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Take the biscuit

8th November 2002, 12:00am

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Take the biscuit

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Fancy some biscuits for your staffroom, department or school office? Answer our quiz (think biscuit for one of the answers) and you could win two tins of organic Duchy Originals.

1. Which air freshener’s name, translated literally, means rotten pot?

2. “A Merry War” was the US title for the 1997 film of which George Orwell novel?

3. What colour is a polar bear’s skin?

4. What is thin, crisp, shaped like a roof tile, and often served with ice cream?

5. Which 14-year-old Syrian boy, beheaded in Rome in 304AD, is now the patron saint of children and headaches?

November 1 answers: 1. Jasper Johns; 2. David Brown; 3. Quark; 4. His portrait is stamped in the middle of Bath Oliver biscuits; 5. Cockney.

For Take the Biscuit email: friday@tes.co.uk by November 14. First out of the hat will take the biscuits - supplied by Duchy Originals. Teaching materials about organic food and farming - and the answer to one quiz question - are at www.duchyoriginals.com.Don’t worry if you don’t have email. Send us a postcard, giving the name of the offer and your address to: Tracey Thomas, Friday magazine, 66-68 East Smithfield, London E1W 1BX

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