Statistics for Famous British People

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Famous English playwright (1564-1616)	William Shakespeare	96%
One of the greatest ever British Prime Ministers (1874-1965)	Winston Churchill	95%
Mother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry (1961 - 1997)	Princess Diana	93%
Author of 'On the Origin Of Species' (1809-1882)	Charles Darwin	87%
Nurse known as 'The Lady of the Lamp' (1820 - 1910)	Florence Nightingale	84%
Originator of universal gravitation and laws of classical mechanics and laws of motion (1643-1727)	Isaac Newton	84%
Scottish inventor, most notably credited with inventing the modern telephone (1847 - 1922)	Alexander Graham Bell	78%
Naval commander famous for his service during the Napoleonic Wars (1758-1805)	Horatio Nelson	72%
Author whose books have won mutiple awards & more sold mroe than 400 million copies (1965 - Present)	J K Rowling	71%
Popular monarch of England who brought a period of relative internal stability (1533 - 1603)	Queen Elizabeth I	71%
Infamous criminal who was part of a Catholic plot to assassinate King James I (1570 - 1606)	Guy Fawkes	70%
Commander of the New Model Army during the English Civil War against King Charles I (1599- 1658)	Oliver Cromwell	66%
Queen of ancient Britain who led a rebellion against the Roman occupiers (30AD - c60 or 61AD)	Boudica	54%
Nicknamed 'The Milk Snatcher' - Education minister of Ed Heath's Government (1925 - 2013)	Margaret Thatcher	52%
Engineer & creator of The Great Western Railway (1806-1859)	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	45%
Composer, musician, philanthropist, peace activist, artist & writer (1940-1980)	John Lennon	39%
Biologist & Pharmacologist awarded a Noble Prize for medicine in 1945 (1881 - 1955)	Alexander Fleming	37%
British Computer Scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web (1955 - Present)	Tim Berners-Lee	27%
Famous British war poet, killed in action November 1918, just before the end of the war (1883 - 1918)	Wilfred Owen	27%
Pioneer in speed records who broke 8 world records on both Land & Water (1921 - 1967)	Donald Campbell	21%
Influential physicist in the field of electro-magnetism (1831 – 1879)	James Clerk Maxwell	5%
Popular Comedian of the post war period, novelist and writer of screenplays (1926 - 1984)	Eric Morecambe	4%