers quiz answers


The number quiz answers:

1. 10 Green bottles hanging on the wall
2. 21: Key to the door
3. 24 Blackbirds baked in a pie
4. 12 days of Christmas
5. 100 Degrees Celsius= Boiling point of water.
6. 1066 Battle of Hastings
7. 12 Labours of Hercules
8. 7 Deadly sins
9. 7 wonders of the Ancient World
10. 52 cards in a Deck of Cards
11. 6 degrees of separation
12. 5 gold rings in the Twelve days of Christmas
13. 1001 Arabian nights
14. 366 Days in a leap year
15. 11 players in a football team
16. 1760 Yards in a mile
17. 14 Pounds in a stone
18. 10 Years in a decade
19. 5 Sides on a Pentagon
20. 13 in a Baker’s dozen.

Family friendly Isolation quizzes

Stuck at home and bored? Why not do my Logo quiz with your family. It's got lots that children would recognise and is easy! Fancy something a bit harder? Try my tube quizzes. Why not try a Zoom quiz with your family? Each person will need to prepare a quiz round for each of the others which have the same number of questions.  Then everyone presents their quiz for the others. You share the answers and then add up your final scores.
Today, CBC and I took part in a quiz with his family- CBC prepared a Geography round, his sister a History, his mum -trivia, his brother- TV shows, and me- Morse code isolation edition!

If that seems too much effort,  here are some to get you started:

The Logo Quiz

The number quiz round

Think historically, think mathematically, think cultural references- decipher what the letters mean in order for the phrase to make sense!


e.g. 4 C B in the T D of C = 4 calling birds in the twelve days of Christmas.


Or 100 C in a M = 100 centimetres in a metre

Clue:


1.  10 G B H on the W


2.  21: K to the D


3.  24 B B in a P


4.  12 D of C


5.  100 D C= B P of W


6.  1066 B of H


7.  12 L of H


8.  7 D S


9.  7 W of the A W


10.  52 C in a D of C


11.  6 D of S


12.  5 G R in the T D of C


13.  1001 A N


14. 366 D in a L Y


15. 11 P in a F T


16.   1760 Y in a M


17.   14 P in a S


18.   10 Y in a D


19.  5 S on a P


20.  13 in a B D


London Underground quiz:..  

This quiz is the DOWN THE TUBE quiz based on London's Underground.  If you would like to have a go at doing this quiz, you can download the London Underground Tube map from here.

You could also do your own version based on your own train system.

 Disclaimer: SOME of these are made up by me (the bad ones like the Channel island one!) some were ones I obtained in a quiz night some time ago so thank you to whoeever thought these up and I am sorry I can't acknowledge you directly.

 I'll post the answers in a separate post.

All the answers to the following riddles are the names of London Underground Tube stations.

CLUE:
1.  An angry monarch
2.  Make ‘em sick
3. Monks with dirty hands
4. Ecological vicars
5. Richard Whittington’s Des.Res
6. Charred quercus robur.
7. Dorian Green’s domain?
8. Cockney rabbit ‘ole
9. Woof woof
10. Created a valley
11. A mound of dyslexic mosquitos
12. She was not amused.
13 A place to Live and Let Die!
14. Would you find a branch of Lloyds Bank here?
15. Babar and Balmoral
16. Could this be where the chief executioner lives?
17. Catches a rabbit by a stream
18. Alpine Dwelling
19. A university with a big top Elliptical
20. Flockwatcher’s flora
21. Chelsea’s home by a stream
22. A lucky number of nuns
23. Where you cultivate calcium carbonate
24. An ancient thoroughfare
25. A description of the enormity of this station
26. Gabriel?
27. Doctor Foster practices here
28. Is this station falling down?
29. Oriental pig
30. 1980's TV school
31 Patella’s lair
32. A Scottish thoroughfare
34. Chopped this man a smaller channel island?
35. Bigger than?
36. A just cutting?
37. Trumpeting New York thoroughfare
38. A big house for a tea party?
39. Famous ursine visitor?
40. The home of capitalism’s swine?

Let me know if you use any of these?

