Quiz of the week
1) What word can refer to a sudden movement and a receptacle for rubbish?
2) In the rhyme that starts ‘Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall’, what are the birds called?
3) How many wings does a bumble-bee have?
4) What foodstuff is known as ‘the staff of life’?
5) On which motorway are the Knutsford and Tebay services?
1) Skip 2) Peter and Paul 3) Four 4) Bread 5) M6
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On this day…
January 31, 1606
Guy Fawkes was dragged through the streets of London behind a horse to the site of his execution. As he climbed the ladder to the gallows, he either
