-1. Which former terrorist, head of the extremist Irgun group, became Prime Minister of Israel in 1977?
-2. What is the lowest female singing voice?
-3. What kind of bird is a whooper?
-4. Who was Batgirl's foster father?
-5. What is the common name of the human disease varicella?
-6. Who had a hit in 1957 with Reet Petite?
-7. Which US mountain range separates the Mississippi-Missouri lowlands from the Atlantic coastal plain?
-8. What in 1871, according to folklore, was Mrs O’Leary’s cow responsible for?
-9. What remedy against unlawful imprisonment is in the form of a writ requiring a detained person to be brought before a court?
-10. Titan is a satellite of which planet?
-11. Who wrote the horror novel Dracula?
-12. Who is this?

8. The Chicago fire??

11. Bram Stoker

Sure was, Remi!

Good one, Marian!

12. Little Richard

Nice call , michele!

Still got a soft spot for his stuff...

9. Habeas Corpus

Kinda figured you'd get that one, Lex!

10. Saturn

Certainly, young flotsam!

3. A Crane ?

Good one, oldbroad!

As far as I can make out, in the USA it refers to the whooping crane, and in the UK it's a species of swan

5. chicken pox

1. Menachem Begin

7. Appalachians

2. alto

4. Commissioner Gordon

Five great solves - well done, everyone!

6. Jackie Wilson

Dependable as ever!