Take the biscuit

30th 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. What falls on your head and can be between 0.5mm and 8mm across? 2.

Which composer had 20 children, several of whom also became composers? 3.

In 1797, John Hetherington was arrested for causing a public panic. His crime was to wear “a tall structure having a shining luster calculated to frighten timid people”. What was it? 4. A protein-rich food called BP5 is a staple of the world’s aid agencies. What is it? 5. What is unusual about the chow-chow dog’s tongue?

May 23 answers: 1. Hippies; 2. Americans; 3. Pruning hooks; 4. Harry Secombe; 5. TimTams.

For Take the Biscuit email: friday@tes.co.uk by June 5. 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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