Ups and Downs!

All of the following relate to today, 23 March.

1. On 23 March 1857 the first commercial elevator was installed in a New York City department store, it was powered by…
   • Steam
   • Electricity
   • Water
2. Born today in 1910, a Japanese film director who according to Encyclopædia Britannica ‘won worldwide acclaim with subtle, brilliantly composed films, such as Rashōmon (1950) and
   Seven Samurai (1954), that combined Japanese historic themes with a Western sense of action and drama”; he was…
   • Yasujirō Ozu
   • Ishirō Honda
   • Akira Kurosawa
3. On this date a nationwide television address in the US announced a space based defence system against nuclear attacks which came to be known as “Star Wars”; the address was made by…
   • President Jimmy Carter
   • President Ronald Reagan
   • President George HW Bush
4. On this day in 1998 Titanic won 11 Academy Awards equalling the record set by…
   • All About Eve (1950)
   • Ben-Hur (1959)
   • The Godfather (1972)
5. The space station Mir returned to Earth on 23 March. It had been launched by the Soviet space agency in 1986 with a design life expectancy of five years. In what year did it re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere?
   • 1991
   • 1996
   • 2001

Good luck! I will post the answers later today.