Died in 2020 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dawn Wells

In 1959, Wells was crowned Miss Nevada and competed in the Miss America pageant representing that state. She moved on from there to various minor roles in tv shows and movies. Her breakout role as Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island" came in 1964. She remained with the show for its entire run. She passed away on December 30, 2020, at the age of 82 because of causes related to COVID-19.

Answer: 8

Trebek was born in Sudbury, Ontario in Canada. He worked in Canadian broadcasting before moving to the US and eventually becoming the host of "Jeopardy" from 1984 to 2020. He won the 2021 Emmy Award in this category posthumously in 2021. Besides the Emmys, he received a number of honours over his life including two honorary doctorates, a star on Canada's Walk of Fame, a gold medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Emmy Awards, an induction as an Officer of the Order of Canada, an Americanism Award from the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Icon Award.

He passed away in November 2020 as a result of pancreatic cancer.

Answer: Baseball

Pride received his first guitar when he was 14 years old. He taught himself to play, but had a dream of playing professional baseball. He played in the Negro American League, and for various minor league teams before he was drafted into military service in 1956.

He was released from the Army in 1958, the same year that he recorded some songs at Sun Studio in Memphis. His music career slowly grew until he was recognized as a country-pop crossover entertainer. Pride passed away at the age of 86 in Dallas on December 12, 2020, of complications related to COVID-19.

Answer: An ornamental neck frill typically made of lace

Bader Ginsburg took her judicial oath on August 10, 1993 after being nominated to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton. She was the second woman, and the first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court. During her tenure, she was involved in many key decisions around gender discrimination, abortion rights, search and seizure, voting rights, and decisions around Native American law.

When wearing her black judicial robes, she typically wore a white lace jabot. Bader Ginsburg passed away from complications of pancreatic cancer on September 18, 2020, at age 87.

Answer: True

Eddie Van Halen developed tongue cancer in 2000. He blamed his habit of holding metal guitar picks in his mouth for the disease. He went on to develop throat cancer in 2014. He had struggled with addictions from an early age, but reported that he got sober in 2008, and remained that way until his death.

Despite the cancer diagnoses, Van Halen died of a stroke on October 6, 2020, at the age of sixty-five.

Answer: Tutti Frutti

Little Richard was a flashy performer whose songs crossed over from the rhythm and blues to the pop charts. "Tutti Fruitti" was the first of his hits. It hit the airwaves in 1955. He was a performer of rhythm and blues and pop music for much of his career, but also crossed into gospel music for one stage of his career.

When he passed away from a cause related to bone cancer, many musicians including Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, John Fogerty, Elton John, and Lenny Kravitz sent tributes because he had been so influential on their own careers.

Answer: Yes

Charlie Daniels was a very accomplished musician. He was a session musician when he first started his career, during which time he played guitar and electric bass for other musicians like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. He won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance in 1979 for "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Having had the pleasure of seeing him at the Grand Ole Opry, I know what a great fiddle player he was too. Daniels died on July 6, 2020, at the age of 83 after a hemorrhagic stroke.

Answer: Los Angeles Lakers

Kobe Bryant played his entire NBA career (1996-2006) with the Los Angeles Lakers. He helped them to five NBA championships before he retired. On January 26, 2020, he and his 13-year-old daughter and six friends were heading to a basketball game in another city by helicopter. The pilot encountered heavy fog and there was a crash in the California mountains. All on board were killed.

Answer: Tokyo, Japan

Olivia de Havilland first starred in movies in the 1930s, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1935) and "Captain Blood" (1935). In 1939, she played Melanie Hamilton in "Gone with the Wind", a role for which she received a nomination for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award.

When she was born, her parents were living in Japan because her father was an English professor at the Imperial University in Tokyo. The family left Japan in 1919. De Havilland died in her sleep of natural causes at her home in Paris, France on July 26, 2020.

Answer: He pitched the first no-hitter and perfect game in a World Series game

Don Larsen played with seven different teams over the course of his fifteen years in the big leagues. In 1956, he pitched the sixth perfect game in MLB history. It was in Game Five of the World Series Championship, so was actually the only no-hitter and perfect game in World Series history up to the end of the 20th century.

In recognition of his outstanding game, Larsen won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award and Babe Ruth Award in 1956. He died on January 1, 2020 at the age of 90 due to esophageal cancer.