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  • Country Life

    Town & Country Notebook

    Jul 13, 2022 3 minutes
    Edited by Victoria Marston

    Quiz of the week

    1) Hypnophobia is a fear of what?

    2) Mary of Guise was married to which Scottish king?

    3) In Roald Dahl’s Matilda, what is the first name of Miss Trunchbull?

    4) The plant Ananas sativus has what common name?

    5) Who played Harry in the 1989 film When Harry Met Sally?

    Word of the week

    Poetaster (noun) Someone who writes inferior poetry

    100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE July 15, 1922

    THE great lawn tennis carnival has been more long drawn out than

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