Take the biscuit

23rd 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. They dress like Tarzan, have hair like Jane, and smell like Cheetah.

Which group of people was Ronald Reagan describing? 2. And who, according to novelist F Scott Fitzgerald, had “the humane values of Pekinese, bivalves, cretins and goats” when travelling abroad? 3. The prophet Isaiah recommended that people should beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears intoI? 4. Which Welsh comedian advised: “If you insist on slimming, eat as much as you like - just don’t swallow it.” 5. Which top Australian biscuit, once dunked on Graham Norton’s TV show, is now rumoured to be available in the UK?

May 16 answers: 1. Oreos; 2. Ladybirds; 3. Caspian Sea; 4. Benedictine; 5.

Marks amp; Spencer.

For Take the Biscuit email: friday@tes.co.uk by May 29. 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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