Take the biscuit

16th May 2003, 1:00am

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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. Robert Redford said of which distinctive American black cookie: “Health food may be good for the conscience but I taste a hell of a lot better”? 2.

Which common beetle’s spots are said to represent the Virgin Mary’s seven joys and seven sorrows? 3. The world’s largest lake is oil-rich and in northern Iran. What is its name? 4. What order of monks runs Ampleforth College in Yorkshire? 5. Which British high-street chain was founded by a Russian-born Polish refugee and a wholesale-company cashier?

May 9 answers: 1. Scarecrow; 2. Lincoln; 3. Russell Crowe; 4. In your tool kit; 5. May.

For Take the Biscuit email: friday@tes.co.uk by May 22. 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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