Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7th February 1812, the second oldest of six children and died on 9th June 1870. He grew to be a boy with a vivid imagination and a love of reading. Nobody knows for sure exactly when Dickens started writing, but he might have been as young as eight [...]
What do you get if you cross a centipede and a parrot? A walkie-talkie! Knock knock! Who’s there? Scott Scott who? Scott nothing to do with you! Where do wasps go when they are ill? The waspital! Knock knock! Who’s there? Oscar and Greta Oscar and Greta who? Oscar a stupid question and Greta a [...]
Have you always envied those people who can retain seemingly ‘useless’ bits of information but all the more fascinating for being so random. For example, what sentence uses all the letters in the alphabet? Curious…. Did you know that… When giraffes age, their fur darkens A group of whales is called a pod Armadillos are [...]
Time to get those little grey cells working! 1 Name the first president of America? 2 What did the Titanic hit which eventually made it sink? 3 How many pockets are there on a snooker table? 4 What is the name of Peter Rabbit’s hated gardener? 5 What is the highest grade belt you can [...]
