ANSWERS

1. A) Marie Curie

She shared the Physics prize in 1903. Bertha von Suttner won the Peace Prize in 1905, and Irène Joliot-Curie, Marie's daughter, won in 1935. Lise Meitner never won one.

2. B) Rembrandt

3. C) Roald Amundsen

Amundsen's team arrived in December 1911, about five weeks before Scott's.

4. D) Niccolò Machiavelli

5. A) Antonio Vivaldi

6. C) Valentina Tereshkova

She flew in 1963. Savitskaya was the second woman in space, Sally Ride the first American woman and Helen Sharman the first Briton.

7. B) Frank Lloyd Wright

8. D) Alfred Nobel

9. B) Nancy Astor

Constance Markievicz was the first woman elected, in 1918, but as a Sinn Féin member she never took her seat. Astor took hers in 1919.

10. A) Roger Bannister

He ran 3 minutes 59.4 seconds at Oxford in May 1954, paced by Brasher and Chataway. Landy broke his record weeks later.

11. C) Aldous Huxley

12. D) Jonas Salk

Albert Sabin's oral vaccine, given on a sugar lump, followed a few years later.

13. A) Babur

Babur founded the empire in 1526. Humayun was his son, Akbar his grandson, and Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal.

14. C) Tim Berners-Lee

He invented the Web at CERN in 1989. Vint Cerf helped create the internet protocols it runs on, and Marc Andreessen co-wrote the Mosaic browser.

15. B) Auguste Rodin

16. D) Aristotle

17. B) Trygve Lie

Lie, a Norwegian, served from 1946 to 1952 and was followed by Hammarskjöld.

18. A) Dmitri Mendeleev

19. C) Lord Melbourne

20. D) Stanley Matthews

Matthews was 41 at the time. Di Stéfano won in 1957 and 1959, and Kopa in 1958. Puskás never won it.

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