1. What type of creature is a bittern?
2. Where is the harbour wall known as The Cobb which features in the novels Persuasion and The French Lieutenant's Woman.
3. A team of codebreakers has recently begun to decipher the 'devil's handwriting' of which British novelist's shorthand.
4. Which legendary bird is said to set fire to itself every five centuries and be reborn from its own ashes,
5. Which manmade Egyptan waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea to The Red Sea.
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