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Frosty’s Christmas Quiz
Have you been paying attention? PETER FROST has a few tricky questions from his recent Ramblings

1. Is a cross between a grizzly bear and a polar bear called a grolar bear, pizzly bear or grizzlar?

2. Do carnivorous plants grow wild in the British countryside?

3. Is the Orca or killer whale really a whale?

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