ANSWERS

1. Portsmouth (in Landport)

2. The European Union; the Netherlands

3. John F. Kennedy International Airport (formerly Idlewild), New York

4. Girolamo Savonarola

5. Latin

More's date of birth is uncertain. 7 February 1478 is the usual date, but some sources give 6 February, and the year may have been 1477.

6. Edward II

The story that Edward I presented his newborn son to the Welsh as a prince "who could speak no English" is a later legend; Edward was 16 when he was made Prince of Wales.

7. The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU)

8. Abdullah II

9. John Major

10. Carlo Collodi

11. Haiti

12. Victoria

13. The United States

14. Laura Ingalls Wilder; the "Little House" books (Little House on the Prairie)

15. Sinclair Lewis

16. Alfred Adler

17. Aden, Yemen (Eddie Izzard)

Aden was then a British colony; it is now in Yemen.

18. Chris Gaines (Garth Brooks)

19. Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Juliette Gréco)

20. Will Smith (Chris Rock)