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#	Who They Were	Briton	% Correct
1	Prime Minister for most of WWII	Winston Churchill	99%
61	Royal who died in 2002 at age 101	Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother	96%
7	Tudor queen	Queen Elizabeth I	96%
24	Longest reigning monarch in British history	Queen Elizabeth II	96%
3	Celebrity princess	Princess Diana	93%
4	Formulated the theory of natural selection	Charles Darwin	91%
5	Greatest of English playwrights	William Shakespeare	91%
16	First female Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher	87%
6	Invented calculus and the three laws of motion	Isaac Newton	86%
18	Queen for 63 years	Queen Victoria	83%
58	Lead singer of Queen	Freddie Mercury	78%
8	One of the Beatles	John Lennon	77%
90	King who had Thomas Becket offed	King Henry II	76%
72	King who won the Battle of Agincourt	King Henry V	76%
40	King who had six wives	King Henry VIII	76%
9	Admiral at the Battle of Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson	75%
83	"Harry Potter" author	J.K. Rowling	73%
19	Another one of the Beatles	Paul McCartney	72%
67	Prime minister, 1997-2007	Tony Blair	68%
33	Famous footballer who married a Spice Girl	David Beckham	67%
30	Plotted to blow up Parliament with gun powder	Guy Fawkes	65%
92	"Lord of the Rings" author	J.R.R. Tolkien	65%
57	Scotsman who moved to American and invented the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	64%
70	"Pride & Prejudice" author	Jane Austen	63%
52	She is considered the founder of modern nursing	Florence Nightingale	62%
12	"Discovered" Hawaii	Captain James Cook	59%
66	Silent actor whose alter ego was The Tramp	Charlie Chaplin	59%
10	Lord Protector during the Commonwealth Era	Oliver Cromwell	58%
63	"Planet Earth" narrator	David Attenborough	57%
41	Wrote "Great Expectations" among other novels	Charles Dickens	56%
86	U2 lead singer	Bono	55%
56	Singer with 14 #1 hits in the UK, with at least one in five different decades	Cliff Richard	55%
48	Scottish freedom fighter, subject of the movie "Braveheart"	William Wallace	54%
79	Prime Minister during the second half of WWI	David Lloyd George	53%
82	"Hunchbacked" king who died at the Battle of Bosworth Field	King Richard III	53%
85	Founder of Virgin	Richard Branson	50%
53	British army officer who fought in the Arab Revolt during WWI	T. E. Lawrence	50%
20	Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming	49%
62	Yet another one of the Beatles	George Harrison	48%
29	Pop musician whose alter ego was "Ziggy Stardust"	David Bowie	47%
15	General who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo	Arthur Wellesley	45%
25	Theoretical physicist who had ALS disease	Stephen Hawking	45%
37	Catholic saint who wrote "Utopia", burned heretics at the stake, and was executed in 1535	Thomas More	45%
81	"The Canterbury Tales" poet	Geoffrey Chaucer	43%
21	Pioneering computer scientist and code breaker who was persecuted for being gay	Alan Turing	42%
39	Invented the marine clock used to establish longitude	John Harrison	42%
94	English king, known as "Longshanks", who conquered Wales	King Edward I	42%
35	Celtic queen who resisted Roman invasion	Boudica	41%
98	Explorer who Henry Morton Stanley searched for and found in Africa	David Livingstone	36%
49	Sea captain and privateer who circumnavigated the globe	Francis Drake	36%
2	Built steam ships, bridges, tunnels, and the Great Western Railway	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	36%
54	Led the second expedition to reach the South Pole	Robert Falcon Scott	36%
69	Captain of England's 1966 World Cup winning squad	Bobby Moore	35%
59	Actress from "The Sound of Music" and "Mary Poppins"	Julie Andrews	35%
13	Founded the Boy Scouts	Robert Baden-Powell	35%
74	King who led the Scottish to independence in the 1300s	Robert the Bruce	31%
14	"Great" King of Wessex	Alfred the Great	30%
87	Lead singer of the Sex Pistols	Johnny Rotten	30%
77	Member of the band Take That	Robbie Williams	30%
27	Radical suffragette who founded the WSPU	Emmeline Pankhurst	28%
93	Tudor courtier who tried to colonize Virginia and popularized smoking	Walter Raleigh	28%
84	His improvements to the steam engine ushered in the Industrial Revolution	James Watt	27%
88	Commander of Allied forces during the Battle of Normandy in WWII	Bernard Montgomery	26%
36	Rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympics	Steve Redgrave	25%
46	Lead singer of the band Culture Club	Boy George	24%
76	Band Aid founder who wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?"	Bob Geldof	22%
60	"Pomp and Circumstance" composer	Edward Elgar	22%
55	His 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech opposed mass immigration	Enoch Powell	22%
65	He built the world's first railway to use steam locomotives	George Stephenson	21%
44	Invented the television	John Logie Baird	20%
11	Famous for a doomed antarctic expedition that got stuck in sea ice	Ernest Shackleton	19%
22	Self-taught scientist who made important discoveries in electromagnetism and chemistry	Michael Faraday	19%
96	Shakespearean and film actor who married Elizabeth Taylor	Richard Burton	19%
78	Created the vaccine for smallpox	Edward Jenner	18%
32	Comedian who partnered with Ernie Wise	Eric Morecambe	18%
99	Inventor of the World Wide Web	Tim Berners-Lee	17%
34	Born in England, he migrated to the United States where he wrote "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man"	Thomas Paine	16%
45	Founded the National Health Service	Aneurin Bevan	15%
50	Founder of the Methodist church	John Wesley	15%
28	Campaigned to end the slave trade, and later, to abolish slavery entirely	William Wilberforce	14%
47	RAF fighter ace who shot down at least 22 planes from 1939-1941	Douglas Bader	13%
97	He renounced his title as Viscount Stansgate to become a left wing politician in the House of Commons	Tony Benn	13%
80	Invented the Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer	Charles Babbage	12%
43	DJ on BBC Radio 1 from 1967 until 2004	John Peel	12%
89	Broke the land speed and water speed records in the same year (1964)	Donald Campbell	11%
17	Actor who starred in "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em"	Michael Crawford	11%
73	Occultist who founded a religion called Thelema and is the subject of a song by Ozzy Osbourne	Aleister Crowley	10%
100	Founded the first birth control clinic in Britain	Marie Stopes	10%
68	Introduced the printing press to England in 1476	William Caxton	10%
42	Invented the jet engine	Frank Whittle	9%
38	Painter and poet who came just before the Romantic Era	William Blake	9%
71	Founded the Salvation Army	William Booth	9%
91	Created the mathematical framework for the science of electromagnetism	James Clerk Maxwell	8%
23	Led Wales's unsucessful fight for independence in the early 1400s	Owain Glyndŵr	8%
95	Invented the "bouncing bomb" used to attack German dams in WWII	Barnes Wallis	7%
64	De-facto leader of the Easter Rising in Ireland, executed by firing squad in 1916	James Connolly	5%
26	Produced the first English translation of the Bible	William Tyndale	5%
31	RAF group captain who won the Victoria Cross in 1944	Leonard Cheshire	3%

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