h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Spoiler alert - this will be solved quickly, so don't scroll down if you want to tackle it yourself.

And if anyone can provide a clue to either of the two I obviously missed, I'll be impressed

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1. Seduced by a centaur, Io later gave birth to Epaphus.

2. Loyalist paramilitaries torch IRA commander’s farmhouse in West Tyrone.

3. In 1934, having established the Gestapo, Hermann Goering passed its administration to Heinrich Himmler.

4. Forming words from acronyms is a distinctly twentieth- (and now twenty-first-) century phenomenon.

5. Fig. 6.63 Master Transmitter Random Sequence Generator (From IEEE Std. 802.3. Copyright © 2000 IEEE. All rights reserved.)

6. In 1955 Andy Warhol landed a major commission for the shoe company I. Miller.

7. Saxifraga Cotyledon, the pyramidal saxifrage is one of Norway’s two national flowers.

8. Diarmuid Gavin’s audacity of placing a flowering shrub on a parterre won him a few enemies along with his Chelsea Gold Medal.

9. “Won't new lawyers miss the rite of passage represented by graduation day pomp? I doubt it…”

10. Credited with popularising the legend of Noah’s Ark, Ozymandias is said to have related the tale to Babylonian traders at the Egyptian court.

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10 is Sarkozy

It must be French premiers.

Presidents and leaders of France. I've figured them all out except for no. 3.

World-wide, Gaul led the field in magic potion making in the 1st Century BC.

Yes, I was trying to avoid that proper noun

Company cultivates bodega: Ulled & Associates have established a wine cellar business alongside their core activities.



I'm not well versed in French premiers, but I do know:

2. Chirac
5. Mitterand
6. Hollande
9. Pompidou

1. Auriol
4. Macron
7. Coty
8. Bonaparte ?

Correct (I ran out of post war presidents).

Unless there was a president called H. A. Vinges, I have no clue about number 3.

People having doen the hard work before, all I can say is that Poher rings a bell.

President of the Senate, maybe ? Wasn't it him who was the acting President of the Republic when Pompidou died ? If so, also acting president when de Gaulle resigned.

Yes, it was Poher. He was twice an acting President (it says here)

And I still need a clue for Giscard d'Estaing

He's also known colloquially as "VGE". That might be easier ?

Isn't he sometimes known as just Giscard?

The thing is, card is better than paper because it's stiffer.

Nice!