Quiz of the year 2020

when he died in February?

2: Harry Potter star Rupert Grint became a father in May. After which day of the week did he name his daughter?

3: NBA legend Kobe Bryant died in January aged 41 in a helicopter crash in which US state?

4: Which country music legend died in March aged 81?

5: Who married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in a low-key private wedding ceremony in July after plans for a more lavish do were cancelled due to the pandemic?

6: Which football figure who won a World Cup winner’s medal as a player and led another nation to the quarter-finals of Italia 90 died in July?

7: The daughter of which late Australian celebrity got married in March and announced in August she was pregnant with her first child?

8: Who revealed in September that she had married US actor David Harbour in Las Vegas in a ceremony that featured a performance from an Elvis Presley impersonator.

9: Which comedian, singer and TV presenter died on November 14 aged 88?

10: How old was Dame Barbara Windsor when she died in December?

2: Which world leader sparked rumours in April he was either gravely ill or dead after missing key national events before he re-emerged in photos 20 days later?

3: Name the cruise ship stuck off the coast of Japan that in February accounted for more than half of the known Covid-19 cases outside of China.

4: Which country voted in October to legalise euthanasia, but not marijuana?

5: Name the Hong Kong leader who said in November she was being paid her salary in cash because of US sanctions to freeze her bank accounts.

6: Frenchman Albert Uderzo died in March aged 92. What beloved comic book character did he co-create?

7: Which nation treated Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after he was poisoned with Novichok in August?

8: Which European leader had to apologise in March for shaking his medical adviser’s hand at the end of a press conference at which he had asked everyone to refrain from handshaking?

9: British-born scientist Michael Houghton shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in October for his work on which disease?

10: On which social media platform did American comedian Sarah Cooper first go viral in April for her lip-sync impersonations of Donald Trump?