Those We Lost In 2010 Pt II Trivia Quiz

Answer: Michael Foot

"The longest suicide note in history" was the name given to the Labour Party's 1983 general election manifesto by shadow cabinet member, Gerald Kaufman. The manifesto was possibly the most left-wing manifesto that the party produced in the latter half of the 20th century. It called for unilateral nuclear disarmament, re-nationalisation of major industries and withdrawal from the European Economic Community, amongst other policies. The result of the manifesto, combined with a recent split within the left of British politics, led Labour to garner just 27% of the votes cast in the election and allowed Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives to gain a substantial majority in the House of Commons.

Foot had been elected party leader in 1980 as the party responded to the decisions of the previous encumbent, Prime Minister James Callaghan, which were viewed as having taken the party to the right of its core constituency. Foot had been seen as a unifying candidate, who could hold together the senior centrist figures from the previous government and the newly rebellious left. Unfortunately, his attempts to move the party back to the left led to a damaging split when, one year later, four senior right-wing figures left the party to form the SDP. The SDP were to form an alliance with the Liberal Party before the 1983 election, thereby siphoning many votes from Foot's party. Foot stood down as leader after the election.

Foot's career in politics followed a successful career as a writer and journalist. He was one of the founding journalists on the left-wing "Tribune" newspaper before becoming editor of London's "Evening Standard".

Answer: Corey Haim

Haim's addictions meant that he was never able to build on his early successes. By the 1990s, when he was still in his early twenties, his on-screen appearances were already restricted to straight to video movies. He attempted comebacks on several occasions after cleaning up, only to relapse. The most public of these relapses came during the filming of the part-fiction, part-reality TV series, "The Two Coreys". The series showed Haim living with "The Lost Boys" co-star and good friend, Corey Feldman, whilst attempting to get his career back on track. When he began to use drugs again, Feldman kicked him out, fearing that he was not safe to have around Feldman's wife and family. Shortly afterwards, the series ended when Feldman refused to work with Haim unless he kicked his drug habits.

The last few years of Haim's life were spent living with his mother, in a state that Feldman described as "destitute". He became addicted to prescription drugs and had collected a very large stockpile of these in his last few weeks alive. However, the post mortem following his death showed that drugs had played no significant factor in his death, which had been caused by complications from pneumonia and other illnesses.

Answer: Eugene Terre'Blanche

Terreblanche was a firebrand orator, whose command of rhetoric drew him wide support. His constituency was those whites who feared disenfranchisment in a South Africa that was very slowly liberalising its attitude towards non-whites. He formed the AWB party (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging or Afrikaner Resistance Movement) in 1973 in response to what he believed was the liberalism of the contemporary apartheid regime. He subscribed to the idea of the cult of personality, much beloved of neo-fascist parties, and claimed that he was the only person who could lead the party, which would die with him.

Terre'Blanche was murdered by two of his black employees in a dispute over unpaid wages. There was not believed to be a political element to the killing. By the time of his death, the AWB had become heavily marginalised in a modern, pluralistic South Africa and Terreblanche's booming voice had not been heard on a major public stage for many years. Despite its low membership and increasing irrelevance, the party did not die with Terre'Blanche. Steyn van Ronge was appointed leader in April 2010.

Answer: Malcolm McLaren

McLaren's first foray into the music scene was when he managed the New York Dolls in the early 1970s. Even though they met with little success before their split in 1975, the band had a huge influence on the punk scene that was about to explode in London. Prior to his time in New York, McLaren had run a fashion boutique on London's King's Road with his partner, Vivienne Westwood. On his return to London in 1975, they re-branded it as "SEX".

McLaren began managing a band in London called The Strand. He sacked the band's bass player and replaced him with a shop assistant from SEX called Glen Matlock. With the addition of a new singer called John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, the Sex Pistols were born. On the back of a relentless succession of publicity stunts, the Pistols became a media phenomenon and achieved major UK chart success. When McLaren attempted to replicate that success in the US, the band spilt acrimoniously. The rift between the band's two main creative forces, Lydon and McLaren, was sustained right up until McLaren's death.

McLaren used the success of the Pistols and other bands that he managed, such as Bow Wow Wow and Adam and the Ants, as a springboard towards his own solo musical career. His first, and most successful, project was the album "Duck Rock". For this, he teamed up with The World's Famous Supreme Team and helped to introduce hip-hop to the mainstream of the UK pop scene.

McLaren became less ubiquitous in the UK media after the mid-80s but still manage to stir up interest from time to time including at one stage putting himself in the running to become London's first ever elected mayor. His last project before his death was a film about Paris.

Answer: Poland

The responsibility for the Katyn massacre was denied by successive Soviet governments for more than 50 years, laying the responsibility at the door of the German army. The deaths of approximately 22,000 Polish military officers, lawyers, doctors and other professionals were carried out with the tacit approval of Stalin's Politburo. The admission of Soviet guilt for the crime eventually came in 1990, although it was accompanied with a refusal, which successive Russian governments also claimed, that the deaths constituted a genocide. The 70th anniversary commemorations, to be held at the site of the massacre, were notable as the first to which the Polish leadership had been invited by the Russian government to attend.

