Statistics for People on UK banknotes

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The average score is 10 of 29

Answer Stats

Denomination	Reason for Honor	Answer	% Correct
All Banknotes	Royalty	Queen Elizabeth II	100%
£10 (special commemorative issue)	To mark her Diamond Jubilee	Queen Elizabeth II	100%
£5 (special commemorative issue)	To mark her Golden Jubilee	Queen Elizabeth II	100%
£5	Wartime Prime minister	Winston Churchill	94%
£1 (special commemorative issue)	Inventor of the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	67%
£10	Author	Jane Austen	67%
£20	Economist	Adam Smith	56%
£20	Economist and key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment	Adam Smith	56%
£5	Discoverer of penicillin	Alexander Fleming	56%
£5 and £10	Notable Scottish poet	Robert Burns	56%
£5 (special commemorative issue)	Footballer for Northern Ireland and Manchester United	George Best	39%
£20 (special commemorative issue)	To mark this Royal's 100th birthday	Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother	39%
£50	Inventor	James Watt	28%
£10	Founder of the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company	John Boyd Dunlop	22%
£1 (special commemorative issue)	Scottish novelist and poet	Robert Louis Stevenson	22%
£5, £10, £20, £50, £100	Historical novelist and poet; campaigner for the continuation of Scottish banknote	Sir Walter Scott	22%
£20	King of the Scots 1306-1329	Robert the Bruce	17%
£100	Architect and designer	Charles Rennie Mackintosh	11%
£5 (special commemorative issue)	Notable American golfer	Jack Nicklaus	11%
£50	Manufacturer	Matthew Boulton	11%
£20	Engineer and developer of the modern agricultural tractor	Harry Ferguson	6%
£50	1st Governor, Bank of England	John Houblon	6%
All Banknotes	Founder and first governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland	Lord Ilay	6%
£5 (special commemorative issue)	250th anniversary of The Golf Club of St Andrews	Old Tom Morris	6%
£50	Doctor and suffragist	Elsie Inglis	0%
£100	Mathematical physicist and engineer	Lord Kelvin	0%
£10	Scottish missionary to Nigeria and campaigner for women's rights	Mary Slessor	0%
£100	Inventor of the aircraft ejector seat	Sir James Martin	0%
£50	Founder of the Belfast Sirocco Works and pioneer of air conditioning	Sir Samuel Cleland Davidson	0%