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Round 2 of our quiz about well known personalities who passed away this year.

 

Clues

1) English actress perhaps best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in ‘Open All Hours’

 

2) Which larger than life singer, born Marvin Lee Aday, died in January

 

3) Eastenders stalwart who announced that she had finally left the show in February 2020 aged 93 and died in April this year

 

4) Became famous for playing Coco Hernandez in the film ‘Fame’

 

5) One of the main presenters of BBC Breakfast between 2001 and 2016 who died from prostate cancer aged only 66

 

6) Born Anthony Robert McMillan he became an acting ‘National Treasure’ who really made his name as “Fitz” before becoming a half giant half human.

 

7) George Wilson Weir OBE was a campaigner and fundraiser for MND, but for which sport was he famous

 

8) Although born in Prague as Marie Jana Korbelova she became a USA citizen and went on to become the first woman to hold the position of Secretary of State under president Bill Clinton

 

 

 

Answers

1) English actress perhaps best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in ‘Open All Hours’

Lynda Baron

 

2) Which larger than life singer, born Marvin Lee Aday, died in January

Meat Loaf

 

3) Eastenders stalwart who announced that she had finally left the show in February 2020 aged 93 and died in April this year

June Brown

 

4) Became famous for playing Coco Hernandez in the film ‘Fame’

Irene Cara

 

5) One of the main presenters of BBC Breakfast between 2001 and 2016 who died from prostate cancer aged only 66

Bill Turnbull

 

6) Born Anthony Robert McMillan he became an acting ‘National Treasure’ who really made his name as “Fitz” before becoming a half giant half human.

Robbie Coltrane

 

7) George Wilson Weir OBE was a campaigner and fundraiser for MND, but for which sport was he famous

Rugby Union (‘Doddie’ Weir)

 

8) Although born in Prague as Marie Jana Korbelova she became a USA citizen and went on to become the first woman to hold the position of Secretary of State under president Bill Clinton

Madeleine Albright