ANSWERS

1. Rouen

He was buried at the Abbaye aux Hommes in Caen. His corpse was too large for the stone coffin, which reportedly burst when the monks tried to force it in.

2. James IV; Catherine of Aragon

The English army was commanded by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. Catherine sent Henry VIII a piece of James IV's bloodied surcoat.

3. Stirling Castle

4. The 31st

5. United States

6. The Gang of Four; Jiang Qing

7. Queen Victoria

8. A moth

The moth was taped into the logbook and is now at the Smithsonian. The story is often linked to Grace Hopper, who worked on the machine. The word "bug" for a technical fault was in use long before this, which is why the entry was a joke.

9. Kim Il-sung

10. Charles Laughton

11. The Lion of Panjshir

12. Publius Quinctilius Varus

The exact date of the battle is not recorded. It is usually placed in September 9 AD, but some historians place it in late summer or early autumn. The site is now generally thought to be at Kalkriese, near Osnabrück.

13. Leo Tolstoy; Yasnaya Polyana

Tolstoy was born on 28 August 1828 by the Julian calendar then used in Russia, which is 9 September by the Gregorian calendar.

14. "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (Otis Redding)

15. Four Weddings and a Funeral (Hugh Grant)

16. Kentucky (Colonel Harland Sanders)

17. Louis XIII (Cardinal Richelieu)

18. Galvanise (Luigi Galvani)

19. C (Dennis Ritchie)

20. The Moulin Rouge (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)