Statistics for 50 Famous People from United Kingdom

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The 20th century's most famous and celebrated Prime Minister	Winston Churchill	96%
Princess of Wales who died in a car accident in Paris in 1997	Diana	95%
United Kingdom's first woman prime minister	Margaret Thatcher	94%
Monarch of United Kingdom since 2022	Charles III	93%
Member of the Beatles who was assassinated in 1980	John Lennon	92%
The Queen regnant and Head of State of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022	Elizabeth II	91%
Singer, songwriter, record producer, and lead vocalist of the rock band Queen	Freddie Mercury	91%
Comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film	Charlie Chaplin	90%
Author of the series of seven Harry Potter novels	J.K. Rowling	90%
Naturalist who developed the theory of evolution	Charles Darwin	89%
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901	Victoria	89%
Scientist who formulated the theory of gravitation and three laws of motion	Isaac Newton	87%
Author of The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	87%
Musician whose tribute single Candle in the Wind, was dedicated to Diana	Elton John	86%
Singer, songwriter and bassist for The Beatles, the biggest rock band of the 1960s	Paul McCartney	86%
Author of Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	84%
Playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in English literature	William Shakespeare	83%
Singer and songwriter who died of alcohol poisoning on in 2011, at the age of 27	Amy Winehouse	81%
Author of Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	81%
Author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	81%
First actor to portray James Bond on film, starring in seven films	Sean Connery	81%
Creator of fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple	Agatha Christie	79%
Admiral who defeated Napoleon's fleet in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson	78%
Singer famous for performing songs Hello, Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You	Adele	77%
Tennis player from Scotland who won three Grand Slam singles titles	Andy Murray	77%
Formula One driver he holds the records for the most wins in history	Lewis Hamilton	76%
Musician who is the lead singer of the Rolling Stones	Mick Jagger	75%
Singer who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham!	George Michael	73%
Explorer who established the first European colony in Australia	James Cook	73%
Lord Protector of England for much of the 1650s	Oliver Cromwell	73%
Actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Hannibal Lecter	Anthony Hopkins	71%
Actor from Northern Ireland who portrayed Oskar Schindler	Liam Neeson	70%
Bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928, for which he shared a Nobel Prize	Alexander Fleming	68%
Author of Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	68%
Filmmaker known as the "Master of Suspense"	Alfred Hitchcock	66%
Physicist noted for his research into the origin of the universe and black hole theories	Stephen Hawking	65%
Scottish patriot who led resistance against the English	William Wallace	65%
Mathematician who helped to decipher the German Enigma codes in WWII	Alan Turing	64%
Member of the pop group Take That, who achieved greater success with his solo career	Robbie Williams	64%
Explorer who circumnavigated the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580	Francis Drake	61%
Actor who played Richard III, Magneto and Gandalf	Ian McKellen	60%
Actor who won Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Gandhi	Ben Kingsley	59%
Queen of the Iceni tribe of Celtic Britons, who led an uprising against the Roman Empire	Boudica	58%
Singer who achieved international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics	Annie Lennox	57%
Only actor who won Academy Award for Best Actor three times	Daniel Day-Lewis	53%
Explorer who undertook three extensive expeditions throughout much of Africa	David Livingstone	53%
Inventor who improved steam engine during the Industrial Revolution	James Watt	53%
Footballer who was member of the England team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup	Bobby Charlton	49%
Political activist whose suffragette movement and helped women win the right to vote	Emmeline Pankhurst	45%
Model of the late 1980s, the 1990s and the earlier 2000s including modern day	Naomi Campbell	42%