Take the biscuit

28th February 2003, 12:00am
Fancy a breaktime treat 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. What was the middle name of the controversial 1950s children’s author Dr Theodore Giesel? 2. Which European city is regularly inconvenienced and occasionally imperilled by acqua alta?

3. Which Welshman won this year’s Brit award for outstanding contribution to music?

4. Biskvito means biscuit in which language?

5. Name the 14th-century English philosopher from Surrey whose belief in keeping things simple is influential to this day.

February 21 answers: 1. Aluminium; 2. Iraq; 3. The Duke of Wellington; 4. Tallulah Bankhead; 5. Dry biscuits for pets.

For Take the Biscuit email: friday@tes.co.uk by March 6. 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. If you don’t have email, send a postcard, with the name of the offer and your address, to: Tracey Thomas, Friday magazine, 66-68 East Smithfield, London E1W 1BX