ANSWERS

1. The New Model Army

2. His horse

Marengo's skeleton is displayed at the National Army Museum in London. How much of the horse's story is true is debated.

3. Clifden (County Galway)

They landed on 15 June, after about 16 hours in the air.

4. Bordeaux

5. 70 (74 days, from 2 April to 14 June 1982)

6. 13

7. Timor (at Kupang)

8. The US Census Bureau

9. Luxembourg

10. The Index (Index Librorum Prohibitorum)

11. The ABO blood groups

12. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

13. Culture Club (Boy George)

14. The Golden Slam (Steffi Graf)

15. Alzheimer's disease (Alois Alzheimer)

16. Eric Heiden

17. Electric charge (the coulomb) (Charles-Augustin de Coulomb)

18. Father Brown (G.K. Chesterton)

19. Argentine (Jorge Luis Borges)

20. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Burl Ives)