21st June Quiz (Answers only)
ANSWERS
1. Stonehenge
The summer solstice usually falls on 20 or 21 June, and very occasionally on 22 June, depending on the year and time zone.
2. New Hampshire
3. The Battle of Vitoria. Beethoven wrote "Wellington's Victory".
4. The "Manchester Baby", in Manchester
5. The long-playing record (LP)
6. Prince William
7. SpaceShipOne
8. Scapa Flow
9. The Jules Rimet Trophy
10. The Fête de la Musique
11. Jean-Paul Sartre
12. Ray Davies
13. Benazir Bhutto
14. Ian McEwan
15. Françoise Sagan
16. Niccolò Machiavelli, "The Prince"
17. Edward III
18. Inigo Jones
19. The Victoria Cross (the sailor was Charles Lucas)
The Victoria Cross was created in 1856, and Charles Lucas's action of 1854 was the earliest to be rewarded with it.
20. Chris Pratt
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