Statistics for People Buried at Westminster Abbey

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Life	Hint	Person	% Correct
1642–1727	Explained how gravity works	Isaac Newton	95%
1809–1882	Theory of Natural Selection	Charles Darwin	94%
1533–1603	Protestant daughter of Henry VIII	Elizabeth I	87%
1516–1558	Catholic daughter of Henry VIII	Mary I	85%
1812–1870	"A Tale of Two Cities"	Charles Dickens	80%
1003–1066	Last king of the House of Wessex	{Edward} the Confessor	80%
1942–2018	Black hole theorist	Stephen Hawking	75%
1386–1422	Won the battle of Agincourt	Henry V	72%
1566–1625	Commissioned a Bible	James I	72%
1869-1940	Prime Minister who appeased Hitler	Neville Chamberlain	72%
1865–1936	"The Jungle Book"	Rudyard Kipling	69%
1343–1400	"The Canterbury Tales"	Geoffrey Chaucer	67%
1813–1873	Presumably, Stanley found him in Africa	David Livingstone	64%
1685–1759	"Messiah" composer	George Frideric Handel	52%
1708–1778	1760s Prime Minister whose son also ascended to the office	William Pitt	48%
1809–1892	"The Charge of the Light Brigade"	Alfred Tennyson	34%
1907–1989	Shakesperean actor	Laurence Olivier	34%
1840–1928	"Tess of the d'Urbervilles"	Thomas Hardy	34%
1871–1937	Father of nuclear physics	Ernest Rutherford	23%
1572–1637	The inscription on his tomb reads "O Rare, ___ ______"	Ben Jonson	11%