1. On 28 December 1895, two French brothers held the world's first public cinema screening for a paying audience, in the basement of a Paris café. Name the brothers and the café.

2. Westminster Abbey was consecrated on 28 December 1065. Which king had it built, though he was too ill to attend and died a week later?

3. On 28 December 1612, which astronomer recorded what he thought was a star, but was actually the planet Neptune, more than 200 years before its official discovery?

4. On 28 December 1879, a railway bridge collapsed in a storm as a train crossed it. Name the bridge, and the Scottish poet, often called the worst in the English language, who wrote a famous poem about the disaster.

5. 28 December is Holy Innocents' Day. In Spain and Latin America, what kind of tradition takes place on this date?

6. On 28 December 1973, a three-volume book exposing the Soviet prison camp system was first published in Paris. Name the book and its author.

7. Which comic-book writer and Marvel legend, co-creator of Spider-Man and the X-Men, was born on 28 December 1922?

8. A Finnish software engineer born in Helsinki on 28 December 1969 created a free operating system that now runs most of the world's servers. Name him and the system.

9. Which actress, born on 28 December 1934, played Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, sharing her surname with the poet from question 4?

10. Which US president, born on 28 December 1856, is the only one to have earned a PhD?