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For many people the subject of hiccups is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Birmingham, it was something quite different. His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks. After the first week, Harry's parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure his attack. Harry, who is now back at school, described what happened to him. "When I began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water but that didn't do any good. That evening I had hiccups every four seconds. We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn't work either." After a week of sleepless nights, he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray of his chest but they couldn't find anything wrong. "They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped." Harry was very lucky. The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Osborne, who hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why.

1. Who is the world record holder for hiccups?
2. Where was Harry Mendes from?
3. What was wrong with him?
4. How old was he?
5. What did he do when he started to hiccup?
6. How often did he have the hiccups?
7. Did the doctors find something wrong with his x-ray?
8. Did Harry have hot drinks to try to cure himself?
9. How long before he went to the hospital?
10. Did the medicine cure his hiccups right away?
11. How long did it take to work?
12. How long did Charles Osborne hiccup for?
13. Did he stop in 1995?
14. Why did Charles Osborne's hiccups stop?
15. What did Harry's father try to do to stop his hiccups?
16. What did Charles Osborne do for a living?
17. What country was he from?
18. What day of the week did Harry's hiccups start?
19. Was it dinner time?
20. Is Harry back at school?

Numbered answers:
1. Charles Osborne,
2. Birmingham
3. He had hiccups day and night for two weeks.
4. fifteen-years
5. He drank a glass of water
6. Every four seconds.
7. They couldn't find anything wrong.
8. No, cold drinks.
9. After a week.
10. No.
11. Another week.
12. Two weeks.
13. No, Charles Osborne did.
14. Nobody knows why.
15. Shock him.
16. He was a farmer.
17. America.
18. Sunday.
19. No.
20. HYes.