input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (AOL Autos) -- With car companies going in into bankruptcy and shedding famous names left and right, it's important to remember that today's automotive titans started out as tiny startups, not unlike Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

General Motors was almost called International Motors Co.

Names like Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Toyota and Porsche call to mind the huge corporate successes of the past and the great automotive families that survive today.

But behind every brand name, there is a flesh-and-blood inventor, entrepreneur or industrialist. Most of the time, they gave their name to the companies. And that fame was often about all they ended up with.

David Buick, who invented the overhead valve engine, founded the Buick Motor Car Co. in 1903. William C. Durant, the industrialist who would eventually found GM, took over the company in 1904, when it ran into financial trouble.

Buick stayed on as a director, but left in 1908, never making much money from the enterprise. He reportedly died in 1929, unable to afford one of his cars.

Durant kept the name for one of his company divisions and for the car, even though he worried that people might pronounce it "Boo-ick," according to one author. Strangely enough, the man who practically created General Motors single-handedly never really liked the idea of a 'Durant' car.

In another example, Robert Hupp invented the Hupmobile,'a two-seat runabout, in 1908. But he sold his stock in his Hupp Motor Car Company in 1911. He turned around and founded the Hupp Corp. that same year. Investors in his first firm took him to court to make him drop the "Hupp" from his new company's name and they won. His own automotive glory quickly faded, although the Hupmobile survived until the 1940s. 1. What company was almost call International Motors?
2. Who invented the overhead valve engine?
3. What company did he found?
4. Who took over the company?
5. When did this happen?
6. What did Buick do after that?
7. Did he become rich?
8. When did he die?
9. What did Durant worry about Buick?
10. What did he worry it would be pronounced?
11. Who invented the Hupmobile?
12. And when?
13. When did the Hupmobile die?
numbered_answers: 1. General Motors
2. David Buick
3. Buick Motor Car Co
4. William C. Durant
5. 1904
6. stayed on as a director
7. no
8. 1929
9. mispronounciations
10. "Boo-ick,"
11. Robert Hupp
12. 1908
13. 1940s

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN)A Georgia police chief who said he accidentally shot and seriously injured his wife while the couple were sleeping in bed has resigned, the Peachtree City Police Department said Wednesday.

William McCollom stepped down as chief of police in Peachtree City nearly a week after a prosecutor announced that although the New Year's Day shooting appeared accidental, McCollom could eventually face a misdemeanor charge accusing him of recklessly taking a gun to bed after drinking alcohol and taking sleeping medication.

The shooting in Peachtree City, an upscale community of 35,000 people south of Atlanta, left Margaret McCollom paralyzed below the waist.

"I have had had two families in Peachtree City -- my police family and my personal family. In light of the recent tragedy in my personal family, I need to continue to focus my time and efforts there," William McCollom said in a message posted Wednesday on the police department's Facebook page.

Medics and police rushed to the McColloms' home early on January 1 after the chief called 911 to say he accidentally shot his wife as both were sleeping -- by inadvertently moving a gun that he had taken to bed with him.

"The gun was in the bed, I went to move it, put it to the side, and it went off," McCollom says in a recording of the 911 call.

Later in the call, the operator asked McCollom, "Were you asleep also when this happened?"

"Yes," the chief, 57 at the time, replied.

Last week, Scott Ballard, district attorney for a several-county area that includes Peachtree City, said a Georgia Bureau of Investigation probe found the following: 1. What day did the shooting happen on?
2. Where was the gun found?
3. Who is William McCollom?
4. What happened to his wife?
5. Did she die?
6. Was she injured?
7. Who shot her?
8. What charges could he get?
numbered_answers: 1. New Year's Day
2. unknown
3. chief of police
4. shot
5. No
6. Yes
7. William McCollom
8. a misdemeanor

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Tributes are flowing in for much-loved British actor and comedian Rik Mayall, who died in London Monday at age 56.

Mayall, one of the leading lights of Britain's alternative comedy scene in the 1980s, is best known for starring roles in hit TV series "Blackadder," "The Young Ones," "The New Statesman" and "Bottom."

His agent, Kate Benson, of Brunskill Management, told CNN Mayall died suddenly Monday; she did not know the cause of his death.

Mayall first found widespread fame in student sitcom "The Young Ones," which ran for two years on the BBC, and was later shown on MTV in the United States.

The series, which he co-wrote, focused on the lives of four roommates at "Scumbag College." Mayall played politics-obsessed poet Rick alongside his long-term comedy partner Ade Edmondson as violent punk Vyvyan.

Edmondson led the tributes to Mayall Monday, telling Britain's Press Association news agency: "There were times when Rik and I were writing together when we almost died laughing.

"They were some of the most carefree, stupid days I ever had, and I feel privileged to have shared them with him. And now he's died for real. Without me. Selfish bastard."

Writer and comedian Ben Elton told the Press Association Mayall had "changed his life" by asking him to work on "The Young Ones." "He always made me cry with laughter, now he's just made me cry."

In cult favorite "Blackadder" -- also co-written by Elton -- Mayall was memorably cast in the guest role of the womanizing Lord Flashheart, who steals the anti-hero's fiance from under his nose -- at the altar. His lines were regularly repeated in schoolyards and student pubs. 1. Who led tributes to Mayall?
2. His first name?
3. What did he star in with Rik?
4. who wrote it?
5. how did Edmondson describe writing with him?
6. and?
7. to have done what?
8. what's he done now?
9. who said Rik had changed his life?
10. by?
11. on?
12. what else did they work on together?
13. which character did Rik play?
14. what does he steal?
15. where did Rik die?
16. how old was he?
17. how many top shows did he star in?
18. which tv shows did he star in?
19. and?
20. any other?
numbered_answers:
1. Edmondson
2. Ade
3. The Young Ones
4. Rik
5. "There were times when Rik and I were writing together when we almost died laughing."
6. Privileged
7. Shared them with him
8. Died
9. Ben Elton
10. Asking him to work
11. The Young Ones
12. Blackadder
13. Lord Flashheart
14. a fiance
15. London
16. 56
17. unknown
18. Blackadder and Bottom
19. The New Statesman
20. Also "The Young Ones"