Statistics for Top 40 most important and famous people from Australia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Actor, famous for his role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series	Hugh Jackman	85%
Actor, famous for his role as Thor	Chris Hemsworth	73%
Actor, famous for his roles in The Dark Knight and Brokeback Mountain, winner of Academy Award in 2009	Heath Ledger	73%
Actress famous for her roles in The Hours and Moulin Rouge!, winner of Academy Award in 2003	Nicole Kidman	73%
Activist, founder of WikiLeaks	Julian Assange	69%
Female singer, I Should Be So Lucky, The Loco-Motion, Hand on Your Heart	Kylie Minogue	69%
Actress famous for her roles as Harley Quinn in the Suicide Squad film series	Margot Robbie	65%
Singer and actress, If You Love Me, Let Me Know, Have You Never Been Mellow and she starred in the musical film Grease	Olivia Newton-John	65%
Actress, famous for her roles in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Aviator, two times winner of Academy Award	Cate Blanchett	62%
The greatest cricket player of all time	Don Bradman	62%
Female tennis player, winner of 24 Grand Slam single titles	Margaret Court	62%
Female tennis player, winner of 3 Grand Slam single titles, retired in 2022	Ashleigh Barty	54%
Actor, famous for his roles in Les Miserables and The King Speech, winner of Academy Award in 1997	Geoffrey Rush	50%
Female singer, Unstoppable, Titanium	Sia	50%
Prime Minister from 2022	Anthony Albanese	46%
Formula One driver since 2011, raced with Toro Rosso, Red Bull, Renault and McLaren	Daniel Ricciardo	46%
Swimmer specialised in freestyle, five times winner of Olympic gold medal	Ian Thorpe	46%
Tennis player, winner of 11 Grand Slam single titles	Rod Laver	46%
Driver, three times Formula One champion in 1950s and 1960s	Jack Brabham	42%
Director of Elvis and The Great Gatsby	Baz Luhrmann	38%
Singer and actress. In the early 1990s, she played Beth Brennan in the Australian soap opera Neighbours	Natalie Imbruglia	35%
Prime minister for over 18 years from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1949 to 1966	Robert Menzies	35%
Writer, author of Clancy of the Overflow and The Man from Snowy River	Banjo Paterson	23%
Director of Dead Poets Society, Fearless and The Truman Show	Peter Weir	23%
Driver, two times MotoGP champion in 2007 and 2011	Casey Stoner	19%
Rugby player, world champion in 1991	David Campese	19%
Pathologist, famous for his role in the development of penicillin, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in1945	Howard Florey	19%
Prime Minister who led the country during World War One, but his influence on national politics spanned several decades	Billy Hughes	15%
Explorer, key leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration	Douglas Mawson	15%
Prime Minister who led the country during World War Two	John Curtin	15%
Military commander considered one of the best Allied generals of World War One and the most famous commander in Australian history	John Monash	15%
Writer, author of The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	15%
Tennis player, winner of 12 Grand Slam single titles	Roy Emerson	15%
Female swimmer, most decorated Australian Olympic athlete	Emma McKeon	12%
Writer, the most famous Australian writer of the colonial period and is often called Australia's greatest short story writer	Henry Lawson	12%
Physicist, who played an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915	Lawrence Bragg	12%
Immunologist, he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1996	Peter Doherty	12%
Chemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions	John Cornforth	8%
Virologist known for his contributions to immunology. Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and he developed the theory of clonal selection	Macfarlane Burnet	8%
Writer, author of Voss and The Tree of Man, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973	Patrick White	8%