ANSWERS

1. The Alamo. Its defenders included Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis (any two).

2. Aspirin, made by Bayer

3. Dmitri Mendeleev, and his periodic table

The presentation took place on 6 March 1869 in today's calendar (22 February in the Russian calendar of the time). Mendeleev was ill, so his colleague Nikolai Menshutkin presented it for him.

4. Dred Scott v. Sandford

5. Ghana. Its first leader was Kwame Nkrumah.

6. Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali.

7. Oreo

8. Real Madrid

9. Walter Cronkite, "And that's the way it is"

10. Michelangelo, born in Caprese

11. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poem is Sonnet 43 from "Sonnets from the Portuguese".

12. Cyrano de Bergerac

13. Gabriel García Márquez

14. Valentina Tereshkova. Her call sign was "Chaika" ("Seagull").

15. Shaquille O'Neal

16. David Gilmour

17. Kiri Te Kanawa

18. Her father died just two days before her (on 4 March 1888).

19. Lou Costello, with Bud Abbott

20. Rob Reiner