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Answer: Robin Cousins

Until 1976 no British man had won a gold medal in an Olympic singles figure skating event but at Innsbruck John Curry became the first to do so. Four years later at Lake Placid, Robin Cousins kept the gold medal in the UK. After the Olympics, Robin turned professional and later won two professional world championships before becoming a television presenter.

Answer: Jim Crow laws

These laws, nicknamed after a character created by a nineteenth century actor, effectively disfranchised African Americans and established segregated facilities in areas such as education and transport. They began to be challenged in the federal courts in the 1950s with landmark decisions in cases such as Brown v Board of Education of Topeka. Following campaigns by the Civil Rights Movement the operation of the Jim Crow laws was effectively ended by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Answer: The Eagle has landed

When Armstrong and his colleague Buzz Aldrin completed their hazardous task of landing at the Sea of Tranquillity these were the first words transmitted to earth from the moon. In 1975 Jack Higgins used the phrase as the title of one of his novels, which was later filmed in 1976 starring Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter and Donald Sutherland in the lead roles.

Answer: Scout Finch

This novel from 1960, which was a Pulitzer Prize winner, has become one of the classics of American literature. It was adapted as a film in 1962 when it featured Gregory Peck as the narrator's father, Atticus Finch, a role which won him the Best Actor Academy Award.

Answer: Christopher Wren

Wren's design was altered several times before the plan was approved. The new Cathedral took 35 years to build, though the first service was held in 1697, 22 years into the construction project. Wren, who was knighted in 1673, was an astronomer, mathematician and anatomist as well as an architect.

When he died in 1723 he was buried in the Cathedral he has designed, where part of his epitaph, translated from the Latin, is "If you seek his memorial, look around you".

Answer: Swan Lake

Written by Tchaikovsky, "Swan Lake" had its first performance at the Bolshoi Ballet theatre in Moscow in 1877. Perhaps its most famous moment is the climax in which Odette and her lover Siegfried drown themselves by jumping into a lake as the only way to destroy the spell.

Answer: The Famous Grouse

Between 1896 and 1905 this blended whisky was called simply "The Grouse". It is one of the best selling brands of whisky in Scotland. There is also a brand of whisky called "Capercaillie" but "Old Speckled Hen" is an English beer and there is no drink that I know of called "The Black Partridge".

Answer: The Wild Geese

The Treaty of Limerick of 1691 allowed the Jacobite leader Patrick Sarsfield to lead about 14,000 of his soldiers and 6,000 women and children to exile in France. There the soldiers entered French military service which had Irish units serving for at least a century.

The term "Wild Geese" has been used more widely to describe Irish mercenary soldiers serving in the armies of European countries between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries.

Answer: Florence Nightingale

2020 sees the bicentennial of the birth of Florence Nightingale, one of the most famous medical pioneers. Named after the city in which she was born, Florence became famous during the Crimean War (1854-1856) when she discovered the appalling conditions in which British soldiers were being treated in the military hospital at Scutari (which is not in the Crimea but is a district of Istanbul). Her campaign to improve conditions included correspondence with "The Times" newspaper, which led to government action.

Back in Britain she continued medical campaigning and her book, "Notes on Nursing" became a standard textbook.

Answer: Clarice Starling

After a film debut at the age of ten and a Oscar nomination for "Taxi Driver" at the age of fourteen, Jodie Foster has become one of the most respected female actors. Her first Academy Award as Best Actress came in "The Accused" in 1988, in which she played a rape survivor. Three years later came her performance in "The Silence of the Lambs" as a student at the FBI Academy who is sent to interview the scary Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) and is drawn into investigations that end with the capture of a serial killer.

By contrast with these heavy roles, one of her best early performances was in the hilarious send up of gangster films, "Bugsy Malone", in the same year as
"Taxi Driver".