The crash occurred in thick fog and was blamed on pilot error. Despite air traffic control advising against it, the pilot decided to try and land at Smolensk airport. In the fog, the plane flew too low over a wooded area and struck some trees, causing the plane to crash onto its back, killing all on board. Among the notable passengers were the Polish president and his wife, several MPs, all the heads of the branches of the military and several senior members of the Polish church. Tragically, many relatives of those killed in the Katyn massacre also lost their lives in the crash.

Answer: Juan Antonio Samaranch

Two decades of service to the nationalist regime of General Franco in Spain did nothing to damage the reputation of Samaranch. His roles as sports minister for the municipality of Barcelona and later for the whole of Spain during Franco's dictatorship allowed him to become head of the Spanish Olympic Committee. With that role came membership of the International Olympic Committee. Within seven years of joining, he had become the IOC's vice-president.

Though he was appointed just prior to the boycott-damaged Moscow Games of 1980, Samaranch's first Olympics in charge were the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. It was the first Games in 12 years to post a profit and, despite the Soviet bloc initiating a tit-for-tat boycott of the Games, it was widely seen as a success that restored the competition's reputation.

Samaranch oversaw another four summer Games before stepping down from the presidency in 2001. He concentrated much of his efforts after this time to winning the Games for his native Madrid. Sadly, his efforts came to naught with the city losing out in the bidding process to London and Rio de Janeiro.

Answer: The Redgraves

You have to feel for Vanessa Redgrave, who lost her daughter the previous year and then both her siblings in the space of a month in 2010. Corin, her younger brother, was perhaps lesser known than his sisters as so much of his work was on the stage rather than on screen. However, his body of work still included many great films such as "A Man For All Seasons" (1966). He was as well known for his political activism as his acting work.

Lynn Redgrave, his younger sister, succumbed to her illness less than a month later at the age of 67. She made a huge impact in her starring role as "Georgy Girl", for which she was Oscar nominated. Like her brother, however, Lynn preferred the stage to the screen. She started making more regular film appearances in the 1990s, earning a second Oscar nomination in 1999 for "Gods and Monsters".

Answer: Ben Johnson

Charlie Francis was convinced that it was not possible to win in international athletics without the help of performance-enhancing drugs. This view was informed by his experience representing Canada at the Munich Olympic Games of 1972. Despite having been ranked at number five in the world for the 100m in 1971, he failed to progress beyond the second round in Munich. Through his contact with his fellow competitors he became convinced that all the top performers were taking drugs.

When he began coaching after the end of his own sprinting career, he employed a systematic doping regime for the athletes in his charge. Among those athletes was Ben Johnson, a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter who he coached to World Championship victory in 1987. A year later, Johnson won the 100m final at the Seoul Olympics, only to fail a drug test after the race. He was stripped of the title and, after the admission that he had been taking drugs for several years, his world title and the world record he set in winning it were both taken away from him as well.

Fellow Canadian sprinters, Mark McKoy and Angella Issajenko were both implicated at the Dubin inquiry set up by the Canadian government in response to the Johnson scandal. Both received two year bans from the sport. Francis was banned from coaching in Canada for life. McKoy returned from his ban to claim 110m hurdles gold at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.

Answer: Dennis Hopper

"Easy Rider" (1969) won Hopper nominations for an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay and for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. This represented something of a renaissance for a man who had effectively been blackballed by Hollywood for several years previously due to his uncooperative attitude towards his directors. Hopper being Hopper, he followed up on the success of "Easy Rider" with the uncommercial and almost incomprehensible "The Last Movie" (1971). Another long period out of the mainstream followed before a brief role in "Apocalypse Now" (1979) brought him back to prominence.

The mid-to-late 80s were a strong period for Hopper. 1986 was a particularly good year. A critically lauded performance as Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet" was followed by the performance that saw him garner his only Academy Award nomination for acting, for his supporting role in "Hoosiers". Two years later, another critical success arrived in the shape of "Colors" (1988), in which he directed Sean Penn and Robert Duvall as cops dealing with gang violence in Los Angeles.

Though his career spanned over 50 years and contained a number of notable performances, Hopper's body of work probably didn't represent the degree of talent and skill that he possessed. However, beyond his film work he achieved significant success as a TV actor and director, and as a photographer, painter and sculptor.

Answer: Louise Bourgeois

Bourgeois studied art history in her native Paris but only began to create artworks of her own after moving to New York in 1938, following her marriage to American art critic, Robert Goldwater. Her first exhibits began to appear in the 1940s, with her first solo show coming in New York in 1945. However, she soon ditched her early painting and printmaking styles to concentrate on sculpture.

Falling out of step with the contemporary fashion of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, her reputation remained confined to artistic circles. Exhibitions over the next 30 years were rare. Her standing began to grow in the 1980s when she exhibited in Paris and London for the first time and her reputation was cemented when she represented the USA at Venice Biennale in 1993.

Her sculpture "Maman" is possibly the best known of all her works, a giant spider, more than nine metres (30 feet) tall, made of steel and marble. The original was first exhibited at the Tate Modern in London and bronze versions have been displayed in several cities around the world. Bourgeois' spiders were representative of her mother. She often claimed that the inspiration for her art came from her father's betrayal of her mother in his affair with Louise's childhood governness.