Take the biscuit

28th March 2003, 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 English town’s name means “district where eels are found”?

2. What would you catch “zoonoses” from?

3.What county produces the hand-moulded knob biscuit between January and March?

4. Which former US president explored an unmapped Amazon tributary and had a red-bellied piranha named after him?

5. Which artist painted Ploughing up Turnips near Slough, exhibited in 1809?

March 21 answers: 1. North Korea; 2. The hedgehog; 3. Simone de Beauvoir; 4. No; 5. Austin Allegro.

For Take the Biscuit email: friday@tes.co.uk by April 3. 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

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