ANSWERS

1. The United States Capitol

2. The New York Times (first published as the New-York Daily Times)

3. The Mukden Incident. The region was Manchuria.

4. Jimi Hendrix

5. Dag Hammarskjöld. The plane crashed in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia), near Ndola.

6. No, so Scotland stayed in the UK. About 55% voted No.

7. Blackpool (the Blackpool Illuminations)

8. Greta Garbo

9. Léon Foucault (Foucault's pendulum). The building is the Panthéon.

10. Lichfield