ANSWERS

1. The Eagle

The story comes from Watson's book "The Double Helix". Crick later said he did not remember saying it. Their paper was published in Nature on 25 April 1953.

2. Olof Palme; Stockholm

The murder was unsolved for decades. In 2020, Swedish prosecutors named a suspect, Stig Engström, who had died in 2000, and closed the case.

3. About 100 hours

4. The Korean War

5. The Northern line (the Highbury branch, now the Northern City Line)

The Highbury branch, between Moorgate and Finsbury Park, was then run as part of the Northern line. It was transferred to British Rail a few months later and is now part of the National Rail network.

6. Fuad I

7. Gregory XII

8. Harold Wilson

9. DuPont

10. Michel de Montaigne

11. Chemistry and Peace (Linus Pauling)

12. A.A. Milne (Cotchford Farm; Brian Jones)

13. Bilbao (Frank Gehry)

14. 1978; Lotus (Mario Andretti)

15. The Flamingo (Bugsy Siegel)

16. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" (Sir John Tenniel)

17. The Niagara Gorge, just below Niagara Falls (Charles Blondin)

18. The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)

19. Vincente Minnelli; Judy Garland

20. Stephen Spender