ANSWERS

1. Ludwig van Beethoven. The symphonies were his Fifth and Sixth ("Pastoral").

2. Edward H. Johnson

3. The Brandenburg Gate

4. Alfred Dreyfus, sent to Devil's Island. The novelist was Émile Zola.

5. 70 mph

6. Maurice and Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, born on the Isle of Man

7. Giacomo Puccini, born in Lucca

8. George Eliot, whose real name was Mary Ann Evans. Her novel is "Middlemarch".

9. Beatrix Potter

10. Samuel Beckett