ANSWERS

1. The bikini (made by Louis Réard)

2. Dolly, named after Dolly Parton

3. Aneurin (Nye) Bevan

4. Arthur Ashe

5. Björn Borg

6. Algeria

7. Venezuela

8. "Principia" ("Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica")

9. The Red Flag Act (the Locomotive Act)

10. Thomas Cook

11. Elvis Presley

12. Amazon

13. Spam

Spam is usually said to have been launched on 5 July 1937, but some sources give other dates that summer, so the question gives only the year.

14. Cecil Rhodes

15. P.T. Barnum

There is no evidence that Barnum ever actually said "There's a sucker born every minute". It is one of the most famous misattributed quotes.

16. Jean Cocteau

17. Georges Pompidou (the Centre Pompidou)

18. Huey Lewis, of Huey Lewis and the News

19. Edie Falco

20. Megan Rapinoe