27th September Quiz (Answers only)
ANSWERS
1. Locomotion No. 1
2. Ignatius of Loyola
3. The Tin Lizzie
4. BackRub
Google was incorporated on 4 September 1998 and has celebrated its birthday on various dates. It has settled on 27 September since 2006.
5. The Chief Justice of the United States
The report was formally handed to President Johnson on 24 September and released to the public on 27 September.
6. Pevensey (Sussex)
7. Japan
8. Kabul
9. E = mc²
The paper, published in "Annalen der Physik", gave the relationship in a different form. The famous version of the equation came later.
10. DDT
11. Jean-François Champollion
His famous "Lettre à M. Dacier" is dated 22 September 1822, and he presented his findings at the Académie on 27 September.
12. Madrid
13. Samuel Adams
14. Thomas Nast
15. Jim Steinman (Meat Loaf)
16. Shakespeare in Love (Gwyneth Paltrow)
17. Avril Lavigne
18. Edgar Degas; "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen"
19. Arnold Dorsey (the composer was Engelbert Humperdinck)
20. 13 days
Urban VII is also credited with the world's first known public smoking ban, threatening excommunication for anyone who used tobacco in or near a church.
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