ANSWERS

1. Alaska. The purchase was arranged by William Seward, and critics called it "Seward's Folly".

2. The BBC (the British Broadcasting Company)

3. The Regency TR-1

4. Venus, Venera 4

5. GSG 9, in Mogadishu

6. The Edict of Nantes. The Protestants were the Huguenots.

7. Puerto Rico

8. Thomas Edison

9. The Science Museum (Charles Babbage)

10. Charles Gounod

11. Lord Palmerston

12. Chuck Berry

13. Martina Navratilova

14. Jean-Claude Van Damme

15. Pierre Trudeau

16. Klaus Kinski

17. Lotte Lenya

18. The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. In German the city is called Aachen.

19. "The Whale"

20. Henri Bergson