CHROKNOWLEDGEY

RANGING from the year 1901 to 2000, can you place the following ten events into the correct decades? Each decade starts with the year ending ‘1’ and ends with the year ending ‘0’, (i.e. 1901-1910) and there is one event per decade.

SOLUTION ON MONDAY

A AFTER nearly 40 years of Italian rule over Libya, it is declared independent by King Idris I.

B T. S. ELIOT publishes the famous modernist poem The Waste Land.

C ERITREA and Monaco are admitted to the United Nations, increasing total membership to 183.

D IN THE World Chess Championship, American Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky, marking the end of a Soviet winning streak that had lasted 24 years.

E THE Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which later becomes known as Kellogg’s, is founded by Will Keith Kellogg.

F AVIATOR and author Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan are reported missing flying over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to fly around the world.

G THE supersonic airliner Concorde makes its first flight seven years before entering service.

H INTERNATIONAL prosecutions known as the Nuremberg Trials are held to determine the fate of 199 Nazis, 37 of whom are sentenced to death.

I NEO- EXPRESSIONIST New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat dies of a heroin overdose in his studio in Manhattan.

J AMERICAN explorer Hiram Bingham III is led to the ancient Inca citadel known as Machu Picchu by an indigenous farmer and is later credited for its discovery.