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Quiz of the week

1) What type of bird is a pintail?

2) In Morse code, what letter is represented by three dots?

3) Who starred as James Bond in Moonraker?

4) What gives red blood cells their colour?

5) What were the first names of British author G. K. Chesterton?

Riddle me this

I can finish a book without finishing a sentence—where am I?

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE March 1, 1924

PHOTOGRAPHING whooper swans from a rowing boat in an icy wind on the Broads is an exciting sport, and means a reckless waste of plates. The first thing is to locate the swans, and then row to windward and bear down upon them. They must

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