ANSWERS

1. Bolivia

2. Bern (Berne), Switzerland

3. "Wir sind das Volk" ("We are the people")

The authorities had prepared for violence, but no order to shoot came. A month later the Berlin Wall fell.

4. King Sejong the Great

5. Vinland

The date has nothing to do with Leif's voyage. It marks the arrival in New York of the ship Restauration, carrying Norwegian immigrants, on 9 October 1825.

6. Italy

7. Winston

Lennon later changed his name to John Winston Ono Lennon.

8. Sean Lennon

9. The Eiffel Tower

10. Marseille

11. Kampala

12. A car (a parked Chevrolet Malibu)

13. The Carnival of the Animals (Camille Saint-Saëns)

14. Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati)

15. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)

16. Flash Gordon (Brian Blessed)

17. Émile Zola (the officer was Alfred Dreyfus)

18. Heidelberg (Jackson Browne)

19. Quantum Leap (Scott Bakula)

20. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)

Cervantes's exact birth date is unknown. He was probably born on 29 September 1547, the feast of St Michael, and baptised on 9 October.