ANSWERS

1. The Stamp Act

2. Workers leaving the Lumière factory ("La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon")

3. Hale-Bopp

4. The Pentium

5. Arthur Schawlow or Charles Townes (the device was the "optical maser")

6. "Mehr Licht!" ("More light!") (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

7. Jean-Baptiste Lully

8. Andrew Lloyd Webber

9. William Shatner

10. Reese Witherspoon, as June Carter Cash in "Walk the Line"