On This Day: 09 June 1971 Paul ---------- 's album "Ram" goes gold ?

Questions

The town of Beersheba is in which country?

Which American clarinettist bandleader was known as 'The King of Swing'?

Which British statesman, Minister of Labour in the National Government (1940-1945) became Foreign Secretary in Attlee's Cabinet (1945-1951)?

In the Dickens' novel 'Great Expectations' what was the Christian name of the convict 'Magwitch'?

Which fast suburban railway system in Ireland runs from Howth in the North to Bray in the South?