ANSWERS

1. Barack Obama, US Politician

2. Nasal Septum - part of their nose, due to drug abuse

3. Brothers in Arms - (Dire Straits)

4. Oregon, Nevada, Arizona

5. Heracles (or Herakles)

6. Philip Larkin

7. Bright stars

8. Poland

9. They have all played the hunchback of Notre Dame

10. Extinct languages

11. Hurricane names (in the North Atlantic)

12. Emerald

13. Germany

14. 1968 and 1973

15. Six Answers: 
    a: Gerd M?ller (German) 
    b: Neil Ruddock (English) 
    c: Pavel Nedved (Czech) 
    d: Roberto Baggio (Italian) 
    e: Ali Karimi (Iranian) 
    f: Ole Gunnar Solskj?r (Norwegian)

16. The Pulitzer prize (for poetry)

17. Pouches to carry their young

18. Six Answers: 
    a: Ghana and C?te d'Ivoire (formerly Ivory Coast) 
    b: USA (Columbia River valley in Washington and Oregon) 
    c: Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia 
    d: Russia 
    e: Ethiopia 
    f: San Marino

19. Volgograd (was also called Stalingrad between 1925 and 1961)

20. George Best 

21. Symphony orchestras.

22. They have all been remade for American Television.

23. 10,000,000.

24. Waddingtons, which is now owned by Hasbro.

25. They were Antipopes: An antipope is a person who makes a widely accepted claim to be the lawful pope, in opposition to the pope recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.

26. Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north.

27. NASA. (JAXA is the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency).

28. Children's Cough Syrup (specifically: Krusty's Non-Narkotik Kough Syrup For Kids).

29. Russia (Siberia) - It's famous for holding a volume of water larger than that of all the great lakes combined.

30. Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Iran.

31. Turkmenistan.

32. 1P/Halley - Halley's comet, discovered by Edmund Halley.

33. The Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east.

34. Aristotle, in 350 BC.

35. Edward Jenner.

36. Loompaland, from Roald Dahl's 1964 children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

37. Olympique de Marseille (1992/93) in the Olympiastadion, Munich, Germany.

38. Whitewater.

39. Both married Dennis Thatcher.

40. The cubit.