23rd September Quiz (Answers only)
ANSWERS
1. Neptune. It was found by Johann Galle, from the prediction of Urbain Le Verrier.
2. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
3. Nintendo. It originally made playing cards (hanafuda cards).
4. Saudi Arabia. The founding king was Ibn Saud (Abdulaziz).
5. John Paul Jones, aboard the Bonhomme Richard (the Battle of Flamborough Head)
6. Sigmund Freud
7. The "Checkers speech", given by Richard Nixon
8. The Mars Climate Orbiter. One team used imperial units and the other metric units.
9. Augustus. The month named after him is August.
10. Julio Iglesias. He was a goalkeeper, for Real Madrid (in its youth and reserve teams).
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