ANSWERS

1. Edward VIII's

2. Rosinenbomber ("raisin bombers")

3. Istanbul (Scutari is now Üsküdar)

Nightingale's birthday is now celebrated as International Nurses Day.

4. Nine days

5. Cyprus (at Limassol)

6. Sichuan

7. Portugal (Fátima)

8. Konrad Zuse

"First" depends on definitions. The Z3 was programmable but read its programs from punched film, and it was not a general-purpose stored-program computer.

9. John Smith

10. Pea-green

11. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

12. Four (Katharine Hepburn)

13. The New York Yankees (Yogi Berra)

Berra himself said he hadn't said many of the "Yogi-isms" credited to him: "I really didn't say everything I said."

14. Hal David (Burt Bacharach)

15. East Cheam (Tony Hancock)

16. The Spencer Davis Group (Steve Winwood)

17. Joseph Beuys

18. Freddie Mercury, in "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Rami Malek)

19. Jules Massenet

20. Israel