ANSWERS

1. The news that Mount Everest had been climbed (by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay)

Hillary and Tenzing reached the summit on 29 May 1953. The news was kept back so it could be announced in London on the morning of the coronation.

2. Italy

3. Guglielmo Marconi

4. The Indian Citizenship Act

5. Lou Gehrig, "Lou Gehrig's disease" (ALS)

6. Make a soft landing

7. The Marquis de Sade

8. Thomas Hardy

9. Edward Elgar

10. Charlie Watts

11. Marvin Hamlisch

12. Johnny Weissmuller

13. Zachary Quinto

14. Giuseppe Garibaldi

15. Rex Harrison

16. Bo Diddley (the "Bo Diddley beat")

17. Grover Cleveland

18. Charles Rolls

19. John Paul II

20. The Vandals