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25th July Quiz (Answers only)

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1. Louise Brown; Oldham

2. Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards; Edwards won the Nobel Prize

Steptoe died in 1988, and the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously, so only Edwards could receive it.

3. Santiago de Compostela; Galicia

The tradition that St James's remains lie at Santiago dates from the 9th century. The question says "is said to be", as historians debate it.

4. Winchester Cathedral

5. James VI of Scotland and James I of England

6. Constantine the Great; York (Eboracum)

7. Blücher

Named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, the Prussian field marshal who later helped Wellington at Waterloo. The date of 25 July 1814 is widely given for its first trial, though sources vary a little.

8. Bob Dylan

9. Benito Mussolini

10. Air France; Charles de Gaulle Airport

Air France Flight 4590 crashed into a hotel at Gonesse, killing all 109 people on board and 4 on the ground. Concorde never fully recovered and was retired in 2003.

11. Walk in space (perform a spacewalk)

12. The "Face on Mars"

13. Tenerife

14. Rosalind Franklin

15. Samuel Taylor Coleridge; "Kubla Khan"

16. Arthur Balfour

17. Top Gear

18. David Bowie

19. The Andrea Doria

The collision happened late on 25 July 1956; the Andrea Doria sank on the morning of 26 July. 46 people on the Andrea Doria died, and 5 on the Stockholm.

20. The electric telegraph

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