ANSWERS

1. German reunification, in 1990 (Tag der Deutschen Einheit)

9 November, when the Wall fell, was considered for the national day, but it was rejected because of its links to Kristallnacht and other dark events in German history (see your November rounds).

2. The last Thursday of November

3. Iraq

4. The V-2 (A4), tested at Peenemünde

5. Operation Hurricane

6. O.J. Simpson

7. Ethiopia (Abyssinia)

8. "The Shot Heard 'Round the World"

9. Yugoslavia

10. Atlantis

11. Chubby Checker, "The Twist"

12. Clive Owen

13. Gwen Stefani

14. Eddie Cochran

15. Stevie Ray Vaughan

16. William Morris

17. Woody Guthrie, "This Land Is Your Land"

18. Gustav Stresemann

19. St Francis of Assisi

20. Roy Horn, of Siegfried and Roy