Influential Britons Quiz

Guess the most influential people from Britain
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Last updated: May 3, 2023
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Prime minister during the Falklands war
Margaret Thatcher
Decorated military commander who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
Arthur Wellesley
Inventor of the first programmable computer
Charles Babbage
Invented the first working steam locomotive
Richard Trevithick
Prime minister during the latter years of WW1
David Lloyd George
Longest reigning monarch
Elizabeth II
King who defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Edington
Alfred the Great
Royal navy captain who made the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia
James Cook
Field Marshal who commanded all Allied ground forces during the Battle of Normandy
Bernard Montgomery
Invented the modern police force
Robert Peel
Prime minister throughout most of WW2
Winston Churchill
Prolific Victorian civil engineer who designed the Thames Tunnel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Founder of the Birmingham Political Union
Thomas Attwood
Mathematician who helped crack the German Enigma code
Alan Turing
Invented the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee
Legendary naval commander who led the British to victory at Trafalgar
Horatio Nelson
Physicist renowned for his research regarding black holes
Stephen Hawking
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