Statistics for Born in Edinburgh

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Hint		Answer	% Correct
Inventor, who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone, and co-founder of AT&T	1847	Alexander Graham Bell	100%
Writer and creator of Sherlock Holmes	1859	Arthur Conan Doyle	86%
Writer, "Treasure Island" "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"	1850	Robert Louis Stevenson	86%
First actor to portray James Bond	1930	Sean Connery	86%
Former track cyclist and winner of six Olympic gold medals	1976	Chris Hoy	71%
King of Scotland from 1567 and King of England and Ireland from 1603 until his death in 1625	1566	James I	71%
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007	1953	Tony Blair	71%
Author, "Ivanhoe" "Heart of Midlothian"	1771	Walter Scott	71%
Author, "Trainspotting"	1958	Irving Welsh	57%
Actor and comedian, "The Two Ronnies"	1930	Ronnie Corbett	57%
Goalkeeper who plays the Scottish national team and is the captain of Heart of Midlothian (former Celtic and Sunderland goalkeeper)	1982	Craig Gordon	43%
Scottish Enlightment philosopher, "A Treatise of Human Nature"	1711	David Hume	43%
Actor, "Braveheart" "Saw" "The Lost City of Z"	1963	Angus Macfadyen	29%
Football coach who has managed Scottish national team, Celtic and Southampton and former footballer who played for Scotland, ManU and Leeds	1957	Gordon Strachan	29%
Actor, "Game of Thrones" "Resident Evil" "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"	1961	Iain Glen	29%
Scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation	1831	James Clerk Maxwell	29%
Author, "The Wind in the Willows"	1859	Kenneth Grahame	29%
Actor, "The Descendants" "The Lodge"	1995	Thomas Doherty	29%
Chemist and discoverer of nitrogen	1749	Daniel Rutherford	14%
Chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design and synthesis of molecular machines	1942	Fraser Stoddart	14%
Inventor of the steam hammer	1807	James Nasmyth	14%
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court since 2021	1970	Karim Khan	14%
Actor, "A Monster Calls" "Pan"	2002	Lewis MacDougall	14%
Foreign Secretary from 1995 to 1997 and Secretary of Defence from 1992 to 1995	1946	Malcolm Rifkind	14%
Biologist and pioneer in the field of electron micorscopy of biological molecules, he shared the the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017	1945	Richard Henderson	14%
Edinburgh City council, who maintained a secret life as a housebreaker. He is said to have been the inspiration for "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"	1741	William Brodie	14%