Author Archives: Mr West
Multiple Choice Animal Quiz
1)What is the biggest fish in the sea?
A) Great white shark B) Blue whale C) Whale shark
2)Marsupials are animals with pouches (little pockets) which they keep their babies in. Which of these animals is NOT a marsupial?
A) Koala B) Platypus C) Wallaby
3)The largest wild land mammal in the UK is:
A) Badger B) Horse C) Red deer
4)Which of these is not a real animal?
A) Sea snake B) Sea cow C) Sea pig D) Sea horse E) Sea fox F) Sea otter
5)Which of these animals do not exist on Minecraft?
A) Horses B) Monkeys C) Bats D) Rabbits E) Squids
Multicultural Week Quiz
I thought I’d do a multicultural week quiz. 20 house points to the first three correct answers!
- What is the capital of Norway?
- Name three countries where they speak Spanish.
- What two colours are on the flag of Pakistan?
- Medicine Hat, Moose Jaw and Vancouver are all places in what country?
- Fiorentina, Napoli and Sampdoria are all football teams from what European country?
All I Want for Christmas is You (and five pandas and an echidna)
I’ve really enjoyed reading about what everyone likes for Christmas, so I thought I’d write about one of my favourite things – decorating the Christmas tree! Now, my wife thinks our Christmas is covered in junk, ninety percent of which should be thrown away and replaced by a single highly expensive crimson velvet ribbon from John Lewis. I, on the other hand, think it looks magnificent. Her main complaint is that there are far too many animal decorations on the tree, so I thought I’d count them up to check. This year’s West Christmas tree features: two polar bears, two fish, four cats, two dogs, a rhino, an elephant, two platypuses, a wombat, a robin, a sparrow, an echidna, three reindeer, a bee, two rabbits, a squirrel, a hedgehog, a black bear, a koala, a mouse and five pandas. Oh, and a wookie. Looks about right to me – not sure my wife’s going to agree though…
Stuff I Like (Part 2)
So, I don’t know what you were up to last weekend, but I spent Sunday lunchtime yelling, screaming and jumping around in front of the TV. It’s okay, it wasn’t just me, my dad and my sister-in-law were there too, also acting in a way entirely unbefitting sensible grown up people. Why was this all happening? Football.
The team I’ve watched for pretty much my entire life, AFC Wimbledon, were playing in the FA Cup. After thirty seconds they were one-nil down. With ten minutes to go, they were losing three-nil. This explained a lot of the shouting. And then…
They scored. A minute later, two things happened – firstly, Wimbledon scored again, and secondly the jumping around began. The next minute, they equalised. Everyone in the house went crazy. Then, with eight-and-a-half seconds of the game remaining, Wimbledon scored the winner. We jumped on chairs and yelled with delight.
Watching football is, in many ways, a foolish way to pass your time. Every year I spend hours on end watching grown men boot a ball around a field, when I could be, I don’t know, painting my house or writing the Great American Novel, or maybe even marking books. But, as foolish pursuits go, you really can’t beat it for injecting a large dollop of joy into a grey December Sunday.
