ANSWERS

1. Victoria. Her uncle, King William IV, had just died.

2. The Tennis Court Oath

3. Varennes

4. West Virginia

5. It used its steam engine for only a small part of the voyage, and sailed most of the way.

6. Samuel Morse

7. The Deutsche Mark

8. The "hotline" or "red telephone". It actually used teleprinters (teletype machines), not telephones.

Despite its famous nickname, the Washington-Moscow hotline has never been a red telephone. It started as a teletype link and later used fax machines and secure email.

9. "Jaws", directed by Steven Spielberg

10. The bald eagle

11. From Bonn to Berlin

12. Jacques Offenbach

13. Errol Flynn

14. Lionel Richie, with the Commodores

15. Brian Wilson

16. Nicole Kidman, "The Hours"

17. Audie Murphy

18. World Refugee Day

19. Lizzie Borden

20. Floyd Patterson