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1 Yellow

2 Venus

3 A week

4 Lake

5 New Orleans, Louisiana. The dismantled restaurant was originally on the first level of the Tower from 1937 to 1981.

6 September 14 1752 – it adopted the Gregorian calendar

7 Only the distance equal to its depth, i.e. the top edge is placed where the bottom edge should rest

8 On a floor beside an upper window. There is no mention of a balcony.

9 Christian, Benjamin Disraeli was baptised into the Church of England at the age of 12.

10 Bison – buffalo are found in Africa and India.

11 South (it’s higher – more elevated – hence its name)

12 London. He died in the Jerusalem Chapel in Westminster Abbey 1413.

13 Butterfly

14 Exactly none. The actual surface of the earth, as defined by astronomers, is the outer edge of the atmosphere, about 100 miles above our heads.

15 Alex Haley

16 Dublin, about 1827, by the Reverend John Darby

17 Joe

18 West. Owing to a policy decision by the International Astronomical Union reversing lunar east and west, the Eastern Sea is now on the western limb of the moon.

19 Five

20 Five: Edward IV’s consort, Henry VII’s consort, Queen Elizabeth I, George VI’s consort and Queen Elizabeth II