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Quiz of the week

1) The temperamental, but talented French chef Anatole is a recurring character in which P. G. Wodehouse book series?

2) Which is the UK’s tallest bird?

3) Which river separates Liverpool from the town of Birkenhead?

4) The word asinine has come to mean doltish, stupidly obstinate, but it originally referred to which animal?

5) In which church can you find the Great East Window, the largest medieval stained-glass window in Britain?

Word of the week

Callithump (noun) Cacophony created by a group of people using different instruments and tools

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE September 15, 1923

SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, M.P., chairman of

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