ANSWERS

1. Elba

2. Douglas MacArthur

3. 13:13 (1:13 pm)

Apollo 13 launched at 13:13 Houston time, and the explosion happened on 13 April, which gave the "unlucky 13" story extra fuel.

4. The Fair Housing Act

5. Bob Dylan

6. The Apple I. It sold for $666.66.

7. Idi Amin

8. William III and Mary II

9. Gibraltar

10. St Matthew (the St Matthew Passion)

11 April 1727 is the date most scholars give for the first performance of the St Matthew Passion. A few have argued for 1729, which was when it was certainly performed.

11. Tel Aviv

12. Joel Grey

13. Jeremy Clarkson

14. Stuart Pearce

15. Charles Hallé (the Hallé Orchestra)

16. James Parkinson, Parkinson's disease

17. Joss Stone

18. Kurt Vonnegut. The city was Dresden.

19. Queenstown (now Cobh)

20. Anthony Trollope