ANSWERS

1. André-Jacques Garnerin

2. Sam Houston, the Republic of Texas

3. The Metropolitan Opera House (the Met)

4. Cuba. He announced a naval "quarantine" (blockade) of Cuba.

5. Jean-Paul Sartre

6. George Blake, from Wormwood Scrubs

7. Chester Carlson. The company was Xerox.

8. Franz Liszt

9. Sarah Bernhardt

10. Paul Cézanne, in Aix-en-Provence. He painted Mont Sainte-Victoire.