ANSWERS

1. The Battle of Stamford Bridge. The Norwegian king was Harald Hardrada, and the brother was Tostig.

2. Vasco Núñez de Balboa

3. The Bill of Rights

4. The Little Rock Nine

5. Sandra Day O'Connor

6. TAT-1

7. "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick"

8. The Peace of Augsburg. The phrase is "Cuius regio, eius religio" ("whose realm, his religion").

9. William Faulkner

10. Dmitri Shostakovich

Shostakovich was born on 25 September 1906 in today's calendar. Russia was still using the Julian calendar then, so his birth was registered as 12 September.

11. Mark Rothko

12. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones

13. Will Smith

14. Christopher Reeve

15. Glenn Gould

16. Mark Hamill

17. Pedro Almodóvar

18. John Bonham

19. Johann Strauss I, the "Radetzky March"

20. Jean-Philippe Rameau