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Quiz of the week

1) The lines ‘By the pricking of my thumbs/Something wicked this way comes’ appear in which Shakespeare play?
2) North Country Cheviot is a breed of which farm animal?
3) Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) was Court painter for which English king?
4) Lewes is the county town of which county?
5) Which fruit does the tree Prunus avium produce?

Word of the week

Dotery (noun) Foolishness, folly, madness

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE July 14, 1923

NEVER has the Royal Agricultural Show received such enthusiastic support as it received in Newcastle. Never has the Royal had a more comprehensive and representative

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