ANSWERS

1. St Peter's Field

The name "Peterloo" mocked the soldiers by comparing the attack on unarmed civilians with the Battle of Waterloo four years earlier. The main speaker was the radical Henry Hunt.

2. James Buchanan

The Queen's message of 98 words took over 16 hours to transmit. The cable failed within a month.

3. Yukon

4. Felix Baumgartner

5. Archbishop Makarios III

6. Pete Best

7. Because the French cavalry fled so quickly (they made great use of their spurs)

8. 9.58 seconds

Exactly a year earlier, on 16 August 2008, Bolt had set a world record of 9.69 seconds in the Beijing Olympic final.

9. Cornwall

10. Graceland

11. Lawrence of Arabia (T.E. Lawrence)

12. Ciccone (Madonna)

13. The Mariana Trench (the Challenger Deep) (James Cameron)

14. The Regency period (Georgette Heyer)

15. Germany (in Andernach) (Charles Bukowski)

16. David Brent (Steve Carell)

17. What's Love Got to Do with It (Angela Bassett)

18. "The Bambino" (the Curse of the Bambino)

19. Kind of Blue (Bill Evans)

20. Wilhelm Wundt