11th September Quiz (Answers only)
ANSWERS
1. Andrew Moray (Andrew de Moray)
2. Salvador Allende; Augusto Pinochet
3. Catalonia (the capital being Barcelona)
4. The War of the Spanish Succession
Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy won, but lost far more men than the French, who withdrew in good order.
5. Whether the Parliament should have tax-varying powers
6. Waterloo Bridge
The poison was ricin. The killing is widely believed to have been carried out by the Bulgarian secret service with KGB help. No one has ever been charged.
7. Satyagraha
The word itself was coined a little later, through a competition run in Gandhi's newspaper "Indian Opinion", to name the campaign launched that day.
8. Ty Cobb
9. Austria
10. The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
11. Penguin Books (D.H. Lawrence)
12. The Frankfurt School (Theodor W. Adorno)
13. Stephen King (Brian De Palma)
14. When Harry Met Sally... (Harry Connick Jr.)
15. Moby-Dick (Moby is related to Herman Melville)
16. Estonia (Arvo Pärt)
17. Der Kaiser ("The Emperor") (Franz Beckenbauer)
18. The Hope Diamond
19. The tambourine
20. Nikita Khrushchev
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