Fun UK Quiz: Name 12 Famous British Personalities

In a photo shoot for the March issue cover of British Vogue, Naomi Campbell, 51, appears with her baby daughter. Campbell announced the arrival of her daughter on Instagram in May 2021 and confirmed to the magazine that she was not adopted.

The Bank of England began circulating its new £50 banknotes featuring World War II codebreaker Alan Turing on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, the pioneering math genius’s 109th birthday. Turing is the first gay man on a British banknote.

On Sunday, July 11, 2021, billionaire Richard Branson became the first person to blast off in his own spaceship, V.S.S. Unity, beating Jeff Bezos, the richest person on the planet, by nine days.

Billionaires in Space Fun Fact:

Bezos. Screenshot: Blue Origin on YouTube

The London-born founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways assigned himself to the flight after Bezos announced plans to ride his own rocket into space from Texas on July 20.  Bezos sent his congratulations, adding: “Can’t wait to join the club!”

Damien Hirst is considered the United Kingdom’s richest living artist, with a net worth of $700 million in 2021.

What is Damien Hirst’s The Currency?

The Currency is the first NFT collection by Damien Hirst of 10,000 NFTs, corresponding to 10,000 unique physical artworks stored in a secure vault in the UK. Hirst produced the project with HENI, an art services business. HENI sold each image in the series for the price of $2,000. They grossed about $18 million from the initial sale and, according to HENI, are collecting a further 5 percent of the proceeds from NFT resales.

Helen Mirren portrays Israeli late Prime Minister Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv’s biopic revolving around the 1973 traumatic Yom Kippur war.

What is “Jewface”?

The film raised some discussion in the UK about the non-Jewish star portraying Israel’s first female PM, going as far as inciting the use of the word ‘Jewface’ –  a backlash to the assignment of a significant Jewish role to someone not from that minority background.

Prof. Sarah Gilbert led the development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine.

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She is now a part of the medical Barbie collection, along with five other women working in laboratories around the world: US healthcare workers Amy O’Sullivan and Dr. Audrey Cruz, a Canadian doctor and campaigner Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa, Brazilian biomedical researcher Dr. Jaqueline Goes de Jesus and Dr. Kirby White, an Australian medic who co-created a reusable gown for frontline staff.

Lily Collins, Phil Collins’s daughter, is Emily in “Emily in Paris.” The Netflix series’ second season premieres on Dec. 22, 2021. Watch the season 2 trailer.

Former Downton Abbey’s Lady Rose, English actress and model Lily James, transformed into Pamela Anderson in the new HULU eight-part biopic series, Pam & Tommy. The series also stars Sebastian Stan as Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee and Seth Rogen and Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman as the men who stole their famous sex tape. The actual Pamela Anderson hasn’t been involved in Pam & Tommy, which streams on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in the UK from Feb. 2, 2022.

Called “Abstract Performance,” and based on Picasso’s “The Three Dancers,” The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood painted himself on stage with the rest of the band, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, and a nude Mick Jagger. On Feb 1, 2022, Wood unveiled the massive painting in the Shepherd’s Bush area of west London.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle released a photo showing their daughter Lili (Lilibet Diana) celebrating her first birthday in a backyard picnic on June 4, 2022.