ANSWERS

1. VE Day (Victory in Europe Day)

2. The German surrender took effect late on 8 May Central European time, which was already 9 May in Moscow.

3. Coca-Cola, invented by John Pemberton

4. Mount Pelée. The survivor was in a prison cell (Ludger Sylbaris).

5. Smallpox

6. Reinhold Messner or Peter Habeler

7. Los Angeles

8. Antoine Lavoisier

9. Henry Dunant, born in Geneva

10. Harry S. Truman

11. David Attenborough. His brother was Richard Attenborough.

12. Gustave Flaubert

13. Paul Gauguin

14. "Let It Be"

15. Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River.