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    Country Life

    Town & Country Notebook

    Aug 17, 2022 3 minutes

    Quiz of the week

    1) In England and Wales, who would wear a custodian helmet?

    2) Which breed of sheep takes its name from a range of hills in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders?

    3) What is the traditional bingo call for the number 78?

    4) Which English agricultural pioneer invented the horse-drawn seed drill?

    5) What was the name of Gandalf’s white horse in The Lord of the Rings?

    Word of the week

    Monadnock (noun) An isolated hill or ridge

    100 years ago in August 19, 1922

    CAN any

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