ANSWERS

1. The Judiciary Act of 1789

2. Henri Giffard

3. Black Friday. The financiers were Jay Gould and James Fisk (either one).

4. Devils Tower, made famous by "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

5. Honda

6. Camp Nou, home of FC Barcelona

7. USS Enterprise

8. 60 Minutes

9. "Nevermind" (by Nirvana). The cover shows a baby swimming underwater towards a dollar bill on a fishhook.

10. Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

11. F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. Jim Henson. He performed Kermit the Frog.

13. Horace Walpole

14. Paracelsus

15. "National Braai Day", because many South Africans celebrate it with a barbecue (braai).