The Christmas logo quiz answers

If you want to take part in this quiz first, don't look at this post until you have done the quizzes.

Kezzie xx

Here are the answers to the logo quizzes.

No cheating...

Christmas quizzes and fun: The logo quiz

Hi there,
I always like to have some fun making quizzes for my family to do on Christmas day- it all sprang from a Christmas quiz idea with my inlaws a couple of years ago.  I've shared ones I've done before.
Now I thought you might like to share these with your family.

I've uploaded these as Jpeg piles but if you want the Publisher files to print in better detail just let me know.  I'll post the answers in a seperate post  just in case you want to join in the quiz yourself. No cheating. Let me know if you decide to use them.

Here's the label for previous quizzes I've shared here too. Enjoy.

Love Kezzie xx
* Disclaimer- I don't own any of these logos- I'm just offering these companies free publicity by using their logos in my quiz.*

It's raining cats, dogs and parcels and Christmas quizzes!

Cat jumper by Joy.



Dog cardie by M&S Per Una.







You know you live in a cold house when you return home after 36 hours to discover your left the milk out of the fridge- and it is STILL fine, not gone off!
PARCELS!!!!!!!
I've had a rather lucky week in terms of postage!  A parcel EVERY day!!!!

Monday: Uniglo parcel- I ordered my friend one of their new Heat-tech tops in the Orla Keily print.  I also ordered myself one! BAD! I love my Hermes courier- she's soo nice, she always times it so I am in.  It was gone 8pm when she arrived!
Tuesday: A parcel arrived from the lovely Char with my giveaway prize!  Cannee believe that I won 2 giveaways in a week!  It's my perfect item! A gorgeous Book clutch bag from Asos!  Totally cool!
Wednesday: ASOS parcel arrived with a Christmas present for someone who shall remain nameless just in case they read this!
Thursday: My cracker-swap parcel arrived from my lovely swap-partner, Jille!  I am staggered by the beauty of her handmade items.  It always makes me feel ashamed how rubbish my hand-made items are. Doing a post on this tomorrow...
Friday:  I won a gorgeous giveaway from Intrinsically Florrie- a unique knitted hat designed by Florrie made by someone for Innocent Smoothies!  I love the fact that the second giveaway I won this week was a HAT!

Thanks to all three blogging ladies!




CATS: Speaking of parcels- I am, it seems, a bad influence (or a useful one, depending on your viewpoint) on one of my fellow teachers.  After she admired my white cat-hat- asking me where I bought it, she went out and bought one for each of her daughters, along with matching gloves.  On Tuesday, I was wearing my Joy Intarsia cat jumper and she said she'd love to buy one for her daughters.  Unfortunately, on being directed to Joy, it was sold out, so I suggested Asos to her.  She got a little lost on it, so I went and showed her the nicest jumpers and by 5pm, when I returned to her, on Tuesday, she had ordered 3 cat jumpers and a bunny jumper for her daughters. Because she had, ahem, spent £130, she got free postage and they were there by 12pm! Asos is very convenient!



DOGS AND QUIZZES: The other outfit shots are from last SAurday in which I am proudly wearing my new grey beret that a work colleague bought for me after I admired hers!  Do you like my 'Christmas jumper'?  Well, it's not, but it's that sort of ilk! It's funny, but it seems very tame after the massive surge in the Christmas jumper stocks in shops!  They're everywhere!  It doesn't seem quite so 'disgusting' as I've now seen more lurid/hideous varieties! (I say digusting jumper in an affectionate way!) 

I last wore it on my blog when I gave my first VLOG!!!!!!  I gave you a Christmas carol quiz!  If you didn't attempt it last year,  do go and try it! If nothing else, you get to laugh at what a muppet I am in real life!!!!

It's here:  Kezzie's embarassing Christmas carol quiz vlog 2011

If you'd like to try some of my other quizzes, please ignore the latter half of the post in which I list the answers to my OTHER Christmas quizzes!  It kept CBC's family occupied for several hours!

