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Answer: Airplane accident

Sir Robert Charlton, known as Bobby Charlton (1937-2023) was an English professional footballer, who played almost all of his life for Manchester United. He was the captain of England´s team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup. On February 6, 1958, the "Munich air disaster" occurred, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed.

There were 44 people on the plane, including the Manchester United football team. In the accident, 23 people died and 21 survived. Among the survivors was Bobby Charlton.

Answer: In the building that houses the assembly, which is in the square, there is a clock that runs backwards

La Paz, one of the capitals of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is located 3650 meters above sea level and lies 16° south of Ecuador. In Plaza Murillo, the main square in La Paz, a building was built in the 1920s to house Bolivia's central bank, which today houses the Bolivian legislative assembly. The building had a normal clock on its façade, but in 2014 the clock was inverted to better reflect the "southernism" of the Bolivian people. Now the positions of the numbers on the clock face are reversed and the clock runs counterclockwise.

According to Minister David Choquehunaca, the change occurred to value the cultural heritage of the indigenous people. The Aymarans and the Quechuas, who together account for more than 50% of the country's population, are the only people in the world who see the past in front of them and the future behind them. The reversed clock also conforms to the direction of the sundial's shadow movements in the southern hemisphere. It is worth remembering that clocks are an evolution of the sundial, and in the northern hemisphere a sundial's shadow runs clockwise, while in the southern hemisphere it moves counterclockwise.

Answer: True

True. Neum is the only coastal town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the country's only access to the Adriatic Sea. The coastal strip of Neum separates the southernmost Croatian exclave from the rest of Croatia. Neum has two border crossing checkpoints with Croatia on the Adriatic Highway.

This access to the sea i.e. the Neum corridor, dates back to the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1699. This 12km-mile (20km) coastline ensures that Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a landlocked country.

Answer: John Huston

"The Treasure of Sierra Madre" (1948) was an American western adventure film starring, among others, Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt and Walter Huston (son of the director). John Houston (1906-1987) was the director, scriptwriter and made a brief appearance. The film was based on the book of the same name by B. Traven and was one of the first American films shot almost entirely in another country (Mexico).

The film received three Oscars in 1949: best director, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actor. For the first time father and son, John and Walter Huston, received an Oscar for the same film.

Answer: Isabelle Adjani

The film "La Reine Margot" 1994, was based on the 1845 novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, père, a fictionalized version of the events of the marriage of Margaret of Volois with Henry III of Navarre, who later became king of France. The movie was directed by Patrice Chéreau, starring Isabelle Adjani as Margaret of Valois and Daniel Auteuil as Henri de Bourbon, king of Navarre, future Henry V.

Isabelle Yasmina Adjani (1955 -) is a French actress and singer, of Algerian and German ascent. She starred in her first motion picture at age of 14 and at 19 became the youngest Best Actress nominee at the time. She won five César Awards for acting in the Best Actress category. In 1994, she received a César award for her role as Reine Margot.

Answer: Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838 - 1927) was an American activist for women's rights and labor reforms. She defended "free love", which meant freedom to marry, divorce, and bear children without interference from society or the government. She wrote several articles and with her sister was the first woman to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. In 1870, she founded a newspaper, one of the first founded by a woman in the USA.

In 1872, she was nominated by the "Equal Rights Party", as the candidate for the United States presidency. Victoria received no electoral votes in the election, and an unknown percentage of the popular vote. Some scholars do not agree that she was the first presidential candidate because she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age of 35; she would only turn 35 six months after the inauguration.

Answer: They are hill station founded by European colonialists

These cities, as well as others of the same type, were conceived as a "hill station" or colonial type of settlement. They are located at a higher elevation than the nearby valley or plain. The term "hill station" was widely used in colonial Asia and also in Africa, for cities founded by European colonizers mainly as a refuge from the summer heat and to recover from tropical diseases. The first hill stations in Asia, located at an altitude of approximately 1,000 to 2,500 meters (3,300 to 8,200 ft), appeared in the 1820s mainly as sanatoriums and later began to form truly exclusive areas for Europeans. They reproduced not only the climate but the architecture, landscaping and facilities (clubs, golf courses, racecourses, botanical gardens) of the colonizing nation.

