College | Hint | Alumnus | % Correct |
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Brasenose College | PM between 2010 and 2016 | David Cameron | 85%
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Author of The Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis | 83%
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First female PM of the UK | Margaret Thatcher | 81%
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Author of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 80%
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Balliol College | Author of Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 76%
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St Hugh's College | Current UK Prime Minister | Theresa May | 76%
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St John's College | PM between 1997 and 2007 | Tony Blair | 76%
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Actress who portrayed Hermione Granger | Emma Watson | 72%
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The Queen's College | Actor in Mr Bean and Blackadder | Rowan Atkinson | 70%
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Corpus Christi College | Leader of the Labour Party 2010-15 | Ed Miliband | 69%
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Magdalen College | Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 69%
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Composer of Phantom, Cats, Joseph etc | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 67%
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Brother of the above | David Miliband | 67%
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Physicist suffering from ALS | Stephen Hawking | 67%
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Trinity College | British PM known as "the Elder" | William Pitt | 67%
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Wadham College | Architect of St Paul's Cathedral | Christopher Wren | 61%
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Author of Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 61%
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King, abdicated in 1936 | Edward VIII | 59%
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Travel writer and Python | Michael Palin | 59%
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Author of Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 59%
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Exeter College | First runner of the sub-four-minute mile | Roger Bannister | 57%
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New College | Comic actor, eg Bridget Jones | Hugh Grant | 56%
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Inventor of the World Wide Web | Tim Berners-Lee | 56%
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PM between 1964 and 1970, and 1974-76 | Harold Wilson | 54%
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First female PM of India | Indira Gandhi | 54%
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Hertford College | Author of Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 54%
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Scientist and vehement atheist | Richard Dawkins | 54%
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Christ Church | Founder of Pennsylvania | William Penn | 54%
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Author of Dream Children | A.N. Wilson | 52%
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Bishop of Calcutta, 1832-58 | Daniel Wilson | 52%
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King of England and leader at Agincourt | Henry V | 50%
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Author of Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 48%
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University College | PM of the UK from 1945-51 | Clement Attlee | 46%
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Comedian, comedy partner of Gryff Rhys Jones | Mel Smith | 46%
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Former Education Secretary (2010-14) | Michael Gove | 37%
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PM between 1908 and 1916 | Herbert Henry Asquith | 35%
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Jesus College | Archaeologist and military officer | T.E. Lawrence | 33%
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Explorer and tobacco enthusiast | Walter Raleigh | 33%
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Worcester College | Screenwriter and producer who revived Doctor Who | Russell T. Davies | 31%
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Writer whose biography was written by Boswell | Samuel Johnson | 31%
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Icelandic presenter of Mastermind | Magnus Magnusson | 30%
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St Anne's College | Author of the Bridget Jones books | Helen Fielding | 28%
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Author of Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 28%
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Food writer and presenter | Nigella Lawson | 26%
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Famous for wallpaper designs | William Morris | 26%
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Co-creator of "New Labour" | Peter Mandelson | 24%
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St Catherine's College | Actress in Silent Witness, Merlin etc. | Emilia Fox | 22%
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Author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time | Mark Haddon | 22%
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Director of final four Harry Potter films | David Yates | 20%
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MP for Holborn; formerly Director of Public Prosecutions | Keir Starmer | 20%
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Author of Watership Down | Richard Adams | 20%
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Historian, author of The Origins of the Second World War | A.J.P. Taylor | 19%
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Secretary of State for Education, 2014-16 | Nicky Morgan | 19%
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Current King of Jordan | Abdullah II | 17%
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Lincoln College | Author, real name David Cornwell | John le Carre | 17%
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Pembroke College | Deputy PM under John Major | Michael Heseltine | 17%
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Principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic | Simon Rattle | 17%
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Poet and author of We're Going On A Bear Hunt | Michael Rosen | 15%
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Mansfield College | MP for Rhondda since 2001 | Chris Bryant | 13%
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St Hilda's College | Author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | 13%
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Keble College | Author of Millions | Frank Cottrell Boyce | 11%
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Inventor of the horse-drawn seed drill | Jethro Tull | 11%
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Author of romantic novels eg A Village Affair | Joanna Trollope | 11%
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Author of The Whitsun Weddings | Philip Larkin | 11%
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Poet and playwright (1888-1965) | T.S. Eliot | 11%
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Lady Margaret Hall | MP for Maidstone 1987-2010 | Ann Widdecombe | 9%
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Tenor and partner of Benjamin Britten | Peter Pears | 9%
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First woman bishop appointed by the Church of England | Libby Lane | 7%
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Author of Troy, Ithaka etc | Adele Geras | 6%
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Somerville College | Author of The Children's Book | A.S. Byatt | 6%
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Composer of The Banks of Green Willow | George Butterworth | 6%
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Author of Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively | 6%
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Composer of Crown Imperial | William Walton | 6%
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English composer (1565-1638) | Francis Pilkington | 4%
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Author of In Defense of Food | Michael Pollan | 4%
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The last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury | Reginald Pole | 4%
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Composer of the Warsaw Concerto | Richard Addinsell | 4%
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St Peter's College | Writer of the screenplay for Slumdog Millionnaire | Simon Beaufoy | 4%
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Merton College | Scientist and presenter | Adam Hart-Davis | 2%
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Author of Quartet in Autumn | Barbara Pym | 2%
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Washington correspondent for the BBC | Ben Wright | 2%
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Oriel College | Lord Chancellor of Great Britain between 1733 and 1737 | Charles Talbot | 2%
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Archbishop of York 1942-1955 | Cyril Garbett | 2%
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Author of The Hired Man | Melvyn Bragg | 2%
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Artistic director of London Sinfonia (1988-94) | Paul Crossley | 2%
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Clerk of the House of Commons 2011-14 | Robert Rogers | 2%
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St Edmund Hall | India's Minister of External Affairs | Salman Khurshid | 2%
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