ANSWERS

1. Sternsinger ("star singers"). The letters stand for Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. They are also read as "Christus mansionem benedicat" ("May Christ bless this house").

2. A small figurine or bean (a "fève"). Whoever finds it becomes king or queen for the day and wears a paper crown.

3. Harold II (Harold Godwinson)

4. Anne of Cleves. The painter was Hans Holbein the Younger.

5. Samuel Morse (with Alfred Vail)

6. Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear

7. Maria Montessori. The school was the "Casa dei Bambini" ("Children's House").

8. Heinrich Schliemann. He dug in Turkey (at Hisarlik).

9. Rowan Atkinson. The sitcom is "Blackadder".

10. Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"