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Quiz of the week

1) Which is Britain’s largest beetle?

2) When James I was crowned king of England in 1603, he was already king of Scotland with what regnal number?

3) What wooded area splits the North from the South Downs?

4) ‘Girl with Balloon’ is a series of murals by which artist?

5) Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor is loosely based on which novel by Sir Walter Scott?

Word of the week

Foldure (noun) The act of folding

100 years ago in Country Life June 2, 1923

BATHROOMS are of many sorts and degrees of luxury. All should be, I think, sunny and, at will, warm... The walls

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