Statistics for 50 Victorian figures

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Writer of Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	95%
Prince Consort	Albert	91%
Baker Street resident	Sherlock Holmes	85%
Queen	Victoria	84%
Wrote Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	76%
Noted traveller to the Galapagos	Charles Darwin	73%
Missionary and explorer who sought the source of the Nile	David Livingstone	70%
Whitechapel killer	Jack the Ripper	69%
Conservative prime minister and novelist	Benjamin Disraeli	67%
Sent Alice down the rabbit hole	Lewis Carroll	64%
Flamboyant poet and playwright	Oscar Wilde	64%
Irish writer of Transylvanian terror	Bram Stoker	63%
Crimean war 'angel'	Florence Nightingale	62%
His tunes accompanied Gilbert's words	Arthur Sullivan	60%
Peter Rabbit writer	Beatrix Potter	52%
Inventor of Long John Silver	Robert Louis Stevenson	51%
Violent explorer who sought Livingstone	Henry Stanley	46%
Poet's daughter and mother of computer science	Ada Lovelace	42%
Romantic seascape painter	Joseph Turner	40%
Conservative PM who founded modern policing	Robert Peel	40%
Wrote Middlemarch	George Eliot	39%
Enigma Variations composer	Edward Elgar	33%
Engineering giant who tunnelled the Thames	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	33%
Leading writer of the Raj	Rudyard Kipling	33%
Antiseptic pioneer	Joseph Lister	32%
The Liberal 'Grand Old Man'	William Gladstone	32%
Mining magnate who expanded British rule in Africa	Cecil Rhodes	31%
Poet laureate	Alfred Tennyson	28%
British-Jamaican who revolutionised nursing	Mary Seacole	28%
Novelist memorialised in Edinburgh	Walter Scott	28%
Electrical science pioneer	Michael Faraday	25%
England's bearded foremost cricketer	William Grace	25%
Doyenne of household management	Isabella Beeton	23%
Evangelical general killed at Khartoum	Charles Gordon	22%
Leading Arts and Crafts movement designer	William Morris	20%
Utilitarian philosopher	John Stuart Mill	19%
Poet whose brother was a Pre-Raphaelite founder	Christina Rossetti	17%
Actress and mistress of the Prince of Wales	Lillie Langtry	16%
Dominated midcentury foreign policy	Palmerston	14%
Conquered Sudan and modernised army	Herbert Kitchener	13%
Led the Light Brigade at Balaclava	Cardigan	12%
Art critic who influenced British public taste	John Ruskin	12%
Orphanage founder	Thomas Barnardo	11%
Explorer who translated the Kama Sutra	Richard Burton	10%
Irish home rule champion downed by scandal	Charles Parnell	9%
Wrote adventures set in Africa	Rider Haggard	9%
Developed the 'sensation novel'	Wilkie Collins	7%
Solved the 'Great Stink' with a massive sewerage works	Joseph Bazelgette	6%
Colonial ruler of India during the 1857 rising	Charles Canning	3%
Lost an army in Afghanistan	William Elphinstone	3%