Quizzes and puzzles

The Week’s Christmas quiz: people we lost in 2021

With questions ranging from The Very Hungry Caterpillar to The Supremes

by The Week Staff

24 Dec 2021

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Michael K Williams

The actor Michael K. Williams

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