Showbiz Quiz of the Year 2011 (From Daily Echo)

Showbiz Quiz of the Year 2011

12:00pm Thursday 29th December 2011 in Entertainments By Lorelei Reddin, Entertainments Editor

Do you know your Lilos from your J-Los? Were you glued to all the showbiz gossip from 2011? Test your knowledge of the year’s entertainments with our quickfire quiz. Answers in tomorrow’s Daily Echo....

1 Which British actor, described by Steven Spielberg as “the best actor in the world”, died at the age of 64 after a lengthy illness?

2 Which Archers character, played by Graham Seed for nearly 30 years, was killed off after falling from a roof on the show’s 60th anniversary?

3 Which band won an award for 2010’s best record cover with their album Surfing The Void, which depicts a cat in an astronaut suit?

4 Which Paisley-born singer, who once toured with Billy Connolly as part of the Humblebums and formed Stealers Wheel before his successful solo career, died at 63?

5 Who launched her American TV network called OWN, offering round-the-clock lifestyle programmes?

6 Which US celebrity couple announced they had become parents to Faith Margaret, a new baby daughter born to a surrogate mother?

7 Who won this year’s TS Eliot Prize for his latest collection, White Egrets?

8 Which ‘boy’ band represented the UK in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest?

9 Which Oscar-winning composer, famous for his musical scores for 11 James Bond films, died in New York aged 77?

10 What live event, which began life at London’s Roundhouse in 2006, was axed by the BBC, citing financial considerations?

11 Which renowned Irish rock guitarist and former member of Thin Lizzy died while on holiday in Spain, at the age of 58?

12 Glastonbury festival organiser Michael Eavis announced the triumphant return of which band to headline the 2011 event?

13 Who was crowned the queen of the West End after winning best musical actress at the Laurence Olivier Awards?

14 A draft version of which unpublished and previously unknown Enid Blyton novel about a magical caravan turned up in an archive of the late children’s author’s work?

15 Which Clint Eastwood film, featuring scenes of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, was taken out of Japanese cinemas following the country’s devastating earthquake and tsunami?

16 Which four-day film arts festival, held at London’s O2 in April, was launched by Robert Redford?

17 Which Donegal singer became the first artist to have an album in the UK charts for 24 consecutive weeks?

18 Who was named best actor at the Royal Television Society Awards for his role in Channel 4’s Any Human Heart?

19 “Two cheeseburgers, apple pie, a cigarette and a pretty girl was all he wanted” said the agent of which Grammy award-winning blues pianist who died at the age of 97?

20 Which Canadian rockers won four prizes at the Junos, Canada’s leading music awards event, which celebrated its 40th anniversary?

21 Who, with her second release, broke the record for the longest stay at No 1 for an album in the UK chart by a female solo artist?

22 A blue plaque was installed at the former west London home of which acclaimed female singer, replacing the one put up in 2001, which ‘disappeared’ during renovation work at 38-40 Aubrey Walk in Kensington earlier this year?

23 Which producer of Pretty Woman, Fight Club and the Spider-Man films, lost her fight against cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 61?

24 Which opera company denied that homophobia motivated its scrapping of Beached, a community opera by Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall?

25 Why did Sting cancel a concert in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana?

26 Which giant sculpture by designer Cecil Balmond was chosen by the judges for the Border Crossing project at Gretna?

27 Which female singer topped the Teen Choice Awards, winning six prizes?

28 Mississippi-born Marshall Grant, who died in Arkansas aged 83, was a member of whose original band called the Tennessee Two?

29 Victor Willis, a former member of 1970s disco group Village People, who lives in south-east Wales, launched a legal fight for the rights to which classic hit?

30 Which ‘Honey-Boy’ blues musician died at his home in Chicago at the age of 96?

31 Which British star of US TV drama Spartacus: Blood and Sand died at the age of 39, 18 months after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma?

32 Which Motown guitarist and original member of Smokey Robinson and The Miracles died aged 70?

33 Which actor and banjo player – and his band – were named entertainers of the year at the 2011 Bluegrass Awards…?

34 …And what is the name of his band?

35 Which folk musician and founding member of Pentangle died in London at the age of 67?

36 Which singer, from Tarbolton in Ayrshire, won 2011’s Britain’s Got Talent, the first Scot to win the talent show?

37 Which punk singer and former singer with the X-Ray Spex – born Marianne Elliot-Said – died at the age of 53 after suffering from cancer?

38 Which band, featuring singer Maxi Jazz officially split up at the end of their Passing The Baton tour, which climaxed at Brixton Academy in April?

39 Which Australian actress portrayed the title character in Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Jane Eyre?

40 Which French actress, best known for playing Jeanne opposite Marlon Brando, in the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris, died aged 58?

41 Christian Bale and Melissa Leo won best supporting actor and best supporting actress Oscars for their roles in which film?

42 Which innovative quintet released their album The King Of Limbs?

43 Which veteran actress and singer, who scored her first hit record in 1945 with Sentimental Journey, was honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the LA Film Critics Association (LAFCA)?

44 The son of which former Pink Floyd guitarist lost an appeal against his sentence for violent disorder during a student fees protest?

45 Which band released their fifth album, Build A Rocket Boys!?

46 Which American actor, best known for his role as a shabby and ostensibly absent-minded police detective lieutenant in the TV series Columbo, died at the age of 83?

47 Who won best supporting actor BAFTA for his role in The King’s Speech?

48 Which singer-songwriter from London won a Critics’ Choice BRIT Award in February?

49 Which band had a UK No 1 hit with their fifth studio album Mylo Xyloto?

50 Which former Top Of The Pops DJ, TV presenter, marathon runner, Mensa member, wrestler and fundraiser died at the age of 84?