Misc: What country is "Bryan Adams" from?

Questions

Who calculated the amount of energy that appears when matter disappears?

Who calls its parliament 'the knesset'?

Who captured esquire's 'most dubious man of the year' award in 1980?

Who claimed that in the garden of eden god spoke swedish, adam spoke danish, and the serpent spoke french?

Who claimed to be the first person to swim across the atlantic ocean?