Input question: Name the Scottish singer-songwriter (notably of Baker Street and as co-writer of Stuck in the Middle with You) who died early in 2011 age 63?

Output answer: gerry rafferty

Input question: In the USA, which New England State has no Atlantic coastline?

Output answer: vermont

Input question: At which Yorkshire football club was Bill Shankly manager between 1956 and 1959, before he left to begin his legendary tenure at Liverpool?

Output answer: huddersfield town

Input question: The French commune of Illiers adopted the name Illiers-Combray in homage to which author whose vivid recreation of the town (through recollection) opens his vast magnum opus?

Output answer:
marcel proust