Here's a short story:

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. (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question. Give ONLY the guess, no other words or explanation.

For example:

Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: Who is the world record holder for hiccups?
Guess: Charles Osborne,

Question: Where was Harry Mendes from?
Guess: Birmingham

Question: What was wrong with him?
Guess: He had hiccups day and night for two weeks.

Question: How old was he?
Guess: fifteen-years

Question: What did he do when he started to hiccup?
Guess: He drank a glass of water

Question: How often did he have the hiccups?
Guess: Every four seconds.

Question: Did the doctors find something wrong with his x-ray?
Guess: They couldn't find anything wrong.

Question: Did Harry have hot drinks to try to cure himself?
Guess: No, cold drinks.

Question: How long before he went to the hospital?
Guess: After a week.

Question: Did the medicine cure his hiccups right away?
Guess: No.

Question: How long did it take to work?
Guess: Another week.

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: How long did Charles Osborne hiccup for?

Two weeks.