ANSWERS

1. The Great Bell

The tower was renamed the Elizabeth Tower in 2012 for Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. The bell first rang on 11 July 1859.

2. Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty

3. The Second Boer War

4. Four (the Cape, Natal, the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony)

5. Harland and Wolff

6. He feared he was going blind (his eyesight was failing)

Pepys did not go blind and lived until 1703.

7. Germany (the "Kaiserhymne", now "Das Lied der Deutschen")

8. Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)

9. Harry Callahan ("Dirty Harry") (Clint Eastwood)

10. The Blue Lagoon (Brooke Shields)

11. In Bruges (Colin Farrell)

12. Indiana Jones (Denholm Elliott)

13. The World Health Organization

14. Charles Kingsford Smith

The crossing to Brisbane was made in three stages, via Hawaii and Fiji, and took until 9 June.

15. Prince Edward Island

16. William Shakespeare (the "Schlegel-Tieck" translation) (Ludwig Tieck)

17. Peter, Paul and Mary (Peter Yarrow)

18. Platoon (Tom Berenger)

19. Tyne Daly (Sharon Gless played Cagney)

20. The Power of Positive Thinking (Norman Vincent Peale)