Here they are:
Christmas activities and quizzes with love from Kezzie x: Meanings connected to numbers:

Christmas activities and quizzes with love from Kezzie x:  Tube map quiz


LIGHTS: 
We all know I love a novelty necklace- here's the Binoculars necklace I bought at the school fair.  It's accompanied by the gorgeous lights of Sloane Square which I took when I did my (by the way, fab!) concert at Holy Trinity Sloane Square, last week!


OH AND OBSERVATIONS: (yeh, didn't want to put that in the blog title to scare you off!)
I had an observation today!  As a teacher, you have someone from SMT observing you each term to check the quality of your teaching.  No matter how confident you feel about your teaching (or not), it is always terrifying!  I was teaching Year 4- a lesson (though adapted every year to be slightly different) that I have taught for 4 years. Still was totally scared.  Luckily, I had a lovely class, who really tried hard and managed to cooperate, work sensibly and share all sorts of their prior knowledge:  I honestly LOVED the child, who when I asked them to think of the success criteria we needed for the lesson said- we needed to ensure we needed to choose an interesting texture- that was one of the focus words of last week! I think it went ok, not wonderful, though I was a little disappointed that it wasn't as good as I'd hoped.   So glad she didn't observe the class who I did that lesson with afterwards- they didn't work very well with each other!  It's funny (funny strange, not funny hilarious) but the first class revels in group work and get on with whoever you put them with but the second class bicker and don't gel together.  It happens. Praise God she saw the first class!

Bet you wish I'd avoided all that waffle and done Friday letters!  However, I felt like writing waffle today!
Tell me things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
x

The embarassing Christmas Vlog Carol quiz Merry Christmas! Now working!

Firstly, I wanted to wish you a wonderful Christmas full of joy  (Er- originally posted this on Christmas day!!!)
Missy asked me ages ago to post a vlog of me playing the flute- well, I didn't want to do this just for the sake of it (sorry! :-)  )  and felt very self-conscious about it, but when I was formulating my Christmas quizzes, I wanted to try a musical round.  I wanted my sister to be able to have a go at it (not in Northumberland) so I've posted it here so you could also have a go (much quicker than the other rounds).  This is my first vlog- please don't be too harsh on me- I wanted it to be a bit of fun and I hope you enjoy it too even though it makes me cringe to watch it!  Please let me know what you think of the quiz and if you did it, how many you got right if you did it!!  We did it on Christmas day and generally people did very well!

There are 15 questions, I play the first 4 notes of a carol or Christmas song and then you write down what carol you think it is!  Warning, there's nothing pop on here- as pop flute = meh! 

Here's part one - questions 1-8

 
Part 2:   Questions 9-13 

Part 3:  Questions 14-15

Part 4:
Answers will come at some point but I'm sick of waiting for this to upload! I'll post it seperately!

Oh and here are the answers to my other 2 quizzes!!!!  If you haven't had a chance, go and try them before reading on..

Merry Christmas blogging world!

Down the tube answers
King’s Cross
Turnham green
Blackfriars
Parson’s Green
Mansion House
Burnt Oak
Chigwell
Borough
Barking
Maida Vale
Gants Hill
Victoria
Bond Street
Blackhorse Road
Elephant and Castle
Tower Hill
Snaresbrook
Swiss Cottage
Oxford Circus
Oval
Shepherd’s bush
Stamford Brook
Seven sisters
Chalk Farm
Old Street
Wapping
Angel
Gloucester Road
London Bridge
East Ham
Grange Hill
Neasden
Caledonian Road
Cutty Sark
Morden
Fairlop
Tooting Broadway
Boston Manor
Paddington
West Ham

The number quiz answers:
10 Green bottles hanging on the wall
21: Key to the door
24 Blackbirds baked in a pie
12 days of Christmas
100 Degrees Celsius= Boiling point of water.
1066 Battle of Hastings
12 Labours of Hercules
7 Deadly sins
7 wonders of the Ancient World
52 cards in a Deck of Cards
6 degrees of separation
5 gold rings in the Twelve days of Christmas
1001 Arabian nights
366 Days in a leap year
11 players in a football team
1760 Yards in a mile
14 Pounds in a stone
10 Years in a decade
5 Sides on a Pentagon
13 in a Baker’s dozen.