ANSWERS

1. £20 (£5 at once, then £5 for each of the first three editions once each sold 1,300 copies)

The figure of £10 is often given, because that is all Milton actually received in his lifetime. His widow later settled the rest for £8.

2. Green Park

The treaty was the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748). On the night, part of the wooden building for the fireworks caught fire.

3. The Mississippi

4. Freetown

5. Freedom Day

6. Toulouse

7. Lake Como

8. Speaker of the House of Commons

9. Austria; Secretary-General of the United Nations

10. Orange

11. The Acropolis

12. "What hath God wrought" (Samuel Morse)

13. Hiram (Ulysses S. Grant)

He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant. A congressman wrongly entered him at West Point as "Ulysses S. Grant", and he kept the name.

14. Frankenstein (Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Shelley)

15. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon)

Gibbon was born on 27 April 1737 by the Julian calendar used in England, which is 8 May by the Gregorian calendar.

16. For Your Eyes Only (Sheena Easton)

17. Victoria (Jenna Coleman)

18. Daniel Day-Lewis (Cecil Day-Lewis)

19. Herbert Spencer

20. Queen Beatrix (Willem-Alexander)