Christmas Prize Quiz

MARCUS BERKMANN challenges you to name 15 famous people who, sadly, took their final bow in 2016. If you can, you have a chance of winning £130 worth of wine

1 He was the fifth Beatle and, strangely, the third to die, in March, aged 90. Who was he?

2 His voice, said Helen Mirren, ‘could suggest honey or a hidden stiletto blade’. He died in January, aged 69. Can you name him?

3 Her real name was Roma Barrack, and in 2002 she returned her OBE to Tony Blair in protest against cruelty to animals. She died in May, aged 87. Who was she?

4 Among other jobs for British radio and TV, he presented the Oldie of the Year awards every year until 2014, telling jokes so old that many people there were too young to remember them. He died, much mourned, in January aged 77.

5 Her friend Truman Capote was the basis of the character Dill in her first and greatest novel. Her second novel was a first draft of her first. She died in February, aged 89. Who was she?

6 His real first name was Newton, and in August 2011, while filming for ITV’S

The Sooty Show, he was hit in the eye by a flying pizza. Sooty threw it. In 2013 he and his wife toured on their ‘First Farewell Tour’, which turned out to be their last. He died in March, aged 77. Can you name him?

7 In character, she interviewed the wife of question six and asked her what had attracted her to him. She may have mentioned money. She died in July, aged 52.

8 Who called Joe Frazier ‘too dumb to be a champion’ and told Sonny Liston that he smelt like a bear and would give him to the local zoo after he ‘whupped’ him? He died in June aged

74. Clues for you (from top�: R2-D2, Sooty, Joe Frazier, Truman Capote, Helen Mirren

9 His third film as director, made in 1980, went so over budget and made so little money that it brought down an entire studio. He died in July, aged 77, having only been allowed to make four films since.

10 His 25th and last album was his first not to have a picture of him on the front cover. He died in January, aged 69.

11 ‘I’m in pain and I’m wet and I’m still hysterical!’ Nominated for Best Supporting Actor in his first major film role, who died in August, aged 83?

12 Which British MP, shot and stabbed in her Yorkshire constituency, died in June, aged 41?

13 She was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, when she had completed just three buildings. She died in March, aged 65. Who was she?

14 He played R2-D2 and died in August, aged 81. Unlike the former Conservative Cabinet minister with whom he shared his name, he was three feet eight inches tall. Who was he?

15 ‘Foreplay is like beefburgers – three minutes on each side,’ she said. Who began her showbusiness career in 1974, when she won New Faces? She died in April, aged 62.