ANSWERS

1. Bath

Herschel wanted to call the planet "Georgium Sidus" ("George's Star") after George III. The name Uranus, suggested by the German astronomer Johann Bode, was only generally accepted in the mid-19th century.

2. The emancipation of the serfs

The assassination took place on 1 March 1881 by the Julian calendar then used in Russia.

3. Kurt Schuschnigg

4. The Jesuits (Society of Jesus)

5. Oxford (Venetia Burney)

6. Arizona

7. Microsoft (Bill Gates)

8. Võ Nguyên Giáp

9. Hokkaido

10. Charles Gordon ("Chinese Gordon", Gordon of Khartoum)

11. John Harvard

12. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

13. Soda water (carbonated water) (Joseph Priestley)

Priestley's claim to oxygen is shared: the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele found it earlier but published later, and Antoine Lavoisier named it.

14. Karl Friedrich Schinkel

15. U2 (Adam Clayton)

16. Fargo (William H. Macy)

17. Neil Sedaka

18. The dollar coin (the Susan B. Anthony dollar)

19. Cointreau

The plot, by Henning von Tresckow and Fabian von Schlabrendorff, failed probably because the detonator froze in the cold hold. Schlabrendorff retrieved the parcel the next day before it was discovered.

20. Scientology (L. Ron Hubbard)