It's time once again for our annual "Who Am I?" quiz, which not only entertains but also attempts to educate about the people who made 2001 a better year, just by being themselves. Check your score at the bottom to test your memory of 2001's highlights.

1. Knocking the socks off the world with our "long hair" and boyish faces, we made teenage girls scream like drunken banshees and even - in some cases - pass out because of our popularity. I was a guitarist for the most popular band of all time, and cancer took my life in late November. I was the quiet one, but my passing did not go unnoticed. I am…

A) Harry Potter
B) Roman Emperor, Nero
C) George Harrison
D) Dweezil Zappa

2. I was also in a band, and you could consider me the father of punk rock. Considered maniacal and psychotic (although tame by some of today's standards), I frightened many and convinced few that I was sane. While I died of natural causes (also cancer), some might say that "somebody put something in my drink." I say Gabba Gabba Hey! I am…

A) Emma Lee Bunton, aka Baby Spice
B) Huddie Ledbetter, aka Leadbelly
C) Jeffrey Hyman, aka Joey Ramone
D) Jiles Perry Richardson, aka The Big Bopper

3. Prior to the terrorist attacks on September 11, I was sucking up most of America's media resources with my own terrorist attacks along the eastern seaboard. You'd think I was coming ashore and swallowing Montessori schools whole by the way I was portrayed in the news. Honeybees have killed more people than me, and you're more likely to get trampled by an elephant than you are to be attacked by me. I am…

A) Crazy Crustacean, The Barnacle
B) Maniacal Mammal, The Porpoise
C) Stupendous Squaliform, The Shark
D) Bloodthirsty Bird, The Pelican

4. My tale is one of courage and skill, as I am the first blind mountaineer to scale Mount Everest. After doing so back in May, I've made people all over the world feel like bean-dip-eating sloths. I mean, if a sightless man can climb the world's largest mountain, why are people watching Three's Company reruns in their spare time? I am…

A) Jack Tripper
B) Stanley Roper
C) Erik Wiehenmayer
D) Former Spanish Dictator, Francisco Franco

5. I returned to my former career for what I have called the "love of the game," but others think Bob Costas and David Stern talked me into it. I used to be the best in the world, but watching me play now is like watching the ending of Old Yeller on an endless loop. It's saddening and sickening. I am…

A) Lennox Lewis
B) Charles Barkley
C) Michael Jordan
D) "It's My Party" singer, Lesley Gore

How'd you do? Naturally, the answer is "C" to all of the questions, in this quiz and every other one on the planet. 1-2 correct answers: you might want to consider perusing a newspaper once in a while. 3-4 correct answers: you could be the next Wolf Blitzer. 5 correct answers: qualifies you to write this annual column next year!