The Week’s Christmas quiz: looking back on 2021
How much do you remember from the past 12 months?

1. The actor Michael K. Williams, who died in September, was best known for his role as a gun-toting stick-up artist in The Wire. What was the character’s name?
2. Una Stubbs was for many years a team captain on the quiz show Give Us a Clue. Which entertainer, who also died this year, was captain of the rival team?
3. In which movie did the late character actor Charles Grodin travel cross-country, handcuffed, with Robert De Niro?
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4. Albert Roux, who died in January, was said to have revolutionised British cuisine when he opened a fine dining restaurant with his brother in London in 1967. What was its name?
5. Mary Wilson was 15 and living in a housing project in Detroit when she founded The Supremes with two friends What were their names?
6. G. Gordon Liddy was responsible for which bungled dirty tricks operation?
7. Which British politician had herself sent to Holloway prison on a prostitution charge so that she could experience conditions there at first hand?
8. Michael Collins, who died in April, was known as the “forgotten man” of which historic event?
9. Eric Carle’s Very Hungry Caterpillar started off by eating an apple. What was the last thing it ate?
10. To the sound of which song did the late Nick Kamen stroll into a launderette and strip off his 501s for the Levi’s advert that made his name?
11. What was the name of the cut-price home computer that made Clive Sinclair’s name in 1980?
1. Omar Little, 2. Lionel Blair, 3. Midnight Run, 4. Le Gavroche, 5. Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, 6. Watergate, 7. Shirley Williams, 8. The Moon landing, 9. One green leaf, 10. I Heard it Through the Grapevine, 11. The Sinclair ZX80
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