Statistics for Famous Alumni of the Oxford Colleges

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College	Hint	Alumnus	% Correct
Brasenose College	PM between 2010 and 2016	David Cameron	85%
	Author of The Chronicles of Narnia	C.S. Lewis	83%
	First female PM of the UK	Margaret Thatcher	81%
	Author of The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	80%
Balliol College	Author of Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	76%
St Hugh's College	Current UK Prime Minister	Theresa May	76%
St John's College	PM between 1997 and 2007	Tony Blair	76%
	Actress who portrayed Hermione Granger	Emma Watson	72%
The Queen's College	Actor in Mr Bean and Blackadder	Rowan Atkinson	70%
Corpus Christi College	Leader of the Labour Party 2010-15	Ed Miliband	69%
Magdalen College	Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	69%
	Composer of Phantom, Cats, Joseph etc	Andrew Lloyd Webber	67%
	Brother of the above	David Miliband	67%
	Physicist suffering from ALS	Stephen Hawking	67%
Trinity College	British PM known as "the Elder"	William Pitt	67%
Wadham College	Architect of St Paul's Cathedral	Christopher Wren	61%
	Author of Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	61%
	King, abdicated in 1936	Edward VIII	59%
	Travel writer and Python	Michael Palin	59%
	Author of Lord of the Flies	William Golding	59%
Exeter College	First runner of the sub-four-minute mile	Roger Bannister	57%
New College	Comic actor, eg Bridget Jones	Hugh Grant	56%
	Inventor of the World Wide Web	Tim Berners-Lee	56%
	PM between 1964 and 1970, and 1974-76	Harold Wilson	54%
	First female PM of India	Indira Gandhi	54%
Hertford College	Author of Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	54%
	Scientist and vehement atheist	Richard Dawkins	54%
Christ Church	Founder of Pennsylvania	William Penn	54%
	Author of Dream Children	A.N. Wilson	52%
	Bishop of Calcutta, 1832-58	Daniel Wilson	52%
	King of England and leader at Agincourt	Henry V	50%
	Author of Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn Waugh	48%
University College	PM of the UK from 1945-51	Clement Attlee	46%
	Comedian, comedy partner of Gryff Rhys Jones	Mel Smith	46%
	Former Education Secretary (2010-14)	Michael Gove	37%
	PM between 1908 and 1916	Herbert Henry Asquith	35%
Jesus College	Archaeologist and military officer	T.E. Lawrence	33%
	Explorer and tobacco enthusiast	Walter Raleigh	33%
Worcester College	Screenwriter and producer who revived Doctor Who	Russell T. Davies	31%
	Writer whose biography was written by Boswell	Samuel Johnson	31%
	Icelandic presenter of Mastermind	Magnus Magnusson	30%
St Anne's College	Author of the Bridget Jones books	Helen Fielding	28%
	Author of Catch-22	Joseph Heller	28%
	Food writer and presenter	Nigella Lawson	26%
	Famous for wallpaper designs	William Morris	26%
	Co-creator of "New Labour"	Peter Mandelson	24%
St Catherine's College	Actress in Silent Witness, Merlin etc.	Emilia Fox	22%
	Author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time	Mark Haddon	22%
	Director of final four Harry Potter films	David Yates	20%
	MP for Holborn; formerly Director of Public Prosecutions	Keir Starmer	20%
	Author of Watership Down	Richard Adams	20%
	Historian, author of The Origins of the Second World War	A.J.P. Taylor	19%
	Secretary of State for Education, 2014-16	Nicky Morgan	19%
	Current King of Jordan	Abdullah II	17%
Lincoln College	Author, real name David Cornwell	John le Carre	17%
Pembroke College	Deputy PM under John Major	Michael Heseltine	17%
	Principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic	Simon Rattle	17%
	Poet and author of We're Going On A Bear Hunt	Michael Rosen	15%
Mansfield College	MP for Rhondda since 2001	Chris Bryant	13%
St Hilda's College	Author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell	Susanna Clarke	13%
Keble College	Author of Millions	Frank Cottrell Boyce	11%
	Inventor of the horse-drawn seed drill	Jethro Tull	11%
	Author of romantic novels eg A Village Affair	Joanna Trollope	11%
	Author of The Whitsun Weddings	Philip Larkin	11%
	Poet and playwright (1888-1965)	T.S. Eliot	11%
Lady Margaret Hall	MP for Maidstone 1987-2010	Ann Widdecombe	9%
	Tenor and partner of Benjamin Britten	Peter Pears	9%
	First woman bishop appointed by the Church of England	Libby Lane	7%
	Author of Troy, Ithaka etc	Adele Geras	6%
Somerville College	Author of The Children's Book	A.S. Byatt	6%
	Composer of The Banks of Green Willow	George Butterworth	6%
	Author of Moon Tiger	Penelope Lively	6%
	Composer of Crown Imperial	William Walton	6%
	English composer (1565-1638)	Francis Pilkington	4%
	Author of In Defense of Food	Michael Pollan	4%
	The last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury	Reginald Pole	4%
	Composer of the Warsaw Concerto	Richard Addinsell	4%
St Peter's College	Writer of the screenplay for Slumdog Millionnaire	Simon Beaufoy	4%
Merton College	Scientist and presenter	Adam Hart-Davis	2%
	Author of Quartet in Autumn	Barbara Pym	2%
	Washington correspondent for the BBC	Ben Wright	2%
Oriel College	Lord Chancellor of Great Britain between 1733 and 1737	Charles Talbot	2%
	Archbishop of York 1942-1955	Cyril Garbett	2%
	Author of The Hired Man	Melvyn Bragg	2%
	Artistic director of London Sinfonia (1988-94)	Paul Crossley	2%
	Clerk of the House of Commons 2011-14	Robert Rogers	2%
St Edmund Hall	India's Minister of External Affairs	Salman Khurshid	2%