The following quiz questions were submitted by Perry Bartlett. Perry runs a quiz night at Floyd's Bar, Cerro Branco, Albufeira in Portugal every Saturday & Wednesday night at 10pm. Many thanks Perry.

1. Chevrolet was acquired by which car company today in 1918?

2. 38 today (2007), who holds the record for the highest individual innings in a test match?

3. Which US Senator, who died today in 1957, was responsible for the communist witch hunts in 1950s America?

4. Which state announced its soldiers had taken Berlin today in 1945?

5. By what name do we usually know the late, British reggae singer, born Alexander Minto Hughes on this day in 1945?

6. Which hell raising British actor, who died today in 1999, played Bill Sykes in the 1968 film ?Oliver!??

7. Inmates took over a wing of which legendary San Francisco prison today in 1946?

8. Born today in 1859, who was the author of ?3 Men in a Boat??

9. Today in 1953, Blackpool won the FA cup in ?The Matthews Final?, but who scored a hat-trick that day?

10. How old is Engelbert Humperdinck today (2007)?

ANSWERS 

1. General Motors

2. Brian Lara

3. Joseph McCarthy

4. USSR

5. Judge Dread

6. Oliver Reed

7. Alcatraz

8. Jerome K. Jerome

9. Stan Mortensen

10. 71