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Quiz of the week

1) In Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat, how much did the wedding ring cost?

2) In which country was Sir Alexander Fleming born?

3) How many lanes are usually used for racing in an Olympic swimming pool?

4) From which animal is lard obtained?

5) In which English county is Whipsnade Zoo?

Riddle me this

I have one eye, yet cannot see a thing. What am I?

1) One shilling 2) Scotland 3) Eight 4) Pig 5) Bedfordshire. Riddle me this: A sewing needle

Time to buy

On this day… March 13, 1781

Astronomer William Herschel spotted the seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus, using a homemade

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