Language Origins

The terms Sussex, Essex, Wessex, and Middlesex originated with the South, East, West, and Middle regions of what middle-age European tribe?

Saxons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxons

Astronomy

Every planet in the solar system orbits the sun in the same direction. But which 2 planets rotate on their axes in the opposite, or retrograde, direction?

Venus and Uranus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_and_prograde_motion