Bits and Bobs

All of these questions are related to today’s date, April 19th. They also all start with the letter ‘B’.

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.
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One

On 19 April 1999, in politics, what returned to Berlin for the first time in almost fifty years, and where had it returned from?


Two

In 1775, during the opening stages of a revolutionary war, a city was besieged for eleven months from April 19th. What city?


Three

Observed on April 19th, a celebratory day remembering an experiment where a chemist intentionally ingested LSD, documented it and then went home. What is the day called?


Four

A poet and playwright who died this day in 1824, first became a celebrity with the publication of the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage in 1812. Who is this poet?


Five

IIn 2011, Fidel Castro resigned from Cuba’s Communist Party central committee. The following March, in his role as an elder statesman, Castro briefly met a visiting dignitary, the sixteenth of the name. Who was this dignitary?


Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.


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