13th June Quiz (Answers only)
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1. Lake Starnberg (Starnberger See)
Ludwig, who built Neuschwanstein, had been declared insane and deposed days earlier. He was found dead in shallow water with his psychiatrist, Bernhard von Gudden. Whether it was suicide, accident or murder is still debated.
2. Doodlebugs also accept buzz bombs
3. John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster)
4. Katharina von Bora
5. Lisbon
He is known as St Anthony of Padua because he spent his last years and died there, in 1231. The Portuguese call him St Anthony of Lisbon.
6. Miranda (Miranda v Arizona; "Miranda rights" or "Miranda warning")
7. The New York Times; Daniel Ellsberg
8. Bernauer Straße
Bernauer Straße is now home to the Berlin Wall Memorial. Unofficial chipping away by "Mauerspechte" (wall-peckers) had begun in November 1989.
9. Stade de Reims; Paris (at the Parc des Princes)
10. Kim Dae-jung
11. Neptune
Pluto was then classed as a planet, but from 1979 to 1999 its eccentric orbit took it inside Neptune's, so Neptune was briefly the most distant planet. That is why crossing Neptune's orbit counted as leaving the planets behind.
12. James Clerk Maxwell
13. W.B. Yeats
14. Dorothy L. Sayers; Lord Peter Wimsey
15. Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone)
16. Thomas Young
17. Full House (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen)
18. Captain America (Chris Evans)
19. Stellan Skarsgård
20. A Clockwork Orange (Malcolm McDowell)
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