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CHRISTMAS QUIZ 2021

Twelve days of Christmas

1. 25 December: What was stolen from Westminster Abbey on this day in 1950?

2. 26 December: On this date in 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie announced a discovery. What had they been first to isolate?

3. 27 December: What eased a child’s entry into the world for the first time in 1845?

4. 28 December: Where was Constance Markievicz when she became the first woman to be elected to the British House of Commons on this day in 1918?

5. 29 December: Whose murder was witnessed by Edward Grim on this day in 1170, which he later documented?

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