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MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012 northernecho.co.uk REGIONAL NEWS 39 NEWS IN BRIEF The entry date for Superbrain, the North-East’s toughest trivia quiz, was last weekend £500 reward and quizmaster David Chisholm is overwhelmed with sheets to mark. In the meantime, after deer killed as promised when the quiz was published just after Christmas, here are the answers. We hope to announce the winner on Saturday AN anonymous donor has offered a £500 reward to anyone with information about a poaching incident in which a deer was killed by dogs. The RSPCA is Superbrain answers... investigating the incident, which took place near The Northern Echo Arena, Darlington, at 2.30pm on Wednesday, January 18. The dogs were seen ripping the how did you get on? animal to shreds. Two men who escaped the scene had been seen poaching there with three lurcher- TV/FILM Dumas, 27 Kay Scarpetta, 28 Kelloe, 17 Barkers of deerhound crossbreeds. 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