Shimla or Simla is located on the ranges of Himalayas at an average altitude of 2,206 m (7,238 ft) above sea level. The British took control of this area in 1815 and built bungalows, churches, schools, in two architectural styles: Neo-Gothic and Victorian. In 1864, Shimla was declared as the summer capital of British India. Furthermore, the British Government developed the Kalka - Shimla Railway line, which is functional 'til today. The British installed numerous hill stations in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries in India as well as in Ceylon, Burma etc.

Ifrane, Morocco, known today as Moroccan Switzerland, was established in 1929 by the French during the Protectorate era, in an attempt to create a town reminiscent of the ski resorts of the French Alps. It was a cool place for colonial families to spend the hot summer months. The city is 1,665 m (5,463 ft) above sea level in the Middle Atlas Mountains and 44 miles (70 km) south of Fez and resembles an Alpine village.

Answer: Four

By the end of the 20th century, four American presidents died in office of natural causes: William H. Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

William Henry Harrison (1773 - 1841), soldier and politician, served as ninth president and was the first to die in office. He won the 1840 presidential election and took the oath of office on March 4, 1841. On that rainy and cold day he, without an overcoat and hat, rode on horseback to the ceremony and delivered the longest inaugural address, which lasted almost two hours. On March 24, the president, once again, went out without coat and hat, when he was caught by a rainstorm. With wet clothes he continued his work and on March 26 he became ill and died on April 4, 1841.

Zachary Taylor (1784 - 1850) was a military leader and was elected president in 1848. On July 4, 1850 Taylor attended an outdoor celebration to mark the nation's birthday. It was an intensely hot day and it is said that he ate uncooked fruit and iced milk to cool off. That same night Taylor complained of stomach pains and five days later he was dead. His doctor wrote that Taylor died of "cholera morbus", a term used for severe digestive problems.

Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923), assumed the presidency on March 4, 1921. He was a very popular president, although this popularity was reduced by the scandals that became public after his death. On July 27, 1923 he felt pain in the upper abdomen, but two days later the president had travelled to San Francisco. There, he fell ill and was diagnosed with heart problems and pneumonia. He was confined to his hotel until August 2, when he suffered a cardiac arrest, and died at the age of 57.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), was an American statesman and politician who served as the 32nd president from 1933 until his death. In 1921, Roosevelt fell ill, with polio, and was left paralyzed from the waist down. Through his efforts, and encouraged by his wife and by his friend and adviser Louis Howe, he continued his political journey. He won the presidential elections in November 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944. On the afternoon of April 12, 1945, while posing for a portrait by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, Roosevelt said his last words: "I have a terrible headache." At 3:35 p.m. on that same day, Roosevelt died at the age of 63.

Answer: Zipper

Although the idea of a slide fastener, an object for joining the edges together with an opening such as a bag or a garment, was exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 by Whitcomb Judson (1843 - 1909), the idea was ignored by the public.

In 1913, the Swedish-American engineer Gideon Sundback (1880 - 1954) worked on improving or remodeling Judson's fastener, making it more reliable and simple. Gideon made numerous improvements not only to the fastener but also to the machinery used to produce the product. At the end of 1920s, this object called "zipper" was already found in clothes, shoes, and suitcases.

The popular term zipper, zip, or occasionally zip-fastener came from the B. F. Goodrich Company in 1923. The company used this device on a new type of rubber boots and referred to it as a zipper, and the name stuck.

Answer: False

False. Anne of Cleves (1515 - 1557), the fourth wife of Henry VIII, was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. Henry had been widowed for two years, and was looking for political allies abroad to reinforce his position against possible attacks from the Holy Roman Empire and from Catholic France. To seal his alliance with William, Duke of Julich-Cleves-Berg, who was leader of the Protestants of Western Germany, he decided to marry William's sister. He had seen Anne through portraits made by painters.

Anne arrived in England at the end of 1539 and married Henry on January 6, 1540. Henry VIII after seeing her immediately disliked her and found her very ugly. After six months, the marriage was declared unconsummated and subsequently annulled. Anne of Cleves was not even crowned Queen consort. She continued to live in England and outlived Henry VIII's other wives.