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Quiz of the week

1) What animal was Beatrix Potter’s Samuel Whiskers?

2) Who made, 20 years ago, the 1995 Turner-prize-winning sculpture Mother and Child (Divided), featuring the bisected, preserved corpses of a cow and a calf?

3) What’s the name for a baby puffin?

4) In the early 18th century, the 1st Duke of Marlborough was granted the manor of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, and given funds to build a palace in gratitude for his victory at which battle?

5) What’s the largest freshwater fish species present in the UK?

Word of the week

Excur (verb)

To go beyond the ordinary or go to an extreme; to digress

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