ANSWERS

1. Six answers. USA, China, Argentina, Australia, South Africa and Chile.

2. Lotus

3. Florence

4. Isaac Asimov

5. The Winter Palace

6. Tom Waits

7. Venezuela (stilt houses at Lake Maracaibo reminded the 15th century navigator Amerigo Vespucci of Venice, so he named the region "Veneziola", little Venice)

8. Four answers. Argentina, West Germany, France and Belgium.

9. Field of Dreams

10. Mata Hari

11. 1928

12. Five answers
a. The Horse Whisperer
b. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
c. Dances with Wolves
d. Ben Hur
e. Animal Farm

13. The flood. (antidiluvian means 'before the deluge', and is, according to the Bible, the period between Earth's creation and the great flood)

14. Knives

15. 2001 A Space Odyssey

16. Wikipedia

17. Four answers. Mumbai (Bombay), Delhi, Kolkata (Calcutta) and Chennai (Madras).

18. Edgar Degas

19. Gary Oldman

20. A mint. ("wafer thin mint". From the Monty Python film 'The Meaning of Life')