Statistics for Born in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Hint		Answer	% Correct
Premier League's record goalscorer who played for Newcastle, Blackburn, Southampton and the English national team	1970	Alan Shearer	96%
Singer, "Fight for This Love" "Call My Name"	1983	Cheryl	69%
Actor, "Sons of Anarchy" "The Gentlemen" "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword"	1980	Charlie Hunnam	31%
Author, "The Eagle Has Landed"	1929	Jack Higgins	27%
Playwright and screenwriter, best known for writing "Billy Elliot"	1966	Lee Hall	8%
Nobel Prize winning physicist for his work on the mass of subatomic particles	1929	Peter Higgs	8%
Soviet intelligence officer, portrayed by Mark Rylance in Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies"	1903	Rudolf Abel	8%
British-Thai politican and Prime Minister of Thailand from 2008 to 2011	1964	Abhisit Vejjajiva	4%
First man to sail round the world in both directions	1942	David Scott Cowper	0%