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Quiz of the week

1) Who painted The Monarch of the Glen?

2) In the harbour of which English city can you find the 558ft-high Spinnaker Tower?

3) The UK is home to roughly how many thousands of beetle species?

4) What animal is Rudyard Kipling’s Rikki-Tikki-Tavi?

5) A viticulturist specialises in the cultivation of what?

Word of the week

Suscitate (verb) To rouse, excite, animate

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE September 28, 1923

CAPTAIN KNIGHT has surpassed himself in the natural-history films which he will begin to show at the Polytechnic Cinema in Regent Street on October 1… In his ‘hide’, on a branch so slim that one wonders that

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