ANSWERS

1. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway. William Huskisson was hit by Stephenson's Rocket.

2. The Galápagos Islands

3. The tank

4. Battle of Britain Day

5. Lehman Brothers

6. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica (any three)

7. Cassini, into Saturn

8. Agatha Christie. Her detectives are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

9. Tommy Lee Jones and Oliver Stone

10. Ettore Bugatti