ANSWERS

1. The Knights Templar

The arrest of the Templars is often given as the origin of Friday the 13th superstitions, but historians have found no evidence for this link before the 20th century.

2. Nero (Claudius died)

3. The White House (the president was John Adams)

4. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich

5. Boston (the Boston Americans)

6. The Miracle of the Sun (at Fátima)

7. Italy

8. Paddington Bear, by Michael Bond

9. Margaret Thatcher, from Grantham

10. Paul Simon

11. Yves Montand

12. Lillie Langtry

13. Rudolf Virchow

14. Sacha Baron Cohen

15. Ian Thorpe

16. Henry Irving (the author was Bram Stoker)

17. Edward the Confessor

18. Fénix (Fénix 2)

19. Charles Messier

20. Nancy Kerrigan